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Larry Beinhart reveals that the real start of the secession was seven years ago.
Larry Beinhart brings to light who the US would really be hurting by bombing Iran.
Larry Beinhart discusses the politics of evolution.
It’s official. Talk of recession. We might or might not be in one.
In the past few months, against all odds, Bush has scored two incredible victories in Iraq.
They are, of course, over his favorite enemies, the media and the American public.
If we really want to figure out what religion is about, we have to start with the assumption that God doesn’t exist.
Larry Beinhart on downward-facing dogs and other Godly conundrums.
SECRETS October 24, 2007
The final installment of Larry Beinhart’s series on the perils of
government secrecy.
Larry Beinhart offers a history lesson on the CIA’s secret wars.
George Bush – and other Iraq War supporters – have argued that if we withdraw from Iraq the result will be like the slaughters – the killing fields –in Cambodia.
Common sense, certain events, and most of the great theoreticians make it seem self-evident that secrets are crucial in war.
In the marketplace of ideas the power of big money is kicking ass and rationality is down for the count.
It is true that people tend to flock to groups that are like themselves. In their choice of neighborhoods, associations, and cliques.
The Producers meets Lindsay Graham
The war in Iraq has cost about $434,000,000,000 (four hundred and thirty-four billion dollars) to date. Albany County’s share of this is $597 million; Ulster County is $354 million. So far.
Will facts ever matter? Or will American politics remain a contest of bedtime stories for children?
The number one industry in America today is the money business—debt swapping.
When a government wants an economy to grow, it throws money at it.
I called Senator Hillary Clinton’s office to ask how she was going to vote on the Iraq supplemental appropriations bill without benchmarks. The staffer at the other end of the line said was studying the bill.
I will fight tooth and nail and move to Canada, before I let my daughter and my son become cannon fodder in a war that has been morally outrageous and ethically repugnant from the beginning.
State Senator John Bonacic turned a small, tragic, local event, into a microcosm of the Republican disease. Like an opportunistic virus, when they sense a weak moment in possible hosts – us – they want to jump in and spread their infection, fear.
There is no real name for the movement that took over America six years ago and continues run it. That’s part of the reason for its success. Its very vagueness makes it hard to attack. In actuality, it is not a single entity.
General Petraeus, the man in charge of the initial failure, has been put in charge of a new plan that requires his original failure to magically reverse itself and which is also guaranteed, according to the mathematics of own theory, to fail.
If we knew today’s secrets, we would “know” that all the intelligence and Pentagon assessments are that the war in Iraq is already lost. And that the war in Afghanistan is being lost, too.
Do not refer to the George Bush Library as a library.
It’s time for a Failure to Find Osama Commission.
There was something deeply kinked in Nixon. Would more sex – even more adultery – have humanized him? Did his sex life – currently unknown – connect to his murderous cynicism? If the sex lives of presidents are to be a campaign issue, that’s a question to ask.
The attorney general takes an oath to uphold the constitution and execute the law. When controversial matters come up, his role, traditionally, is often to be the guy who says, “We can’t do that, it’s against the law.”
It is now a conventional complaint on the Right that university faculties are dominated by liberals.
It’s true.
At last, George Bush has his Monica.
Capitalism 104 (Part 2): Where Markets Fail.
Larry Beinhart Tackles the Pros and Cons of Capitalism.
Failure is not an option. It’s standard! On every policy we make!
Happy New Year. It feels like a year of change and hope. Then I realize, with a sense of real astonishment, that George Bush is still president.
Larry Beinhart follows the yellow brick road of corruption, incompetence, and hypocrisy that led to the triumph of Democrats in the November election and the pulling back the curtain on The Wizard of Odds.
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