"Kill Anything That Moves" American War Crimes in Vietnan - Democracy Now

I was my original intention to carry this post on in the same vein as this recent Democracy Now offering, specifically, the circumstances su...

2004 Interview: Democracy Now - Gore Vidal

Peerless. Imperial America: Gore Vidal Reflects on the United States of Amnesia In his latest book Imperial America: Reflections on the Unit...

Woody Guthrie at 100: Democracy Now

For all kinds of reasons, I found this far more interesting than I thought I might. It gets somewhat disturbing around the ten minute mark f...

US Increases Harassment of WikiLeaks, Assange Associates

I have listened to Laura Poitras and Jacob Appelbaum, two of the people featured in the article, on Democracy Now. I shall post this as is a...

Pual Watson on Democracy Now + Shark Finning in Taiwan

Captain Paul Watson is presently released from a German court on a quarter of a million dollars bond. As hard as it might be to comprehend, ...

Americans Are Not Safe Anywhere From Police

Americans Are Not Safe Anywhere From Police is actually a header taken from a 2007 article by Paul Craig Roberts. But as we witness more a...

Expansion of Indefinite Detention under NDAA Compounds Extradition Fears of WikiLeaks’ Assange

I don't think it was too wild an assertion when I offered this the other day. I wouldn't put it past the US to even snatch the man, ...

Staying With The Insane: Mitt Romney Rick Perry

Having just featured below, the insane Rick Santorum, it falls upon me, in the name of 'fair and balanced reporting,' to bring you a...

''Lack of Geographical Awareness''

I never intended that it would become a post, it was just a little something I saved in order that I might pass it on to a reader. Until tha...

Iraq: Two Short Clips Democracy Now

As Biden Visits Iraq Ahead of U.S. Withdrawal, Critics See Last Ditch-Effort to Preserve Occupation U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has arrive...

Pentagon Spending Bill: Democracy Now

I ran a couple of reports on this story a few days ago where I asked the question: An attempt at the real thing, or just a scoping exercise?...

Seymour Hersh: Propaganda Used Ahead of Iraq War Is Now Being Reused over Iran’s Nuke Program

If I post nothing else today, this is the one post that I really want to publish. The night before last in the small hours, I listened to th...

Climate Chaos: Democracy Now

I first watched this Democracy Now report in the early hours of this morning. I have just watched the thing again to see if I was as still i...

Michele Batshit Bachmann

Before moving on to the main article, here are a couple of other Bachmann links for your perusal. This I remind you, from a woman that wishe...

Fame (no fortune) Putting 'Democracy Now' on the Japanese Map. Dr. Shunichi Yamashita and Some Very Pissed Japanese

This is not a post about me being the brilliant satirist that I am, said he with utmost modesty. It is a post about the power of the interne...

SWAT Teams: All Dressed Up and Nowhere To Go

Well that used to be the case, but now it's call out the SWAT Team to serve a misdemeanor warrant. That is of course, if they manage to ...

Witch Doctor Shunichi Yamashita to Head Fukushima Health Study

Update: Shunichi Yamashita below. There is much covered in this thirty minute report from Democracy Now, too much in fact for me to start pi...