Monthly Archives: April 2013
I Know! Let’s Have a National Alex Jones Hissy Fit!
Don’t f*ck with a mad Bostonian, says digby While I do strongly disagree with the notion that Alex Jones should not be allowed to spout his bilge — it is a free country, after all — I will fight to the death for this man’s right to insult him: (WARNING: many colorful curse words in this clip) In truth, […]
One Nation, Under Sesquestration
Is horse trading the answer? (Well, it might be better than the alternative …) from Hullabaloo by digby Who could have guessed? Sequestration exemptions are shaping up to be Washington’s newest version of earmarks. Agencies, companies and other groups are on the hunt for Capitol Hill allies with the juice to save their pet issues from the […]
Shadows of Blowback to Come
Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 — and just about no one noticed. Until then, blowback had been an obscure term of CIA tradecraft, which Johnson defined as “the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people.” In his prologue, the former consultant […]
Priming the Police State
Shocking Footage: Americans Ordered Out Of Homes At Gunpoint By SWAT teams This is what martial law in the US looks like Steve Watson Infowars.com April 22, 2013 Shocking footage has emerged from Friday’s lockdown in Boston, where police, federal agents, national guard troops and SWAT teams enforced door to door searches of everyone’s home […]
Before the Collapse, a Call to Action
by KEVIN ZEESE and MARGARET FLOWERS http://www.counterpunch.org Before we get to the impact of the Obama budget, let’s explode a critical myth: there is no recovery (at least for the 99%). Last month’s unemployment numbers revealed the fraud of the unemployment rate. Even though the country produced less than 90,000 new jobs, when over 120,000 […]
Quote of the Day: Warmongering Democrats
Hillary Mann Leverett, National Security Council staffer during the Bush administration: We saw the Bush administration, of course, make very bad decisions, but even more disheartening for us, even more disturbing to us as professional political analysts and policy-makers, was the opposition, the Democrats.We remember when Condi Rice came back from going to meet with […]
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