Obama has appointed Julius Genachowski to head the FCC, which I think is pretty good. Genachowski is on the record as supporting network neutrality. Also, there’s a fair amount of eco-friendliness and tech-savviness in his background — he headed up the Obama team’s internet campaig...

Can anyone tell me if this commercial is real? Watching it, I honestly can’t decide if it’s a parody or if it’s supposed to be taken seriously. Of course it’s a fact; the connection between drugs and terrorism is actually part of the public record. What this commercial doesn&...

The times are unprecedented. Not since 1861 have we watched the last gasps of an outgoing administration with such anxiety. Then the nation was concerned with drift and inertia; now we watch for further ideological mischief. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 29, 2008 Already Shaky India-P...

. IS OBAMA USING GATES TO TAKE THE BLAME? OR IS OBAMA BEING PLAYED BY THE HAWKS? Either Way, The Permanent Government Wins Again, Not Us, The Idiots Who Voted For Obama Less than a year ago, a few of us got interested in this young black guy from Chicago that said he was against war and torture and ...

Posted by Kathy How about this for the impeachment table? CounterPunch has a Pulitzer story today about a whistleblower. Emphasis is mine. ## SueAnn Arrigo's Explosive Revelations CIA Blackmailed Officials Into Working On Halliburton-Carlye TeamExposing Pentagon and CIA Corruption By STEPHEN LENDMAN...

Per the post below, some Pierce: First, claim that the whole business is too complicated for "us" to understand. (Nonsense. Iran-Contra was a complex series of crimes and cock-ups, but it wasn't in any way complicated.) Then, hang your hat on the Great Men Of Washington -- the Tower Commission, or t...

I think that it is very hard sometimes trying to figure out who the worst person in the world could be. Today we have 3 excellent candidates- William Kristol, Rush Limbaugh and Oliver North. William Kristol has another major factual error in his column. Rush Limbaugh reads a essay then goes on at le...

From my friend, the excellent Jeff Stein, Congressional Quarterly's National Security Editor: "When Daniel Ortega unexpectedly led his left-wing party back into power in Nicaragua in early 2007, he faced a dark future — literally. The lights were going out all over the country. Its ancient po...

Um, why is this not the lead story everywhere? The New York Times delivers a Pulitzer-worthy piece on US arms shipments to Afghanistan, while everyone else is busy with Hillary and/or Obama hysteria: "But to arm the Afghan forces that it hopes will lead this fight, the American military has relied s...

Lee Hamilton's choice as the co-chair of the 9/11 Commission is looking more and more like no accident or effort to have a bipartisan panel. Remember too that  Hamilton is a long time friend of both former SecDef Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. Jerry Meldon writes the following excellent analysis...