A summary of scandals that have occurred during the Bush Presidency
There are almost 300 of them in this comprehensive list. Dozens of these scandals would seem to constitute impeachable offenses, in my opinion.
The architects of the Iraq invasion
Think Progress gives you the line-up of all the major players and tells you where they are now.
“Push capitalism” turns us into full-time consumers and non-citizens
Bill Moyers recently interviewed Benjamin Barber, a renowned political theorist and a distinguished senior fellow at Demos — a public policy think tank here in New York City. Barber's most recent book is Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole (2007). What's the focus of this book?…
The banality of heroism: what’s good for the goose . . .
I've been long-intrigued by Hannah Arendt's concept of the banality of evil. Philip Zimbardo turns that concept on its head in an article from Edge, "The banality of evil is matched by the banality of heroism." (you'll need to scroll down to the z's). Zimbardo's article appears as one of…
Glenn Greenwald: The media’s hostility to anti-establishment candidates
The media can't deal with candidates that buck the system. Glenn Greenwald discusses three dramatic cases, John Edwards, Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee. On Edwards, Greenwald writes: It is very striking how little Edwards' substantive critique of our political system has penetrated into the national discourse. That's because the centerpiece…