January 2010
18 posts
WatchBlackwater’s youngest victim:
Media Criticism For Dummies - Hullabaloo →
Basically Reliable Sources is a boring pain to its viewers, a mockery to journalism, and a big fuck to you media criticism.
The sad part is I like Howie Kurtz, I just wish he’d try to do his job. I know, I know, too much to ask from today’s journamalists.
Howard Zinn on Obama's First Year
From Antony Loewenstein
Howard Zinn on Barack Obama’s one year in the top job:
“I’ve been searching hard for a highlight. The only thing that comes close is some of Obama’s rhetoric; I don’t see any kind of a highlight in his actions and policies.
As far as disappointments, I wasn’t terribly disappointed because I didn’t expect that much. I expected him to be a traditional Democratic...
Pulse Media has posted the audio from Tony...
coakley/brown
democrats lost this election because the party elites pick zombies like martha (marsha? - i dunno ask patrick kennedy) coakley to run instead of someone who, dare i say it, might reflect the politics and energy of their own base. seriously, the only person that could lose to scott brown, whose resume consists of his truck and centerfold picture, is a massachusetts resident who didn’t know...
Our Hoover?
Obama announces 3 year “discretionary” spending freeze at the precise time where we need to increase spending to get our economy working again.
And, by not freezing the military, we don’t actually reduce the deficit by any substantial amount!
And, by taking republican positions on things you make people vote for republicans because if you’re gonna do what they say...
Matt Taibbi translates David Brooks →
Not many writers would have the courage to use a tragic event like a 50,000-fatality earthquake to volubly address the problem of nonwhite laziness and why it sometimes makes natural disasters seem timely, but then again, David Brooks isn’t just any writer.
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i usually try not to believe a thing will happen when i have no empirical proof and especially not when i have a lot of proof that it won’t happen, but still i am hoping that sometime in the next year president obama finds his motivation or reads his old speeches or watches some fox news or realizes that even he could lose his next election or whatever it takes for him to man up and pass...
Really tough times for Chicago →
LAST week, I discussed a New Yorker piece by John Cassidy, which focused on the decline of the “Chicago School” of economics, and in particular, on the strange things some Chicago economists have said about the crisis and recession and its causes. The New Yorker has now posted an interview Mr Cassidy conducted with Chicago economist Eugene Fama. It’s nothing short of...
Chris Hayes - System Failure (from the Nation... →
Three Guantanamo "suicides" now thought to be... →
“When President Barack Obama took office last year, he promised to “restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great.” Toward that end, the president issued an executive order declaring that the extra-constitutional prison camp at Guantánamo “shall be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than one year from the date of this...
Robert McChesney talks to Eric Boehlert about the...
What is Living and What is Dead in Social... →
2009 Remarque Lecture Tony Judt October 19, 2009 What is Living and What is Dead in Social Democracy
“Americans would like things to be better. According to public opinion surveys in recent years, everyone would like their child to have improved life chances at birth. They would prefer it if their wife or daughter had the same odds of surviving maternity as women in other advanced...
