Peter Beinart: “Five years ago, Republicans backed tax cuts-but said deficits didn’t matter. Today, they say deficits are all that matters, but still like tax cuts. During the Bush years, Republicans mostly insisted, in Dick Cheney’s famous words, that “deficits don’t matter.” Now they say deficits are virtually all that matters. Their rhetoric has shifted [...]

   Columnist – John SammonOh no, not that! The American people are going to find out what’s been going on in the Afghanistan War. Because of the leaked formerly top-secret leaks by the website WiKiLeaks. The American people will be able to see for themselves what’s been going on for the past nine years. In Baghdad, [...]

Comedian Stephen Colbert attacked not only the right-wing pundits who called out-of-context snippets of Sherrod’s speech racist, but the Obama Administration for fearing them so much as to fire Sherrod without cause. Elsewhere, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Bill O’Reilly falsely claimed that his apology to Shirley Sherrod was the “first time in [...]

   By: Bill QuigleyThe biggest crime in the US criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people. Saying the US criminal system is racist may be politically controversial in some circles. But the facts are overwhelming. No real [...]

   By: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis    [ Enlarge ]In four earlier articles titled ‘Overwhelming Oromo Reaction Against CIA-planned Amharization of OSA: No to Racist Ethiopianist Dogma’ ‘CIA Sponsored Amhara Smiley Gangsters to Subvert Oppressed Oromos in Fake, Failed State of Ethiopia‘, ‘Committed to Continuing the Ethiopian Genocides, Berhanu Nega Has No Place in an Oromo Conference‘, [...]