When the State Department revoked Edward Snowden’s passport four months ago, the move was a reprisal from a surveillance-and-warfare state that operates largely in the shadows. Top officials in Washington were furious. Snowden had suddenly...
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21 October 2013
What if we had politicians who believed in the abolition of war with as
much passion as the Republican right believes in the abolition of taxes?
For me, the question that immediately follows is: What kind of politics draws...
For me, the question that immediately follows is: What kind of politics draws...
20 October 2013
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Muslims in prosperous Singapore are spending more
money when they travel on a religious haj pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi
Arabia, compared with previous years when they scrimped and saved, and
they are also now going when...
20 October 2013
When video of the October 14th edition of Thom Hartmann's TV show appears online (here) it will include him asking me to justify not attacking Hitler. Thom has asked me this repeatedly during multiple appearances on his show, each time a...
19 October 2013
For a country that prides itself on the transparency with which it governs, the United States has suffered a few too many hiccups of late. Even by the standards of many politically unfastened observers, revelations concerning the data...
17 October 2013
Before Fox News, there was the Daily Mail. If Fox News is a howling Tea Partier, the Daily Mail is his even more insane great uncle, the old master, the one who invented the game. For over a century they have printed stories to support...
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