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Jan 26, 2011, 4:53 pm
Chris Floyd had the honor:
The uprising in Egypt on Tuesday is of infinitely greater importance than the goon show staged by the corporate-lackey-in-chief and the great mooing herd of cud-chewers in Congress the same night. For decades, the remarkably brutal — and rottenly stagnant — dictatorsh... Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2011, 3:40 pm
The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cThe Word - Coverage of Denialwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogVideo Archive Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2011, 9:38 am
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c24 Hour Nazi Party Peoplewww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogThe Daily Show on Facebook Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2011, 4:54 pm
Hedges wrote the following in his Monday Truthdig article:
The moral outrage of the liberal class, a specialty of MSNBC, groups such as Progressives for Obama and MoveOn.org, is built around the absurd language of personal narrative — as if Barack Obama ever wanted to or could defy the interests ... Comment - Like
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Jan 22, 2011, 4:03 pm
The eight-year run of Countdown on MSNBC came to an end last night (1.21.2011). It is only a coincidence that the Federal Communication Commission approved (.pdf) Comcast's purchase of NBCU from General Electric three days before.
Olbermann's public goodbye:
Update (1.22.2011)
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Jan 19, 2011, 9:07 am
The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cMika Brzezinski Experiences Palin Fatiguewww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogVideo Archive Comment - Like
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Jan 17, 2011, 4:37 pm
Surely Treasury Secretary Geithner is a Republican. He must be since he is publicly willing to hinder the implementation of even a modest reform such as this:
…[T]he G20 will press ahead with the creation of two separate systemic bank lists, the first with an estimated 20 global banks whose failu... Comment - Like
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Jan 17, 2011, 4:21 pm
Now that Barack Obama has provided Wall Street with the economic and political aid it craves, wrecked Health Care Reform for a generation or more, prosecuted two politically senseless and criminal wars, tipped the Supreme Court to the right, has the 2010 midterm elections the results of which he can... Comment - Like
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Jan 13, 2011, 11:58 pm
We could do that, but such resistance today seems futile, according to Maureen Tkacik, of the New York Observer. She wrote:
"If you want to get some traffic on this one," a former senior House aide told The Observer, "make your angle 'Obama's Fixers to End the New Deal.' They are going to dismantle ... Comment - Like
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Jan 11, 2011, 9:57 am
David Frum addresses the faults to be found in Sarah Palin's response to the Tucson Massacre and to those who claim she bears responsibility for the event:
Obviously, Palin never intended to summon people to harm Representative Giffords. There was no evidence that the shooter was a Palin follower, ... Comment - Like
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Jan 10, 2011, 5:19 pm
1. Jared Loughner had a politics, one that included violence as an expressive political event.
2. Rep. Giffords was a national politician, who was engaged in local political work at a public place when Loughner attempted to kill her.
3. Rep. Giffords had local political opponents who contested he... Comment - Like
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Jan 10, 2011, 1:08 pm
Glenn Greenwald wrote the following this morning:
There has been much talk over the last several days, in the wake of the Arizona shooting, about attempts by some citizens to instill physical fear in elected officials. That's a worthwhile and necessary topic, but the fear that government officials a... Comment - Like
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Jan 8, 2011, 2:21 pm
Representative Gabrielle Giffords, a three-term Democrat, was shot this morning by a gunman who also injured some of her staff. Giffords is a liberal on many issues, married to an astronaut and defeated last November a Tea Party conservative that criticized Sarah Palin from the right.
Although the ... Comment - Like
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Jan 5, 2011, 12:07 am
Vanity Fair and 60 Minutes conducted the poll. The most interesting question of the lot is, "What would you do first to balance the budget?" While writing this post the tally of the response is:
75% — Increase taxes on the wealthy
16% — Cut defense spending
4% — Cut Medicare
4% — Cut S... Comment - Like
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Jan 3, 2011, 7:22 pm
Joseph Stiglitz looks to the past and the future:
For Europe and the United States, 2010 was a year of disappointment. It's been three years since the bubble broke, and more than two since Lehman Brothers' collapse. In 2009, we were pulled back from the brink of depression, and 2010 was supposed to... Comment - Like
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Jan 3, 2011, 4:39 pm
Chris Hedges recently talked with Ralph Nader. One part of their conversation has Nader pointing to a very odd mechanism found in American politics:
"The more outrageous the Republicans become, the weaker the left becomes," Nader said when I reached him at his home in Connecticut on Sunday. "The mo... Comment - Like
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Dec 13, 2010, 8:23 pm
Writing for The Nation, Bruce Western, a sociologist and the author of Punishment and Inequality in America, recently addressed the class component present in America's drug policy. He began by pointing out that:
America's drug policy aims to reduce illicit drug use by arresting and incarcerating d... Comment - Like
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Dec 6, 2010, 6:05 pm
Writing for TomDispatch, historian Alfred McCoy offers a disturbing prognosis of America's near-term future:
A soft landing for America 40 years from now? Don't bet on it. The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. If Washington is dre... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2010, 6:42 pm
Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect, appeared on Democracy Now to discuss the Co-Chairs Proposal produced by the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. The two co-chairmen are former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) and Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff and current President ... Comment - Like
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Oct 26, 2010, 7:52 pm
The Justice Department announced today that:
SB Pharmco Puerto Rico Inc., a subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline, PLC (GSK), has agreed to plead guilty to charges relating to the manufacture and distribution of certain adulterated drugs made at GSK's now-closed Cidra, Puerto Rico, manufacturing facility, ... Comment - Like
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Sep 27, 2010, 11:33 am
In his most recent truthdig article, "Do Not Pity the Democrats," Chris Hedges speaks the truth about power in the United States today:
There are no longer any major institutions in American society, including the press, the educational system, the financial sector, labor unions, the arts, religiou... Comment - Like
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Sep 10, 2010, 10:05 am
An earlier version of this article appeared on Firedoglake.
Might Barack Obama and the Democratic Party he leads feel more comfortable working with the Republican politicians who regularly and savagely oppose his programs? Do powerful Democrats and Republicans have common interests which draw them ... Comment - Like
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Aug 24, 2010, 9:56 am
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe Parent Company Trapwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party Comment - Like
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Aug 23, 2010, 2:40 pm
The permanent crisis?
Mike Whitney observes:
Policymakers at the Fed, the Treasury, the White House and the Congress now look on as the foundations of the so-called recovery crack before their very eyes. Many of their careers will undoubtedly follow the economy down the drain. As the stimulus runs... Comment - Like
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Aug 10, 2010, 1:32 pm
This one issued from the keyboard of David Frum:
More proof of my longtime thesis, Repub pols fear the GOP base; Dem pols hate the Dem base.
Frum's judgment was a response to Presidential Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' recent hissy fit. A few quotes that represent Gibb's perfervid mind:
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Aug 7, 2010, 11:16 am
In 1794, President George Washington invoked the Militia Acts of 1792 to put down the Whiskey Rebellion in Western Pennsylvania. The Whiskey Rebellion sprung from local resistance to the Hamiltonian Whiskey Tax.
In 1941, the Bengali writer, activist and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore died in Ko... Comment - Like
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Aug 4, 2010, 8:40 pm
The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cConsumer Protection Agency - Barney Frankwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full Episodes2010 ElectionFox News Comment - Like
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Aug 4, 2010, 8:18 pm
In 1693, the Benedictine monk Dom Pérignon was said to have invented champagne.
In 1792, Percy Bysshe Shelly, one of the world's great poets, was born in Field Place, Horsham, England.
In 1789, members of revolutionary France's Constituent Assembly took an oath pledging them to abolish Feudalism.... Comment - Like
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Aug 3, 2010, 12:51 pm
The Hill reports that sentiment has grown among Republican Party hacks in support of defanging or eliminating altogether the Fourteenth Amendment:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told The Hill on Monday that Congress "ought to take a look at" changing the 14th Amendment, which gives t... Comment - Like
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Aug 3, 2010, 10:05 am
In 1913, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies) allegedly fomented a riot in Wheatland, California. The rioters comprised local farm workers whose labor-burden was great, who were underpaid and living in inadequate conditions. The riot motivated California law-makers to pass legislati... Comment - Like
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Aug 2, 2010, 1:21 pm
In 1869, Meiji Restoration reforms abolished the Japan's class system.
In 1922, the inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell died in Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia.
In 1923, a Prime Minister and President of Israel Shimon Peres was born in Viszniewo, Poland.
In 1924, the American author and ci... Comment - Like
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Jul 29, 2010, 12:53 pm
In 1805, the French political theorist and politician Alexis de Tocqueville was born in Paris, France. Tocqueville is best remembered for his two-volume work, Democracy in America, and his study of the French Revolution, The Old Regime and the Revolution.
In 1848, police put down a nationalist revo... Comment - Like
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Jul 28, 2010, 8:12 am
In 1750, the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach died in Leipzig, Germany.
In 1794, revolutionary France's National Convention had Maximilien Robespierre executed by guillotine, an event which concluded the Reign of Terror and signaled the onset of what became known as the Thermidorian Reaction.
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