America's Devolution Into Dictatorship

America's Devolution Into DictatorshipLicensed to KillBy PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS November 11, 2010http://www.counterpunch.org/The United States Department of Justice (sic) routinely charges and convicts innocents with bogus and concocted crimes that are not even on the statutes book. The distinguished defense attorney and civil libertarian, Harvey A. Silverglate, published a book last year, “Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent,” which...

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USEFUL EXPRESSIONS WITH PREPOSITIONS

USEFUL EXPRESSIONS WITH PREPOSITIONS to accuse sb. of doing sth. They accused him of stealing the chickens. to be accustomed to doing sth. She isn't accustomed to having a lot of money. to advise sb. to do sth. I advise you to work harder in future. to advise sb. against doing sth. He advised his son against studying abroad. to agree to do sth. He has agreed to help us. to agree with sb. about sth. I agree with you about the new decisions. to allow sb. to do sth. My father doesn't allow me to go out at night. to be angry / annoyed with sb. for...

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Crusade 2.0 The Lies of Islamophobia

Crusade 2.0 The Lies of Islamophobia The Three Unfinished Wars of the West Against the RestPosted by John Feffer at 5:25pm, November 7, 2010. Almost two years and one disastrous election later, we’re still waiting for the other Barack Obama to make an appearance, and from the gab coming out of Washington right now, it looks like we’ll be twiddling our thumbs a bit longer (if not forever). Once again, the sweet talk of compromise and bipartisanship is on the lips of the president, but not, of course, on the lips of top Republicans. Talk about...

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Growing Anger The Impotence of Elections

Growing AngerThe Impotence of ElectionsBy PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS November 4, 2010In his historical novel, The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa writes that things have to change in order to remain the same. That is what happened in the US congressional elections on November 2. Jobs offshoring, which began on a large scale with the collapse of the Soviet Union, has merged the Democrats and Republicans into one party with two names. The Soviet collapse changed attitudes in socialist India and communist China and opened those countries, with their large...

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The Tea Party and the Midterms

The Tea Party and the MidtermsBy Joe Conason Posted on Nov 3, 2010The urge to punish politicians is understandable no matter who is in power, because they inevitably disappoint the fond hopes of their admirers and raise the hackles of their detractors—and yet that same urge is almost never satisfied for long. In the case of the midterm spanking administered to Democrats, the likelihood that voters will get what they claim to want as a result is even smaller than usual. The fleeting thrill of ousting a particular elected official (or even dozens...

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Race and the Tea Party’s Ire

Race and the Tea Party’s Ire By Eugene Robinson Smearing the president: an anti-Obama poster. The first African-American president takes office, and almost immediately we see the birth of a big, passionate national movement—overwhelmingly white and lavishly funded—that tries its best to delegitimize that president, seeks to thwart his every initiative, and manages to bring the discredited and moribund opposition party roaring back...

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