To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: February 2010
BBC Depicts US/UK Torture Tolerance
Fighting The Subversion Of Our People’s Sovereignty
BY JIM HIGHTOWER As you’ve probably heard, corporations are now “people” – humanoids that are equivalent to you and me. This miraculous metamorphosis happened on Jan. 21. Accompanied by a blinding bolt of lightning, and a terrifying jolt of thunder, five Dr. Frankensteins on the Supreme Court threw a judicial switch that endowed these pulseless […]
For The Love Of Hersh
BY SUSAN ESTRICH When I was growing up, we never had a dog. My mother told us we would be too sad when it died. She was not one for that “better to have loved and lost” business. Loss, to be spared at all cost, could at least be avoided on the pet front by […]
Calling Monica Lewinsky!
BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The American political system is nicely balanced so that certain foul deeds – like throwing poor women off the welfare rolls, or cutting old people’s pensions – are handed off to Democrats, who put on a better act, tears streaming down their faces as they protest that they must kill in order […]
What Went Wrong?
BY SUSAN ESTRICH Something has gone very wrong. Was it just a year ago that Democrats assumed more control in Washington than the party has had in my lifetime? It was. Was it just a year ago that President Obama promised a new era of change, bipartisanship and transparency? It was. Just weeks into office, […]