yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Steven Walt says :
Here’s why it won’t happen any time soon. As Cindy Williams , former director of the National Security division of the Congressional Budget Office and now a senior research scientist at MIT, points out in an as-yet unpublished paper for the Tobin Project , ...
More On The Religious-Industrial Complex
www.streetprophets.com 12/11/2008 — FIPL is in the forefront of those shaping the media narrative about the new religious landscape: religious voters are no longer shackled to a "narrow agenda" of abortion and gay marriage, and are voting on a "broader agenda," including poverty, the ...
FIPL is in the forefront of those shaping the media narrative about the new religious landscape: religious voters are no longer shackled to a "narrow agenda" of abortion and gay marriage, and are voting on a "broader agenda," including poverty, the ...
Was Ike right about the "military-industrial complex?"
walt.foreignpolicy.com 1/6/2009 — Remember notorious pacifist...I mean, five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous warnings about a " military-industrial complex ?" Turns out Ike was pretty darn prescient. Here's why. If you'd just lost your job, or if you’d ...
Remember notorious pacifist...I mean, five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous warnings about a " military-industrial complex ?" Turns out Ike was pretty darn prescient. Here's why. If you'd just lost your job, or if you’d ...
One Man’s Military- Industrial-Media Complex
www.nytimes.com 11/30/2008 — Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired Army general, has flourished at an intersection of network news and wartime commerce. >
Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired Army general, has flourished at an intersection of network news and wartime commerce. >
One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex
www.nytimes.com 11/30/2008 — Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired four-star Army general, has quietly flourished at the intersection of network news and wartime commerce. >
Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired four-star Army general, has quietly flourished at the intersection of network news and wartime commerce. >
Our Bigoted Media-Industrial Complex
www.eschatonblog.com 12/18/2008 — Being anti-gay is perfectly acceptable, and nothing pleases The Villagers more than punching hippies in the face, so it's a two-fer. Greg Sargent: Such a decision would be met not just with screams from the right, but outrage from ...
Being anti-gay is perfectly acceptable, and nothing pleases The Villagers more than punching hippies in the face, so it's a two-fer. Greg Sargent: Such a decision would be met not just with screams from the right, but outrage from ...
Webb To Take On Prison Industrial Complex
www.openleft.com 12/30/2008 — Via TPM , apropos to Chris' agenda below, it looks like we can watch Jim Webb for some hopeful legislation on prison reform :
This spring, Webb (D-Va.) plans to introduce legislation on a long-standing passion of his: reforming the U.S. prison ...
Via TPM , apropos to Chris' agenda below, it looks like we can watch Jim Webb for some hopeful legislation on prison reform :
This spring, Webb (D-Va.) plans to introduce legislation on a long-standing passion of his: reforming the U.S. prison ...
Lobbyists for the prison industrial complex
majikthise.typepad.com 12/10/2008 — .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } hell on earth III , originally uploaded by sanabria . Great article ...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } hell on earth III , originally uploaded by sanabria . Great article ...
It's Official: Spiderman in the Tank for Obama
www.debbieschlussel.com 1/8/2009 — By Debbie Schlussel
Once comic books were against Nazis and Hitler and were very up front in supporting America's fight against them. But those days are over. Both DC and Marvel Comics long ago embraced left-wing politics, and when it came to ...
By Debbie Schlussel
Once comic books were against Nazis and Hitler and were very up front in supporting America's fight against them. But those days are over. Both DC and Marvel Comics long ago embraced left-wing politics, and when it came to ...
GOP launching 'renewal' think tank
www.politico.com 12/17/2008 — The Republican National Committee is building a new, in house think tank aimed at reviving the party's policy heft.
The think tank will be called the Center for Republican Renewal, and it has been mentioned as part of RNC Chairman Mike Duncan's ...
The Republican National Committee is building a new, in house think tank aimed at reviving the party's policy heft.
The think tank will be called the Center for Republican Renewal, and it has been mentioned as part of RNC Chairman Mike Duncan's ...
National security team meets Monday —
CNN Political Ticker 1/5/2009
(CNN) — Two US military officials confirmed to CNN that the Obama national security team is scheduled for a transition meeting Monday morning. Expected in attendance: Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Admiral Michael Mullen, Secretary of State ...
Rice pushes for softer U.N. Gaza measure —
First Read 1/7/2009
From NBC’s Libby Leist NEW YORK -- Secretary Condoleezza Rice is bouncing from meeting to meeting with European and Arab Foreign Ministers here at the United Nations, trying to convince Arab leaders not to push for a Security Council ...