America: A Spectator Sport or Soap Opera
Posted by bosskittyThe world wonders what kind of change Obama really intends. Will he be able to really control so many “Clintonistas” in his cabinet?
The world wonders what kind of change Obama really intends. Will he be able to really control so many “Clintonistas” in his cabinet?
Hurry up get this election over with - we’ve got unfinished business facing us.
The US news media has focused on the Hype and Circumstance of political celebrities and weather crisis to the tune of keeping America distracted. Personality wars mean ratings. Ratings mean advertising. AND advertising means money … that’s what its all about. So, American voters are still saturated with fluff and nonsense …
Meanwhile, Cheney [...]
Brash, rude and plain insulting; New Yorkers know nasty sells
Nasty, brutish and short
Clear Your System of Nasty Media Toxins (No Colonics Required!)
Comment all you like, but not if you’re an abusive jerk
Jerome Corsi: How a Racist, Conspiratorial Crank Became a Top GOP Anti-Obama Point Man
The Klan-ternet: Right wing hatemongers exposed
Exactly How Biased is the American Media? [...]
The wording in H.R. 800 will determine if Congress can level the playing field and allow both sides a fair set of defined regulations. It should never be a choice of victims. It should be a choice for prosperity for all by making companies and workers a team with equitable rewards.
The world is finally brave enough to tell the US it is run by criminals … Did anyone miss this for all these years? The price of doing business with the US has over shadowed the most despicable of 3rd world dictators. The next president must carefully extract US talons from the bellys of the poor countries, beholden’ to our “charity”.
… the more that talk of an “oil bubble” is replaced by a sullen consensus that prices are headed straight to the moon, the more likely it is we’ll get a major correction. Unfortunately, the main catalyst for this drop will likely be global economic collapse.
Afghanistan dangerously off the radar
It’s hardly an anniversary many will register, but last week marked 30 years since President Jimmy Carter authorised the first covert CIA operations against the government of Afghanistan.
By backing the anti-Communist mujahideen and creating civil unrest, the plan was to provoke a Soviet invasion and thus, in the words of Carter’s [...]
Iran moving into the big league
Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad’s three-nation tour of Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India and the welter of agreements and understandings reached between Tehran and these governments serve notice beyond the mere issue of energy security and Iran’s expanding role in the sub-continent’s energy market; rather, these [...]