Early Coverage of the Rachel Corrie Civil Trial in Israel
Nobody who is aware of the history of U.S. media coverage of the death, on March 16, 2003, of American college student and peace activist, Rachel Corrie, on the eve of the beginning of our Iraq...
View ArticleSIMPLE PATH – PUT PO IN THE RECON BILL SENT FROM HOUSE TO SENATE.
SIMPLE PATH – PUT PO IN THE RECON BILL SENT FROM THE HOUSE TO THE SENATE. EVERY THING ELSE IS SMOKE AND MIRRORS.If indeed there is fraud going on by leaders/members of Congress saying one thing to the...
View ArticleDennis Kucinich Money Bomb!!!!!
Apparently, Firedoglake wants its money back.Let's tell Dennis Kucinich - and Jane Hamsher - that we appreciate his willingness to end the circular firing squad and to help make comprehensive health...
View ArticleJane Hamsher Help for Kossacks Who Want to Avoid HCR Myths
UPDATED at Diary's end Heads have been spinning around here after Kos, Dr.Dean, and even Congressman Kucinich have endorsed the Health Insurance Reform bill.As good Democrats, the CW seems to be that...
View ArticleThe Progressive case against the Obama healthcare plan.
(For working links go here: http://5z8.info/...I'm using shady shorter url.)I guess I need to comment on the healthcare bill. There's seems to be a split on the left with MoveOn, Chris Bowers, Daily...
View ArticleKos is Right - Progressives Were The Problem
Democrats are finally purging the most destructive force in their party: the uncompromising progressives. With Kucinich now promising to vote for any Health Care Reform bill, we're done with...
View ArticleJane Hamsher, Upon Losing, Doubles Down!
Jane Hamsher - who sided with the Republicans, the Tea Parties and the Insurance companies has doubled down: did you hear the one that says Republicans would've played nice if ONLY Obama had left...
View ArticleHow Jane Hamsher Spends Her PAC Money
Firedoglake publisher Jane Hamsher has become one of the most polarizing figures in the liberal blogosphere, moving people sharply to the pro or con column with her outspoken opposition to the health...
View ArticleWill Kos support Green Party candidates in 2010 and 2012?
The Democrat Party is useless. It cannot be relied upon to be a vehicle for progressive change. If it wasn't evident when the party took power in Congress in 2006 only to continue propping up George...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Firedoglake
What Obama said about offshore drilling during the campaign was right. I heard nothing in his presentation yesterday to suggest that he was taking this action as a way to solve our energy crisis...
View ArticleFiredoglake ranks higher than Daily Kos on influence (Wikio)
Wikio rates the political blogs in the nation by influence. this is how the list is compiled:The position of a blog in the Wikio ranking depends on the number and weight of the incoming links from...
View ArticleNetroots to Obama FCC: Inaction Is Not an Option
Leaders of the Internet’s grassroots community have made it clear that inaction by the FCC is not an option when it comes to keeping the Web open and accessible.In a series of posts and statements,...
View ArticleDoes OFA expect us to check our brains at the door?
Yesterday, I got another email from President Obama AKA barackobama.com AKA Organizing For America (OFA). You may have got this THEY BACKED DOWN email yourself: T--BLAH BLAH BLAH ... This movement...
View ArticleBetter go to Firedoglake for Israel coverage
Hey everyone, this is not a diary, but rather a note. I noticed that the staff on this site has decided not to do any coverage of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Probably they just know that there are...
View ArticleThe Five Flawed Choices of the Oilpocalypse?
Just came across a post by emptywheel at Firedoglake who has put up a letter the Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Henry Waxman has written to BP regarding the decisions made by BP...
View ArticleSorry Jane. You Just Lost Me.
Dear (FireDogLake Reader):The progressive movement is at a crossroads. The alliance with the Democratic Party that served both groups during the Bush years is breaking down. Progressives must now...
View ArticleA Lot of Generals Should Be Fired
[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.]The toobz, as the valiant emptywheel stated this morning, are chock full of calls to fire one General McChrystal, an obnoxious insubordinate in a losing war. I don’t...
View ArticleOn Shooting The Messenger
An Evil FDL diary is currently top of the Rec List.FDL's "evil": Drawing attention to problems. 2008 Obama voters -- particularly independent voters and youths -- are staying home now because the...
View ArticlePoll is a 'Refreshing Corrective' to Media Narrative of Tea Party Domination
Cross-posted at Project Vote's blog, Voting Matters.Project Vote’s new poll, which reveals the "rising electorate" from 2008 has starkly different views about the role of government than Tea Partiers,...
View ArticleTSA's ridiculous actions
Recently, the TSA's under hot water for shameful actions such as what happened to John Tyner, who said: "If you touch my junk, then you can be arrested." They have been behaving like Fascists since...
View ArticleOn the Second Anniversary of Cast Lead, I Reach Out to a Young Gazan Writer
Two years ago, On December 27th, 2008, the Israeli military began their campaign, Operation Cast Lead, against the people and infrastructure of Gaza. About 1,500 Palestinian people, the vast majority...
View ArticleOn Jane Hamsher And Our Fact-Free Media: It’s Not Just For Fox News...
As you may have heard...I wrote a blog post last week... and Jane Hamsher, founder and lead blogger at Firedoglake.com (FDL), and often considered to be a leading progressive voice got rather upset...
View ArticleWhy are we not talking about Bradley Manning today?
Today I've seen a diary calling Obama for being shameful and for the Libyans to spill their own blood, I've seen diaries arguing over the "new war" in Libya. Frontpage stuff about Democrats not playing...
View ArticleThe 'Team Themis' Plan -- as prepared for the Chamber, to Target their Enemies
Here's a story, that like me, you may have mentally filed as "Learn about Later" ...Well Today, is 'Later' .... for me, anyways. Takes a few minutes, you may be surprised ...Despite Denials, New...
View ArticleI Got A Job! And You All Should Get Some Of The Credit!
Okay Kossack’s so here is the skinny; I have a freaking full time job!!! (and yes I do know that more than two exclamation marks is a sign of an unsound mind, thank you)!Starting tomorrow I am the...
View Article“You don’t need a degree in economics to grasp the logic of that.”
This past weekend, we’ve learned from two separate reports, via Carrie Budoff Brown and Glenn Thrush at Politico, and Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg over at the NY Times, that it appears our Party is...
View ArticleHow squeegees can help save America, and your sanity - going beyond blogging...
(from my firedoglake diary of the same name, but note that most (all?) of my suggests for FDL could apply to dailykos)I find the continued lack of visible, widespread, persistent, peaceful, effective...
View ArticleWhy I will never post another word at My.Firedoglake.com
I was a bit dubious when I was asked to begin posting some of my stuff at My.Firedoglake.com. I haven't been a fan of the main site in a very long time and I detest most of what I see & hear from...
View ArticleFor the record, Jane Hamsher is the dumbest motherf*#ker in the world
Today (yesterday for most of you), Firedoglake’s Jane Hamsher branded Obama’s staunchest supporters “the dumbest motherfuckers in the world”. Why is Jane Hamsher trying to sabotage the possibility of...
View ArticleA Guide to Professional Left Outrage
So, you want to become a Professional Left blogger, huh? Ever since President Obama did that Rick Warren debate, and failed to properly fight back against every McCain attack ad, every Teabagger...
View ArticleStop it.
In the spirit of Ari Fleischer's "mental list" of all the supposedly terrible things done to the White House by the departing Clintonistas, I've been keeping a "mental list" of all the liberals and...
View ArticleTime To Dig In
[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster]Politically it has been a strange and tumultuous year, yielding an unusually quiet third and fourth week of August. Usually by this time enough boredom, heat and...
View ArticleRick Perry's Texas: Government is a Cash Cow for Donors
Has anyone wondered why so many Republican politicians who say they hate the government actually do work in government? Some, like Rick Perry, have rarely if ever held a job outside of government. So...
View ArticleI Was Hired to Turn a Gay Bar Redneck
For a minute, I might be turning apolitical, or not.Back in the seventies -- this was years before AIDS devastated the San Francisco community -- my band, a bluegrass novelty act that broke Yiddish and...
View ArticleOccupy Fellowships
The Firedoglake Writers' Foundation has put together a fellowship program called Ocuppy Exchange. Three fellows from Occupy Buffalo have already been selected: Samantha Colon, Robert Albini and John...
View ArticleManning Charged with Espionage; FBI 25-Year Veteran Leaker of SEALED...
Thanks to Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, we have another example of hypocrisy and disparate treatment associated with the Obama administration's unprecedented war on whistleblowers. Hamsher analyzes an...
View ArticleI just nominated Bradley Manning for a Presidential Citizens Medal
As one of my professors once said, "Anyone who asks a question deserves the answer." That was in the context of answers that open a can of worms, bringing up a lot more troublesome, worrisome...
View ArticleWe Are All Happy That Joe Lieberman is Basically Irrelevant
(From TWD)One of the few, great things about this ridiculous general election campaign filled with more peculiar, elitist, nutty, arrogant, unhinged, and downright idiotic Republican and conservative...
View ArticleWhat Sperling Wrote
I'm growing quite tired of all the sequestration kabuki.The bottom line is the Great Betrayal is in full implementation mode.Democrats--I'm talking REAL DEMOCRATS--need to take a good look at what Gene...
View ArticleReuters: Great Betrayal Is In Play; Obama Puts Medicare and Soc Sec...
Please read this Reuters lead story from less than three hours ago. It speaks for itself.Obama renews budget offer to cut social safety nets By Richard Cowan Reuters WASHINGTON | Sun Mar 3, 2013...
View ArticleJane Hamsher's Advertising Arm Files For Bankruptcy
From The Huffington Post:NEW YORK -- CommonSense Media, a digital advertising network co-founded by film producer and Firedoglake publisher Jane Hamsher, has filed for bankruptcy to liquidate its...
View ArticleTim Walz and Al Franken claim STOCK Act was not gutted
I was alarmed when I saw a post with the alarming headline of Pres Obama Signs Bill Killing Anti-Corruption, Pro-Transparency STOCK Act Provisions. Firedoglake had a similarly alarming headline: Obama...
View ArticleWas US Ambassador to Austria source of false info about Snowden in Morales...
This is suggested bt the Austrian newspaper Die Presse. According to this, the source of the info that ultimately led to the re-routing of the plane and the subsequent search is US Ambassador in...
View ArticleBREAKING: Militarism is not good public health policy
I know this kinda sounds like a no-brainer to some of us but this article in the American Journal of Public Health is actually the product of a whole bushel of brains.The Role of Public Health in the...
View ArticleI guess I missed this? FDL joined the Benghazi witch hunt
I've been wondering what Jane Hamsher has been up to over these last few years. I literally hadn't seen or heard from her during the entire second term of Pres.Obama.The last I heard from her she was...
View ArticleFiredoglake Is Shutting Down
Jane Hamsher made the announcement today that Firedoglake is shutting down, and all archived posts will be moved over to Shadowproof, a new site run by Kevin Gosztala and Brian Sonenstein.I have mixed...
View ArticleFiredoglake Jane Hamsher - When the music`s over
Several days ago there was a diary on the Rec` list written by Slinkerwink informing us that Firedoglake was no more. The diary was read and rec`d many times over not just because of the excellent...
View ArticleConfusing the Messengers with the Murderers
There are a few diaries going around that seem to be confusing the messengers with the murderers. Instead of admitting that the scenarios the messengers tried repeatedly to warn everyone against have...
View ArticleWikileaks Informationthread 21
Around 8pmest every nightLooks like this video had Glenn Greenwald offer his take and got a response from Jessica Yellin and CNN had to turn off the comments in her response because it was so...um,...
View ArticleJust got a note from Firedoglake?
They are asking to sign a petition regarding the throwing away of my AARP Card.
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