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May 21, 2012
Democrats and Bain
(updated below)
We all know that Bain Capital, Mitt Romney's former firm, is the paragon of capitalist evil, destroying the middle class in order to enrich greedy vulture oligarchs. We also all know that the Democratic Party is the defender of the middle class and the bold adversary of corporate pillaging. That's why these facts generate so much cognitive dissonance:
Democrats have accepted more political donations than Republicans from executives at Bain Capital, complicating the left’s plan t...
May 19, 2012
The 2002 political climate
Here's something I accidentally just found when I was searching for something else: it's from a July 17, 2002, interview of tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who had been a naturalized U.S. citizen at that point for more than 20 years. She was interviewed by Connie Chung, then the host of a prime-time CNN program, Connie Chung Tonight, where she played the role of neutral journalist. This was the very first question-and-answer exchange; it's just remarkable:
INTRO [announcer]:Life after cente...
May 18, 2012
Drone filmmaker denied visa
Muhammad Danish Qasim is a Pakistani student atIqra University’s Media Scienceand is also a filmmaker. This year, Qasim released a short film entitled The Other Side, a 20-minute narrative that "revolves around the idea of assessing social, psychological and economical effects of drones on the people in tribal areas of Pakistan." A two-minute video trailer of the film is embedded below.The Express Tribuneprovided this summary of the film, including an interview with Qasim:
May 16, 2012
Federal court enjoins NDAA
A federal district judge today, the newly-appointed Katherine Forrest of the Southern District of New York, issued an amazing ruling: one whichpreliminarily enjoins enforcement of the highly controversial indefinite provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act, enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Obama last December. This afternoon's ruling came as part of a lawsuit brought by eight dissident plaintiffs -- including Chris Hedges, Dan Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and Brigit...
Obama’s new free speech threat
(updated below - Update II)
There is substantial opposition in both Yemen and the West to the new U.S.-backed Yemeni President, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. Hadi was the long-time Vice President of the Yemeni dictatorAli Abdullah Saleh, and after Saleh finally stepped down last year, Hadi became President as part of an "election" in which he was the only candidate (that little fact did not prevent Hillary Clinton from congratulating Yemen "on today's successful presidential election" (successful b...
May 15, 2012
May 14, 2012
Chomsky on Obama
Appearing on Democracy Nowthis morning, Noam Chomsky said the following:
If the Bush administration didn’t like somebody, they’d kidnap them and send them to torture chambers.
If the Obama administration decides they don’t like somebody, they murder them.
Though a bit oversimpified — the Bush administration killed plenty of people, while the Obama administration makes use of kidnapping and torture chambers albeit by proxy; also, as this tweeter noted: it’s “unfair to say the Obama administration...
May 11, 2012
Various matters
(1) On Wednesday,I was on Cenk Uygur’s Current TV show with Michael Hastings discussing the Yemen bomb plot, and the video of that seven-minute segment is below. The discussion focused on the way in which U.S. “counter-Terrorism” policy in Yemen causes the very Terrorism it ostensibly seeks to battle. Yesterday,The Washington Postreported on several U.S. attacks in Yemen from this week alone and noted: “The latest strikes, aimed at al-Qaeda operatives in southern Yemen, bring the total this y...
May 10, 2012
Obama's historic affirmation of same-sex marriage | Glenn Greenwald
Not 20 years ago, same-sex marriage was a fringe issue, almost unthinkable. That it now has presidential support is epochal
In an interview on ABC News Wednesday, President Obama, after several years of expressing opposition to same-sex marriage and then coyly describing his position as "evolving", expressed his support for it. In a one-on-one interview, he told Robin Roberts:
"It is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married."
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