So, Barack “Let’s bomb Pakistan” Obama has been given the Nobel Peace Prize.
Let’s review his record, shall we?
In the days leading up to his inauguration, Israel was in the midst of a flat-out massacre of civilians in Gaza. Obama said nothing. There was no doubt, as it was ongoing, what was happening. If there had [...]
Last week, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson as on The Daily Show last week, laughingly assuring the American public that the EPA won’t be regulating cows. Jon Stewart laughed along and they moved on… right past the opportunity to tell people something they really need to know.
Ever since methane’s role in climate change became [...]
The airwaves seethe and the fiber-optics networks thrum with right-wing attacks on Obama, many of them mean-spirited and just-this-side-of-rational. Sometimes the vitriol veers into the supernatural.
Let’s not pretend this doesn’t make a difference. What people think depends in part on what they hear and read; otherwise, none of us would bother talking or writing. I [...]
Some years ago, I spent a few emotionally rocky weeks in a city in which I used to live. There to get care in the wake of a traumatic event, I was in sore need of soothing. So, I switched on the television and tuned into the cable access station to watch the semi-weekly city [...]
I see that Barack “Let’s Bomb Pakistan” Obama, in addition to drifting rightward ever since election day, has shifted from the politics of hope to the politics of fear ever since inauguration day. He’s sounding less like Lincoln and Roosevelt and more like Bush and Cheney every day.
Terrorism — the pursuit of political aims by [...]
Having encouraged SuperWeed readers in swing states to vote, I feel the need to remind everybody that, in the words of the CrimethInc Don’t Just Vote project, “voting is the least effective strategy for having a say in society. You can vote once or twice a year, but it’s what you do every day that [...]
As an ecofeminist, I’m always more concerned with actual outcomes than abstract principles. Thus, I decide whether or not to participate in the political process based on my assessment of what’s likely to happen if I do or don’t vote. If Christian fundamentalists are trying to take over the school board or pass a hurtful [...]
