Month: July 2011

That’s Mayor Bloomberg of New York City talking, and if he’s talking I can only assume that his friends on Wall Street have asked him to go public: WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg Tuesday...

We’re starting to see articles about the rivalry between Speaker John Boehner and his Number Two, Eric Cantor. I get that Majority Leader Cantor has aspirations to hold the Speaker’s gavel some day. But I think there...

In today’s (/7/12/110 Counterpunch. To Rebél Against the Human Condition and Empire The Key to a Happy Death Read it. Then try to live it. Some excerpts follow:What are the people of Germany doing?  Sleeping....

I expect the CIA to be somewhat dastardly. That’s part of what they are there for. I understand why they wanted to find some clever way to extract DNA from someone in the Abbottabad compound where they suspected Usama...

Barack Obama: “I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit — the ability to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes; to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us — the child...