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$547 Million Can’t Paper Over Failure of Afghanistan War

The Pentagon’s public relations machine is working overtime these days trying to sell a theme of “progress” in Afghanistan to push back against calls to end the war. The message machine behind this push is gargantuan, costing $547 million and employing more than 27,000 people. But, as our latest Rethink Afghanistan video shows, all that [...]

09/02/2010 08:53 PM

Dolphin Slaughter Resumes in Japan

Activist Ric O'Barry delivered a petition to the US Embassy in Tokyo signed by 1.7 million people from 155 countries demanding an end to the hunt.

09/02/2010 08:00 PM

Tea Party-Backed Candidate Joe Miller Wants to Make Social Security Illegal

This post first appeared on Daily Kos. At the risk of sounding too shrill about the extremism of the Republicans nominated to run for Senate this year, let’s take a look at Alaska’s Joe Miller Washington (CNN) – Joe Miller calls President Obama “bad for America” and suggests he is leading the nation [...]

09/02/2010 06:04 PM

One More Reason to Boycott Nike: Exploiting Mountaintop Removal and Dead Coal Miners

Leave it to Nike to make an ad for football gear so incredibly offensive.

09/02/2010 06:00 PM

Accepting Defeat in Iraq

Everyone is spinning the Iraq mission’s so-called end but no one seems willing quite to accept defeat. Republicans are complaining that the president didn’t mention George W. Bush often enough in his speech announcing the end of combat operations. In fact, he did, quite a bit, and in an over-generous way, most sane people agree. [...]

09/02/2010 05:28 PM

Eve Ensler: Bald, Brave and Beautiful

The author of 'The Vagina Monologues' recently sat down with me, in the midst of her battle with uterine cancer, to discuss New Orleans and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

09/02/2010 05:00 PM

Fighting Coal Ash, Bureaucracy and Confusion

As I have mentioned on this blog before, the Environmental Protection Agency is currently holding public hearings at sites around the country to hear your input on draft regulations for the disposal of toxic coal ash. This week’s blog post comes from Sierra Student Coalition Apprentice Margaret Hoerath, who writes about an activist who [...]

09/02/2010 04:19 PM

When Stupid People don’t Know that They are Stupid: Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally and the Dunning-Kruger Effect

The masses are asses. We know this. But the level of ignorance displayed by the attendees at the “Restoring Honor” rally is shocking even by contemporary standards. It is quite clear that Glenn Beck is a master propagandist with a chilling and Svengali-like power over the lemmings of the New Right. Beck-watching is compelling (to me [...]

09/02/2010 03:55 PM

Mariner Energy, Whose Gulf Oil Rig JUST Exploded, Railed Against Drilling Moratorium Yesterday

This post first appeared on Think Progress. The U.S. Coast Guard said this morning that a natural gas and oil drilling platform exploded 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana. A Coast Guard spokesperson said the platform, Vermilion Oil Rig 360, is an oil and gas platform in 2,500 feet of water [...]

09/02/2010 02:30 PM

Right-Wing Arizona Gov Jan Brewer Totally Screws Up 1st Debate, Flees Reporters

In last night’s Arizona gubernatorial debate, right-wing Governor Jan Brewer tried to list her accomplishments. It went poorly:Later, in an exchange about the economy, her opponent, Attorney General Terry Goddard, pointed out that Brewer’s fearmongering about violence in Arizona did not do great things for the state’s financial prospects. He then called on [...]

09/02/2010 02:27 PM

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