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Instead of being sent to Elba (a lovely island,too nice and too comfortable today to constitute a fit punishment), or to the Hague, (now we’re talking!) the man who lied America into one of the worst foreign policy catastrophes in … Continue reading →

Laura Jacobs in the The Wall Street Journal reviews Fashion Institute of Technology’s Halston/Yves St. Laurent show, to wit: There’s movement through the space of the exhibit, movement capacity in the clothes on exhibit, movement  in the deftly paced piece.

And what did Tom Cotton do, after mustering his treasonous troops?  As William Rivers Pitt recounts at Truthout, Cotton spoke–you can be sure that’s one transcript that won’t be released–to the National Defense Industrial Association, “a collective of weapons contractors … Continue reading →

I really like the way the guys are wrapping up their Switchel.

Finally, someone in the “mainstream” media recognizes what the GOP is doing and focuses not on play-by-play, but on the overarching strategy.  As Pierce writes at Esquire, the GOP is “actively working to undermine the American union. . . . … Continue reading →

Yes, the 47 Republican senators who signed the unprecedented, seditious communique to Iran’s leaders are “itching for war,” as Senator Sanders correctly accuses them. But so are the bi-partisan senators on the Appropriations committee demanding we get on the express … Continue reading →

Robert Parry writes at consortiumnews about the inability of U.S. politics and media to acknowledge that our foreign policy blunders and belligerence go a long way toward breeding anti-U.S. sentiment globally.

Lindsay Graham’s stupid, nasty, sophmoric crack about Pelosi’s nips and tucks demands one course of action: Pelosi must compile and publish a list of all the old, rich, white Republicans in the House and Senate who regularly expend their ill-gotten … Continue reading →

The alacrity with which her “people” are bandying around right-wing catch phrases like “politics of envy,” denotes an unwillingness on the part of her campaign team to antagonize Wall Street, and thus an inability to construct a platform voters will … Continue reading →

That’s what Representative Grayson rightly calls the inevitable result of the current U.S. syndrome whereby “every time we see something on our computer screens that we don’t like, we go ahead and bomb it.”