Empire Burlesque
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Empire Burlesque is a blog that tracks "high crimes and low comedy in the Bush imperium." More » (Source: Wikipedia)
Overview
Media:
Blog
Audience:
(English)
Scope:
National
Political Viewpoint:
Left
Owners:
sole_proprietorship
Editorial
Edited By:
Ezra Fox
Last Edit:
Aug 20, 2006 - 5:20 PM PDT
Story Stats
Top Topics:
U.S. (9), Bush Administration (5), Politics (5), War in Iraq (2), World (2), Terrorism (1), Extra (1), Iran (1), Media (1), Civil Liberties (1), Domestic Spying (1), Business (1), Ethics in Journalism (1)
Top Authors:
Chris Floyd (11)
Top Formats:
Opinion (8), News Analysis (3)
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Down But Not Out: Empire Burlesque Returns
() Here again we see an ancient double standard operating: the elite are always allowed to indulge in practices for which the hoi polloi -- and especially the poor -- are ...Posted by David Patterson -
We Are Devo: Bush Picks New Flunky to Fan War and Tyranny
() (Oh by the way, there's going to be a nuclear war there by the end of the year, the Sunday Times reports. Just thought you'd like to know, so you can get an early start on ...Posted by David Patterson -
Thug Bones in Bushland and Babylon
() Investigative journalist Max Fuller marshals a convincing case for this dread conclusion in a remarkable work of synthesis drawn from information buried in reams of mainstream ...Posted by David Patterson -
The Enabler: Bush Gives Boost to Insurgents
() In Baghdad, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad watched the execution of Saddam with Sunni insurgents, then went to canvas reaction in Shia neighborhoods. As the Observer notes, Abdul-Ahad is ...Posted by Ezra Fox -
War in Heaven: Woodward's Book and the Establishment Insurgency
() Bob Woodward has long been the voice of the American Establishment or of certain quadrants of it, at any rate. When Richard Nixon's criminal depredations and mental ...Posted by Rod Amis -
Behind the Curtain of the new
() Ted Rall speaks a hard truth here, one that goes unspoken across the political spectrum, including among innumerable anti-war dissidents: "The war against Afghanistan is no ...Posted by Rod Amis -
Two-Tone Justice in the Cradle of American Liberty
() Josiah Spaulding the Third beat two women With a metal baton that he carried on his person They were young, they were black and he just didn't like them So he and a gang of ...Posted by Rod Amis -
Hero of the Hour: Judge Anna Diggs Taylor
() Judge Taylor is definitely the hero of the hour -- if only for an hour: you know the Bush gang and their Congressional bootlickers won't let this stand. And they can probably ...Posted by Rod Amis -
The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned
() In the oceans of newsprint and tsunamis of pixels expended on the London bomb plot stories over the last two days, I don't recall seeing -- anywhere, either in the US or UK ...Posted by Rod Amis -
CYA Agents: Bush Hit Men Running Scared
() Like a gang of twitchy hit men afraid they've botched the job, the Bush Regime is creeping back to the scene of the crime: the Congressional backrooms where they thought ...Posted by Rod Amis
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