Yeah, I watched the first hour of it… then I had to go night-night. Notes: Clinton was dog-piled as everyone knew she would be. The attack… flip-flopping. This is generally a gendered attack on male politicians that suggest they aren’t masculine (read: decisive and intransigent) enough. Electability… again, reference to the polls that show many [...]

Ecuador’s leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador’s Pacific coast. Correa has refused to renew Washington’s lease on the Manta air base, set to expire in 2009. U.S. officials say it is vital for [...]

My pal has been out for a week, and I am experiencing the addict’s craving for her handle in boldface on the comments column. Addicts take liberties, so to satisfy my compulsion and that of the others who look forward each time they click into FS for bullshit deconstruction with a headlamp and a filet [...]

Louis Proyect over at Marxmail just posted this on “peak water.” Living in North Carolina, where we are experiencing our worst drought on record right now, and where residential cut-backs are touted as our solution, even as slaughterhouses, commercial car washes, paper mills, and agri-biz still suck the water out at a phenomenal rate… this [...]

The ultimate nightmare for White House/Pentagon designs on Middle East energy resources is not Iran after all: it’s a unified Iraqi resistance, comprising not only Sunnis but also Shi’ites. “It’s the resistance, stupid” – along with “it’s the oil, stupid”. The intimate connection means there’s no way for Washington to control Iraq’s oil without protecting [...]

“Our Strategy Is Hinged To Our Ability To Organize GI Resistance” 10/10/2007 By Liam Madden [Excerpts from IVAW.] Branch of service: United States Marine Corps (USMC) Home: Boston, Massachusetts Served in: Iraq, Kuwait, Okinawa, Japan, Thailand, Korea, Virginia Liam Madden served as a Communications Electronics Specialist in the Marine Corps from January 2003 to January [...]

We’ve been having this conversation for a while here; it’s nice that someone with better amplification is doing it now. Just hours after the Twin Towers were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, Susan C. Faludi ’81 knew something fundamental had changed when a journalist who called her for a phone interview remarked, “This sure pushes [...]

One of our spare time (ho ho, ha ha) projects around here has been the notion of a radical radio talk show focused on our pet obsessions here at Feral Scholar and Insurgent American: permaculture and resistance. We’d like to encourage the readership to visit the link for the pilot segment of the Emergency Wormcasting [...]

Some days ago, we posted on Jena and the general experience of being Black in a United States where the criminal justice system has become a major means of population control in the absence of a clearly demarcated system of racial Apartheid. Since I am studying Matthew Lassiter’s excellent history of the suburban politics of [...]

[posted at Huffingtonpost, where I have been playing the provocateur] This afternoon while I was driving home from my job, I was listening to All Things Considered, a radio-magazine program on National Public Radio. The story that caught my attention was one on female combat veterans who were suffering post-traumatic stress disorder from both combat [...]