“I’m sure they were genuinely ill, but whether it was anything to do with dispersants and oil, whether it was food poisoning, or some other reason for them being ill, you know, there’s a — food poisoning’s clearly a big issue when you’ve got a concentration of this number of people in ten pre-cabs, ten [...]
Greenwald: Who are the real “crazies” in our political culture?
Glenn Greenwald wrote a terrific piece yesterday in which he splendidly makes a point that I’ve attempted to make repeatedly in this space. That point is that any viable challenge to the two party corporotocracy will be immediately marginalized by the propaganda arm of the American Empire, known popularly as the corporate mainstream media. Think [...]
BP’s Apocalypse
“The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume…” ~ BP chief executive Tony Hayward, May 14th, 2010 What a complete fucking asshole. Oh, and have you seen anything quite like this photo [...]
Crimes Are Crimes – No Matter Who Does Them
Here’s something else that will make oodles of self-described liberals and progressives mad at ME instead of mad at Obama. I’m talking about the ones who seem to have checked their consciences at the door to the Hope and Change Magical Ball, where extrajudicial assassinations are normalized, troop surges in undeclared wars are suddenly ok, [...]
The Landless Peasant Party
“Man is the only animal on earth that has to pay to be here. How did we manage that? Our basic need for shelter has been turned into a way to make the most money possible for the property market. How did we arrange that??? ~Deek Jackson, The Landless Peasant Party I think it’s about [...]
Alan Grayson introduces the War Is Making You Poor Act
Take a good, hard look at this graph. Now listen to what Alan Grayson proposes we do about it.
Obama wins the right to detain people with no habeas review
Obama wins the right to detain people with no habeas review Friday, May 21, 2010 13:22 ET By Glenn Greenwald Few issues highlight Barack Obama’s extreme hypocrisy the way that Bagram does. As everyone knows, one of George Bush’s most extreme policies was abducting people from all over the world — far away from any [...]
Revealed: How Israel offered to sell SA nuclear weapons
Revealed: How Israel offered to sell SA nuclear weapons CHRIS MCGREAL | WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES – May 24 2010 07:55 Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state’s possession of nuclear weapons. The “top secret” minutes of meetings [...]
Bottled water is the greatest marketing trick of all time
I’m completely fucking exhausted at the moment. I’m really trying my best to keep up the good fight, but looking the corporo-militarist beast in the eye every single day is, well, exhausting. Have I mentioned how completely fucking exhausting it is? Anyway, watch this trailer for the documentary Tapped.
Ruining an ecosystem and more dead Afghan civlians
This story about a boat full of BP thugs and National Guard soldiers preventing our “free press” from reporting on the destruction of an entire fucking ecosystem has me so goddamned angry that I decided it would be best to take a day off from the blog, lest I say something regrettable. However, Chris Floyd’s [...]
