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Webバージョン  |  アップデート設定  |  登録解除 いいね ツイート 転送 http://endofsecrets.blogspot.com Obama Will Ride to the Rescue... for Republicans Posted by jon on 21 December, 2012 Cenk Uygur The Republicans have put themselves in a holy mess with this Plan B debacle. They now have less than zero leverage. They are a national laughingstock. A majority of the country now thinks they are "too extreme." They just got walloped in the election. read more US Military Needs to Leave Afghanistan and Stop Widening Drone Strikes Posted by jon on 21 December, 2012 Mark Weisbrot There is perhaps no time in American history when our leaders have fought a war with so little support. More than 60 percent of Americans want out of Afghanistan. Even at the peak of the anti-Vietnam-war movement, after a majority had turned against the war, there were still a large number of citizens who believed in the war and its official justifications. read more The Ultimate Logic of a Society Built on Mass Murder Posted by jon on 21 December, 2012 Glen Ford As a native-born American, I grew up watching cowboy and Indian shoot-em-ups in which the highlight of the movie was when the white guys in the circled wagon train shot the Indians off their horses until all the red men were dead, and very silent. Indians didn’t do a lot of screaming in pain when they were shot; they just expired. Same thing with buck-toothed Japanese, line after line of them, charging into U.S. machine guns, falling instantly silent and dead. read more Playing Taxes Hold ’Em: 'GOP Crazies' Save Progressives from Obama (Again) Posted by jon on 21 December, 2012 Paul Krugman A few years back, there was a boom in poker television — shows in which you got to watch the betting and bluffing of expert card players. Since then, however, viewers seem to have lost interest. read more Are the US and Israel Heading for a Showdown? Posted by jon on 21 December, 2012 Ira Chernus Here’s the question no one is asking as 2012 ends, especially given the effusive public support the Obama administration offered Israel in its recent conflict with Hamas in Gaza: Will 2013 be a year of confrontation between Washington and Jerusalem?  It’s on no one’s agenda for the New Year. But it could happen anyway. read more An Open Letter to the Children Posted by jon on 21 December, 2012 Randall Amster Dear Children, read more Washington's Austerity Plan Threatens the 50 Million Americans Already in Poverty Posted by jon on 21 December, 2012 Rose Ann DeMoro With a compromise on social security now unmasked – costing the elderly an estimated 6.2-7.7%, according to business writer Doug Henwood – America becomes more and more a place of poverty. read more Will Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid Stand Up to the NRA? Posted by jon on 21 December, 2012 Medea Benjamin When CODEPINK, MoveOn and representatives of other organizations marched into Senator Harry Reid’s DC office on Tuesday, December 18, they wanted a simple answer to a simple question: Does the Senator support a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity clips, such as the legislation proposed by Senator Dianne Feinstein an read more Murdoch, Petraeus and the US Media Matrix Posted by jon on 21 December, 2012 Jonathan Cook Carl Bernstein, of All the President’s Men fame, has a revealing commentary in the Guardian today, though revealing not entirely in a way he appears to understand. read more Why the US Media Ignored Murdoch's Brazen Bid to Hijack the Presidency Posted by jon on 21 December, 2012 Carl Bernstein So now we have it: what appears to be hard, irrefutable evidence of Rupert Murdoch's ultimate and most audacious attempt – thwarted, thankfully, by circumstance – to hijack America's democratic institutions on a scale equal to his success in kidnapping and corrupting the essential democratic institutions of Great Britain through money, influence and wholesale abuse of the privileges of a free press. read more 登録変更 | 登録解除

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