Category: Politics
The Deficit Crisis Is Over
by Doug Henwood | May 16, 2013 | Economy(The Congressional Budget Office released its latest debt and deficit projections for the next ten years. There’s no way any honest analyst could read them as anything but the official end to any rational concern about red ink, says Doug Henwood. Image source: CBO) Given that the phantasmic plays such a large role in politics, it’s […]
Analysis: AP Fiasco May Foreshadow Rest of Obama’s Term
by Doug Daniels | May 15, 2013 | National Security, Politics(The Justice Department kept tabs on Associated Press reporters. If President Obama doesn’t drop the hubris and show real leadership, says Doug Daniels, the next three and a half years are going to stuffed with congressional hearings and hit-job investigations by giddy Republicans, and we can forgot about advancing any progressive agenda, like gun control. […]
Can a Billionaire Who Got Rich Investing in Big Oil Fight Big Oil?
by Darwin Bondgraham | May 15, 2013 | Economy, Environment(BusinessWeek featured the above photo of billionaire Tom Steyer holding a jar of tar-sands oil. The article, titled “Tom Steyer: The Wrath of a Green Billionaire,” lauded his crusade to stop construction of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport tar-sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. As Darwin Bondgraham reports, part […]
Chauncey DeVega: The Ugliness at the Heart of the Benghazi Scandal
by Chauncey DeVega | May 15, 2013 | Politics(In January, Hillary Clinton gave testimony on the attacks on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans died. Republican Senator Jim Inhofe described the former secretary of state as having a “forceful attitude” that he wasn’t accustomed to hearing from women.) Some Republicans would like us to believe Benghazi is another Watergate. President Barack […]
Arthur Goldwag: A Bad Day for Jason Richwine Is a Good Day for His White Nationalist Editor
by Arthur Goldwag | May 15, 2013 | Legal Affairs, Media(Last week, Jason Richwine resigned from the Heritage Foundation after, among other things, it was revealed he wrote for a white supremacy publication called AlternativeRight, edited by Richard Spencer, above. Arthur Goldwag reported from a 2011 conference in which Spencer’s National Policies Institute released a report entitled “The Majority Strategy: Why the GOP Must Win White […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety