The latest LiberalOasis Radio Show podcast is up, as Traci Olsen and I discuss the pointless Glenn Beck rally, the looming tax cut battle, Alan “Milk Cow” Simpson and Traci’s not feeling so fresh feeling about Summer’s Eve.
You can download the podcast at these links: (iTunes / XML feed / MP3).
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Yesterday, right-wing “rodeo clown” Glenn Beck preached to reported 87,000 supporters at his “Restoring Honor” rally on the National Mall. Pitching the event as a “non-political” reclamation of the civil rights movement, Beck cultivated an air of revival and sold the crowd on “a religious brand of patriotism.” “America today turn’s back to God,” he … Read More
By Neve Gordon
On May 31, I joined some 50 students and faculty members who gathered outside Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to demonstrate against the Israeli military assault on the flotilla carrying humanitarian aid toward Gaza. In response, the next day a few hundred students marched toward the social-sciences building, Israeli flags in hand. Amid … Read More
Dear NFL Player:
As you surely know, your league is in the process of trying to increase the regular season from 16 to 18 games while eliminating two preseason contests. Perhaps you’re excited about this. A little more money in the pocket. Extra exposure. Increased dashes through the secondary and rushes toward the quarterback. You love … Read More
The latest edition of The Week In Blog is up at BloggingHeads.tv where The Winston Group’s Nicki Kurokawa and me discuss blog reaction to this week’s primaries, Rep. Boehner’s speech of lies, the Iraq drawdown, Alan “Milk Cow” Simpson and the looming Bush tax cut battle. Watch it below.
This week, on the eve of the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a new study was released documenting the shocking psychological toll the storm had on children in the Gulf Coast. Researchers at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health found that more than 37 percent of children displaced by Katrina have been diagnosed with depression, … Read More
By Ramzy Baroud
The soldiers of the US 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division hollered as they made their way into Kuwait. ‘We won,’ they claimed. ‘It’s over.’
But what exactly did they win?
And is the war really over?
It seems we are once again walking into the same trap, the same nonsensical assumptions of … Read More
Women won the right to vote 90 years ago today. As historian
Christine Stansell points out, the seemingly “no-brainer” move to ensure
women have the same political citizenship rights as men was contested
in this country until 1984, when Mississippi became the last state to ratify the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.
That’s 1984—19 years after … Read More
Last night, during an appearance on CNN, Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott defended his stewardship of Columbia/HCA, a large for-profit hospital chain that pled guilty to 14 felonies and paid $1.7 billion in criminal and civil fines for defrauding Medicare. Scott explained that he invested his life savings in the business to “built the … Read More
By Susan Abulhawa
(Born to refugees of the 1967 Six Day War, Susan Abulhawa is the author of the novel Mornings In Jenin, the profits of which partly go to the children’s charity she founded, Playgrounds for Palestine. She chooses five books about Palestine by Palestinian writers.)
My Father Was A Freedom Fighter, by Ramzy Baroud
This is … Read More
