‘The Cove:’ Japan Has a Dark Secret It Hopes the World Will Never See

‘The Cove:’ Japan Has a Dark Secret It Hopes the World Will Never See By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. Posted August 6, 2009. Suspenseful and shocking film exposes the slaughter of tens of thousands of dolphins and the billion-dollar industry that profits from selling them. Ric O’Barry almost looks crazy. He is driving a car, with [...]

Bonus Bandits: Why Are Bank Execs Making a Killing in the Midst of Catastrophe?

Bonus Bandits: Why Are Bank Execs Making a Killing in the Midst of Catastrophe? By Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. Posted October 20, 2009. Welcome to post-meltdown America. One year and counting after last fall’s high-finance collapse, average Americans are reeling and Wall Street is rejoicing. America’s biggest banks, amid [...]

Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh Are Crazy — Yet Corporate Media Legitimize Them

Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh Are Crazy — Yet Corporate Media Legitimize Them When Limbaugh, Beck and Fox news are treated like legitimate players, it causes the rest of the media to run to the right. By Jamison Foser, Media Matters for America. Posted October 19, 2009. It’s no coincidence that when members of the [...]

Maddow, Bernie Sanders Highlight Contradictions In Congress Targeting ACORN

When Congress rushed to stop sending federal money to ACORN in the wake of the prostitution scandal involving a few of their employees, Republicans wrote the bill so broadly that it applied to any organization that had been charged with breaking federal or state laws, as well as various lobbying and campaign finance laws. As [...]

Betsy McCaughey, Dylan Ratigan Spar Over Health Care Reform

Betsy McCaughey is a famous liar whom the media keep inviting on their programs to continue to lie about health care, instead of banishing her to some wilderness, where she belongs, to lie to woodland creatures. And so, today she ended up on Dylan Ratigan’s Morning Meeting with Representative Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.). There was a [...]

Rachel Maddow confronts notorious corporate lobbyist Rick Berman

Rachel Maddow confronted notorious corporate lobbyist Rick Berman over his advocacy for corporate interests that are at best extremely questionable, and at worst downright detrimental to the public’s health. Rick Berman is responsible for such “educational” websites as FishScam.com, a site dedicated to informing readers that high mercury levels in fish are not bad for [...]

WHAT IF The American People Learn Truth ?

What if we wake up one day and learn that the terrorist threat is a predictable consequence of our meddling in affairs of others and has nothing to do with us being free and prosperous?

Rachel Maddow: Why Do 1/3 of New Jersey Conservatives Think Obama Might Be the Anti-Christ?

A ‘Little Judge’ Who Rejects Foreclosures, Brooklyn Style

A ‘Little Judge’ Who Rejects Foreclosures, Brooklyn Style Article Tools Sponsored By By MICHAEL POWELL Published: August 30, 2009 The judge waves you into his chambers in the State Supreme Court building in Brooklyn, past the caveat taped to his wall — “Be sure brain in gear before engaging mouth” — and into his inner [...]

George Galloway on the O’Reilly factor (FOX TV)

George Galloway on the O’Reilly factor (FOX TV). Nothing pisses me off more than people who ask a YES or NO only answer type question.