Courtesy of Glenn Greenwald at Salon, we find that the corporate media has reported on the major issues facing Americans with the following emphasis: In the past two weeks, the following events transpired. A Department of Justice memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential lawbreaking. It was revealed that the…

I will appreciate it if anyone has thoughtful criticisms of the following. Ideologues unconcerned with actual events need not waste their (and my) time. We have seen that Wall Street has both helped itself to enormously disproportionate incomes due to their capacity to game the system and that they have made themselves so essential to…

One of the most important developments in the modern world is the rise of democracies to becoming the dominant part of the world’s population, and economic and military power. The chief reason this unprecedented development is important is that only liberal democracies never fight wars with one another. The recent peaceful settlement of the crisis…

This is Barack Obama’s speech against going to war in Iraq. He spoke when others such as myself also opposed the war and took constant flak from right wingers and their Democratic enablers. At the same time some, like Hillary Clinton, actively facilitated it and hundreds of thousands of deaths later, still refuse to admit…

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