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Jul 03 · There are a million and one things that people can do to try to end the U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and to prevent new ones in Iran and elsewhere, as well as to close U.S. military bases in dozens of other nations around the world. Certain people are skilled at or interested in particular approaches, and nobody should be discouraged from contributing to the effort in their preferred ways. Far too often proposals to work for peace are needlessly framed as attacks on all strate
Jul 03 · A President Breaks Hearts in Appalachia
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Mountaintop removal coal mining is the worst environmental tragedy in American history. When will the Obama administration finally stop this Appalachian apocalypse?
If ever an issue deserved President Obama's promise of change, this is it. Mining syndicates are detonating 2,500 tons of explosives each day -- the equivalent of a Hiroshima bomb weekly -- to blow up Appalachia's mountains and extract sub
Jul 03 · Matt Taibbi's blockbuster piece in the July 9-13 issue of Rolling Stone, , describes in brilliant, painful and infuriating detail how Goldman Sachs "has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again."
A few grafs:
The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood fu
Jul 03 · Nineteen pro-life House Democrats signed a letter last week to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) expressing their opposition to any health care reform that includes abortion funding.
“We cannot support any health-care reform proposal unless it explicitly excludes abortion from the scope of any government-defined or subsidized health insurance plan,” the letter read.
The 19 representatives are:
Dan Boran (D-Okla.), Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), Colin Peterson (D-Minn..), Tim Holden (D-Pa.),
Jul 02 · The book I just read is in the running, in my estimation, for second-best text on how to undo the imperial presidency. (Can't be first, of course.) It's called "Madison's Nightmare: How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy," by Peter M. Shane, and it's much more about what the problem is than how to solve it, but the two things are not really separable, and the analysis of the problem here is invaluable.
This is a detailed and extensively researched look at the interactions among th
Jul 02 · From The Plum Line:
“We have 60 votes on paper,” Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, said Wednesday in an interview. “But we cannot bulldoze anybody; it doesn’t work that way. My caucus doesn’t allow it. And we have a very diverse group of senators philosophically. I am not this morning suddenly flexing my muscles.”…
“One or two could peel off on any issue,” said Mr. Reid, who has seen the ranks of his party swell by 15 in the past two elections.
More about it:
That said, Re
Jul 02 · More great entries this month... please k&r so everyone gets a chance to vote!
Jul 01 · Debt is capitalism’s dirty little secret
By Ben Funnell
Published: June 30 2009 19:14 | Last updated: June 30 2009 19:14
Just why is there so much debt in the Anglo-Saxon world? Bankers and regulators know well that it is in nobody’s long-term interests to have allowed borrowing to escalate to a position where the US now owes far more, as a multiple of the economy, than at the start of the Great Depression.
The answer is capitalism’s dirty little secret: excessive lending was the o
Jul 01 · I read part of the following article with surprise, guess I was thinking it would just be expanding Medicare and making some changes...or at least along those lines. Maybe I am reading it wrong, maybe it doesn't matter...but just surprised. I think there has to be competition, or no progress will be lasting.
Many people on Medicare now would be uninsurable because of their age and illnesses. I guess, though, if they have another "public option" set up....it would have the policy of allowin
Jul 01 ·
By Cenk Uygur
The NY Post is run by Rupert Murdoch to further his conservative agenda. . The Washington Times is run by Rev. Sun Myung Moon to further his conservative agenda. By some estimates Rev. Moon has has never been profitable. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is run by Richard Mellon Scaife to further his conservative agenda. .
The Weekly Standard used to be owned by Murdoch to further his conservative agenda but is now owned by Philip Anschutz to further his conservative agenda.
Jul 01 · Three days before the end of his Presidency, on January 17, 1961 President Eisenhower warned us against:
the acquisition of unwarranted influence… by the military-industrial complex: the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power (which) exists and will persist, (which) we must never let … endanger our liberties or democratic processes…
has often been characterized as prophetic. However, it may just as well be characterized as a little too little and too late. James Douglass,
Jul 01 · "Pete Seeger interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! Monday, September 4, 2006"
He tells Amy Goodman that he wrote President Kennedy that a favorite poem of his was written by Seeger's uncle during WWI. The uncle's name was Alan Seeger, and the poem Pete quotes on the video is called Rendezvous or "I Have a Rendezvous With Death."
Pete Seeger has quite a family heritage of having a way with words.
I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring com
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