The Method to the Post 9/11 Madness

The Method to the Post 9/11 Madness

September 23, 2012 7:00 pm
By David Swanson To your average educated careful consumer of U.S. news media, our militarism looks like ad hoc reactionary responses. A crisis flairs up here. We “intervene”...

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Stop Picking on Poor Plutocrats

Stop Picking on Poor Plutocrats

I stopped by a corporate chain bookstore this week and checked out the “Current Affairs” section. I was a little surprised to discover that according to a dozen or more books dominating the display we are all under a vicious life-and-death assault from a raving, drooling mob of communist devils led by that well-known pinko [...]

Published by on January 6, 2012 9:45 pm
Obama Crowned Himself on New Year’s Eve

Obama Crowned Himself on New Year’s Eve

These were among the complaints registered the last time this nation had a king: “He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. “He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and [...]

Published by on January 5, 2012 9:45 pm
The Last Whistleblowers

The Last Whistleblowers

Whistleblowing in our federal government may soon be a thing of the past, not because whistleblowers face more vicious retribution than ever before — although that is true; and not because important acts of whistleblowing now result in fewer reforms and less accountability than they used to, which is also true and is getting closer– but [...]

Published by on November 30, 2011 5:00 pm
Occupy the Winter of Our Discontent

Occupy the Winter of Our Discontent

Can occupations survive a winter of global weirding, escalated police brutality, and the corporate media’s venom? Should they? In some parts of the country there will be no cold weather. In others, police abuses will result in larger occupations, not smaller. And it’s certainly possible that for the first time in recent years an independent progressive [...]

Published by on November 2, 2011 1:30 pm
When the Public Rises, We’ll Want an Ally in Congress

When the Public Rises, We’ll Want an Ally in Congress

For the majority of people in the United States — a majority does not vote, a majority believes the government is broken, a majority thinks our public policy is headed in the wrong direction — the fact that we call this place a democracy is apparently outweighed by the fact that our national government almost [...]

Published by on June 30, 2011 3:45 pm
Of Humans and Rights

Of Humans and Rights

U.S. newspapers sometimes print what they call the total death count from one or more of our wars, and all the dead who are listed are Americans. They aren’t all the Americans. They don’t include contractors or suicides or various other categories of dead Americans. They certainly don’t include those who died for lack of [...]

Published by on May 16, 2011 4:30 pm
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