Friday, November 4, 2011

Can we make this any more clear?

Krugman on what exactly is wrong here:

"We have a society in which money is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few people, and in which that concentration of income and wealth threatens to make us a democracy in name only.”



Georgia Geriatric Militia and eliminationist ideology

(According to TPM):

"Thomas allegedly said that there “is no way for us, as militiamen, to save this country, to save Georgia, without doing something that’s highly, highly illegal. Murder. That’s fucking illegal, but it’s gotta be done.”

“When it comes time to saving the Constitution, that means some people gotta die,” Thomas allegedly said.

“Let’s shoot the bastards that we discover are anti-American or enemies of America, treasonous,” Thomas allegedly said."

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Zombie Lies destroy real lives

According to a new survey from World Public Opinion:


"Support for the decision to go to war [in Iraq] is highly correlated with beliefs held by substantial and undiminishing minorities that Iraq was providing support to al Qaeda (46%) and either had a WMD program or actual WMDs (47%). Among those with such beliefs, large majorities say the war was the right thing while among those without such beliefs large majorities have the opposite views."


Truly amazing that despite having been repeatedly disproved with, you know, facts, a big chunk (almost half!) of the population unshakably believes in these zombie lies. And they’re willing to kill because of it. Thank you, Dick Cheney, for this gift that keeps on giving.

Friday, September 2, 2011

Obama’s “killing machine"

Apparently in these times of economic stagnation and public sector cutbacks, extrajudicial killing is a growth industry. The military, the CIA, and “contractors” are collaborating in a booming program of assassination.

Why don’t I feel safer living in Assassination Nation??

NYPD Mooslim Squad

Remember the good old days when lots of big city police departments had Red Squads to monitor and harass people whose left-wing politics were unpalatable for the City Fathers? It seems that political police are making a comeback. The NYPD has an ongoing operation targeting Muslim communities for special surveillance aimed at uncovering anti-American sentiments (you know, seditious stuff like criticism of US foreign policy, complaints about drones launching missiles into villages in Pakistan, planes bombing villages in Afghanistan, shit like that). This operation ranges well beyond the department’s official jurisdiction of New York City. This domestic spying program, based on ethnic-religious profiling of the crudest sort - has been created in partnership with the CIA, which is legally prohibited from, um, domestic spying. And it looks like AP has exposed the NYPD’s denials as lies.

According to Salon, “both federal and local law enforcement agencies have developed sophisticated and far-reaching intelligence-collection operations to gather data about America's minority communities, and other groups, regardless of whether there is any reason to suspect criminal or terrorist activity."



Saturday, August 27, 2011

Islamophobia, Inc.

A new report from the Center for American Progress highlights the funders and snake-oil charlatans behind the fear industry targeting Muslims in America.


Friday, August 19, 2011

No such thing as Class warfare in America





Fox is working extra hard to persuade Americans that “class” is a demagogic idea dreamed up by Democrats. Jon Stewart isn’t buying.

More here. And here. And here.

Why Bachman and Perry are SCARY: Christian Dominionism

Everything would be ok if we could just stone unruly children and gays, and evil-doers, and people who swear. And feminists. And atheists. And liberals. And did we stone the gays yet?



That people would seek refuge in absolute certainty guaranteed by an omnipotent creator is not surprising in a time when things we once took for granted appear to be coming apart at the seams and answers of any kind are elusive. But that doesn’t make these folks and their Taliban-like political project any less frightening. On the contrary.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Cultural Marxists are destroying Christianity & taking over America

But don’t take my word for it. Watch the movie. Or, if you’re one of those intellectual elitists who just has to read things before you can take them seriously, take a look at this. And here is the “brilliant conservative thinker” who is credited with this insight. So join Anders Breivik and kill a commie for Christ.





For more on the American ideological roots of Anders Breivik’s murderous fantasies, see this post by Chip Berlet and this one by David Neiwert.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Brief talk on academic repression



I spoke at LeMoyne College as part of an event announcing the publication of our book entitled Academic Repression.

Thursday, January 13, 2011


Tragically, even in America there are psychopaths who don't yet have firearms. If you have more guns than you use, share one with a raving lunatic near you. Your gesture of human kindness could make all the difference in someone's life.

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