HAT TIP:  Al Jazeera English An investigation into a missile strike carried out by US-led forces in Afghanistan earlier this week has found that 13 civilians were among 16 people killed, the US military has said. The military made the admission on Saturday, after originally saying that 15 oppositio...

Can't this man just go away? Has he not done enough damage with his terra=politics? And let's not forget that he and his boss were in charge on 9/11 and it is they who have already FAILED to protect us:... (read the rest)...

Kevin Drum brings up a rather revealing set of dueling interview answers by Barack Obama and John McCain for Fortune magazine.  I agree with Kevin that the differences couldn’t be more stark, and that on the surface it is yet another example of John McCain looking like a simpleton compared to...

That John McCain is campaigning notably more negative and dirty than anyone, including his inflated version of himself that has been on display for much of this campaign, would have predicted is not the big news.  That is reserved for the fact that he’s incredibly bad at it, and easily debunk...

You know what has me really psyched up for this election year? The return of the politics of fear. In keeping with the fine tradition of claiming that voting for the wrong president will result in the violent and excruciating deaths of all Americans everywhere, Bush has decided to weigh in on this y...

“Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying at the church,” ...

  Today, Hillary said that Jeremiah Wright wouldn’t have been her pastor.  No sh*t, really?  I’m stunned.  You coulda fooled me, I thought she loved the black church and “don’t feel no ways tiredâ€� of being racially condescending to black folks.      Honestly though, I am stunned...

It’s exactly five years, 1st of May,I recall hearing Dubbaya sayThat our mission was done With the war shortly won.Now we’re mourning the loss of 4K. So it isn’t the billions we pay,Lack of victory, or the delay;But the breach of our trust.When a war is unjustEven one death is never OK. U.S. t...

If you really want to know what a candidate would do once in office, so says Spencer Ackerman, you have to look at their foreign policy advisers.  When one looks at Obama’s foreign policy advisers and what they are attempting to accomplish, one sees incredibly good things. Ackerman pens a pie...

Deliberately misled by the corporate media, people have fallen for the “mash-up� of video clips of several sermons of Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright which attempt to defame, deceive and misinform people about the life, ministry, and character of Barack Obama’s pastor and by extension Obama himself. ...