Last night PBS aired "An Unreasonable Man" — a brilliant documentary about Ralph Nader, the man responsible for seat belts, air bags, food labeling and safety, and a host of other humanist causes. Over time, however, America grew tired of this tireless advocate. His efforts to contain corporate power is a trajectory of liberal causes that sadly, ultimately fell on deaf ears. By the time he ran for President in 2000, the electorate — thanks to Bill Clinton and others — had turned not (...)
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The Decline and Fall of the Liberal Media
20 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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Waiting for the Bus
6 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Waiting for the Bus By David Glenn Cox
Any one who has ever waited for a bus knows that gnawing feeling as the time approaches when the bus is due. Then when it fails to show up on time you begin to wonder, was it five minutes early? Did I miss the bus? That flash of fear that runs down your spine into your shoes, but you’re almost certain that it cannot be so. So you wait patiently confidant that all the facts are on your side but still the gnawing fear persists, facts be damned, did I (...) -
Yo Hiillary, You Ain’t "Winning" Now
29 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Recently in a debate Hillary was asked about the increasing pressure her opponents were applying. That’s to be expected, she said, because "I’m winning." Not leading. But winning. Really?
Not one vote has been cast. Not one caucus convened. But, somehow, magically, Hillary proclaims to be winning. You don’t have to be Freud to recognize a textbook example of wish fulfillment when you see it.
The lack of clear differentiation in this case is no mere trifle. It illustrates a fervent (...) -
In Ron Paul Coins, Federal Agents Don’t Trust
17 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
In Ron Paul Coins, Federal Agents Don’t Trust
As if Ron Paul’s supporters needed any more motivation to storm the battlements and wreak havoc on the Republican presidential primary, now comes this: the feds are trying to take away their money.
Federal agents on Wednesday raided the Evansville, Indiana headquarters of the National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve and Internal Revenue Codes (NORFED), an organization of "sound money" advocates that for the past decade (...) -
HILLARY CLINTON IN ARKANSAS- THE SEEDS OF CORRUPTION By JEFFREY ST CLAIR AND ALEX COCKBURN
16 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
COUNTERPUNCH
Second in a three-part series.
In 1990, the National Law Journal ran profiles of "the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in the United States". Hillary Clinton was on the list, and for years she would publicly boast that the Journal had named her one of "the nation’s 100 top lawyers". Finally, the editor of the National Law Journal, Patrick Oster, wrote to Arkansas’ first lady—as she still was in 1991—testily pointing out that the word "influential" is not synonymous with "top" (...) -
THE MAKING OG HILLARY CLINTON by ALEX COCKBURN AND JEFFREY SAINT CLAIR
16 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentFrom Nixon Girl to Watergate First in a three-part series.
Hillary Clinton has always been an old-style Midwestern Republican in the Illinois style; one severely infected with Methodism, unlike the more populist variants from Indiana, Wisconsin and Iowa.
Her first known political enterprise was in the 1960 presidential election, the squeaker where the state of Illinois notoriously put Kennedy over the top, courtesy of Mayor Daley, Sam Giancana and Judith Exner. Hillary was a Nixon (...) -
Hillary Falls Flat on Her Face
31 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsSupported by a mysteriously high level of support, while dodging and weaving around softball interchanges for years, Hillary Clinton’s teflon finally wore off last night during the MSNBC debate when she met her match. Finally, what many of us have been waiting to see: Her insubstantial character, her grossly inflated "35-year record of accomplishment." And her legislative initiatives and non-binding resolutions were sufficiently deconstructed until none of the best image makers in the (...)
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HILLARY CLINTON IS A HAWK
15 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsCAMPAIGN 2008 Why Clinton voted with hawks Political reasons seen in declaring Iran corps ’terrorist’
By Helene Cooper, New York Times
(10-14) 04:00 PDT Washington —
Sens. Joseph Biden and Chris Dodd voted against it. Sen. Barack Obama said he would have voted against it if he had voted. Former Sen. John Edwards implied he would have voted against it if he could have voted.
And Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton? She voted in favor of the measure in question, which asked the Bush (...) -
HILLARY CLINTON?
7 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1bpzsxk0Vw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etk3Db2FGbU
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Snapshots of the Apocalypse
13 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentSnapshots of the Apocalypse By David Glenn Cox
Come gather round people were ever you roam and admit that the waters around you have grown and accept it that soon you’ll be drenched bone if your time to you is worth saving then you better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone for the times they are a changing. (Bob Dylan)
Sire, the people are revolting! “Yes, I know and they smell bad too.” Shhh, it’s a secret and the Republican (...)