sbj

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Not to mention that the "he said, she said"format of the news requires hardly any real investigatory or reportorial diligence…
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Yes! Trouble always results when opinion and speculation masquerade as fact and vice versa. And propaganda machines make very good…
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One of the biggest problems we have about truth, one of the primary reasons it's so often so hard to…
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Hate is a mutation of fear, and these wingnuts are, in the end, terrified of their own inadequacy and lack…
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And I wonder if McCain wil have any principles left intact by 2008. At the rate he's betraying them, he's…
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My first clue that this was probably a bullshit deal was the fact thast not one single reporter or pundit…
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Off topic Janet, but while Ghandi was a true advocate for peace the only peace Mother Teresa allowed for was…
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General Yaalon, former IDF chief, is avery big-wig at WINEP, (Washington Institute For Near Easdt Policy, a group that is…
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I hadn't been aware of Thompson's perspective on Clinton, but I certainly agree with him about the elder Bush, and…
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You're right about the (non)voters, but for many of them, the choices they see amongst the prominent Dems are simply…
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Hunter Thompson was right. "Success" in Iraq means more war. "Failure" in Iraq means more war. The question for us…
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I was really pissed too when I discovered there was no instant relief forthcoming, but deep down I knew that…
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I wanted to wait until this open thread morphed away from the holiday theme so as not to inject my…
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I begun my journey on the path of sobriety 23 years ago, and even now I look back across all…
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Yes! The CIA seems to be a lot better at stealth than they are at subtlety, and "Mockingbird" certainly is…
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You are right of course. I was remarking that there was a serious acceleration and intensification of this complicity during…
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It was way back in the early years of the Reagan regime that I became aware of the precipitous slide…
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Here in the US also we have to find a way to make it worse for the congress critters to…
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You know there's something seriously out of whack when the might wingnut wurlitzer comes up with the idea of "Weaponized…
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When the CIA dirty prison's scandal broke, I had a small measure of hope that somehow the European governments might…
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