To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Had Your Fill Of War Yet?
The Mosque And ‘The American Street’
BY FROMA HARROP The circus around the mosque should start to lose audience. New York officials have the authority to decide whether an Islamic center may be built near the tragic site of the attacks on the Twin Towers. They’ve given it a green light. Our foreign policy establishment worries that the intemperate rants against […]
Leveling The Playing Field
‘Spontaneous Head Explosions’
Wall Street’s Connected Lobbyists
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Congress finally passed a moderate reform package to tighten regulations on the banksters of Wall Street. Of course, the banksters howled, protesting even the meekest of reforms – but the package is now the law, so that’s that. Right? Uh … no. What Congress passed is a 2,300-page compendium of concepts, leaving […]