On the same day that President Bush signed his $350 billion dollar tax cut into law, the Financial Times published a front-page story about a study commissioned by the Treasury which predicts a future of budget deficits that will total $44,000 billion dollars. Apparently the Bush administration decided to bury that report, which recommends tax […]
Unlike many of his Democratic colleagues, Senator Robert C. Byrd actually speaks out against the misguided policies of the Bush administration. Truth has a way of asserting itself despite all attempts to obscure it. Distortion only serves to derail it for a time. No matter to what lengths we humans may go to obfuscate facts […]
The nation’s largest intelligence agency by budget and in control of all U.S. spy satellites, NRO is talking openly with the U.S. Air Force Space Command about actively denying the use of space for intelligence purposes to any other nation at any time—not just adversaries, but even longtime allies, according to NRO director Peter Teets. […]
No, they still aren’t happy with the occupation.
From an article in the Alameda Times-Star: “You can make an easy kind of a link that, if you have a protest group protesting a war where the cause that’s being fought against is international terrorism, you might have terrorism at that (protest),” said Van Winkle, of the [California] state Justice Department. “You can almost […]
Here’s what Warren Buffett, one of the richest people in America, has to say about the Bush tax cut plan: When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a “break” requires — now or down the line — that an equivalent burden be imposed on other parties. In other words, […]
The United States likes to spout off a lot about the benefits of free trade, but, of course, it’s all just another example of the hypocrisy that we so constantly engage in. Countries in Africa that produce cotton recently joined Brazil in a complaint to the WTO about subsidies paid to cotton farmers in the […]
This Modern World: The Uncompromising Liberal Media
“Tired of killing Muslims, we are now trying to teach their survivors some democracy. There are a number of practical problems with this, among them being that the curriculum is in the hands of the most authoritarian, deceitful, anti-democratic, and constitution-wrecking administration we’ve ever had. But there’s an even more disturbing matter: wander around your […]
A post from Gary Hart’s weblog: “Democracy dies behind closed doors and democracy’s policies must not be made in secret. Let’s consider an ominous pattern forming under the Bush administration. First, massive tax cuts to enrich the rich are justified as Keynesian fiscal stimulants, while neo-cons privately confide that their real purpose is to destroy […]
