Progressive Opinion

huffingtonpost.com — Suing is your only way as an individual citizen of protecting yourself again drug company malfeasance. It's the only way for you or your survivors to get justice or compensation if you have been injured or killed by drug company negligence. It should be a basic right under the law, and right now it is; but the FDA and the drug companies are on the verge of taking it away from you.

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openleft.com — It's about hegemony, the culture wars, Buffy, The Vampire Slayer, how authoritarianism makes you stupid, various thoughts about the nature and functions of contradictions — in literature, religion and conservative political philosophy, among other things — the fact that neither Obama nor Kerry were the most liberal senator in the history of the universe, no matter what the National Journal said, one of the most laughable mid-level wannabe writers in the conservative stable. You know, stuff.

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democracynow.org — George Bush took this nation to war in Iraq under false pretenses, and therefore, under the law, he is guilty of murder for the deaths of over 4,000 young American soldiers in Iraq fighting his war. Not your war. or my war, or America's war, but his war.

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truthdig.com — John McCain has long been a major player in a radical militaristic group driven by an ideology of global expansionism and dominance attained through perpetual, pre-emptive, unilateral, multiple wars. The credo of this group is "the end justifies the means," and the end of establishing the United States as the world's sole superpower justifies, in its estimation, anything from military control over the information on the Internet to the use of genocidal biological weapons. Over its two terms, the George W. Bush administration has planted the seeds for this geopolitical master plan, and now appears to be counting on the McCain administration, if one comes to power, to nurture it.

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toomuchonline.org — The White House's most successful disinformation campaign? That's not Iraq. It's the war on the estate tax.

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With 223 days left in his presidency, George W. Bush laid more flagstones along a path to war on Iran. There was the usual declaration that "all options are on the table" — and, just as ominously, much talk of diplomacy. Three times on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports, Bush "called a diplomatic solution 'my first choice,' implying there are others. He said 'we'll give diplomacy a chance to work,' meaning it might not." more »

truthout.org — Seven years ago, Europeans discovered the new American president, George W. Bush. Rejecting the Kyoto protocol on global warming, reappraising United States's participation in peacekeeping missions in different parts of the world, preparing to denounce the nuclear arms control treaties inherited from the 1970s, the new team in power in Washington aroused anxiety in Europe. The round of farewells that Mr. Bush is beginning comes to remind us that events have justified those fears.

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huffingtonpost.com — Like Humpty Dumpty after the fall, all the GOP's horses and all the GOP's men cannot put together again business and social conservatives, big and small government conservatives, tax cutters and deficit hawks, and foreign adventurers and advocates of the humble foreign policy that Bush proposed in his 2000 campaign but quickly abandoned. They cannot find common ground between prudential conservatives who are wary of radical change, and revolutionary conservatives who are dedicated to smashing the liberal state and annihilating the Democrats.

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huffingtonpost.com — In the House of Representatives, an extension to unemployment benefits failed by just three votes, as every Democrat and 49 Republicans joined in voting for the extension. Sadly, for many Americans this assistance is vital in our current economic climate. This assistance can stand between a mother being able to put food on the table for dinner, or a father being able to put gas in the car to get to work. Sadly, for many minority communities, including Latinos, the economic crisis is hitting them harder then the nation at large.

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prospect.org — As Republican policies have become less popular, Republican politics have become more radical. The age of Reagan will end sooner rather than later, but conservatives haven't figured out what they think should replace it.

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