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Maybe it took The Rachel Maddow Show to show me that the Cain Campaign, dear friends, is nothing but an art projekt: Pokemon as inspirational poet, Sim City as economics plan, Beckybeckystanstan and no idea about the right of return as foreign policy (with a 1 page nearly every day update), no idea what a neocon is or what life from conception has ( Read more... )

Want an example for "Desaster waiting to happen"? Since Fukushima the NRC, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Reaktorsicherheitskomission) of the USA, has prolonged the licenses of no less than 5 old nuclear clunker plants with decaying nuts&bolts, for another 20 years (after their previous 40), without demanding any safety measures being taken or ( Read more... )

We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology.They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state.They had the courage of their convictions and they stood fast despite wholesaledefections and ridicule by liberals and progressives. 
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...instead I'll quote presidential candidate Barack Obama during a Keene Sentinel Editorial Board interview on Novemeber 25, 2007:

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...for me, not so much for US Marine veteran James Gilligan, I presume, but one after the other ( Read more... )

Am I the only one who is distracted from CNN news by the freakish hairdo of Ralitsa Vassileva, which looks like she has had chewing gum stuck in and noone told her to use peanut butter to grease it out, so she used scissors?

So instead I turn to the Washington Post, where Robert J. Samuelson occupies himself with the question, what the three main ( Read more... )