You might learn a lot by reading Syria Revolts. The situation is complex and tragic, but U.S. entry on the side of Qatar/Saudi is not:

I am completely opposed to the Syrian regime and view its policies, since its inception, to be brutal and murderous. In other words, the regime is not open to reform and [...]

And the witness didn’t recant immediately, but only after the gigantic “big crazy Mexican guy attacks and kills sweet skinny innocent could be Obama’s kid” media narrative overwhelmed America and most people’s grasp on reality.

The non-liberal, middle-of-the-road majority gets a very bad impression of liberals and progressives from these ‘Sharpton productions’. It’s critical that progressives not kowtow to Sharpton and his imitators. But, of course, the mainstream PTB (MSNBC gives him an hour a day) wants to keep Sharptonism firmly attached in the public mind to progressivism and the [...]

Sinister of them, considering the medical reports at the emergency clinic stated two black eyes and one broken nose.

http://my.firedoglake.com/fairleft/2012/05/23/sharpton-booker-romney-vs-the-rest-of-us/

One idea is to just put up a diary with what you want to know in the title? Word it politely/kindly … if that’s possible.

In short, Romney looted a pension fund and left the carcass on the taxpayers’ doorstep . In other words, read my diary on this topic (Sharpton, Booker & Romney vs The Rest of Us). The incompetents, like Sharpton and pretty much every other ‘MSNBC Democrat’ are focusing on the forest and ignoring the puss-filled tree, GST. Again, [...]

Excellent diary. Thanks!

I think Al Sharpton is a race-baiting scam artist, time and time again exploiting racial paranoia in order to advance his career. George Zimmerman and Pres. Obama’s re-election chances are his latest road kill. I agree with talkleft that Zimmerman should not have been arrested. The only eyewitness to the fight said, in essence, that [...]

Oh wait, it’s not historically accurate for the U.S. either, since we had Keynsianism-generated very full employment between 1952 and the early 60s without having a war on.

So, your point is that Keynes works, but that you don’t get the full stimulus unless there’s a war on or about to take place. That may be an accurate historical statement if you just look at the U.S., but not if you look around at the rest of the industrialized world. Anyway, I say [...]

No, looks like Australia was neoliberal back in the early 30s, for the same reason we are today: A contributing factor was the visit in 1930 by Sir Otto Niemeyer6 from the Bank of England who visited Australia to advise governments to implement a deflationary policy. Niemeyer contended that wages must be ‘depressed’ (i.e. cut) [...]

There’s an excellent chart here –

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Depression_Graph.svg — showing that countries generally bottomed out around 1933 and then steadily recovered. Good job Keynes!

That’s why I mentioned Myrdal. I think Australia and several other countries pulled out of recession by the mid-thirties as well.

Thanks! Shaming is the least he deserves.

Yeah, I think we would be smart, at the price of being even more pessimistic, to remember that the quick response in the West to the Great Depression had something to do with the seemingly great success of the Communist revolution and the example that was setting for the working class in the industrialized world. [...]

I mention the Davis case simply because the left falling into the anti-evidence camp, if you can call the corporate-owned MSNBC perspective leftist, is part of the more general phenomenon where anti-evidence rules if it makes a key constituency happy. And neoliberalism makes everyone in the top .1% very happy.

That’s what Foreign Minister Lazrov says, and there is no evidence beyond that. Double-sourcing is always better.