"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Discussion of the Influential left-wing ideas (good, bad, and not influential enough) post from BobFromBrockley that has been widely re-blogged. Plus, Afghanistan war. With Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, and Josh Mull of Firedoglake & Rethink Afghanistan and myself. Listen to…
2010 Retrospective: Top stories from the past year and what we might expect from the year ahead. Plus, we still haven’t heard the last word on Wikileaks. What’s happened to the media discourse? Has there been collateral damage in Zimbabwe?…
Large numbers of people say they believe in American Exceptionalism. But how does that help us solve any of our very real and growing problems? Plus it can lead to overconfidence and arrogance, such as the various wars we are…
Josh Mull talks about the Afghanistan strategy review, the third of Obama’s Administration, where the withdrawal date got moved forward from 2014 to June 2011. This could indicate the elites now understand the war is no longer winnable, even as…
From the discussion: Maybe we should call what Wikileaks is doing ‘4G protest’ rather than ‘4G warfare’, because it’s not warfare and saying it is could provoke governments into over-reacting (not that they’d need much help doing this.) Maybe Wikileaks…