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The Tragic Story of Christianity: How a Pacifist Religion Was Hijacked by Rabid Warmongering Elites | | AlterNet

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Gary G. Kohls - Feb. 05 (Opinion) - Altogether too many religions sects of both major and minor religions, despite verbally professing a desire for peace and justice in the world, are actually pro-war, pro-homicide and pro-violence in practice (or they may be silent on the subject, which is, according to moral theology, the same as being pro-violence).

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Slip-Sliding to War with Iran

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Dec. 29 (News Analysis) - With the typical backdrop of alarmist propaganda in place, the stage is now set for a new war, this time with Iran. The slightest miscalculation (or provocation) by the United States, Israel or Iran could touch off a violent scenario that will have devastating consequences.

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Tea Party Gets the Constitution Wrong

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Sep. 18 (News Analysis) - Like any government document, the Constitution can only be understood in the context of what it replaced – and why. The Constitution superseded the Articles of Confederation, which guided the new country starting in 1777. The Articles granted broad authority to the states with only a weak national government. As the Revolutionary War wore on and during the early years of peace, many American leaders – including George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson – came to view the Articles as unworkable and a threat to the survival of the new nation.

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Mixed Signals on US Troops in Iraq

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Gareth Porter - Jul. 16 (News Analysis) - Anti-American Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has stood in the way of proposals to extend U.S. troop presence in Iraq beyond the end of this year, and some of his backers have attacked American forces as a reminder of the looming deadline. But Gareth Porter reported for Inter Press Service that Sadr may be sending mixed signals.

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If Ayn Rand and the Free Market Fetishists Were Right, We'd be Living in a Golden Age -- Does This Look Like a Golden Age to You?

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Robert Parry - Jul. 01 (Opinion) - it has been faith in “free-market economics” as a kind of secular religion that has driven U.S. government policies – from the emergence of Ronald Reagan through the neo-liberalism of Bill Clinton into the brave new world of House Republican budget chairman Paul Ryan. By slashing income tax rates to historically low levels – and only slightly boosting them under President Clinton before dropping them again under George W. Bush – the U.S. government essentially incentivized greed or what Ayn Rand liked to call “the virtue of selfishness.”

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Making the US Economy ‘Scream'

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - Over the past several decades, Republican methods for winning national power have come to resemble CIA techniques for destabilizing an enemy country — through the use of black propaganda, political skullduggery and economic disruptions. Now, heading toward Election 2012, the Republicans appear poised to make the U.S. economy “scream,”

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Reviving Ghosts of a 'Free-Market' Past

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Lawrence Davidson - Apr. 13 (Opinion) - These latter day McCarthys, and those allied to them, seek to destroy the rights of working people and are not above manipulating the process to do so. To these sins we can add others, specifically attacks on free speech and academic freedom. In the last couple of weeks, the rightists who control the Wisconsin state legislature -- possessed by the spirit of Joe McCarthy -- have misused the Freedom of Information Act to demand the University of Wisconsin e-mails of Professor William Cronon.

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A World in Denial about Nuclear Power

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Danny Schechter - Mar. 21 (News Analysis) - As Hiroshima becomes yesterday’s distant memory and Fukishima the current threat, the full extent of the human harm from the disaste is not yet in, partly because the Japanese government and the power companies don’t want to alarm the public. Years earlier, a similar cover-up was in effect at Three Mile Island complex in Pennsylvania where reports of the damage people suffered from a serious accident was minimized, never examined in depth by some of the very same media outlets who are today criticizing Japan for a lack of transparency.

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Ronald Reagan, Enabler of Atrocities

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Feb. 06 (Opinion) - When you’re listening to the many tributes to President Ronald Reagan, often for his talent making Americans feel better about themselves, you might want to spend a minute thinking about the many atrocities in Latin America and elsewhere that Reagan aided, covered up or shrugged off in his inimitable "aw shucks" manner.

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US Cynicism Explodes in Egypt

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Jeff Cohen - Jan. 29 (Opinion) - In the last year of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. questioned U.S. military interventions against progressive movements in the Third World by invoking a JFK quote: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

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The Disappearance of Keith Olbermann

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Jan. 23 (Opinion) - The abrupt ouster of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann reminds progressives how weak their media grip is in America, writes Robert Parry. January 22, 2011

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WikiLeaks and the Secrets that Deceive

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Danny Schechter - Dec. 21 (Opinion) - In the days of Stalin’s Russia, not only would dissidents “disappear” but images of officials at the May Day reviewing stands would be erased from photographs when their political stars fell.

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Barack Obama's Lost Principles

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Lawrence Davidson - Dec. 18 (Opinion) - President Barack Obama started to pursue anti-progressive policies. Indeed, this turnaround has been quite startling. It has made many people angry and has destroyed at least that part of his political base that lies on the left. Here is a short list of the president’s recent positions and actions:

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What's Behind the War on WikiLeaks

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Ray McGovern - Dec. 09 (Opinion) - WikiLeaks has teased the genie of transparency out of a very opaque bottle, and powerful forces in America, who thrive on secrecy, are trying desperately to stuff the genie back in.

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Time to Apologize to Plame/Wilson

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Nov. 14 (Opinion) - Official Washington's "Fair Game" abuse of CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband Joe Wilson went beyond the White House.

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Hard Lessons from Election 2010

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Robert Robert Perry - Nov. 10 (Opinion) - both Republican comebacks began from their media power, whether the anti-Clinton tirades of talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh or Fox News’ Glenn Beck stirring up suspicions and hate toward Obama. Media power is now the ballast that keeps the Right’s man-o’-war sailing through occasionally rough seas.

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Jesus's Teachings and the Tea Party

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Rev. Howard Bess - Nov. 08 (Opinion) - The Jesus agenda was tough. Taking up the causes of the poor meant challenging the Roman tax system and the fee system of the Temple in Jerusalem. He decided to challenge the greedy rich who were heartless employers of the poor. From the beginning of his ministry, he became a healer to the sick and disabled. I recognize that translating a stump speech from 2,000 years ago into a meaningful action plan in 2010 is a tough job. However, abandoning the Jesus agenda is not acceptable to anyone who calls himself/herself a follower of the rabbi from Nazareth. Jesus was committed to building a just kingdom of God on earth. His followers cannot deny that he gave preference to the poor and gave no respect to the rich. Imprisonment of anyone was not on his agenda.

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Bush Boasts of Waterboard Order

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Ray McGovern - Nov. 07 (Opinion) - For such a frank admission of high-level criminality, we can say, with ample justification, Shame on Bush. But that shame also sticks like Saran wrap to the rest of us – and especially to the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM), which has soft-pedaled the significance of Bush’s confession, and to his make-nice successor, Barack Obama, who has refused to demand any accountability.

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The Radical Change in Conservatism

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Daniel C. Maguire - Nov. 04 (Opinion) - "Conservative" can mean a lot of things, even good things, but today "conservative" has sunk to the moral basement.

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US Voters Drink Reaganism's Kool-Aid

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Nov. 03 (Opinion) - Already weakened by three decades of slow arsenic poisoning from Reaganism, the United States ordered up a new dose of Ronald Reagan’s special “government is the problem” elixir in Election 2010 – and it is hard to envision how this willing victim will soon, if ever, recover.

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Taking a Stand for Sanity

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Nov. 01 (Comment) - Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” drew one of the largest crowds in the recent history of Washington by trivializing what happened on Saturday, the U.S. press corps reminded many progressive and middle-of-the-road Americans why they distrust the mainstream news media, which they see as pandering to the Right.

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Washington Post Downplays Iraq War Crimes

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Oct. 27 (Opinion) - The Post editors also sought to shift responsibility for the death toll away from the Bush administration – and themselves – by noting that “the vast majority of Iraqi civilian deaths were caused by other Iraqis, not by coalition forces.” But that argument misses the point understood by the Nuremberg Tribunals – that it is the original war of aggression that unpacks all the other evils of war

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US Hypocrisy Hobbles Human Rights

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Lawrence Davidson - Sep. 14 (Opinion) - Israel’s great power patron is the United States. This arrangement entails American protection of the Zionist state from the legal consequences that should result due to its purposeful harming of civilians. The United States, sitting as a permanent member of the UN Security Council has, in recent years, cast some 40 vetoes so as to shield its ally from accusations of violations of international law. Actually this action by the United States is entirely logical. Why so? Because both the U.S. and Israel are practicing the exact same tactics against civilian populations.

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The Christian Right Needs 'Enemies'

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Rev. Howard Bess - Sep. 01 (Opinion) - At the heart of American Christian Fundamentalism is a basic religious dualism that is obsessed with a never-ending struggle between Good and Evil. These Christian fundamentalists must always have an “enemy” with whom to fight.

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Beck and American Know-Nothings

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Michael Winship - Sep. 01 (Opinion) - I realized it wasn't Gantry of whom I was reminded so much as another Lewis character, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, the politician who poses as a populist, then once elected president turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship, aided by an angry, unknowing electorate and a paramilitary group called the Minute Men.

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