"The selfish rich are killing retired people" as an unfair, regressive tax system coddles the rich and penalizes the rest of us.

In the 1940's, the FBI had determined that the film, "It's a Wonderful Life", was a subversive Commie plot:

Bernie Sanders puts Barack Obama to shame:  "This idea that you can’t be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don’t stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It’s possible to do this job with honor and dignity. It’s just that most of our politicians – our president included, apparently – would rather not bother."

"The year of the drone......COIN is now history; the hip thing to do is "counter-terrorism", as in drone-saturated air war."

Rising commodity prices: a sign we're living in a finite world.

Guantanamo not closing anytime soon,,,..meanwhile, Bush officials praise Obama for going further than Bush in his terror policies.

How to deal with this nation's national image and its contradictions: organized hypocrisy."

Inside the beltway doesn't care that regular Americans are drowning out here.

Myths about the situation in Afghanistan.

Repuglicans talking about the unemployed (struggling people who want to work but are faced with 4 or 5 candidates for each job that might be available as in, there aren't enough jobs---e.g. even jobs in law firms----thanks to offshoring GOP corporate America); aka members of the GOP on crack.

"Hollywood and the War Machine"