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mojada commented on the diary post The GOP’s War on Children by Bruce Kluger.
Excellent points, OB and OFG. Interesting how Obama’s own wars on children are not even remarked upon. This administration’s immigration and drug control policies are also wars on children, and it’s foreign policy routinely results in the death of children: in Gaza, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Yemen, in Honduras and in Colombia. No, I [...]
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mojada commented on the diary post Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 3 by David Seaton.
Vote for Obama, the war criminal? Not gonna happen. And if Obama had a shred of common human decency he’d be down on his knees begging his Christian god to forgive him every day for the rest of his life.
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mojada commented on the blog post Late Night: FIRESTORMS of Controversy
What I despise more than anything else is this: when local populations attempt to resist and defend themselves against US or US-supported illegal military aggression, those who act in self-defense are labeled “insurgents”, “extremists”, or “terrorists”.
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mojada commented on the diary post Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 1 by David Seaton.
Sorry, can’t help you. I’m congenitally incapable of voting for war criminals.
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mojada commented on the diary post Obama is almost for marriage equality. Almost, but not really. by Bill Perdue.
Recommended. You packed a whole lotta truth in one tight little package here, Bill Perdue. Every. Goddamn. Word.
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mojada commented on the diary post Obama vs. Romney: a message to would be leftists by David Seaton.
Yes, there is going to be an election, either a Republican or a Democrat is going to win it, and to vote for either of the nominees is an act of moral suicide.
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mojada commented on the diary post Democratic Party Cheerleaders, This One’s for You by Ohio Barbarian.
Brilliant. Rec’d.
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mojada commented on the blog post ABC’s This Week Continues the Dumbing of America
ABC, NBC, CNN, they’re all just doing their jobs. In a dumbed-down, largely depoliticized society, where the education of young people has been deliberately sabotaged, one way they do their jobs is to allow one coherent voice amongst a flock of loons. Result? The coherent voice sounds insane; the loons, in their lockstep majority, must therefore be right and correct. It goes without saying that the job of big media conglomerates is NOT to educate and inform; their job is to protect corporate power from the threat of democracy. I fight back by explaining this to every child age 10 and up I come in contact with. It takes me about 3 minutes to do it, and most of them get it immediately.
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mojada commented on the diary post Could Mike Huckabee Have Beat Mitt Romney? by inoljt.
Could Idi Amin have beaten Papa Doc Duvalier in a game of eight-ball?
Could Pol Pot have dunked on Anastasio Somoza?
Could Golda Meir have struck out Maggie Thatcher on 3 straight pitches?
Nobody knows, and nobody goddamn cares. -
mojada commented on the diary post War Correspondent by Daveparts.
Every word, Daveparts. Every word. Like Woody sung it: “…Tom Joad, he said what Preacher Casey said: “Ever’body might be just one big soul, Well it looks that a-way to me. Everywhere that you look, in the day or night, That’s where I’m a-gonna be, Ma, That’s where I’m a-gonna be. Wherever little children are [...]
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mojada commented on the diary post The high cost of being broke and disobedient in America by hotflashcarol.
Obedience is what is valued in the US; certainly not critical thinking, or imagination, or honesty. It starts when they put you in school. The people who actually run the schools (not the terrorized and harried teachers) don’t give a hooting crap if you learn to read, or think, or figure things out: but by [...]
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mojada commented on the blog post Sunday Late Night: Break Time for This Bear
Best wishes to you and yours, Ted.
El oso? That’s the spirit of my brother Ed Abbey. Look close. He ain’t wavin’. That’s a middle claw.
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mojada commented on the diary post How We’re Winning the War in Afghanistan by Scarecrow.
“‘Twas ever thus” — Mr Natural
In Afghanistan, The US, and beyond: Every government’s principle enemy is its own people.
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mojada commented on the diary post Can We Talk about Chomsky’s Social Libertarianism? by athena1.
What you’re missing is this: you haven’t read enough of Chomsky’s work, or you’ve seriously misinterpreted what you HAVE read.
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mojada commented on the diary post How Is Mitt Romney A Politician? by inoljt.
And this, my friends, is what outrages the cruise-missile liberals: Romney laughing about closing factories. Obama at a White House Correspondence Dinner, cracking jokes about murdering human beings with drone strikes? Not so much.
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mojada commented on the diary post Catching Rachel Maddow’s Drift by David Swanson.
Let’s say it was possible to put Rachel Maddow in a time machine, send her back to 1965, and have her debate US military strategy in Vietnam with Curtis Lemay. What we would hear is something like this: LeMay: “We need to bomb them back to the Stone Age. We need to bomb them more”. [...]
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mojada commented on the diary post Hooray! Paul Ryan Proposes to Make Canada Part of the US by Scarecrow.
Americans first attacked Canada militarily in 1775, when even before declaring independence from Britain the Continental Congress sent an invading force north; they were driven out by the Brits. They tried again several times during the War of 1812; Canadian and British soldiers turned them back. Today, the US corporate predator class uses other means: [...]
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mojada commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Jonathan Ladd, Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters
Great topic and conversation. I will be reading the book. It seems to me that the wealthy aristocratic class decided as early as the mid-1800′s that any existing media would need to be shaped and controlled in order to further their own interests, resulting in the creation and dissemination of the idea of “Manifest Destiny”: the unquestionable virtue of the American people and their institutions, the mission to strengthen and expand these institutions in order to redeem and remake the world in the image of the U.S., and the divine mandate under God to accomplish this work. Even as their power and profits increased their methodology evolved and become more sophisticated when faced with the rise of populist and democratic movements at home and abroad. The Australian Alex Carey, who conducted one of the first comprehensive studies addressing the effect that propaganda has within nominally “democratic” societies, described it like this:
“The 20th century was characterized by three developments of major political importance:
the rise and growth of democracy, the rise and growth of corporate power, and the rise
and growth of corporate propaganda, used to protect corporate power from the effects of democracy”. -
mojada commented on the diary post Peter Beinart’s Book Explains Why Democrats Gave ‘Thundering Ovations’ At Bibi’s Speech To U.S. Joint Session Of Congress by TheCallUp.
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mojada commented on the diary post Peter Beinart’s Book Explains Why Democrats Gave ‘Thundering Ovations’ At Bibi’s Speech To U.S. Joint Session Of Congress by TheCallUp.
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