To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, May 2, 2024

Observercast

Obama’s Mideast Summit: The Farce is with Us – Yet Again

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BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN It’s impossible to read the agenda for the Oval Office summit between Obama, Netanyahu and Abbas without laughing out loud at the absurdity of its pretensions. The American plan is that President Obama will inform Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas, representing the Palestinian Authority, that this is make-or-break time for […]

‘Ladies Slug It Out’

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH That was the headline on Thursday’s Drudge Report. And it is as good a summary as any of what happened Wednesday night when incumbent California Sen. Barbara Boxer met her challenger, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, in their first debate. By all measures, Boxer should be vulnerable. She is a liberal. No […]

Government Protects The Little Guy

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BY FROMA HARROP Over a century ago, William Jennings Bryan presided over mass rallies of mostly middle-class Americans angry about economic inequities. The Tea Party activists gathered in Washington last weekend for Glenn Beck’s event shared similar concerns. Both leaders framed their populist mission in Christian terms. But Bryan’s people knew the source of their […]

A Labor Day Commitment To The Common Good

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER America’s corporate chieftains must love poor people, for they’re doing all they can to create millions more of them. They’re knocking down wages, offshoring everything from manufacturing jobs to high tech, reducing full-time work to part-time, downsizing our workplaces, busting unions, cutting health care coverage and canceling pensions – while also lobbying […]

Mad Men In A Saner Time

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BY FROMA HARROP “Mad Men” just won its third Emmy for “outstanding drama.” If there were a gold statue for “best nostalgic portrayal,” the AMC series would have walked off with that one, too. The allure and success of “Mad Men” is its stylish evocation of a lost era that many older Americans miss and […]