Monthly Archives: August 2011

My companion while fighting off a summer cold.

The Temptation of the Impossible, Victor Hugo and Les Miserables by Mario Vargas Llosa

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How big is the American Empire?

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/04/secert_american_wars

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Another episode of It Happened to Joan by Almost Marx

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh/index.html?story=/opinion/walsh/politics/2011/08/03/destroying_democratic_presidents&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%20Newsletter%20%28Not%20Premium%29_7_30_110 Welcome to another episode of ‘It Happened to Joan’ that vital political melodrama played out in the pages of Salon, on a regular basis. Today Joan is wringing her hands over the treatment of Barack Obama at the hands … Continue reading

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Jennifer Rubin:Truth Teller by Political Cynic

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/08/01/284907/washington-post-rubin-norway/   Does it matter that Ms. Jennifer Rubin is an ardent Zionist on the Bibi model, also a Neoconservative, which is framed by the idea and practice of Jewish Exceptionalism. ( Please see The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and … Continue reading

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Via The L.A. Times: Attacks on nurses and other caregivers

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hospital-violence-20110731,0,158771.story?page=1&track=rss

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Failed Poet on Obama and the Triumph of the Neo-Liberal Paradigm

Do not look upon the latest political developments of the last few weeks as the surrender of President Obama to the Tea Party Jacobins; rather view it as the Triumph of Neo-Liberalism, that ersatz political economy, that is essentially a … Continue reading

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