Reinstate Timaeus!
I've gone to considerable pains to avoid writing diaries. I just now had to search for the "New Diary" button. (As some of you know, I have a thing about buttons.) It was a challenge to avoid writing...
View ArticleAn Unashamed Apologist for the Left
Now that I’ve sucked you in with the bait, I’ll wallop you with the switch. This is going to be brief... and it’s hardly going to talk about the Left at all. Sue me. Instead, I’ll bore you with a short...
View ArticleBelated Birthday Wishes to the President
Belated Happy Birthday, Mr. President. I hope you spent some relaxing time with your family and were able, if only for a day, to feel like you were once again simply Barack Obama, husband and...
View ArticlePardon Bradley Manning, Mr. President!
Dear President Obama,Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years in prison, a lot less than the prosecution was demanding. He could be free in eight years. Certainly, this is a better outcome than...
View ArticleKill for Peace!
Not much to add to this... well, nothing at all to add really. It's by the nearly-forgotten New York band The Fugs, off their eponymous 1966 album titled (wait for it!) The Fugs. They are described in...
View ArticleWorld War III... with hybrid Prius tanks.
Remember, it's only a video. A work of fiction... from Chicago's very own Second City Network. Any resemblance to actual American foreign policy present or future is purely...
View ArticleJournalism = Terrorism... if you're David Miranda
They'll show him for wanting his stuff back! My wife pointed this story out to me last night. I took it for granted DKos would be atwitter (so to speak!) with it this morning, but as far as I can tell,...
View ArticleWhat did the President know...?
John Kerry is apparently channeling his inner Kossack by repeating a contention often seen here, that revelations about NSA spying on the leaders of friendly foreign governments--including tapping the...
View ArticleJimmy Wales: "Edward Snowden is a hero."
In a recent interview on Al Jazeera’s Head to Head show, Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, described Edward Snowden as a "hero" for his revelations about NSA overreach.It’s difficult to have a...
View ArticleDrones are the napalm of our time.
I've been thinking about that a lot lately.I'm reading a terrific book by David Maraniss, "They Marched into Sunlight," which traces two different-but-not-so-different events which occurred at the same...
View ArticleBrits Consider "Terrorism" Charges against Guardian Staff
British police are examining whether Guardian newspaper staff should be investigated for terrorism offences over their handling of data leaked by Edward Snowden, Britain's senior counter-terrorism...
View ArticleFor the Record: Daniel Ellsberg on Edward Snowden
All too frequently, on DKos and elsewhere in the liberal blogosphere, Edward Snowden is condemned for not remaining in America to face trial. He's compared to deeply principled practitioners of civil...
View ArticleRIP, Otis Pike. The NSA won't mourn you.
Otis Grey Pike died on January 20, 2014. His death was almost unnoticed. Pike was a nine-term Democratic Congressman from New York... and the bane of the NSA.The 1976 report of the Church Committee,...
View ArticleRidding the world of Americans...
one bloody drone at a time.The Obama Administration is reportedly "wrestling" with the decision to kill "an American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida [and] is actively planning attacks against...
View ArticleHow I Dodged the Draft: A Vietnam Story
I was born in 1950, prime cannon-fodder for the Vietnam killing machine. Like most white middle-class kids though, I was “saved” by my college deferment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Saved...
View ArticleSnowden Plea Deal?
Well, no. Made you look though, and there is some actual news behind the catchy misleading headline. According to the New York Times, Edward Snowden last summer retained attorney Plato Cacheris, a...
View ArticleAnother Hillary Clinton Poll
Let's try a little thought experiment. Let's pretend our collective crystal ball is fully-functional, and we somehow knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that, if Hillary Clinton received the Democratic...
View ArticleThe Copenhagen murders are Anti-Semitism. Period.
The murders in Copenhagen, coming so soon after the Charlie Hebdo horror, have made it crystal-clear--if clarity was needed--that European anti-Semitism hardly ended with the defeat of the Third Reich....
View ArticleKunduz. MSF. War Crimes. Speechless with bloody horror.
Honestly, I have nothing to add to the international outrage, other than to note the dismal fact that like the My Lai massacre, this atrocity took place during the watch of a Democratic President. This...
View ArticleAnti-Semitism & Daily Kos
This past weekend, a disquieting tempest about anti-Semitism--in something quite a bit larger than a teapot—erupted in Denise Oliver’s diary about Bernie Sanders’ efforts to reach out to Trump...
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