07-06-09
- Nut-Job Republicons:
- Looney Tunes character Sarah Palin threatens to sue critical journalists (bradblog) - Journalists say 'Bring On the Depositions!' (bradblog)
- Military-Industrial Profiteers:
- John Pilger on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the Corporate Media, Obama’s Wars and Resisting the American Empire (democracynow)
- Robert McNamara, Architect of Illegal Vietnam War, Dies at 93, Never Prosecuted As a War Criminal (wapo)
- Chalmers Johnson, Baseless Expenditures (tomdispatch)
- UK weapons inspector, Dr. David Kelly, who was found dead was writing expose (rawstory)
- Will We See a Real Reset with Russia? (thenation)
- Global Broiling:
- Permafrost melting a growing climate threat (reuters) -- Like most new global broiling reports, this one also shows the situation to be much worse than anticipated. Anyone feel like a frog on the stove?
- Fascism in the United States:
- Thom Hartmann: Fascism Coming to a Court Near You - Corporate Personhood and the Roberts' Court (commondreams) "As the 1983 American Heritage Dictionary noted, fascism is: 'A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.' . . . And the only way the modern Republican Party can recover their power over the next decade is to immediately clear away all impediments to unrestrained corporate participation in electoral politics. If a corporation likes a politician, they can make sure he or she is elected every time; if they become upset with a politician, they can carpet-bomb her district with a few million dollars worth of ads and politically destroy her. And it looks like that's exactly what the Roberts Court is planning."
- The Biggest Theft in History:
- Taibbi: New Secrecy Rule Lets Goldman Sachs Control Stock Prices Unmolested by Public Scrutiny (alternet) "The new rule means the public will no longer be able to tell if large investment banks are manipulating the stock market for their own gain." -- More change we can believe in.
- No, Virginia, Man Is Not the Center of the Universe:
- Unknown Dark Material on Mercury (apod)
