AltWeeklies Wire
At SXSW 2013, the Mayors of Brokesville
SXSW is a metaphor for what's going on in the American economy: everyone wants to sell, no one wants to buy.
The American Way of Deathnew
Whether it’s OK to use killer drones to blow people up depends on their citizenship and geographic proximity to the Good Old USA.
Love Reapernew
Will the next generation of killer drones have extra features to win over hearts and minds in the war on terror?
Freedom Marches Forwardnew
Gay marriage seems to be a historical inevitability. Let the self-congratulatory gladhanding begin! Who cares if we can’t make real progress on truly important issues?
LGBT: A RIght-Wing Movement
After Stonewall, gays fought for liberation of sexuality and free expression. Now they're fighting to assimilate into monogamism and joining the armies of empire. Gays and straights have lost as a result.
Ten Years Into the Iraq War: Where Are They Now?new
The villains who lied the American people into invading Iraq are prospering. The Iraqis they killed, not so much.
Tags: George W. Bush
The Quagmire Pattern
Ten Years into the Iraq War, the U.S. Repeats in Syria.
Wounded Drone Warriorsnew
Won't you reach out and help our brave wounded warriors as they come home from Iraq and Afghanistan?
With a Recovery Like Thisnew
The bottom 99% of wage earners in the United States lost 0.4% of their income between 2009 and 2011. The top 1% gained 11.2%. So the one percent grabbed 121% of the income gains from the so-called recovery. Can America afford much more recovery like this?
Cash In
Comparing herself to Betty "The Feminine Mystique" Friedan, Sheryl Sandberg wants her book to inspire "Lean In Circles" where women would meet to plot how to climb the corporate ladder and achieve gender parity in the boardroom. At their creepy gatherings, women will learn how to act more boldly, aggressively - more like men. Her idea of how men act, anyway.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
03-14-2013 |
The War on Women
Not That Awesome to Begin Withnew
Burger King at the airport is like Burger King minus the full menu. TCBY express is like TCBY but less so. Similarly, the United States under austerity is an institution that never offered many services in the first place and is now even worse.
7.9% Fewer Drone Strikesnew
Automatic budget cuts known as the Sequester mean that the government will no longer be able to afford, for example, as many killer drone attacks.
Tags: drone attacks
Is the GOP Doomed? Slightly Less than the Dems
Is the Republican Party doomed? Yes, probably, but Democrats shouldn't take much solace in their rivals' travails.
Mohammed Loses a Buddy, gets PTSDnew
According to a new Pentagon study, drone operators suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome at the same rate as real soldiers who fight in, you know, combat.
Does Your Brain Have a Right to Privacy?
As America degenerates into unapologetic authoritarianism, prosecutions for thoughtcrime are increasingly common.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
02-26-2013 |
Crime & Justice
