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Col. Wilkerson: "Cheney Kept Some Things From the President"

Sat, 2009-05-23 02:00 — dougzilla

This interview/article is by Cenk Uygur
Host of The Young Turks
Posted: May 22, 2009 03:25 PM
Huffington Post

We interviewed Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, on The Young Turks and he had some very interesting things to say. Including:

"Cheney was co-president. I'd go further than that and say that for national security issues and other critical issues Cheney was the President."

"I found the incredible arrogance and lack of humility of the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, to be stunning almost right off the bat."

Climate Denial Crock of the Week - I Love the 70s!!

Sun, 2009-04-12 19:18 — dougzilla

Everyone has a favorite decade, and for Climate deniers, that decade has got to be, the 70s.
Yes, the decade of disco, kung fu, and watergate

Because in the 70's, Deniers will tell you, All climate scientists believed an ice age was coming. Those crazy climate scientists! Why can't they make up their minds?

But is that really true?
Maybe a little historical perspective is in order.

This video is from the Youtube channel of Peter Sinclair aka greenman3610

The Living Dead

Fri, 2009-04-10 03:59 — dougzilla

The Living Dead 1/3: On the Desperate Edge of Now
The Living Dead 2/3: You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough
The Living Dead 3/3: The Attic

On the Desperate Edge of Now (30 May 1995)

This episode examined how the various national memories of the Second World War were effectively rewritten and manipulated in the Cold War period.

You Say You Want a Revolution

Thu, 2009-02-19 16:20 — dougzilla

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4251/you_say_you_want_a_revolution/

A founding member of the Weather Underground looks back at an organization unable to come to terms with its own violence.
By Howard Machtinger

While we in the WU did not, by some grace, become terrorists, we were wrong and destructive. We did lose our way.

As a former member of the Weather Underground, I feel compelled to add my voice to the recently re-heated discussion of the group’s legacy.

The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class

Wed, 2009-02-18 07:06 — dougzilla

Distinguished law scholar Elizabeth Warren teaches contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law at Harvard Law School. She is an outspoken critic of America's credit economy, which she has linked to the continuing rise in bankruptcy among the middle-class. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures"

Inside the Meltdown

Wed, 2009-02-18 06:39 — dougzilla

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/

Bird and Fortune - Subprime Crisis

Sun, 2009-02-15 09:15 — dougzilla

John Bird and John Fortune (the Long Johns) brilliantly, and accurately, describing the mindset of the investment banking community in this satirical interview.

David Simon on the End of the American Empire

Thu, 2009-02-12 05:41 — dougzilla

Speaking at Loyola College, David Simon, an author and creator of the acclaimed HBO program, "The Wire," shares his views on the end of the American Empire in three video segments. He says we're headed for separate Americas of "haves and have-nots." Simon faults "unencumbered Capitalism" for making our country care less about the most vulnerable of our citizens. Unless we change, he predicts "we are doomed."

Legal Jeopardy For American Torturers Here and Abroad? A Q & A Session With An Expert on the Issue, Philippe Sands

Wed, 2009-01-28 02:37 — dougzilla

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20090123.html

Friday, Jan. 23, 2009

President-Elect Barack Obama in Chicago

Wed, 2008-11-12 06:48 — dougzilla

Barack Obama spoke to a crowd of 250,000 in Grant Park on the eve of his election as 44th President of the United States of America.

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My fellow Republicans, it is time, as Madison said in Federalist 76, to "Hand over the tiller of governance, that others may fuck things up for a change."
-- Christopher Buckley, September, 2006

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka “Christians,” and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or “PPs.”
-- Kurt Vonnegut

"Donald Rumsfeld has resigned and the new Secretary of Defense is a guy named Robert Gates. He's a close friend of the Bush family. Yeah, that always works out pretty well. Rumsfeld took it pretty well. He said he's eager now to move on to try and legalize torture in the private sector."
-- David Letterman

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