Submitted by jest on Sat, 02/11/2012 - 11:23pm
Submitted by jest on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 7:57pm
There’s only one electable Republican in the 2012 race. Unfortunately, he’s running as a Democrat.
© wigwam
Gotta love those Firebaggers. Read below the fold...
Submitted by scarshapedstar on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 10:48pm
Submitted by Michael Kwiatkowski on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 2:40pm
On the Open Salon version of my previous entry, some right-winger who supports Obama kept trying to lay the blame for next year's results on the left for failing to properly support the candidate who has done far more to pass the Republicans' agenda than any GOP office-holder could have.
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Submitted by Michael Kwiatkowski on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 11:32am
Salon.com has a piece up urging Democrats to dump Obama and go with a candidate who will restore their party to its New Deal era politics. According to the column by Matt Stoller, there are a number of reasons why they should, including: Read below the fold...
Submitted by madamab on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 9:00am
[Welcome Confluence readers! -- Lambert]
Sorry folks, there is no activism today. I'm still processing my feelings about the shocking developments of last Sunday evening.
What I've ultimately settled upon, after my initial excitement has faded, is a feeling of despair. Read below the fold...
Submitted by Michael Kwiatkowski on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 2:14pm
The responses to my previous entry were exactly what I hoped they would be: lively. And I'm not done yet, not by a long shot. I'm going to expand upon a comment I made in the other thread. Read below the fold...
Submitted by Michael Kwiatkowski on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 8:32pm
I seem to recall that someone, late last month, posted an entry arguing that it is immoral for Democrats not to run a primary challenge against Barry Obama in 2012, in light of the things he's done to institutionalize Bush-Cheney crimes. (Glenn Greenwald chronicled the latest violation of the Constitution by Obama on his own blog, which you can read here). Read below the fold...
Submitted by wlarip on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 11:04pm
Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. ...voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy.
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Submitted by lambert on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 5:20pm
Paul Domowitch in the Inky:
The NFL Tailgate Party is one of the premier events of Super Bowl week. It's a tougher ticket to get than the game ticket. The invited guests include A-list celebrities like Harrison Ford and Jennifer Aniston, as well as league owners and Super Bowl sponsors. But with the league focused on straightening out the seating snafu, the tailgate party turned into chaos.
According to league sources, many sponsors were forced to wait in line for as long as 2 1/2 hours to get into the tailgate party and were not pleased with the shabby way they were treated.
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Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 10:45am
Andrew Kolin's new book "State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W. Bush" actually begins with the war for independence and continues into the Obama years. A 231-page monotone recounting of endless facts, it doesn't pick up with Bush the Lesser until page 137. Kolin chronicles a gradual slide into an imperial presidency that really got going after World War II. Along the way he chronicles the damage done to the forces of resistance, making a compelling case that our movements for peace and justice are weak in part because of the extreme repression of recent decades. Read below the fold...
Submitted by Michael Kwiatkowski on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 9:28am
We'll be discussing the election results from November 2nd, Keith Olbermann's suspension from MSNBC, ongoing Democrat capitulation to right-wing extremism, and the future of left-wing politics in America as it slides ever deeper into the realm of fascism.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/progressive...
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Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 04/22/2010 - 11:45am
By David Swanson
Franz Kafka's book "The Trial" begins "Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning." There follow many thousands of words describing the ordeal of someone denied the right to know the charges against him, to face his accusers, to be given a fair and speedy trial by a jury of his peers, and so forth. We have read thousands of stories of such "Kafkan" experiences since the advent of the Global War of Terror. But we need a different kind of story now. Read below the fold...
Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 1:49am
Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 9:38am
By David Swanson
We're about to witness the pretense of war lawyer hearings without the war lawyers (commonly known as torture lawyers by those willing to ignore their role in "legalizing" aggressive war). This may highlight for many observers the little-known fact that Congress no longer has the power of subpoena. Read below the fold...
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