By BRIAN ENO
It’s a tragedy that the Israelis – a people who must understand better than almost anybody the horrors of oppression – are now acting as oppressors. As the great Jewish writer Primo Levi once remarked “Everybody has their Jews, and for the Israelis it’s the Palestinians”. By creating a middle Eastern version of […]

Do we finally get the extra army pieces on each turn?
I saw video of this “ceremony” last night and was thoroughly freaked out.

As a form of closure on this whole 8 year debacle– to recap, reboot, and move on– last month i picked up and read Frank Rich’s 2006 book The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth. Boston University Film Professor Ray Carney gave this appraisal which made me go to the […]

Punishment Park is a 1971 film written and directed by Peter Watkins. Conceived as a pseudo-documentary, it is hands down one of the most intense works ever in political cinema. To set the stage for the film… the Vietnam War escalates with Richard Nixion’s “secret” bombing campaign in Cambodia. Faced with a growing […]

From Openleft, video via Talking Points Memo:

Last night saw one of the most amazing programs in the history of Bill Moyers Journal. Really, one of most amazing programs Moyers has done, period, in all his years on television. His guest for the hour was Andrew J. Bacevich, a West Point graduate, […]

U.S. and Poland set missile deal
WASHINGTON: The United States and Poland reached a long-stalled deal on Thursday to place an American missile defense base on Polish territory, in the strongest reaction so far to Russia’s military operation in Georgia.
Wouldn’t it be sweet if instead of wasting a shit load of money and setting up missile […]

Bush this morning:
JERUSALEM (CNN) – President Bush launched a sharp but veiled attack Thursday on Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats, suggesting they favor “appeasement” of terrorists in the same way some Western leaders appeased Hitler in the run-up to World War II…
…”We have heard this foolish delusion before,” Bush said in remarks to Israel’s […]

What I’m reading this morning…
The U.S. Department of Defense reports that approximately 30 percent of those evacuated from the battlefield to ­Walter Reed Army Medical Center have traumatic brain injury (TBI). The problem is probably worse than that: the DOD figure does not include brain injuries in soldiers whose wounds were not severe enough to […]

It should be noted that in the last few days Senator Clinton has said some pretty out there things regarding Iran and the defense of Israel. In last week’s ABC sponsored shit show, Hillary in passing mentioned massive retaliation on Iran if they were to attack Israel in any way. No follow up […]