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Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/05/12 1:30 am
Good post! I've stopped by a few times, but never commented. I think the key phrase in assessing Greenwald is "overcompensates" and he does...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 2:24 pm
I dislike the term "emoprog." It confuses musical politics with movement politics.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:19 pm
For the same reason Ron Paul approved those newsletters.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:18 pm
And vote. No vote, no voice and no right to criticize the government, because the sorry a-holes who don't vote enable whichever government t...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 12:22 pm
"He has some bone to pick with PBO that he isn't brave enough to divulge." True, but it's not just him. Some on the Left (not that GG is o...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 11:25 am
GG can't help himself. He will do/say/write any lie to cast PBO in a negative light, even if he knows instinctively that it's BS. IMO, his...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 11:21 am
Greenwald doesn't care how much of a racist/bigot Paul is proven to be. He has an irrational hatred for POTUS. Wonder why?Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 9:20 am
Glenn Greenwald needs to get off the Ron Paul/Koch/Libertarian teet. Hasn't he read the Anonymous "Ron Paul Hearts Neo-Nazis at Home and Abr...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 8:10 am
Let's not forget Glenn's mindset in the aftermath of 9/11, the very attack that directly led to the AUMF: "This is not to say that I was no...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 7:41 am
As a queer myself, I can bitch about GG. This whiney emoprog needs to get over herself. 'She' sits down in her ivory tower in Brazil with he...Re: Morning Awful: Alabama’s War on Education
02/03/12 4:39 am
"Teaching is a calling, so you shouldn't be in it for the money" -- every time I hear this BS, I want to gag. Teaching is a profession, and ...Re: Morning Awful: Alabama’s War on Education
02/03/12 3:01 am
Every time I'm around my AL kin, I begin to clearly understand how people like this get elected. Shudder.Re: NPR’s This American Life in Alabama
01/31/12 12:48 pm
#1stAL on the forefront with our American Life...Re: Scary Stupid Headupassitis
01/31/12 8:18 am
Are you as weary as I am of the numbskulls who keep bleating out the same tired platitude: "The lesser of two evils is still evil?" Yeah we...
Category Archives: global news
Syria is an Experiment in Non-intervention (UPDATED)
And the Syrian people are losing. The news this morning is all about Syria exploding. Reports of aircraft being used to coordinate ground fire — including heavy weapons and artillery — should put the whole drone hysteria business into context … Continue reading
IMF, Thy Name Is Hypocrisy
Guess what? The IMF is telling Britain it’s too soon to cut the welfare state in a recession. Yes, this is the same IMF that regularly produces ruinous disaster capitalism in the developing world. There’s a reason why torture and … Continue reading
Afghanistan and the Obama Military (UPDATE)
Operation Mushtarak began this weekend. The Obama military is going to war under the banner of a non-English noun. Mushtarak is defined as “common,” “joint,” “combined,” “concurrent,” or “collective;” in the Arabic of international relations this word is used to … Continue reading
Morning Notice
Sarkozy’s right-wing government tried immigrant hysteria as a foundation for local elections. It’s not working on the French: Polls showed that a majority of people initially supported having the discussion about national identity. But those numbers quickly reversed themselves as … Continue reading
Morning News
Haitians welcomed the return of the US military to their country. Across the world, the United States is once again the good guy. Which reminds me: this ad, or a version of it, has been running for months. The US … Continue reading
Global Netroots
An admission: I’ve got a man-crush on Nico Pitney. If the Pulitzer committee doesn’t give him at least a nod for his intensive blogging on the Green Revolution in Iran, there is no justice in the world. As a graduate … Continue reading
Weekly World News?
This is the first edition of a weekly blog in which I’ll round up the events that shape global politics. I’d like to call it Weekly World News, but I don’t want to be confused with Batboy. Still working on … Continue reading
