Category Archives: Republicans

Bill Moyers: Why ‘We The People’ Must Triumph Over Corporate Power

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Citizens United is but the latest battle in the class war waged for thirty years from the top down by the corporate and political right. Instead of creating a fair and level playing field for all, government would become the agent of the powerful and privileged. . . We have already amended the Constitution twenty-seven times. Amendment campaigns are how we have always made the promise of equality and liberty more real. Difficult? Of course; as Frederick Douglass taught us, power concedes nothing without a struggle. To contend with power, Clements and his colleague John Bonifaz founded Free Speech for People, a nationwide nonpartisan effort to overturn Citizens United and corporate rights doctrines that unduly leverage corporate economic power into political power.

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Noam Chomsky: Marching Off the Cliff

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The standard “he says/she says” coverage of the issue keeps to what is called “balance”: the overwhelming majority of scientists on one side, the denialists on the other. The scientists who issue the more dire warnings are largely ignored. . . The Republican-dominated U.S. House of Representatives is now dismantling environmental measures introduced by Richard Nixon, in many respects the last liberal president. This reactionary behavior is one of many indications of the crisis of U.S. democracy in the past generation.

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Movie Review: The Secrets, Lies and Elisions of J. Edgar

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Interested mostly in Hoover’s celebrity surveillance, Eastwood et al. barely mention COINTELPRO, and completely elide the assassinations of Fred Hampton and many other Black Panther Party members, the development of the violent proto-terrorist Secret Army Organization, the pervasive incitement of gang violence, and the vast array of life-ruining black-op schemes inflicted on tens of thousands of citizens.

The FBI’s reaction to the Civil Rights era protests–in actuality, every type of Constitution-desecrating espionage imaginable directed at virtually everyone who raised a left-of-Goldwater voice–is reduced to Hoover’s conservative-paranoid rants. There’s a danger here, for a viewer unfamiliar with history, to take Hoover as simply a blackmailing big mouth, and not a man whose opinions were actually realized by bloody federal misdeed, over and over again.

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Glenn Beck Freaks Out Over South Korean Skyscraper

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Because everything in the world must revolve around Beck and the United States, no exceptions. . . He was pissed and the target was South Korea. His rage was so pure that he was demanding that the U.S. pull all of our troops out of the country immediately. Why? Because one of the S. Korea’s planned skyscrapers made him think of 9/11.

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Rick Perry Playing to the Homophobic, Anti-Intellectual Cheap Seats, i.e., the Republican Party and Two Sardonic Atheists Responses

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Rick Perry’s Campaign Video Playing to the
Homophobic, Anti-Intellectual Cheap Seats

Atheist James Kotecki Responds to Rick Perry’s
Knuckle-dragging Idiocy 

Atheist Andy Cobb Responds to Rick Perry’s
Prefrontal Cortex Deficiency

Donald Trump Is a Perfect Ringmaster for the GOP 2012 Circus

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Article By SALLY KOHN, Political Commentator

The GOP primary is an eight ring circus. So why shouldn’t Donald Trump play ring master for a night?

The Republican presidential candidates are doing everything they can to distract from the fact that their party’s policies put our economy in the dumpster and, if elected, they will all just do more of the disastrous same. The American voters see that the economy is, slowly but surely, getting better and backs President Obama’s plans to make it stronger while bucking at continued Republican obstructionism.

Voters and Democrats want America to succeed and can tell that Republicans–in Congress and in the campaign–only want Obama to fail, even if it means America fails, too. The dazzling side shows of the GOP primary are entertaining the voters, but they can tell the distinguish farce from the best interest of the future of our nation.

Still, with the always-entertaining Herman Cain out of the race and Newt Gingrich now trying to look more like a candidate than a curmudgeon, the clowns are running out of gags. Perfect timing for a man with implausible hair to preside over a debate with implausible political candidates.

Bring on the show! Every candidate should join in. American voters will no doubt tune in to see how many GOP candidates can fit in the clown car as they aim to drive our economy and our political system off a cliff.

Found here in U.S. News & World Report, dated December 8, 2011

Updated Version of Noam Chomsky’s “9/11” Book Takes On Bin Laden’s Death, Imperial Mentality

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Chomsky argues that the US government has done exactly what Osama bin Laden wanted it to do: Dig into a series of expensive and bloody wars in Muslim countries, draining the American economy and causing many civilian casualties. . . 9-11 is a crash course in America’s terrorism against inconvenient regimes, and a primer in the ways that those in power have misled the American public by suggesting that September 11 happened in a vacuum. . . He explains the hypocrisy of the US government’s definition of terrorism – the use of violence for political or psychological goals rather than monetary gain – in light of the fact that US government agencies have been using exactly those methods for decades, directly and indirectly.

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