When Women and Blacks Fight to Get First in Line They Both Suffer
By Stephanie Coontz
One of the recurring undercurrents in arguments over who deserves to win this historic Democratic Party primary race has been the question of which group needs advancement more – blacks or women. Gloria Steinem has argued that voting for a […]

(No, I am not suggesting that we all get hammered to make it easier to sit around watching the slow crash…)
The delightfully cynical Dmitry Orlov is at it again, with an excerpt from his new book:
If the entire country were to embrace the notion that collapse is inevitable and that it must prepare for it, […]

The house is on fire and hyperventilating Hank is still wasting our time with this rubbish. The real problem is that Paulson and his buddies at the Federal Reserve think of the financial system as their personal fiefdom so they refuse to loosen their \ grip even though the economy is listing starboard and the […]

[Hat tip to Jeri Reed]
An 80-year-old church deacon was removed from the Smith Haven Mall yesterday in a wheelchair and arrested by police for refusing to remove a T-shirt protesting the Iraq War.
Police said that Don Zirkel, of Bethpage, was disturbing shoppers at the Lake Grove mall with his T-shirt, which had what they described […]

Nouri al Maliki, at the behest of his American masters, has thrown the new Army of the Republic of Vietnam against the militias of the most powerful and cohesive popular movement in Iraq, that of Muqtada al Sadr. By all accounts, even with their American advisers, tactical air and intelligence support, this operation appears […]

All those people — mostly white, Republican, Southern, born-again Christians — were on their feet reciting a “Liturgy of Resistance” [I changed that… it was “litany”. _SG] It was the end of a long sermon/lecture by Shane at at the Catalyst Conference in Georgia last year. The litany lasted about ten minutes (you can […]

“One thing is for certain, we’re in challenging times,” Bush opined on Monday after meeting with his top economic aides. “”But we are on top of the situation.”
That’s comforting. Bush is all over it.
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One theory regarding the Working Group refers to it as the Plunge Protection Team. This theory claims that the Working […]

Thanks to Audrey for this very revealing video on our Democratic saviors.
Hallelujah, we are rescued!!!

…is an obscenity. Five years now, and countless lives immiserated, maimed, extinguished. George W. Bush today puffed up his chest and declared that the incalculable horror, the sustained anguish, the terrible sin that is the war he started in Iraq, “will be discussed by military historians for many years.” He’s right about […]

… might be a sign of progress or bloody reaction. It’s a nodal point, where history’s pivot presents a very real bifircation.
Mark Jones eight years ago described the post-Cold War booms as the capitalist metropoles digesting the fallen Eastern Bloc, somewhat slowly, “like a snake who’s swallowed a goat.” The snake is shitting […]