Nation building at home
President Obama: "America, it is time to focus on nation building here at home."If by "it is time," you mean in a year or two once we stop bombing Libya, and in another 5 or 10 years when we have...
View ArticleVeterans react to Afghan "withdrawal"
Obama’s speech means nothing to us and our families Veterans, active-duty troops respond to endless war in AfghanistanHow many more deaths between now and the supposed withdrawal date in 2014?The...
View ArticleANSWER replies to "No Libyans allowed" claim
This is a response to the opinion article "No Libyans allowed at ANSWER Libya forum," posted here at Daily Kos and on various email lists on June 23, 2011. The writer of the response is the...
View ArticleWho killed 9 Turkish activists on the Mavi Marmara?
You've got to love the passive tense*: From AFP, with emphasis added:Hundreds of activists are preparing to board aid ships bound for Gaza this week in defiance of an Israeli blockade and UN warnings...
View ArticleObama: "Constitution and laws are just 'noise'" and other lies about Libya
Via fellow blogger WIIIAI, I was alerted to an Obama press conference I somehow missed on Wednesday. One could use up a lot of electrons on picking apart what he had to say on lots of subjects, but...
View ArticleObama's confusion on interest vs. taxes
In his address to the nation about the debt ceiling "crisis," President Barack Obama had this to say about the consequences of failing to raise the debt ceiling:"Interest rates would skyrocket on...
View ArticleThe Afghan merry-go-round of death
Today in Afghanistan:Eight civilians, including women and children, have been killed in a US-led NATO airstrike in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. ... In a separate incident, at least four...
View ArticleNBC's Brian Williams hides the military nature of the space program
In a feature on tonight's NBC Nightly News entitled "What we've missed this week", Brian Williams told a story this way (my transcript from the video):"This was the thing that was going to make us feel...
View ArticleWhere does change come from?
It's easy to get disillusioned with mass protest. Did it stop the invasion of Iraq? Has it ended the war against Afghanistan? Is the current "occupation" of Wall Street really likely to end the power...
View ArticleFirst of Cuban Five released from prison
Statement from the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five on the Release from Prison of René González René González, one of the five men known as the Cuban Five, today will walk out of Federal...
View ArticleRyan on Janesville: the lie wasn't the worst part
There has been a lot of media (and blog and Facebook and Twitter) attention on Paul Ryan's Janesville lie, in which he blames Barack Obama for the closing of an auto plant which closed before Obama was...
View ArticleIran is guilty because...we say so
The U.S. is ramping up pressure on the American public to accept an attack on Iran, with not one but two stories in today's news. It wasn't enough to accuse Iran of producing nuclear weapons based on...
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