To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Observercast

What’s On Your Plate?

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Make this Thanksgiving an occasion to celebrate our country’s food rebels! Yes, rebels. People who dare to challenge the conventional wisdom and try to find a better way for doing something, even with the odds against them and the Powers That Be saying it won’t work. In this case, I’m talking about […]

Does Voting Matter?

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH On my way to work this morning, I heard not one but two advertisements urging me to vote for former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as the next governor of California. The ads touted her decades of experience working for such companies as Disney and Hasbro before taking the helm at eBay in […]

The Street They Should Occupy

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BY FROMA HARROP As “Occupy Wall Street” sweeps up attention, a smaller group is running something called Occupy K Street. If the goal is to loosen the financiers’ grip over the American economy, the folks protesting on K Street are getting closer to bingo. K Street is Washington’s famous boulevard of lobbyist influence, the place […]

Why We Can’t Just ‘Look Forward’

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BY JOE CONASON Torture is no longer a pressing concern for the American public, if it ever was. The country’s attention has understandably turned to lost jobs, costly health care and spilled oil. Most Americans probably agree with President Obama that rather than dwell on the secret abuses of the Bush-Cheney regime, we ought to […]

Major Media Ignore Wisconsin Scandal

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BY JOE CONASON If the Wisconsin recall is truly second in importance only to the presidential race, as many media outlets have trumpeted lately, then why have those same outlets so badly neglected one of that election’s most salient aspects? As millions of dollars in dark right-wing money pour into the state to preserve Gov. […]