Progressive Review

• Obama regime considers war on terror endless
  Glenn Greenwald, Guardian, UK - That the Obama administration is now repeatedly declaring that the "war on terror" will last at least another decade (or two) is vastly more significant than all three of this week's big media controversies (Benghazi, IRS, and AP/DOJ) combined. The military historian Andrew Bacevich has spent years warning that […]
• Update on the Supreme Court assault on individual rights you may have forgotten about
  Hit & Run  - In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed New London officials to seize an entire neighborhood via eminent domain on the basis that the city had a "carefully considered" plan to boost economic development.After the initial plan—a corporate campus with hotels, condos, and office space—fell apart, officials selected a new developer to […]
• Military claims power to police streets without local or state approval
  Alternet - For the past 30 years, police departments throughout the United States have benefited from the government’s largesse in the form of military weaponry and training, incentives offered in the ongoing “war on drugs.” For the average citizen watching events such as the intense pursuit of the Tsarnaev brothers on television, it would be difficult to di […]
• Flotsam & Jetsam: In the beginning Monsanto patented the earth
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• Friends of Hillary Clinton
  CNN, MARCH 1998 - Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung has agreed to plead guilty to election law violations and cooperate in the ongoing Justice Department investigation into illegal campaign fund-raising in the 1996 elections. . . Chung became a major figure in the Democratic fund-raising scandal when it was learned he made almost 50 visits to the White Hou […]
• Obama wants to privatize New Deal hallmark, the TVA
  Bloomberg - President Barack Obama’s announcement in his budget that he wants to explore the sale of the Tennessee Valley Authority (3015A) is attracting skepticism from lawmakers of both parties -- especially those who represent areas served by the utility, created by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 to electrify the rural Southeast. ___________________ […]
• Budget office cuts deficit projection
  Congressional Budget Office - If the current laws that govern federal taxes and spending do not change, the budget deficit will shrink this year to $642 billion, the Congressional Budget Office estimates, the smallest shortfall since 2008. Relative to the size of the economy, the deficit this year--at 4.0 percent of gross domestic product--will be less than […]
• Pope attacks "dictatorship of the economy"
  Times of Malta - Pope Francis issued a strong call for world financial reform on Thursday, condemning a heartless "dictatorship of the economy" and saying the economic crisis had made life worse for millions in rich and poor countries. "Money has to serve, not to rule," he told ambassadors in the first major speech about finance since his […]
• Monsanto trying to stop states from requiring labelling
  Alternet - Reliable sources in Washington have informed the Organic Consumers Association that Monsanto has begun secretly lobbying its Congressional allies to attach one or more “Monsanto Riders” or amendments to the 2013 farm bill that would preempt or prohibit states from requiring labels on genetically engineered foods.  In response to this blatant viola […]
• On the olther hand
  Michael Jackson accused of child sex abuse Normal kid behavior being treated as a crime or a psychiatric problem Kai, the Internet's Hero Hitchhiker, Now Wanted for Murder RIP: The Office   The end of one of TV's best shows Quotes Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault […]
• The end of the First American Republic and the rise of the gradocracy
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• Fish have been migrating towards the poles for 30 years
  Think Progress- For more than 30 years, ocean fish and mammals have migrated away from warming equatorial waters and toward the poles, providing more evidence climate change has already had broad global consequences. [Washington Post]Fish and other sea life have been heading toward the Earth’s poles for more than three decades, a mass migration to cooler wat […]
• Great thoughts of Pat Robertson
  Huffington Post  - Responding to a question from a viewer, Robertson said that married men "have a tendency to wander" and it is the spurned wife's job to focus on the positive and make sure the home is so enticing, he doesn't want to stray."I've been trying to forgive my husband for cheating on me," the viewer writes. […]
• Infrequently asked questions
  Did the acting director of the IRS do anything to cause the improper investigations by his agency? If so what was it? If not, why did he have to resign but not his bosses, Jack Lew and Barack Obama? After all, isn't firing Steven Miller just as much an improper political act as targeting the Tea Party's taxes? Why - as the president claims - does a […]
• CORRECTION: Susan Collins and the NAACP
  The story we posted based on information from the Political Carnival was in error as the Bangor Daily News explains Bangor Daily News - With the revelations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups for more rigorous review of their applications for a certain tax exempt status, some on the left have begun calling foul on Republican lawma […]