Robert Parry

Surprisingly this Thanksgiving, the Washington Establishment had a lot to give thanks for. And its chief mouthpiece – the Washington Post’s neoconservative editorial page – was glowing over its good fortune in the three-plus weeks since Barack Obama's election.

On Friday, the Post’s lead editorial thanked President-elect Obama for settling on insider favorites for key jobs, especially officials with long records of promoting the neocon foreign policy agenda. ...

First some surprsing facts, for example, did you know that Stuttgart is the capitol of Africa?

Resistance? Insurgents?

Why I can no longer watch cable news.

Edited by vastleft: please don't post copyrighted works in their entirety. Especially something by a good guy like Tom Tomorrow.

Tristero on the lunacy of the Pontius Pilate neocons<

Because this woman isn't.

Harsh?

Yes.

Unfair?

Perhaps. I could have featured other smiling men:

This one, for instance.

Or this one.

Or other smiling women.

Let me tell you about the woman in the picture first, and then you be the judge.