Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy

American Extremists: "Pragmatic"

2012-01-27T00:01:00.000-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "The kids aren't alright"

2012-01-26T07:37:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Excellent Cindy Sheehan interview

2012-01-25T13:24:00.002-05:00

Excellent wardrobe, too!

Cindy has strong words for MoveOn.org, Jon Stewart, and other enablers of Death By Democrats.

Conducted by Abby Martin for Media Roots.

Sanctions you can sanction

2012-01-25T11:25:00.004-05:00

This is why Obama is at the top of the Democratic heap.

He has the taste to suggest that crippling sanctions against Iran are suffered only by its elites:

The regime is more isolated than ever before; its leaders are faced with crippling sanctions

Lesser Dems lack the subtlety that Lee Atwater famously counseled to his team. They ham-handedly admit their goal is to wreak vicious harm upon ordinary Iranians:

Listening to congressional supporters of sanctions, you’d think the sole reason is a sadistic urge to harm innocent Iranians. As one of the top supporters of sanctions, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), said, “Critics [of the sanctions] argued that these measures will hurt the Iranian people. Quite frankly, we need to do just that.” Or take Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY): “The goal … is to inflict crippling, unendurable economic pain over there. Iran’s banking sector — especially its central bank — needs to become the financial equivalent of Chernobyl: radioactive, dangerous and most of all, empty.”

American Extremists: "The dodge of war"

2012-01-25T10:29:00.000-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Did Obama just say that attacking Iran is America's default course?

2012-01-25T06:59:00.012-05:00

From the Greatest State of the Union Speech Ever:

Look at Iran. Through the power of our diplomacy, a world that was once divided about how to deal with Iran’s nuclear program now stands as one. The regime is more isolated than ever before; its leaders are faced with crippling sanctions, and as long as they shirk their responsibilities, this pressure will not relent.

Let there be no doubt: America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal. (Applause.)

But a peaceful resolution of this issue is still possible, and far better, and if Iran changes course and meets its obligations, it can rejoin the community of nations.

Is not the direct implication of "a peaceful resolution... is still possible" that we're currently on track for a non-peaceful resolution?

Obama proves Arthur Silber's point on the irrelevancy of military intelligence... by threatening war on Iran and spearheading punishing sanctions on the Iranian people without even bothering to sex up the intelligence reports to claim that Iran seeks or is developing nuclear weapons.

Note also that the Man of Peace sees no need to explain why the existence of an Iranian nuke program would entitle us to starve and militarily murder Iranians. Given the pliability of the American media and public on such matters, why would he?

(h/t David Swanson)

American Extremists: "Ingrates"

2012-01-24T07:52:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "You don't say"

2012-01-23T12:22:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

I'll gladly approve you next year for a reelection this year

2012-01-22T12:49:00.002-05:00

Pardon those of us who don't think Obama's hitting the snooze button on Keystone XL makes him an environmental hero.

American Extremists: "Ballot question"

2012-01-20T14:01:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Shorter Andrew Sullivan

2012-01-19T10:11:00.003-05:00

Sully's argument:

Obama's great because he's conservative, liberals are nuts for thinking he's conservative.

Sasha needs your help

2012-01-19T07:35:00.006-05:00

Sasha of the Sasha Said blog, along with her partner and four dogs, is on the brink of homelessness.

Her site's masthead quite accurately describes what she posts:

A hearty blend of feminist insights, cultural commentary, political rants, and social justice advocacy. Now with an extra helping of class warfare!

She doesn't post often, but when she does, your heart and brain will be fully engaged.

Please help her out if you can.

Back in the saddle

2012-01-18T21:49:00.002-05:00

Arthur Silber's back, with his reliably keen eye and crisp writing on the normalization of evil in this great empire of ours:

The Varieties of Pissing

Ordinary Evil (I): Just Admit that You're Voting for Hitler, Okay?

"Public option" advocates...

2012-01-18T13:15:00.003-05:00

"...did everything right."

Cliquishly propagating a meaningless "policy" at the expense of advocacy for proven life-saving / money-saving solutions is right-as-rain, I guess.

American Extremists: "Disposable issues"

2012-01-18T12:30:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

No vote radio

2012-01-17T12:11:00.005-05:00

My pal Terri Lee is promoting a boycott of the 2012 presidential election.

She pitches the idea on Blog Talk Radio, as a guest on the Forward Blitz show.

Me, I'm more inclined to vote for a third-party candidate or a "None of the Above" write-in. Strikes me as a better way to be counted as someone disaffected with the two-party system. But non-voting is arguably as principled a response—or more so—to our ethically bankrupt political system.

Option route

2012-01-17T07:28:00.009-05:00

FDL commenter ProgThis asks questions that are far too good to get a proper answer:

Phoenix Woman January 16th, 2012 at 9:47 pm

39

In response to tomallen @ 19 (show text)

The problem was that the single-payer advocates were not organized and had no pull within either Congress or the administration (no, not even with Hillary):

…as Jane explained a number of times, most notably back in September of last year, the congressional backing for single payer was nonexistent — a number of Congresscritters claimed to be SP fans but ran away from it the first chance they got. On the other hand, it took several months of severe battering from Rahm and Company before the core PO folks folded.
As Jane noted last fall:

At least 16 or 17 junior staffers on the Hill will swear that there are enough votes in the House to pass single payer. (Don’t read too much into the fact that H.R. 676 cosponsors are heading for the hills and won’t support it now that it might actually come to the floor for a vote. Three words: Nancy Pelosi, nunchucks.)
It would’ve been just as easy to launch a ball-busting campaign for something that neither the President nor a majority of Democrats in Congress support. And the insurance companies? It’s not like they would’ve fought any harder against a bill that turned them into a smoking hole than they did against one that shoveled a trillion dollars into their coffers over the next decade.

What we lost in the form of — well, a hundred and forty Democrats who won’t publicly admit they support single payer and a President who won’t sign it into law we’d more than make up for in a really excited base who would have been willing to turn out en masse in the service of a morally superior message. Because god knows, that always works.

Reply

ProgThis January 16th, 2012 at 10:17 pm

40

In response to Phoenix Woman @ 39 (show text)

So Jane was being politically expedient, like umm, well, nevermind. Did Jane receive any funding from any organization to push/support the public option?

Anywho – wouldn’t it have been better to support an idea that actually works than to vehemently support a head fake that was designed to sucker/split the left on the issue?

Reply

Bets anyone?

1) ProgThis's post is deleted
2) ProgThis is banned
3) ProgThis is banned, and all his/her posts are deleted
4) Phoenix Woman keeps slogging out Henry Potter dialogue
5) No response from FDL
6) A contrite response from FDL about its leading role in propagating the "public option" faux policy

CSI: FDL

2012-01-16T21:17:00.002-05:00

Even at this late date, Firedoglake posts a "public option" postmortem that fails to mention the obvious: that "public option" was a fake fake counterfeit fake of two shams of a mockery.

American Extremists: "Political silence"

2012-01-12T11:02:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Burying Paul"

2012-01-10T11:06:00.000-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Fat-shaming is a liberal value

2012-01-10T09:33:00.007-05:00

According to Firedoglake's TBogg and Slate's Torie Bosch, "something may go down tonight" is a reference to oral sex, and they shame Chris Christie for saying it to hecklers.

The former uses fat-shaming to put the man in his place:

Governor Christie’s penis, which lies gasping for air and sweltering in the heat beneath several hundred pounds of visceral fat, had no comment.

Amid a handful of complaints about the weightism (and the minor detail that "something may go down tonight" doesn't, in fact, make sense as an oral-sex reference), FDL's commenters were eager to join the fray, with bon mots including:

"Fat ass"; "Fat Bastard"; "fucking pant load"; "fucking lard-assed caricature"; "Rotund jag off"; "Stick an apple in his mouth and have a global pork roast. It would solve world hunger!"; "The only thing going down with him is a double order of pasta"; "Christie can’t find his own dick with his own hands. Don’t know how his wife (assuming he is referencing the little woman and not Santorum) can do any better."; "one grotesque fat fuck"; "Oh please…blowjobs on Christie’s part is only wishful thinking. He is so grossly fat that he would need GPS just to find his dick"; and "just shoot the fucker."

To be fair, "something may go down tonight" would make sense as an oral-sex reference if, instead of a person performing fellatio, it were a thing, like (in the progressive view), a Republican candidate's wife.

From the latest bulk e-mail from MoveOn.org

2011-12-20T11:49:00.003-05:00

Is there a place where I can donate to help make this happen?

...imagine if MoveOn disappeared and the work so many people do through MoveOn stopped happening altogether.

American Extremists: "Scorned"

2011-12-16T11:04:00.000-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Must have been a transcription glitch

2011-12-15T11:19:00.000-05:00

Where's the part where Panetta calls the Iraq War an enduring national shame built on lies?

American Extremists: "Authorization defense"

2011-12-15T08:02:00.002-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Getting better"

2011-12-14T00:01:00.000-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Amazing disgrace"

2011-12-13T00:01:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Universe man"

2011-12-12T09:44:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Higher-power tool"

2011-12-11T08:08:00.002-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Ladies' choice"

2011-12-09T00:01:00.000-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Hello, young mothers"

2011-12-08T07:34:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Unregrettable (blue and red editions)

2011-12-08T00:01:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Hope for change"

2011-12-07T00:01:00.000-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Hand sanitizer"

2011-12-06T00:01:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Robot monster"

2011-12-05T00:01:00.000-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Recommended reading on this topic:

New York Times

American Extremists: "Stand bye"

2011-12-03T11:07:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Mike Flugennock's Occupy DC video

2011-12-03T09:01:00.004-05:00

Original posting here.

American Extremists: "Possessed"

2011-12-02T00:01:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Party down"

2011-12-01T00:01:00.002-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "The unreasonable left"

2011-11-30T00:01:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

For Corrente readers

2011-11-29T17:07:00.000-05:00

Correntewire.com is now back online.

American Extremists: "World beater"

2011-11-29T00:01:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Nuclear option" (red and blue editions)

2011-11-28T00:01:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Cluster's last stand"

2011-11-26T10:12:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Recommended reading on this topic:

Reuters

American Extremists: "Cutter's way"

2011-11-25T00:01:00.002-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Recommended reading on this topic:

PoliticsUSA

American Extremists: "Just dislike a woman"

2011-11-24T00:01:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Recommended reading on this topic:

Arthur Silber
Youtube video
CBS News Minnesota
Entertainment Weekly

American Extremists: "Superkabuki

2011-11-23T07:21:00.000-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Pepper rally"

2011-11-22T00:01:00.002-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

For Corrente readers

2011-11-21T10:23:00.001-05:00

FYI, correntewire.com is down temporarily. Lambert is working on getting it back online.

American Extremists: "Expect the expected"

2011-11-21T00:01:00.000-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "The case of the vaporized suspects"

2011-11-19T09:13:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Recommended reading on this topic:

The Guardian

American Extremists: "Is our dumb wars learning?"

2011-11-18T00:01:00.007-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Recommended reading on this topic:

Black Agenda Report
ABC News

American Extremists: "Security blanket"

2011-11-17T00:01:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Recommended reading on this topic:

warisacrime.org

13 out of 99, Part II

2011-11-16T00:35:00.003-05:00

[Welcome Sideshow readers! Welcome Naked Capitalism readers!]

This is the second of two videos I'm posting with clips of the 13 people who agreed to speak with me on camera at Occupy Boston on Monday, October 17, 2011.

The first installment introduces these attendees and their reasons for coming to Occupy Boston. This second video centers on their responses to questions about national politics.

My goal in putting these videos together was two-fold:

1. I wanted to see and share an unbiased look at individuals at Occupy Boston. I had -- and have -- no agenda to spin them or the 99 percenter movement in any particular way, just trying to catch an honest glimpse into the world of the Dewey Square protests, and this corner of the movement overall.

2. I wanted to check in with people at Occupy Boston about issues of interest to me, re: presidential/party politics, to get a sampling of their views. This is covered in this video, "13 out of 99 Part II."

To be clear, I have strong opinions about politics, and that's reflected on my blog and in the questions I focus on here in Part II. But I don't seek to cultivate any particular impression of the Occupy protests and participants. My objective is to represent the essence of what I saw and heard.

Also, this is not a comprehensive documentary about Occupy Boston or the broader Occupy movement. I did not tackle questions such as how Occupy is organized, how Occupy chooses and may attempt to accomplish policy objectives, etc.

In an upcoming post here I will summarize the impressions I came away with. And I hope to be able to visit Occupy Boston again and shoot more footage there, talking with additional people about additional topics.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to talk with me! Special thanks to Mike Greenstein for letting me include his music.

American Extremists: "Prisoners of hope"

2011-11-16T00:01:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Recommended reading on this topic:

Antiwar.com
CBS News

American Extremists: "Special pleading"

2011-11-15T00:01:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Recommended reading on this topic:

Glenn Greenwald

American Extremists: "Casus belli"

2011-11-14T00:01:00.000-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Off the grid"

2011-11-13T13:35:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Recommended reading on this topic:

The Boston Globe

American Extremists: "Me tar sands, you jejune"

2011-11-13T09:17:00.000-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Calling America"

2011-11-13T09:11:00.003-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Recommended reading on this topic:

AP report
Glenn Greenwald
Is Barack Obama the Messiah?

American Extremists: "Put on a happy face"

2011-11-11T00:01:00.000-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Mishandle with care"

2011-11-10T00:01:00.002-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Recommended reading on this topic:

"Obama cautiously offers more areas for offshore drilling in Alaska and Gulf of Mexico"

American Extremists: "Ixnay"

2011-11-09T00:01:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Tar stands"

2011-11-08T00:01:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

The bad books

2011-11-07T10:13:00.004-05:00

The Catholic Church apparently owns a publisher whose fare includes 2,500 "erotic books."

The catechism about porn says "It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world. It is a grave offense."

If there's one thing believers in a virgin-born, water-walking, dead-raising ghost-deity should avoid at all costs, it's plummeting into a fantasy world.

American Extremists: "Use your illusion"

2011-11-07T00:01:00.001-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Yes we can care less"

2011-11-06T08:18:00.002-05:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Recommended reading on this topic:

Glenn Greenwald

Cindy Sheehan interviews Justin Frank, author of "Obama on the Couch"

2011-11-05T16:34:00.002-04:00

Transcript and audio link here.

In an interesting aside, Sheehan describes her "sit down meeting with [Obama] in 2005":

CS: So after Camp Casey in 2005 I was pursued by the Democratic Party. You know they recognized the power of the antiwar movement in the United States at that point. I met with everybody. I met with Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, John Kerry, you know from Congress people, a lot of Congress people both Democratic and Republican and they were very open meetings where their staff would be there, my staff would be there. My staff who was really my sister who ran behind the scenes…

JF: I remember your sister. She was great.

CS: And half the time her stupid phone would go off and she had the Benny Hill them music on it. I would look at her and go," really, by now you’re not turning your ringer off?" But anyway then there would be press and everything. Barack Obama insisted that it just be he and I. No press. None of his staff, none of my staff and um…

JF: He was the only one who did that?

CS: Yes, the only one that did that. You also know me very well that when I am out on the protest line it’s shorts and a protest t-shirt. So I had been going from Crawford Texas to Washington DC. It took us 3 weeks to get there. Stopping, flying and very busy. So I am still mostly in my protest attire. I walked in and the first thing he did was criticize the way I looked. Then he was very, very sarcastic, very dismissive of my input and I got the impression almost the same as when I got the face to face with George Bush..

JF: Yeah, it sounds very much like him.

CS: it was an arrogance and it was also like you said earlier a detachment from humanity. Of course I got the same impression from Hillary Clinton and most of our elected officials are to some degree bought. But a lot of them still have an ability to empathize with people. But I didn’t get that feeling from George Bush or Barack Obama.

American Extremists: "Protection"

2011-11-04T09:23:00.003-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Recommended reading on this topic:

A Tiny Revolution

Bon appétit

2011-11-04T08:03:00.003-04:00

Ian Welsh says a mouthful:

... realize that even the supposed left feeds you intellectual sewage on a regular basis.

American Extremists: "Some like it hot"

2011-11-04T00:01:00.001-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists "Election prediction"

2011-11-03T00:01:00.001-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Kindest cuts"

2011-11-02T00:01:00.002-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Chris Floyd is the guest on Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox

2011-11-01T08:33:00.003-04:00

They discuss the Occupy movement and much more. Diogenes: take notice!

American Extremists: "Changeup"

2011-11-01T00:01:00.002-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

It was the worst of Times

2011-10-31T14:05:00.002-04:00

Somerby finds Fox News asking Rick Perry the tough (and obvious) question that the NYT wouldn't.

One would be ill-advised to think this means Fox News is a good news outlet. One would also be ill-advised to think that about the Times.

American Extremists: "The royal 'we'"

2011-10-31T00:01:00.001-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Serendipity

2011-10-29T09:35:00.005-04:00

msnbc.com front page headline:

Isn't that just the happiest accident ever?

The U.S. fights yet another war of (literally) unimpeachable moral necessity, and it turns into yet another opportunity for Western business to profit. What were the chances of that!?

Update:

It turns out there may be some ingrates out there.

American Extremists: "11-dimensional angles"

2011-10-28T00:01:00.001-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Transparent lies"

2011-10-27T02:27:00.005-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Recommended reading on this topic:

OpEd News
Democratic Underground

American Extremists: "Small change"

2011-10-26T00:01:00.002-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Blame game"

2011-10-25T00:01:00.003-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

13 out of 99, Part I

2011-10-24T17:55:00.006-04:00

[Welcome Sideshow readers! Welcome Corrente readers! Welcome Flick Filosopher readers!]

This is the first of two videos I'm posting with clips of the 13 people who agreed to speak with me on camera at Occupy Boston on Monday, October 17, 2011.

This first installment introduces these attendees and their reasons for coming to Occupy Boston. The second video centers on their responses to questions about national politics.

My goal in putting these videos together was two-fold:

1. I wanted to see and share an unbiased look at individuals at Occupy Boston. I had -- and have -- no agenda to spin them or the 99 percenter movement in any particular way, just trying to catch an honest glimpse into the world of the Dewey Square protests, and this corner of the movement overall.

2. I wanted to check in with people at Occupy Boston about issues of interest to me, re: presidential/party politics, to get a sampling of their views. This is covered in the forthcoming video, "13 out of 99 Part II."

To be clear, I have strong opinions about politics, and that's reflected on my blog and in the questions I focus on in Part II. But I don't seek to cultivate any particular impression of the Occupy protests and participants. My objective is to represent the essence of what I saw and heard.

Also, this is not a comprehensive documentary about Occupy Boston or the broader Occupy movement. I did not tackle questions such as how Occupy is organized, how Occupy chooses and may attempt to accomplish policy objectives, etc.

In an upcoming post here I will summarize the impressions I came away with. And I hope to be able to visit Occupy Boston again and shoot more footage there, talking with additional people about additional topics.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to talk with me! Special thanks to Katie Lennon and Mike Greenstein for letting me include, respectively, their artwork and music.

American Extremists: "Peace of last resort"

2011-10-24T00:01:00.002-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Recommended reading on this topic:

Glenn Greenwald
Chris Floyd

American Extremists: "War end games"

2011-10-21T13:15:00.002-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Oh, the humanity"

2011-10-21T08:14:00.001-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "The answer man"

2011-10-21T00:01:00.003-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Somerby reads Hullabaloo so I don't have to

2011-10-20T14:55:00.002-04:00

Quoth the Howler:

[W]e see a conceptual problem that seems to dog Hullabaloo—the difference between some and all....

In the last year, we’ve been amazed at the difficulty Digby seems to have separating some from all. But this kind of typological thinking really infests this whole site.

American Extremists: "A man, a plan"

2011-10-20T00:01:00.001-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "No matter what"

2011-10-19T00:01:00.001-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Warrin'"

2011-10-18T07:14:00.000-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Co-opt much?

2011-10-17T13:28:00.002-04:00

Act Blue is selling Occupy Wall Street / "We are the 99%" lawn signs, with net proceeds going to elect-Democrats PAC, Democracy for America.

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In the Kool, Kool, Kool of the Kool-Aid

2011-10-17T09:53:00.003-04:00

A highly rated DU post from yesterday:

I expect the President's speech today to be one of his best. . .

. . .I just feel it in my gut.

I have chills.

Another Obama standard ovation, pre-cog edition.

Obama 4-evah!

2011-10-17T06:57:00.003-04:00

From the fiercely independent Van Jones:

American Extremists: "The needs of the one"

2011-10-17T06:09:00.002-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

American Extremists: "Motor voter"

2011-10-14T00:01:00.001-04:00

American Extremists webcomic archive:

http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/

Actually, the plural of anecdote is data. Or are data. Or something.

2011-10-13T12:42:00.003-04:00

Stirling Newberry talks with 40 OWS folks and summarizes his findings.

Ask not what OWS can do for the 99%

2011-10-13T11:54:00.005-04:00

Amy Goodman writes a piece titled "What Occupy Wall Street can do for Barack Obama."

Meh maxima.

Yes, editors often write the headlines.

But when Goodman, at this late date, casts Obama as a "make me do it" FDR—wanting lefties to give him the impetus to do the right thing in his historically historic presidency—I call ponyshit.

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With clicks you get blogroll

2011-10-13T11:43:00.002-04:00

Updated the list o' links in the right margin. Enjoy!

Dark shadows on Wall St.

2011-10-13T11:13:00.007-04:00

Look out behind you, OWS!

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