Quantcast
Channel: Empire – All Tied Up and Nowhere to Go
Browsing all 23 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Time names the Nobel Peace Laureate its Man of the Year

He shed a tear for the children Adam Lanza destroyed but not for those children he destroyed.

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Quote of the day

Mike Ferner asks: If actions indeed speak louder than words, what must the impressionable and the young learn when each year as a nation we buy more murder and suffering than education or medical care;...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Quote of the day

We have been warriors Laura Finley states a truth which ought to be publicly announced every day until its truth become obvious: Guns. Media. Mental Illness. Lax Security. All these and more have been...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Empire before human needs

Brian McFadden

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Quote of the day

Rob Urie, echoing Daniel Goldhagen, wrote: Ten years after the invasion, occupation and widespread destruction of Iraq was set into motion the revisionist apologetics are flying fast and furious. These...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Quote of the day

Glenn Greenwald discussed the automatic other-blaming, other-bashing found in the American media after every ‘terrorist’ attack: The rush, one might say the eagerness, to conclude that the attackers...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Quote of the day

As a response to the post-Boston Lockdown euphoria, Andrew Levine writes: For anyone who watched the World Trade Center collapse on television in the days after September 11, 2001, the repetitive...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Quote of the day

Serge Halimi, editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, wrote: Some revelations come as little surprise. It’s not really news that some politicians love money and like to spend time with those who have lots of...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

George W. Bush inconvenienced

Dubya in jail The problem for the ex-Decider, current fine arts painter is legal in nature: Will George W. Bush set foot in Europe again in his lifetime? A planned trip by Bush to speak at the...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Quote of the day

Glenn Greenwald points out that: That the Obama administration is now repeatedly declaring that the “war on terror” will last at least another decade (or two) is vastly more significant than all three...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Quote of the day

Norman Pollack accurately characterizes Barack Obama and the liberals who have lost their way while standing in his shadow: Obama’s “Hidden Hand” political strategy in his second term (Peter Baker, in...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Quote of the day

As the United States lunges into another reckless, foolish war, we may wish to notice that: Regardless of the trigger mechanism, the [Obama] administration seems intent on pushing through Donald...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Searching for credibility

Filed under: Photo Essay Tagged: Authoritarian Regime, Barack Obama, Bashar Hafez al-Assad, Civil War, Crimes Against Humanity, Empire, Imperialism, Middle East, Politics, Syria, Tom Tomorrow, War Crime

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Quote of the day

Andrew Levine characterized Congressional Democrats thusly: In Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Jonathan Swift has his hero say of the inhabitants of Brobdingnag: “I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

What we have here is a leathel “air quote” war

Filed under: Photo Essay Tagged: Barack Obama, Crimes Against Humanity, Empire, Imperial Aggression, International Law, Israel, Politics, Reactionary politics, Syria, Tom Tomorrow, War Crimes

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

On Panitch & Gindin and American decline

Reblogged from LBO News from Doug Henwood: These are comments I delivered at a panel on The Making of Global Capitalism, by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, at the Rethinking Marxism conference, held at...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Capitalism and US Oil Geo-Politics » CounterPunch

Rob Urie has provided us with a concisely written essay which identifies the predicaments generated by the capitalist democracies in the West as well as by the global empire governed by power elites...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Seymour Hersh dismisses America’s media giants

The following arrived by way of a Guardian interview conducted by Lisa O’Carroll: He is angry about the timidity of journalists in America, their failure to challenge the White House and be an...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The shutdown: Day two

Norman Pollack’s recent description of the impasse rings true: The “shutdown issue,” presently mired in the political-ideological battle between the Far Right and the Less-Far Right (House Republicans...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Iraq genocide

Barry Lando, at one time an investigative producer for 60 Minutes, made a succinct yet indirect case for identifying America’s efforts in Iraq as a genocide. About the United States’ post-9.11 war...

View Article
Browsing all 23 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images