The humanitarian crisis in Syria is an indictment of the United States, Britain and the other major powers that have deliberately stoked the sectarian civil war, and given support to a rag-tag opposition, dominated by reactionary Islamist tendencies, in a bid to oust the Assad regime and install a pliant puppet government. The US and its allies cynically exploit the social disaster they have helped create, in order to intensify the push to remove Assad. Oliver Campbell
Reading about the New York Times take on the election in Ecuador I can't help but think that there has been a North/South role reversal. We are the ones with a strong man who arrogates the right to murder anyone with a drone for writing bad things on the Internet and South America is electing the reformers. Read below the fold...
Paragraph 1 quotes the WaPo acolades about Breuer the aggressive enforcer of financial crime laws.
Paragraph 2 stitches together a couple of statements Breuer made on The Untouchables, e.g., "when we found evidence we prosecuted," or "it's hard to prove intent" [my paraphrases]. Read below the fold...
January 16, 2013 — Each spring since 2010, some of Washington’s A-list politicians assemble in the capital to submit to questions from some of the media’s A-list journalists on the future of the federal fiscal policy.
I basically appreciate a great deal of Dr. Baker's work. I've noticed, though, how studiously he stays away from some topics,especially the topic of Social Security reform. And sadly, when he does decide to take it on, he does it in a way that gives both him, and President Obama, cover.
If it had worked it would not be necessary to say so. We have soaring rates of unemployment, bankruptcy, foreclosure, homelessness (especially homeless children) and suicide. This is not what recovery looks like. Read below the fold...
The quotations come back redacted, stripped of colorful metaphors, colloquial language and anything even mildly provocative.
They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under one major condition: the press office has veto power over what statements can be quoted and attributed by name.
I've been banned from a few political blogs and forums in my day, mostly from right-wing ones on which the site owners pretend to be liberal, but by their words and their actions reveal their utter devotion to defending all that is right-wing — be it in the form of enforcing false civility to protect scum who call us terrorists ad communists from getting their non-existent feelings hurt, or by defending policies implemented by Obama but which these same people denounced when done by Bush-Cheney. These include FireDogLake, Daily Kos, Smirking Chimp, Liberal Forum, On the Left, and Open Left. Read below the fold...
