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Exit Bush, trailing Sulphur and White Phosphorus.

By jollyroger on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 2:09am |
As if to verify his *demonic bona fides it would seem that G-Dub’s final turn on the geopolitical stage will be as the enabler for and supplier of Israel’s use of this century’s napalm-on-steroids, white phosphorus. …if packed into an...
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The 1948 Plebescite on the future of British Mandatory Palestine. Better late than never.

By jollyroger on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 2:35am |
In its succession to the Ottoman Empire, Britain received sovereignty over a Semitic population in a unified territory called Palestine (yes, it was…). When the collapsing British Empire acceded to the wishes of one Semitic tribe to sever the previously...
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Divest Now!

By jollyroger on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 3:12am |
One of my few media moments of fame came from standing during the anti-apartheid demos at Cal side by side with some technician from KQED,. As a result, the voiceover for numberless teasers for the resulting documentary had me chanting...
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Ceasefire, Israeli def.:We cease firing at your soldiers, and start starving your children instead

By jollyroger on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 12:30pm |
Uri Avnery draws our attention to the fact that shooting off the odd unaimed rocket is just one way to break a ceasefire. In fact, the Israelis “broke” it the first day they turned off the electricity so the Palestinians...
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You cannot guard Prez in the open floor--he will look right and go left. Watch his feet, not his eyes.

By jollyroger on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 1:13am |
I have decided to take Joe Biden’s advice. Remember, when he said that Prez would be tested, yadda yadda yadda, and what he might do might seem fucked up to us but it was really going to be the cool...
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Direct Treasury to Consumer loans, the remedy for no-lending banks and their toadies at the Fed.

By jollyroger on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 12:38am |
We are going through absurd hoops simply to avoid disintermediating the banks and the federal reserve (which is owned by them). We build in all this vigorish, supposedly to compensate the banks for rationalizing the credit markets, and then when...
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Josh Marshall: Progressive Queenmaker. (Who knew??)

By jollyroger on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 12:35am |
Any TPM afficianadi also listeners to NPR will have noticed how Elizabeth Warren (dare I say, our own Elizabeth Warren is all over (including a spot on *Fresh Air!!I) Anyway, according to Prof. Warren, it all started with a phone...
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OBAMA 2016! Because the world needs a good president...

By jollyroger on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 5:36pm |
Ok, ok, I admit to residual giddyness attendant upon watching Prez announce the appointment of, inter alia a Nobel Laureate teammate. And even though there may be small-minded and carping cynics who smell a whiff of "today America, tomorrow...
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Why doesn't the UAW buy GM (market cap:$4B) with a loan from the pension fund (assets $104B)? Somebody, please help me....

By jollyroger on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 7:37pm |
Upon the temporary cessation of the vertigo induced by contemplating a world in which the whole damn company (factories, inventories, etc), is worth less than Avon Cosmetics, I wrestle with the following conundrum: Why doesn’t the UAW loan itself some...

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