Petraeaus Should Not Head the CIA

All the Reasons Petraeaus Should Not Head the CIA | | AlterNet

Obama sees to it that the Iraq and Afghan wars will continue in perpetuity.

DOJ Drops Probe of Whistleblower Who Exposed Bush-Era Domestic Spying

DOJ Drops Probe of Whistleblower Who Exposed Bush-Era Domestic Spying, Thomas Tamm: "The Bottom Line Is I Don’t Think I Ever Broke the Law"

In 1973, Richard Nixon was threatened with impeachment and hounded out of office for crimes that represented less of a threat to the U.S. Constitution than George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping in 2004. And yet, Bush and his co-conspirators faced no sanctions for their crimes and to this day are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise.

The Beijing Consensus

The time has come for the PRC to intervene in world history...

Critical Montages: Pax Sinica for the Beijing Consensus: "Theoretically, China can pursue global Keynesian policy in addition to domestic Keynesian policy, which would go some way toward countering ..."

VICTORY!

Yemen president 'agrees' to Gulf proposal - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

If large segments of the U.S. population didn't suffer from chronic ADD, we, too, could have the presence of mind to effect authentic political change in our own country.

Instead, we take the placebo-plebiscite every couple of years and then titillate ourselves with the notion that re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic represents meaningful change...

The "Liberal Hawk" Phenomenon

The Slippery Slope of "Humane Intervention": Why Do Liberals Keep Talking Themselves into War? | World | AlterNet

Religious Studies 101

Tribal Plate Tectonics: The Supposed Christian-Muslim Vendetta in West Africa Is a Front for a Much Simpler Story | World | AlterNet

3 Cups of Lies

Exposed Literary Fraud Reveals Lengths Americans Take to Deceive Themselves to Justify War and Intervention | | AlterNet

Take The Red Pill Before It's Too Late

Obama proposes trillions in spending cuts

If the US Doesn't Pull Every Soldier from Iraq at Midnight, Dec. 31, 2011, Expect Serious Trouble | | AlterNet

If the US Doesn't Pull Every Soldier from Iraq at Midnight, Dec. 31, 2011, Expect Serious Trouble | | AlterNet

Boycott. Divestment. Sanctions.

U.S. Backs Down and Grants Visa to Omar Barghouti, Palestinian Advocate of Israel Boycott

Resist. Refuse. Renounce.

Resisting Islamophobia and war.

To bomb and protect - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

To bomb and protect - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Gaddafi is crazy like a fox.

African American Historian Manning Marable Dies Days Before Publication of His Biography of Malcolm X

African American Historian Manning Marable Dies Days Before Publication of His Biography of Malcolm X

Marable on the "missing political testament" from the "Autobiography as told to Alex Haley."

Cornel West and the fight against injustice - Riz Khan - Al Jazeera English

Cornel West and the fight against injustice - Riz Khan - Al Jazeera English

With the tragic loss of Manning Marable, we need Br. West now more than ever...

Thank You FAIR

Keeping on top of the disinformation campaign is a big job.

"Flickers" of al-Qaeda in Libya

Keeping fear alive while trying to keep your story straight: how do we maintain the fiction of "freedom-hating" al-Qaeda and/or Hezbollah in the face of popular revolution? It's a quandary for the fear-mongers, but I'm sure they'll come up with something. Lately there has been mention in the media of "flickers" of al-Qaeda being detected among the Libyan rebels. It appears that NATO's brass has floated this first lame trial balloon. Expect more of this rhetoric as newly democratic governments across the region fail to fall in line with the Washington-Tel Aviv-Riyadh axis...