ABeckalypse Now

I just rewatched Apocalypse Now for probably the fifth time, so it was with a heavy dose of Marlon Brando in my head that I listened to this passage from Glenn Beck’s radio program. It’s frightening to know there are people out there who take this...

Your tax dollars at work

Intelligence reporter Jeff Stein delivers a collection of tidbits that makes you wonder just what’s in the water at the CIA. Exhibit 1 is a scrapped 2003 plan to make a gay sex video with a fake Saddam Hussein, for distribution in Iraq (I’m sure there...

Alan Grayson does not mince words

From an article by John Nichols in The Nation: “What George Orwell wrote about in 1984 has come true. What Eisenhower warned us about concerning the ‘military-industrial complex’ has come true,” [Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla.] argues. “War is...