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Quickie: Bush barred from Canada 0

Quickie: Bush barred from Canada

Last week, Bush was forced to cancel a fundraising appearance in Toronto, Canada at Tyndale University College and Seminary, an evangelical Christian school. Students and faculty members protested and petitioned to keep him away...

Paul Craig Robert's "Saving the Rich, Losing the Economy" 0

Paul Craig Robert's "Saving the Rich, Losing the Economy"

From Counterpunch, by Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. Economic policy failed for three reasons:  (1) policymakers focused on enabling...

Quickie from Democracy Now 0

Quickie from Democracy Now

The bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting concludes that between $31 billion and $60 billion spent on projects in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last 10 years has been lost to waste and fraud. A...

Quickie:  This slow bleed can't continue 0

Quickie: This slow bleed can't continue

The corruption, the injustice, the criminality, the war-mongering, the torture, the mismanagement, the stupidity, the level of unemployment, the concentration of wealth, and the lack of accountability have reached a point where society seems...

Did we say goodbye? 0

Did we say goodbye?

Can’t remember. Take it away, Steve. Bring it, Emmylou. It’s hump day.

The Great Postal Heist: How the GOP Manufactured the Postal Crisis 0

The Great Postal Heist: How the GOP Manufactured the Postal Crisis

[The US Postal Service] faces destruction faces destruction – thanks to Republicans in Congress, acting for huge corporations through a manufactured “Shock Doctrine” crisis. This is an attack on unionized public workers like the...