Politics
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Andrew Sullivan = Greg Palast?
Sullivan today quotes "his old friend" Jim Holt: Iraq has 115 billion barrels of known oil reserves. That is more than five times the total in the United States. And, because of its long isolation, it is the least explored of the world’s oil-rich nations. A mere two thousand wells have been drilled across the
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Quote of the Day: Stephen Colbert
"Hatemongers like Media Matters take innocent statements like mine, Rush Limbaugh’s, John Gibson’s, and Bill O’Reilly’s and make them offensive by posting them on the Internet, allowing the general public to hear words that were meant for people who already agree with us. Hey, Media Matters, you want to end offensive speech? Then stop recording
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Quote of the Day: Barnett Rubin
(Ed. note: This quote was at first mistakenly attributed to Juan Cole because it appeared on his website. Didn’t read it carefully enough.) The Bush-Cheney administration has surrendered much of Afghanistan to the Taliban and much of Pakistan to al-Qaida. They have turned most of Iraq over to Iran, creating the very danger over which
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Quote of the Day: Broadcast News
AARON: What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he’s around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No…He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and
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Lake of Fire
From a Salon review of the three-hour film about abortion in America: In a pair of sequences guaranteed to unsettle any viewer, Kaye shoots two abortions in intimate detail, one of them a late-term intervention and the other a much earlier, more routine procedure. In both cases, we see exactly what comes out of the
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Quote of the Day: Mario Cuomo
"Let’s not do what we did before and wind up apologizing for our resolutions and saying we’re sorry. Now remember, the Founding Fathers gave the powers to declare war to the Congress. That power cannot be delegated to the President. You can’t adopt a resolution and say well, the Founding Fathers wanted us to do
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Authoritarian Specter
From Nat Parry at Consortium News: As explained by Robert Altemeyer, who has spent much of his career as a psychologist studying right-wing authoritarianism, the phenomenon is characterized by a high degree of submission to the authorities who are perceived to be legitimate, and a general aggressiveness toward those perceived to be targeted for abuse
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Greenspan vs. Klein
Listen to Democracy Now interview of Alan Greenspan conducted by Amy Goodman and Naomi Klein, the author of the recently released book entitled The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. I’ve uploaded the podcast just below–the interview starts at about the ten-minute mark: Download democracy_now_monday_september_24_2007.mp3 It interests me that Greenspan considers Bill Clinton a
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How the World Works, Part 2 (Updates I & II)
Naomi Wolf in an interview about her new book, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot and A Citizen’s Call to Action, makes the argument I’ve been making. I agree completely with the analysis about what’s happening to us; I’m less optimistic that there is at this point a fighting chance
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Restore Habeas Corpus (Updated)
For what it’s worth, become a citzen sponsor here. Particularly important are the wavering Republicans–if you have one in your state, call him or her. Check here. Wednesday Morning Update: Cloture failed 56-43-1. It makes you proud.