If U.S. budget gridlock had not ground rational thought to a standstill, creative options for revising the tax code might be possible, such as a tax on stock transactions to raise money and discourage micro-second trades. Another option would be…
Category: Obama Administration
Trying to Derail Iran Talks
Clarifying Snowden’s ‘Freedom’
Blaming the Poor for Poverty
NYTimes Mentions Israeli Nukes
Exclusive: The U.S. press is very tolerant of Israeli cross-border attacks inside Syria, like the latest one against a military target in Latakia. Israel’s nuclear arsenal usually goes unmentioned, too. But the New York Times surprisingly deviated from that pattern, notes…
The Two Types of Spy ‘Scandals’
Republicans, Unhinged
Tea Party and ’12 Years a Slave’
Exclusive: Some on the Right like to compare the Affordable Care Act to slavery, apparently to get under the skin of Barack Obama, the first African-American president. But the glib talking point also reveals a callous disregard for slavery’s evils,…
The Neocons’ Iraq War Mess
Neocons Push Israeli-Saudi Alliance
Exclusive: Early U.S. presidents warned against the dangers of “entangling alliances,” prescient advice that the neocons want President Obama to ignore amid demands from Israel and Saudi Arabia that America tie itself up in the endless and bloody sectarian conflicts…