Right-Wing Media Outraged That Obama Hugged Leader Of NATO Ally
Right-wing media have expressed outrage over President Obama hugging Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the G-20 summit, claiming that Obama is "hugging enemies [and] abandoning allies."...
View ArticleThe Incredible Shrinking Woman in Post-9/11 Hell
Ann Jones How one citizen got placd on a no-pay list in America's new security-happy landscape.
View ArticleProtest Planet: How a Neoliberal Shell Game Created an Age of Activism
Juan Cole The massive popular protests that shook the globe this year have much in common, though most of the reporting on them in the mainstream media has obscured the similarities.
View ArticleFox Still Pushing Discredited Keystone XL Pipeline Jobs Claims
Fox anchor Martha MacCallum is clinging to the discredited claim that the Keystone XL pipeline would create at least 20,000 jobs. In fact, even the pipeline owner acknowledges that the total jobs...
View ArticleWhy Newt Gingrich Hates the State Department
From: Ben Adler Ben Adler Gingrich has been criticizing the State Department and calling for its overhaul.
View Article2011: A ‘Banner Year’ For LGBT Equality
MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts looks back at the year that was in LGBT news. Here are some of his highlights and our reporting from this “banner year” for equality: Dec. 6: Obama administration pledges to...
View ArticleBuying Congress in 2012
Bill McKibben Time to stop being cynical about corporate money in politics and start being angry.
View ArticleCavuto, Hoft Think Obama’s "About Normal" NH Primary Results Spell Trouble
Neil Cavuto and Jim Hoft suggested that President Obama receiving 82 percent of the votes in the New Hampshire Democratic primary show Obama is struggling among Democrats and that New Hampshire voters...
View ArticleKeystone XL Is Dead—Again
From: George Zornick George Zornick Obama killed the Keystone pipeline again—and Republicans are probably happy about it.
View ArticleBachmann: Muslim Brotherhood Has ‘Penetrated’ The U.S. Government
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is no stranger to outlandish conspiracy theories but the former GOP presidential primary candidate took her theories to a new height in an interview earlier this week with...
View ArticleWashington’s Militarized Mindset
Tom Engelhardt The lessons Washington can't draw from the failure of the military option.
View ArticleTimothy Johnson: Fox News And The NRA Write The Script For Romney On U.N....
For months the National Rifle Association and Fox News have been pushing the fringe conspiracy theory that a proposed United Nations Arms Trade Treaty puts Second Amendment rights at risk.
View ArticleShocker: PA Judge Upholds Voter Disenfranchisement Law, Setting Up Chaos Like...
Pennsylvania’s Democratic strongholds in 2012 are poised to follow in the ugly footsteps of Ohio in 2004, where tens of thousands of inner-city voters waited for hours and hours before casting ballots...
View ArticleTimothy Johnson: Heritage Foundation Shoots Down Right-Wing U.N. Gun Grab...
The right-leaning Heritage Foundation has thrown cold water on the revival a conspiracy theory pushed on Fox News by contributor Dick Morris and the National Rifle Association that the United...
View ArticleTimothy Johnson: The Hill Echoes False Republican Talking Points On UN Arms...
A November 19 article in The Hill repeated the false claim that the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty -- a proposal to crack down on the supply of weapons to human rights abusers -- poses a...
View ArticleTimothy Johnson: NRA Conspiracy Theories Lurk Beneath Joseph Farah’s Claim...
Taking National Rifle Association conspiracy theories to the next level, WorldNetDaily founder Joseph Farah is suggesting that President Obama might be spurring gun sales so that he can later...
View ArticleWill Keystone XL Spoil Your Holidays?
by Tony Iallonardo, via National Wildlife Federation One of the sadder rituals in the nation’s capital is the “December surprise,” whereby the administration in power makes controversial...
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