To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Observercast

Beck, Palin Commandeer MLK’s Dream

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BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN This coming weekend brings us the Aug. 28 anniversary of the March on Washington back in 1963. It was when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech from the Lincoln Memorial. At least 250,000 people, 75-80% black, rallied in the Mall. Each year the anniversary rolls […]

The Billionaire Right-Winger

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BY JOE CONASON Despite the kaleidoscopic proliferation of political media over the past decade, most of what Americans hear and read about the workings of our democracy can be politely termed superficial. Only very rarely does journalism fully penetrate the glittering illusions created by partisans on every side to reveal the grittier realities. When a […]

Ready, Fire, Aim

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH House Minority Leader John Boehner has a brilliant idea. Nearly one in 10 Americans is out of work. The housing market stinks. The stock market is barely holding on. Republicans, much as I hate to say it, have a real opportunity in this midterm election. And what is the brilliant plan from […]

The Mosque And ‘The American Street’

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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 […]

Wall Street’s Connected Lobbyists

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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 […]