Category Archives: Global Politics

Cain’s Last Strawman

The bizarre presidential campaign — or droll performance art project, according to Rachel Maddow — of Herman Cain has now approached the point where no one but the most addled of the addled GOP Base and their aides-de-‘camp’ in the … Continue reading

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Good Riddance to Old What’s-His-Name

H/T to Bartcop.com. I hate to see anyone murdered and I’m against the death penalty, but I have to admit that in the case of the Libyan Tyrant-With-A-Thousand-Names who killed and tortured his own people and financed international terrorism …

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The Occupy Wall Street Movement Goes Global

…and I think it’s unstoppable. In just a month it’s gone from a relatively few protestors in Liberty Plaza in New York to protests on every continent but Anarctica. It seems the ‘little people’ Leona Helmsley disdained are finally demanding … Continue reading

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Rush the Magic Nitwit Desperately and Absurdly Accuses OWS of ‘Anti-Semitism’

“It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America’s direction. Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and pundits who reliably serve the … Continue reading

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Gandhi Won and So Will the OWS Protestors

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“Goldman Sachs Rules the World,” Says Trader

The future of the global economy seems bleak with the Smart Money betting on complete collapse and cow-eyed diddly-winks like the stock trader in the video below announcing that governments are irrelevant as “Goldman Sachs rules the world.” (One wonders … Continue reading

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Today’s Photo: Maintaining Perspective

Seen at John Hobkirk’s FB page.

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The Ghost of Ronald Reagan on Class Warfare

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Today’s Quote: The Sorrows of Empire

Have things changed much since this book was published in 2005? “Four sorrows are certain to be visited on the United States. Their cumulative effect guarantees that the U.S. will cease to resemble the country outlined in the Constitution of … Continue reading

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Canada’s Next Prime Minister: Stephen Lewis

Sure, Conservative Party PM Stephen Harper nabbed another four-year term in the May elections up in Canada, but the real news is that the progressive New Democratic Party has replaced the wheezy and corrupt Liberal Party as the Official Opposition, unseating … Continue reading

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