“Up with health care for all. Up with education for all. Up with home ownership. Up with guaranteed retirement benefits. Up with peace. Up with prosperity. Up with the Democratic Party. Up with Obama-Biden!” Dennis gives the most moving and exciting speech at the convention so far.

US democracy at work. No matter what you think about this guy (you can certainly disagree with him on a number of issues), McCain’s tactic is a disgrace, not because it’s undemocratic, but because it’s worse than in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe where opponents remain on the ballots to the very end and the fun begins after [...]

This is a really funny piece. After Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins disturbs the Denver protest, the protesters loudly and clearly express their sentiment towards Fox (as if they had any other choice.) On a separate note, it’s truly shocking how much propaganda Fox manages to spew in just 3 minutes.

It is time to get behind both of them. Obama/Biden ‘08 seems like an unbeatable ticket.

“John McCain is a long-time acquaintance of mine that goes way back to our time together at the U.S. Naval Academy and as Prisoners of War in Vietnam. He is a man I respect and admire in some ways. But there are a number of reasons why I will not vote for him for President [...]

“When Jon Stewart inaugurated his fake news anchor on The Daily Show eight years ago, his goal was to send up the hyperbolic and manufactured controversy of US Cable News and, if possible, be even more outrageous. Now, in a wonderful through-the-looking-glass moment, he has supplanted the subjects of his mockery in the country’s current [...]

“They wouldn’t hear us out. They’d hear the first part of our answer and walk away. One officer, she said, suggested they help out at home. ‘Don’t you have hurricanes in Canada? Why can’t you help your own people?’. After a long wait — they said they saw a man with five unregistered rifles in [...]

“Business school graduates have replaced doctors and public health experts as CEOs of hospitals, often at patients’ expense.”
“The organizational culture of medicine used to be dominated by the ideals of professionalism and voluntarism which softened the underlying acquisitive activity,” Starr wrote. “The restraints exercised by those ideals now grow weaker. The ‘health center’ of [...]

“‘It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.’” Barack Obama finally said it. Though a successful political and electoral strategy, the Right’s stand against intelligence has steered them far off course, leaving them — and us — unable to deal successfully with the complex and dynamic circumstances we face as a nation and a [...]

“Russians were told over breakfast yesterday what really happened in Georgia: the conflict in South Ossetia was part of a plot by Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, to stop Barack Obama being elected president of the United States”, writes Charles Bremner.

The Public Record has more. Here’s a website worth visiting if you don’t like what you hear from the House Speaker.

“Companies developing genetically modified crops risk creating the biggest environmental disaster ‘of all time’, Prince Charles has warned. GM crops were damaging Earth’s soil and were an experiment “gone seriously wrong”, he told the Daily Telegraph.

“As shells explode over South Ossetia and Russian troops press further into Georgian territory, America’s most recognized neoconservative thinkers are calling for confrontation with Moscow. And not satisfied with just dealing with the players on hand, Time’s Joe Klein observes that they all seem to think that ‘it’s raining Nazis’”, The Raw Story reports.

Fox News host Greg Jarrett discusses with Bonnie Erbe the Edwards affair even though his guest insists there are way more important issues to talk about. His persistence on covering the tabloid story about John Edwards, a camera women and her child instead of the Russia-Georgia war in which people are actually dying by thousands [...]

One day after the Edwards revelation, the escalation of the conflict in Georgia and 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, the mainstream media seem to focus more and more on the Edwards story. No surprise there. Fox News has just announced that John Edwards may even face jail time. An hour before that Fox News claimed [...]