Progressive Cenk Ugyar, lefty blogger and sometime MSNBC host (purged for defecting from the Obama cult), has it right about Sean Hannity, Ron Paul, and Fox News.
Cenk Ugyur Has It Right
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The Madness of Adam Yoshida
Amid an avalanche of attacks on antiwar Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, the latest (as of midnight on Tuesday) is one in the comically-named "American Thinker," a neocon web site for the intellectually challenged, which runs a piece by Adam Yoshida on "The...
Ron Paul’s “Loyal Aides”?
A Washington Post piece on Ron Paul's rise in the polls comes with the usual "but he can't win" caveat, and there's also this nugget: "Yet, while the libertarian-leaning Texas congressman is earning support for his tight-fisted fiscal positions, he’s so out of step...
Romney & Obama Agree on Iran: Keep Up Aggression, Impede Peace
Eli Clifton at ThinkProgress directs us to a recent interview with Mitt Romney on Bill O'Reilly's show in which Romney's war rhetoric gets "challenged by an unlikely source": Interesting. Romney doesn't really respond to O'Reilly's estimation of the consequences of...
Secrecy Obstructs Accountability: How the Drone War Will Help Get Obama Reelected
Washington Post, " Secrecy defines Obama's drone war": Since September, at least 60 people have died in 14 reported CIA drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions. The Obama administration has named only one of the dead, hailing the elimination of Janbaz Zadran, a top...
I End the Iraq War Whenever I Feel Blue
Have the Republican debates this year caught up with the number of times Obama has declared the Iraq war over yet? Just wondering. Oh we love to kid the president about endlessly ending the war in Iraq, which killed possibly over a million, ruined a society, and...
US Support for Bahraini Repression Slips into the Mainstream
Congratulations to the New York Times for catching up with what Antiwar.com has been covering since the first days of the Arab Spring and long before. Nicholas Kristoff's Op-Ed on Saturday had the title "Repressing Democracy, With American Arms," referring to U.S....
On the Wrong Side of History in Egypt
For those of you who have yet to see the brutality of Egyptian security forces on civilian protesters over the weekend: It obviously cannot go without mention here that these security forces and the military junta which has ordered this latest crackdown are supported...
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Christopher Hitchens’ ‘Fundamentalist’ Exemption for Zionism
In Arab culture there is a strong imperative to not speak ill of the dead, but I'm going to have to make an exception for Christopher Hitchens. Knowing Hitchens, I'm sure he'd approve. Hitchens had a tenacity and ferociousness that would not compromise for...
