Category: Politics
Lethal Alliance
by The Washington Spectator | Dec 14, 2015 | National Security, PoliticsPhoto Credit: Sgt Brian Gamble In response to a lone gunman killing 10 students at Umpqua Community College on October 2, Democratic senators have introduced a package of gun-control measures that includes the expansion of criminal background checks for gun buyers. Passage in the Senate is unlikely; in the House, where Republicans hold greater sway than […]
Did Canada’s Tar Sand Pipe Dream Just Die?
by Lou Dubose | Dec 9, 2015 | Environment, The Intervalphoto: Flickr user buen viaje Did the U.S. media miss a big environmental story while the world is focused on Paris? (And the neo-fascism of Donald Trump.) Maybe the biggest single-source climate victory in the past decade. On Monday, Canada’s daily Globe and Mail reported that the Northern Gateway Pipeline is “probably dead.” Nobody outside […]
“60 Minutes” Goes Soft
by DeWayne Wickham | Dec 3, 2015 | Foreign PolicyPhoto Credit: Lawrence Jackson Am I the only one who cringed while watching last Sunday’s “60 Minutes” softball interview of Alan Gross, the American operative who was held five years in a Cuban military hospital after getting caught smuggling forbidden communications equipment into Cuba? Five times in 2009, Gross traveled to that Caribbean nation ostensibly […]
A Lout with Clout
by Rick Perlstein | Dec 2, 2015 | Politics, RickipediaPhoto: Jamie Bernstein Chicago’s sociopathic mayor sat down for a breakfast interview this Wednesday at a tony club on the 66th floor of the 106-story Willis Tower, hosted by POLITICO Playbook, the website tout Washington scans every morning to learn what they’re supposed to talk about that day, indifferent or oblivious to the fact that […]
Hell in a Small Place: The Saudi-U.S. War in Yemen
by Belén Fernández | Dec 1, 2015 | Foreign Policy, National Security, PoliticsPhoto Credit: Hugh Macleod / IRIN The travel warning for Yemen the U.S. State Department issued in April 2015 describes a “high security threat level . . . due to terrorist activities and civil unrest.” Citing continuing activity by organizations like Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the warning specifies that the “U.S. government […]
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