Category Archives: war

Macho Man Competition

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Arlen Grossman
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BPR Quote of the Day: We Don’t Have to Follow Any Stinking Fifth Amendment!

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

“This is a monumental pile of crap that should embarrass every Democrat who ever said an unkind word about John Yoo.” Charles Pierce/ Politics Blog/ Esquire.com/ March 5, 2012 Pierce (author of Idiot America) was reacting to a speech by … Continue reading →

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BPR Quote of the Day: If All Else Fails…..

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

“War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to … Continue reading →

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BPR Quote of the Day: Suppose They Gave a War…..

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

 “Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.” Bertrand Russell

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Is Iran the Next Iraq?

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

My letter-to-the-Editor published in today’s Monterey County Herald: Why the near-hysteria over the possibility that Iran might build its first nuclear weapon? Iran appears to be our newest “imminent threat,” now that we’ve disposed of Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden … Continue reading →

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Media Oblivious to “The Empire’s New Clothes”

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

Once again, Glenn Greenwald is more adept than almost any other  journalist at tearing away the patriotic facade to reveal the lies and obfuscation coming from Washington: U.S. Media Takes the Lead on Iran by Glenn Greenwald/ Salon.com/ Feb. 14, 2012 Many … Continue reading →

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Disturbing Liberal Hypocrisy

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

A very troubling commentary by Glenn Greenwald, about how tolerant liberal Democrats have become to the militaristic, authoritarian policies of Barack Obama–policies they harshly criticized when done by the George W. Bush administration. REPULSIVE PROGRESSIVE HYPOCRISY by Glenn Greenwald/ Salon/ … Continue reading →

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Bradley Manning Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

The Movement, a small subset of the parliament in Iceland (three members out of 63) nominated Bradley Manning to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Yes, it is basically symbolic, but a clever idea. Wouldn’t it be great if he won? … Continue reading →

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BPR Quote of the Day: And Save Trillions of Dollars, too….

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

“How can we escape from the trap that the terrorists have set us? Only by recognizing that the war on terrorism cannot be won by waging war. We must, of course, protect our security; but we must also correct the … Continue reading →

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Howard Zinn on the American Empire

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

What the classroom didn’t teach me about the American Empire By Howard Zinn originally from TomDispatch.com, 2008

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