By: John AvlonWith its mix of patriotism, fear, self-help, and conspiracy theory, the TV personality’s new novel, The Overton Window, is essential reading to understand the mind of the Wingnuts says John Avlon. It turns out that the beach-read potboiler just might be the perfect medium for Glenn Beck’s patented mix of paranoia, patriotism, conspiracy [...]

McChrystal’s Gift to Obama: The general’s gaffes may give President Obama the opening he needs to do what’s right: End the war in Afghanistan. The breakdown of discipline at the highest levels of U.S. military command is the latest, and perhaps most potent, sign that the American adventure in Afghanistan is already lost. McChrystal knew [...]

Conservative media defend BP against “shakedowns,” “show trials,” and environmentalists at least 62 times (Fox hosts, shows, and outlets led the effort with at least 38 defenses of BP) — Media Matters has identified at least 62 recent instances of media conservatives defending BP, 38 of which occurred on the Fox News Channel, Fox Business, [...]

   By: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis    [ Enlarge ]In an earlier article titled “False Divide on the Nile: Downstream (Sudan, Egypt) vs. Upstream (Fake Ethiopia, Others) Countries,” I demonstrated that the water resources-related national interests of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda do not oppose in anything Egypt’s and Sudan’s Nile water-related interests, and that [...]

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Modern American conservatism is based on an almost endless series of grievances. Author Thomas Frank coined a term for it: the conservative “plenty-plaint” — a long and ever-evolving list of personal and cultural gripes dressed up as an ideology. But there’s also fear! And while it spans the breadth of the [...]