A little over fifty years ago, NY state police broke up a large meeting in the boondocks town of Apalachin, NY, and one of the results of the ensuing publicity was that, despite years of FBI propaganda to the contrary, Americans started to believe that Our Thing, a well organized national syndicate of gangsters, really [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Post Massacre Mob Confab Revealed
Posted in Far Right Far Out on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Race
Posted in Obamamerica on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For the first time in my life as a voting citizen, I cast my ballot for a presidential candidate for whom I’m truly happy to vote: Barack Hussein Obama. I voted absentee and early in my town in Massachusetts, as I’ll be out of the country next week. Since my first vote, against Nixon in [...]
Cursing both houses…
Posted in Obamamerica, Uncategorized on October 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There is an interesting clip from a Real News interview of Howard Zinn up on Al Giordano’s top-quality blog, The Field. Responding to questions about Nader, a third party, and how to break out of the two-party system in order to drive more radical change, Zinn points out that Nader’s transplantation into the electoral arena has [...]
That One
Posted in McLame on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Laura Rozen was asking yesterday over at Warandpiece “what does the right want?” Her almost anguished musings in reaction to the rising hysteria of the right-wing base must be echoing across the normal political universe in one form or another. After all, Obama has done nothing but be a competent campaigner. It is the behavior [...]
