Month: June 2014

Reading Ed Kilgore’s offerings this morning is really depressing. The Republicans are working on a toxic trifecta of opposing the Voting Rights Act in Alabama, complaining about blacks voting in elections in Mississippi,...

Lee Fang speculates that CNBC is solicitous of climate change deniers because the fossil fuel industry buys a lot of advertising time from them. It could really be that simple. The company is no longer owned by General Electric...

Obama signs secret order to aid Syria rebels (Reuters /Al Jazeera) – US President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorising US support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his...

From my diary of December 2012 –  US Foreign Policy, Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood Ploy. Jordan: US Forces Plan Shield Against Syria AMMAN, Jordan (AP/ABC News) Oct. 12, 2012 – From the edge of a steep...

Back in 2007, when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were both running hot, the American Friends Service Committee issued a report that claimed we were spending $720 million a day and $500,000 a minute on those two conflicts. I...