Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, seems very cheery in recent interviews. His new business plan has excited not only Bezos, but the speculative corporate press. The new plan is simple, efficient, and oddly alienating: drone delivery....
24 December 2013
The New York Times is hardly a progressive newspaper -- but when it comes to the surveillance state and ongoing militarism of the Obama White House, the establishment’s “paper of record” puts MoveOn.org to shame.
And so,...
And so,...
23 December 2013
Fifty years ago, exactly one month after John Kennedy was killed, the Washington Post published an op-ed titled “Limit CIA Role to Intelligence.” The first sentence of that op-ed on Dec. 22, 1963, read, “I think it has become necessary to...
22 December 2013
Very rarely does our government ask us what to have a war on. The proposal for missile strikes into Syria was a rare occasion when public pressure and other factors compelled Congress to demand a say. Public pressure then compelled...
19 December 2013
News media should illuminate conflicts of interest, not embody them. But the owner of the Washington Post is now doing big business with the Central Intelligence Agency, while readers of the newspaper’s CIA coverage are left in the dark...
19 December 2013
“I’m dying to know what it’s like to love somebody — to know what it feels like to be wanted.” — Art Corneau
So we need a documentary to break the Code of Shame. It’s called A Hard Name and came out in 2009; it ran on...
So we need a documentary to break the Code of Shame. It’s called A Hard Name and came out in 2009; it ran on...
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