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  • Chris Hedges defends Cornel West

    I say, Thurston, did they really give your ticket to a mere porter?

  • The art of distraction

    The moral and practical failure of US policy in the middle east is wrapped up in our dependence on petroleum. The reasons why we are firing missiles at camps in Yemen, sending special forces teams into Pakistan, maintaining a huge fleet in the Persian gulf and fighting wars in Iraq…

  • Freddy de Boer’s easy moral dudgeon

    Glenn Greenwald led me to this ridiculous bit of moral preening on the death of Osama bin Ladin. Well, what you feel is your business and what I feel is mine, and now he is dead and the question is only what kind of a country we want to rebuild…

  • The poverty of professional leftism

    Ernst Thälmann was the leader of the German Communist Party in the late 1920s. He insisted that the “lesser of two evils” Social Democrats not the Nazis were the primary threats to German workers although he might have reconsidered by the time the Gestapo executed him. The annoying style of…

  • The Greenwald Method – Panetta edition

    [Greenwald writes] Speaking of “frat boy reactions,” Leon Panetta is excitingly speculating about which actors should portray him in the movie about the Hunt for bin Laden, helpfully suggesting Al Pacino. It’s been a long time since Americans felt this good and strong about themselves – nothing like putting bullets in someone’s…

  • Republican plan: The government should just pick losers, not winners and losers

    Where there are free markets, last year’s winners are constantly limited or even run over by competition from nimbler and hungrier new entries that, in a modern industrial economy, often bring disruptive new technologies to market. But, as Adam Smith pointed out, the wealthy are motivated to conspire to restrain…

  • NYT and Barofsky smear Democrats – “Progressives” taken in

    First published on DailyKos. (and if you never had the privilege of reading Bob Swern’s hysterical sky-is-falling articles in DailyKos you won’t get the paragraph starting with “Now I’ve previously”.) Neil Barofsky’s absurd self-justifying attack piece in the New York Times is built on an atrociously dishonest sleight of hand…

  • Bible study about Republicans

    When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. Proverbs 29.2 The House bill would slash the budget for one of the main U.S. foreign food aid programs, Food for Peace, by 40 percent from 2010 levels. That would reduce or eliminate…

  • Geek Radicalism

    First published in The People’s View Joseph Priestly discovered oxygen and the carbon-dioxide/oxygen cycle, but he also was a dangerous radical who was forced to flee his home in England after he was attacked by a mob that has a lot in common with today’s Tea Party thugs. Historians have…

  • Dkos spiral – draft

    Originally published on DailyKos  Sun Dec 05, 2010 BlackWaterDog (BWD) was hounded out of DailyKos to her new blog. Bonddad and NewDealDem are here, Deaniac83 and others are at ThePeoplesView, Dennis G. is at Balloon Juice. Some are at weeseeyou and some at bluewavenews. But BWD is the key to…