The unrepentant neo-cons and backbenchers on Mitt Romney’s foreign policy team, such as Dan Senor and Cofer Black, always advise their candidate to attack signs of “weakness” coming from President Obama. The Administration’s announcement of direct talks between the U.S. and Iran should be welcomed as good news by those who don’t wish to...
The CNN reporter, Candy Crowley, who moderated Tuesday night’s presidential debate at Hofstra University has joined the ranks of journalists inside the “liberal media” that the right-wing echo chamber will forever smear, slime, and loathe. The Republicans, along with their formidable propaganda outlets, Fox News and AM Talk Radio, have their knickers in a...
The avalanche of anonymous and unaccountable campaign cash that is currently marinating our nation’s politics this election cycle can be likened to the tactics of “Sam Bacile,” the pseudonym for the producer of the film “The Innocence of Muslims” that set ablaze parts of the Islamic world. The destruction that “Sam Bacile’s” little Youtube...
In the 1930s, during the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell recorded in his book, Homage to Catalonia, the seemingly endless squabbles between the factions, sects, and tendencies among his comrades in the anti-fascist resistance. The conflicts ranged from the ideologically profound to the parochially mundane: Communists vs. Socialists, Trotskyists vs. Stalinists, Anarchists vs. Communists,...