Last Wednesday Rush Limbaugh theorized that Al -Qaeda “gave up Osama bin Laden” so President Obama could get re-elected, because keeping Obama in office “furthers the cause.” [AUDIO BELOW] Cenk Uygur discusses this latest conspiracy theory from Rush Limbaugh. “What do the militant Islamists want more than anything in the world? Israel gone is right. Even moderate Islamists […]
On Friday Dane County Circuit Court Judge Juan Colas ruled that the law signed by Gov. Scott Walker that curbed collective bargaining for most public employees violates both the state and U.S. Constitutions and runs afoul of free speech and associated rights in a 27 page ruling according to the Associated Press. Gov. Walker’s office […]
According to new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute – 55% of Tea Partiers think its ok to bring loaded guns to church. Only 38% of Republicans and 9% of Democrats agreed.
Laura Flanders interviews activist and writer Scot Nakagawa about “dismantling the fulcrum of white supremacy on The Nation’s Channel. Race, according to activist and writer Scot Nakagawa, was an idea created originally to justify the enslavement of a people, and has displayed pernicious staying power in the centuries since. That’s why, as Nakagawa explains in […]
Tom Engelhardt discusses how the United States president has become the “Assassin-in-Chief” in this video presented by The Nation. Assassination has always been a tool of the American state, but before the “War on Terror” it was not something our leaders bragged about. As TomDispatch.com’s Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse explain in their new book, […]