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The Rise of the Pro-Ignorance Right Wing Puts us All In Danger

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Stephen Pizzo - Sep. 28 (Opinion) - The nation's simpletons have leapt from the shadows, where they wisely hide, except for distinct and notable moments in human history; the Dark Ages, the Inquisition, late 19th-century Germany and the same country during the 1930s. During such times, when the conditions are just right, like they are now, dumb and dumber leap from the shadows and take center stage, claim their right to lead, and... well the results are history.

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Born-again Social Darwinism: Survival of the Callous, Morally Unfit | The Smirking Chimp

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - Sep. 20 (Opinion) - Social Darwinism provides a terrific window to explain today's Tea Party for its biases reflect like-minded distortion of Darwin's biology. Such a frame also explains the TP shift from confrontation to demonization, now to scapegoating this week.

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The end of the Washington Times and Rev. Moon's right-wing charity

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Smirking Chimp - By Eric Boehlert - Jan. 12 (Opinion) - You'd think that somebody with a direct line to the Almighty, and tapped by Jesus to save mankind on Earth, would be able to come up with a better business plan for running a daily newspaper. But, alas, after nearly three decades of unrelenting financial losses, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, a federal tax cheat, accused cult leader, and founder of the Unification Church, has decided to pull out. Actually, according to news reports, it's more like Moon's U.S. college-educated sons, as part of an internal family power struggle, have decided to finally cut off the endless stream of Asian church cash that's kept the Times afloat.

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O'Reilly Wants Proof That FoxNews Is Racist: Read Your Own Columns, Bill

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By Steve Young - Jul. 25 (Opinion) - Yesterday on his Radio Factor, Bill O'Reilly tried as hard as he could to come up with something that proved the case those dang smear sites were making. That the Fox News channel is racist. He even brought on the ever brilliant, albeit Fox News consultant, Prof. Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, a real live African-American, to try to help him.

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Guess Who's Coming to the Impeachment

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By David Swanson - Jul. 19 (Opinion) - Then the topic was altered. Rather than being about impeachment, the hearing will be about impeachment and other supposed remedies to a lawless presidency, with the bulk of the time devoted to those other remedies.

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A Brief Chronology of the Bush-Cheney Impeachment Movement

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By David Swanson - Jul. 19 (Opinion) - June 2005 - Ranking minority member John Conyers holds unofficial hearing without subpoena power and is not taken seriously.D

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The Secret Email Dick Cheney Doesn't Want You To See

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By Steve Young - Jul. 13 (Opinion) - Seeking to play down the effects of global warming, in October of 2007, Vice President Dick Cheney's office pushed to delete from congressional testimony references about the consequences of climate change on public health, a former senior EPA official claimed Tuesday.

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Get Over it, Oil Grabbers! The Iraqis Want U.S. Out!

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By Bill Hare - Jul. 05 (Opinion) - One of Dick Cheney's most preposterous comments amid a long political career of defying credibility and reality came before Donald Rumsfeld's "shock and awe" attacks were unleashed and American forces occupied Iraq. "Our troops will be greeted as liberators!" Cheney confidently proclaimed. Anyone with a reasonable knowledge of Arab history knows that its people do not want to be occupied by outside forces. This was what confronted Turkey's Ottoman Empire when stern Arab resistance during World War One prompted one of history's leading figures in understanding the Arab mind, T.E. Lawrence, known as "the crown prince of Arabia" to achieve unity among warring tribes for the objective of freeing the Arabs from outside influence. Lawrence's prize literary and historical work "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" defined Arab character and underscored the unswerving desire of Arabs to be removed from outside controlling influence. The fact that Lawrence, through no fault of his own, was unable to deliver his promise to the Arabs of freedom was the crushing blow of his life and prompted him to retire to obscurity.

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The Ashes Have Been Passed To A New Generation

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By David Michael Green - Jul. 05 (Opinion) - We live in the most astonishing of times, politically speaking. And I don't mean that as a compliment. There is so much I would hate to try to have explain to an alien about our politics. Same with a human five centuries from now - it's just that I'm not so sure there'll be any.

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It Was Oil, All Along

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By Bill Moyers, Michael Winship - Jun. 28 (Opinion) - Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from weapons of mass destruction. But one by one, these concocted rationales went up in smoke, fire, and ashes. And now the bottom line turns out to be....the bottom line. It is about oil.

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Gas Pump Gouging: Don't Blame the Saudis

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By Mike Whitney - Jun. 25 (Opinion) - There is no oil shortage, not yet at least. That doesn't mean we're not quickly sliding towards Peak Oil. We probably are, but that has nothing to do with today's gas prices. The reason oil has skyrocketed to nearly $140 per barrel is because of speculation; rampant, "unregulated" speculation. The peak oil doom-sayers are simply confusing the issue.

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The Importance of Scott McClellan's Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By John W. Dean - Jun. 21 (Opinion) - Barack Obama would truly be a president of change if he held a predecessor administration criminally liable for its misconduct. It has long been something of an unofficial standard of comity between out-going and in-coming presidents to overlook the misconduct of the previous administration. But no president is compelled to do so.

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Meat Wars: Why Are Those Wacky Koreans Dissin' Our Beef?

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By Mike Whitney - Jun. 21 (Opinion) - South Korea suspended the purchase of US beef in 2003 after an incident of mad cow was reported in Washington state. Many Koreans still don't believe the government's assurances that the meat is safe and they may have a point.

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The New Vagina Dialog - The Smirking Chimp

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By Stephen Pizzo - Jun. 06 (Opinion) - What's should be more worrisome; who Obama will choose for his VP or who McCain will choose for his Number 2?

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Hillary's New Job

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By Cenk Uygur - Jun. 06 (Opinion) - According to a new CBS News poll, about one quarter of Hillary Clinton's supporters say they will vote for John McCain instead of Barack Obama in the general election.

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Republicans Profit from Iraq Misery

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By Bill Gallagher - May. 27 (Opinion) - In war, the powerful make money, not sacrifices. They grab the bucks. Ducking the bullets and dying is someone else's responsibility. In Iraq, for the first time in our nation's history, the bill for a war is being deferred, passed on as a painful burden of debt for another generation.

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Indictment and Trial of Bush and Cheney

Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By David Swanson - May. 24 (Opinion) - "The 44th president will assume office with powers greatly enlarged by his or her predecessor. Drawing on recent precedents, the next president could launch preemptive wars with only minor interference from Congress, ignore the ancient right of habeas corpus and imprison political enemies, spy on American citizens without serious legal restraint, use practically any federal agency for political purposes, manipulate the press in ways inconceivable prior to 2000, corrupt the federal justice system for political gain, destroy evidence in criminal cases, use the Justice Department to prosecute members of the opposing party, offer lucrative no-bid government contracts to friends, expand the creation of private security armies, use torture, create secret prisons, assassinate inconvenient foreign leaders, circumvent laws with signing statements, and a great deal more. Such things are now possible because the system of checks and balances carefully written into the Constitution and explained in great detail in the Federalist Papers were weakened as a result of historical circumstances of the 20th century, but systematically and with great forethought by the administration of George W. Bush."

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Behind the Rise in Prices: The Plan to Torpedo the Dollar

Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - May. 20 (Opinion) - Who do you think was one of the Bush Administration's key players on the economy? If you say Paulson or Bernanke, you might be half right. But there's another no-name lurking around in the background who tends to be doing the wrong thing at every key moment in the covert history of the Bush (or should we day "Bush League") Republic. His name is Jim Wilkinson.

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After Hillary, Voting With Conscience and Pride

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By Joel S. Hirschhorn - May. 11 (Opinion) - A McCain presidency that pursues much of the same policies and values of the totally inept and morally bankrupt Bush administration is something to loathe. But lesser-evil voting sustains our corrupt political system.

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After The ABC News Debacle: How To Change Media - Why Making Media The Issue Is Crucial For Saving Democracy

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By Danny Schechter - Apr. 20 (Opinion) - How ironic that in the same week that the National Association of Broadcasters gave actor Tim Robins a platform to challenge media gatekeepers to open the airwaves to more perspectives ABC NEWS gave us all a classic example of how a network can dumb down a presidential debate and turn it into a disgraceful hit job rather than an enlightening hit.

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The 2008 Election Will Be Stolen

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By David Swanson - Apr. 20 (Opinion) - A new collection of essays edited by Mark Crispin Miller called "Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000 - 2008," tells the story better than any single source I've seen yet. The Supreme Court stopped a recount in Florida in 2000 that would have made Al Gore president. This is not speculation. The recount was later done.

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Is the Sky Falling?

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By Maud Muller - Apr. 20 (Opinion) - As an older American, I find myself ashamed at what this nation has become. While many people mindlessly continue to repeat the mantra that America is the greatest nation in the world, it is hard for me to understand why they still believe this. I love my country, but my husband and I now experience sadness instead of the pride when we hear the National Anthem.

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Another scandal: Environmental report on Michigan was suppressed

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By Jack Lessenberry - Mar. 19 (Opinion) - Here's something you may find nearly as interesting, and a bit more significant, than the price of career-killing call girls.The federal Centers for Disease Control ordered a massive study of health conditions and environmental hazards in the Great Lakes states, including Michigan. The report was finished last July.

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Bush says his tax cuts have worked

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By Mary Shaw - Mar. 15 (Opinion) - Even as he admitted that we are going through a challenging time, Bush had the nerve to tell the audience that his economic strategy has worked.

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When the Terrorists Were 'Our Guys': A Special Report

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Smirking Chimp - By Robert Parry - Feb. 24 (Opinion) - In 1976, when George H.W. Bush was CIA director, the U.S. government tolerated right-wing terrorist cells inside the United States and mostly looked the other way when these killers topped even Palestinian terrorists in spilling blood, including a lethal car bombing in Washington, D.C., according to newly obtained internal government documents.

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