Health Insurance Industry Fearmonger Blows Whistle on “Astroturf” Opposition to Health Care Reform
" ... Over a period of two years, from 2007 to 2009, Potter says insurance companies and HMOs spent $586 million, derived from customers’ premiums,
George Orwell: "Politics and the English Language" (1946)
By George Orwell Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that
Scott Lively Abandons “Gay Nazis” Lie to “Re-Christianize” Springfield, Mass.
Shift in mission for religious firebrand Antigay pastor refocuses on aiding Springfield By Michael Levenson (Excerpt) Boston Globe | January 5, 2011
Frank Gaffney Appointed to Clarion Fund Board
By Sarah Posner Religion Dispatches | January 6, 2011 Last month, the Clarion Fund announced a new advisory board "to help steer the editorial compo
Republican Lies Kill Americans
By Dean Walker Ground Report | January 05, 2011 Republicans just helped kill Americans! That is right, according to the New England Journal of Medicin
WorldNetDaily Endorses Scott Lively’s Discredited “The Pink Swastika”
"... [Joseph] Farah subtly shifts from the already-absurd contention that the Nazis were a “homosexual, pagan cult” to the suggestion that gays ar
Keep Away from Beck, Jewish Group Urges N.Y. Stations
ALSO SEE: "Keith Olbermann Accuses Glenn Beck Of Anti-Semitism For ‘Jews Killed Jesus’ Comment" JTA | January 6, 2011 (JTA) -- Jewish Funds for Ju
Fox “News” Resurrects “Death Panels” in Propaganda Blitz
By Priscilla News Hounds | January 3, 2011 If propaganda is to be effective, it needs to be reinforced. Thus, when Fox News has a right wing talki
Marketing Genocide to Children in Nazi Germany
By Eric Brothers Suite101.com | January 3, 2011 A marketing campaign was undertaken to isolate German Jews from the community. Children were targe
Birch Society’s New American: “They Still Hate Senator McCarthy”
By Alex Constantine We all have our heroes, but somehow Joe McCarthy is not widely lionized in this backward society. This is the cry of Bru
Mort Zuckerman’s Police State Nostalgia
" ... A real anarchist might argue that, for every bomb allegedly thrown by an anarchist, a thousand have been thrown by the United States government.
BBC ‘News at Six’ Commentator Advocates Murdering Gay People
" ... In a story last night on their flagship news show, News at Six, the BBC ran a segment on the news that Elton John and David Furnish became gay d
Disgraced Former NYT Reporter Judith Miller Joins Newsmax
By Jeff Poor The Daily Caller | December 29, 2010 Judith Miller, formerly a reporter for The New York Times, has been hired by Newsmax magazin
Hit Piece at Virtue Online Claims Gays Responsible for WWI, WWII
Gayapolis | December 28, 2010 Rarely have I seen as twisted and nasty a piece of propaganda targeted against the LGBT community as the column titled "
Good Profits and Obama’s ‘Good War’
" ... It takes more than direct political donations and revolving door lobbyists to gin up public support for foolish wars. So defense contractors con
Five Right-Wing Scumbags Bankrolling Dangerous (and Plain Weird) Conservative Causes
Much ink has been spilled about the Koch brothers. But there are plenty of other wealthy right-wingers promoting dangerous policies. By Brad Reed Alte
FBI Provocateur Hal Turner Sentenced to 33 Months in Prison
By Anthony Eugenis Associated Content | December 21, 2010 Hal Turner, a radio shock jock, was sentenced today to 33 months in prison after threatening
People, We’re in Deep Trouble
"... Recently, the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland released yet another study documenting Americans' la
The Eagle Forum and Utah’s Dead Democracy
Letter to the Salt Lake Tribune, November 27, 2010: Democracy in Utah is now only a memory. A corrupt, money-driven Republican political machine, be
Who is Paying Right-Wing Trolls to Dumb Down Online Conversations?
By George Monbiot (Excerpt) The Guardian, December 13, 2010 There are daily attempts to control and influence content in the interests of the sta
WikiLeaks Employs Holocaust Denier
" ... [Israel Shamir] says the Teheran Holocaust Conference of 2006 'proved that the Holocaust dogma is a basic tenet in the great world-embracing bra
Westbrook Pegler, Columnist Advocate of Assassination Politics
" ... He thought it was funny to refer to Jews in print as 'kikes.' ... In 1965, Pegler expressed the desire for Robert F. Kennedy’s murder, sayin
Television in Venezuela: Who Dominates the Media?
"... Since the private TV owners are mostly against the government, it is clear that more than 94 percent of the TV that is seen by Venezuelans is not
The Connection Man: The Rise, Heroin Addiction & Fall of a NY Post Op-Ed Writer
The mourners at the funeral of New York Post editorial-page editor Eric Breindel ran the gamut from Bobby Kennedy Jr. to David Dinkins to Rudy Giulian