Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the Sunday before Christmas, Pope Francis said, “May the weapons be silenced and Christmas carols resound!” according to Kristina […]
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Mr. Romney, Here’s why Your Tax Returns Matter
Mitt Romney said that he had paid around 13% in taxes annually the past few years, calling false the charge by Senate Majority Leader Harry […]
“We’re NASA and We Know It” (Music Video on Curiosity Mars Landing)
“We’re NASA and we know it”, video to the tune of “Sexy and I Know It,” by the American duo LMFAO from their 2011 album, […]
Ayatollah Cameron Threatens to invade Ecuador Embassy re: Assange (or, Whitewashing Iran for the US National Security State)
Update: Ecuador granted Julian Assange diplomatic asylum on Thursday. The British government’s menacing of the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday morning, with its threat […]
Why Syria’s Revolution is not like Libya’s (Dughman)
Husam Dughman writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: The Arab Spring springs surprises When a popular uprising started in Tunisia less than two […]
Conservative ‘Dark Money’ Outspending even Superpacs on Attack Ads (Barker)
Kim Barker writes at ProPublica Two conservative nonprofits, Crossroads GPS and Americans for Prosperity, have poured almost $60 million into TV ads to influence the […]
Romney shills for dirty Big Coal as Obama touts Iowa Wind Power
Wind energy is on a roll in the United States, having doubled since 2008 to 50 gigawatts, enough to power 13 million homes. So why […]
Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Torture) is the New Normal in America (McCoy)
Alfred W. McCoy writes at Tomdispatch Impunity at Home, Rendition AbroadHow Two Administrations and Both Parties Made Illegality the American Way of Life After a […]
Your Election is being Bought by 47 Billionaires (and they are Buying War, Climate Change)
The Public Interest Group Education Fund and the NGO Demos released a study in early August on the financing of the presidential campaign. They found […]
Uygur: Paul Ryan Created the Deficit
Cenk Uygur of Current TV takes on Paul Ryan’s claims to be a deficit hawk and for small government, showing all the ways that Ryan’s […]