Big Government: Predator Drones Used by Police to Help Capture Cow Rustlers in North Dakota
Golly. All those pinko, commie, terrorist-loving Leftists who have long been warning about the dangers of Big Government overreach and the dangerously increasing use of terror tools against U.S. citizens — the same thing that “Tea Party” RWers pretended, only after Obama’s election, to be concerned about — were nothing but America-hating alarmists, weren’t they? […]
‘Green News Report’ – December 8, 2011
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio! IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Triumph of propaganda over truth: D.C.’s King of the Deniers, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OIL) takes a victory lap; Deadlock at Durban? Final days of the UN Climate Conference in S. Africa; 2011 breaks its own record for weather disasters; PLUS: GOP threatens to take […]
Occupy Electoral Politics!
Guest editorial by Ernest A. Canning “I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world,” former British MP Tony Benn said when interviewed by Michael Moore in Sicko! — “more revolutionary than socialist ideas…because…you have the power to use it to meet the needs of your community.” “If the poor in the U.S. […]
‘It’s a Liberty Walk’: Miley Cyrus Supports ’99 Percent Movement’ With New Music Video
Miley Cyrus’ new video for her new single “It’s a Liberty Walk” opens with a dedication “to the thousands of people who are standing up for what they believe in.” It includes footage of protests from around the world, including Occupy Wall Street demonstrations (and police violence at many of them) in this country and […]
‘Green News Report’ – November 1, 2011
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio! IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Mitt Romney flip-flops again, this time on global warming; Fox ‘News’ — ignorant and proud of it; U.S. Navy ignores Fox and Mitt by taking the lead on biofuel innovation; PLUS: It’s not your imagination: weather disasters are becoming more frequent, and more expensive […]
‘People & Power – The Koch Brothers’: Al Jazeera’s Investigative Documentary
Al Jazeera English’s Bob Abeshouse and Yasmeen Qureishi have put together an investigative report on the out-sized influence of the Koch Brothers on American democracy. The documentary premiered on AJE this week, and both starts and ends with the “Secret Koch Tapes” we exclusively published last month in a series of articles at Mother Jones […]
Occupy Wall Street is No ‘Tea Party’
Guest editorial by Ernest A. Canning While both phenomena — Occupy Wall Street and the “Tea Party” — have emerged at a time of acute economic distress and a sense of alienation, disenchantment and betrayal brought on by an increasingly authoritarian corporate capitalism, they are as different as night is to day. Occupy Wall Street […]