Bush admin gets hardline in New Orleans

Today President Bush signed amendments to executive orders that he had previously made relating to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. The amendments alter the chairmanship of the council in charge of the recovery effort from the assistant to the President for Economic Policy to the assistant to the President for [...]

Surprise Iraq!

Condolezza Rice yesterday made a surprise visit to Iraq. What a treat that must have been. I have yet to hear of one planned visit to Iraq, despite the ‘progress’ made by the ’surge’ (or escalation as it should properly be termed) and the supposed increased security in the country. Every visit is a surprise [...]

Michael Parenti on How the US got prosperity

Michael Parenti has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale.  He’s so radical that he couldn’t get tenure anywhere, but he’s so excellent that I have post this new video. Visit his website: michaelparenti.org
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How Blankenship and The Chamber of Commerce took out McGraw!

The original post didn’t work, but this is how the special interest groups waged war against McGraw.

AS Livorno, your new favourite team

Friends, regardless of whether you enjoy soccer or not, I will be giving you regular updates on Italian team AS Livorno. Livorno are, traditionally, the furthest left club in Italy. Livorno is a shipping town with a population of 100,000 inhabitants. It is also the birth place of the Italian communist [...]

Cynthia McKinney speaks at Mumia rally

As I said in my Cynthia McKinney roundup a few posts ago, Cynthia McKinney spoke at a free Mumia Abu Jamal rally last saturday in Philadelphia. Here is the audio of the talk (2mins 20). For more on Mumia see http://www.freemumia.com 
Here is my transcription
Cynthia McKinney: We know that emanating from Washington DC is a plan [...]

How to buy justice:

In West Virginia, we elect our judges to partisan office. This means those who interpret our laws are all elected officials, including the supreme court.
There are restrictions on what a candidate for judicial office can do in his or her campaign. However, this does not stop big moneyed interests from influencing those campaigns.
As you may [...]

Sean Hannity and his neo nazi friend

I really don’t want to get into a pissing match with Sean Hannity and others of his ilk, as I don’t think that they are worth the time.
I do, however, take an interest in Sean Hannity’s relationship with Hal Turner, an internet radio host who is very popular among members of stormfront and other neo [...]

Conference on the assassination on MLK

This report just in from the Coalition On Political Assassinations. COPA is a non profit group that researches the political assassinations of the 1960s and the present and lobbies for the release of relevant documentation. They recently held a conference in Memphis to commemorate the murder of Dr Martin Luther King junior. Expect to hear [...]

We destroyed your infrastructure, now pay up

Members of both parties are pushing a bill that will force the Iraqi Government to pay for the future costs of the war waged by a foriegn power in their own country. There are several things that are completely senseless and utterly colonialist about these proposals. As Michael Parenti always points out in instances such [...]