"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Chomsky’s statement that just because bin Laden said he was responsible for 9/11 doesn’t mean he was, is both deliberately evasive and approaches senility. The above quote is from Bob’s post here at Politics in the Zeros. Bob’s latest post…
The startling demise of Osama bin Laden (OBL) has really upset me. Despite the fact that nearly every authoritative voice in this country and every single mainstream media pundit telling me that OBL was evil incarnate, I still can’t help…
When one is attempting to explain our very anti-democratic electoral college to someone from outside the US, there is usually a strong desire to explain it away, to claim it is a safeguard on Democracy. We are told it is…
It’s a bit ironic that the purveyor of “Freedom and Democracy” around the world incarcerates more people per capita than any nation on the planet. The staggering growth of the prison industrial complex over the past thirty years is mind…
The folks at Brecht Forum are paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a special screening of two classic documentaries: At the River I stand and The Negro Protests. If you want to remember Dr. King for the…
Michael Gerson of the Washington Post attempts to rewrite history: Since the days of Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, radicals have talked of the “propaganda of the deed” — the use of dramatic, usually violent, acts to inspire the masses and…