AltWeeklies Wire
Cartoon: Tiger Woodsnew
Tabloids that pay off women who claim to have slept with Tiger Woods are providing the only new jobs of the Obama era.
War, More War, or Morer War
The amazing part is how far we've traveled down the path towards all war, all the time: Obama didn't even have to pretend to consider pulling out of Afghanistan. He didn't even have to appoint a token peacenik to his cabinet. He didn't even have to talk to one. Which perfectly mirrors the media.
Cartoon: Strategy?new
Obama refuses to tip his/our hand in Afghanistan...because he doesn't have one.
Cartoon: Jobs for Afghansnew
Finally, a jobs program. The catch is, you have to join the Taliban first.
Cartoon: Tax Summitnew
Obama wants the jobless to wait for his "jobs forum" to work. Why shouldn't he wait too?
Cartoon: More is Lessnew
Obama is sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. You know, to get out quicker.
Thanks to the Millennials, the Generation Gap is Back
This generation gap is the opposite of previous versions, in which young insurgents attacked their elders for being too arch and moralistic. Like Mulder in The X Files, they desperately want to believe: their leaders, their government, their corporate executives. And they really want to believe in technology.
America on Trial, via Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Never mind the Constitution, the Geneva Conventions or common decency -- on the question of what to do about POWs rotting away at Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, right-wingers' concerns are purely practical.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
11-19-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Cartoon: Democrat Lady and Her Republican Friendnew
After eight years of apologizing for Bush, Republicans get their revenge.
Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush
Cartoon: Fort Hood, Afghan Editionnew
A Talib goes berserk at a training camp, and a nation mourns.
Tags: Afghanistan, Fort Hood
The Difference Between Deaths Here and 'Over There'
Thirteen soldiers die in Texas and it's all we talk about. Two million die in Afghanistan and Iraq and we don't notice -- and we don't even want to hear about it.
Dithering While America Sneezes
America's scandalous lame (non-)response to the swine flu pandemic isn't a big deal. Not compared to, say, the melting of the polar ice cap. It isn't torture. Or war. It pales next to giving hundreds of billions of dollars to wealthy bankers and nothing to homeowners facing foreclosure. But it sure is interesting.
Cartoon: Liberals Make a Differencenew
It's different now that liberals are doing the bombing.
Tags: Afghanistan, war & peace
