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Ginning up for another war 27 Aug 2013 | 05:23 am
The same old routines are brought out, as digby points out. Well worth reading. Filed under: Military, Obama administration
Foreign policy issues, decisions, and consequences in the Middle East, especially wrt terrorism 27 Aug 2013 | 02:30 am
A very interesting article indeed. Dense but rewarding. What is not mentioned is: If NSA knows so damn much, how did we screw it up this badly? Don’t they read their wiretaps? Then, in the light of t...
Aspartame and GMOs: What You Really Need to Know About the Science and Health Risks 27 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am
Interesting article from AlterNet by Alison Rose Levy: In response to a plunge in sales of artificially sweetened sodas last week, Coca-Cola announced plans to roll out an ad campaign to win back pop...
Conservatives Are Finally Admitting What Voter Suppression Laws Are All About 27 Aug 2013 | 01:12 am
They simply don’t want Democrats to vote because their sole interest is winning, not governing. Kevin Drum explains in detail. Filed under: Election, GOP
How–and why—Washington changed 27 Aug 2013 | 12:43 am
Digby has a good post on why our national government no long functions well: his excerpt comes from a piece by Michael Winship on how much Washington has changed since the Nixon years. The social a...
Top 13 Surveillance Secrets the Gov’t Doesn’t want You to Know About 27 Aug 2013 | 12:40 am
Bill Quigley of CommonDreams.org has a post at Informed Comment: “We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted…the Patriot Act. ...
People, not markets, are driving the green-energy revolution 27 Aug 2013 | 12:38 am
Juan Cole writes at Informed Comment: The propaganda against the green energy revolution contains all the same predictable elements as the propaganda against anti-slavery movements or later against a...
Look for more surveillance at work—a lot more 27 Aug 2013 | 12:23 am
One option companies might consider is to pay workers a reasonable wage and discontinue tipping, but that won’t happen: businesses really do not want to pay their employees more. In fact, the focus on...
NSA lawsuit tracker (NSA/US government is the defendent) 27 Aug 2013 | 12:05 am
Good summary list of legal actions against the government for its illegal activity. Perhaps President Obama will tell us some more lies about this. Filed under: Law, NSA, Obama administration
Everyone the government dislikes is a terrorist… 26 Aug 2013 | 10:31 pm
That seems to be where we’re headed. We’ve seen the unwarranted generalization of specific terms before: “narcotic” (i.e., derived from the opium poppy) is applied to any drug that the government disl...
