markinjapan

markinjapan
Location
Japan
Birthday
February 01
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antiwar, anti-homophobic, anti-misogynistic and anti-racist

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Salon.com

Is America Hiding Its True Inflation Rate . . .?

 "CBS News recently reported that the rate of inflation, as calculated by the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), clocked in at a whopping 8% over the past year. This number is in stark contrast to the relatively modest infl… Read full post »

Malicious Irony, Hypocrisy and Intellectual Tyranny

by PETER DUDINK

"In a world run by emperors or presidents, perhaps we should ignore Socrates’ injunction to know ourselves and instead know those who rule us. During his recent speech to Ohio University graduates, posted at wsj.com, Presi… Read full post »

OCTOBER 28, 2012 8:13AM

"A Letter to Obama Supporters"

by DAVID MASCIOTRA

"I am writing this letter as a friend who believes in the same principles that you proudly trumpet: fairness, human rights, honesty, and communitarian commitment to the common interest and public good. Over the past three years, but especially during the past six months, I’v

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OCTOBER 27, 2012 7:26PM

Paul Craig Roberts

"In Amerika there will never be a real debate

"God help them if Obama and Romney ever had to participate in a real debate about a real issue at the Oxford Union. They would be massacred.

The “debates” revealed that not only the candidates but also the entire country is completelyRead full post »

OCTOBER 25, 2012 8:03PM

Never-ending War: Nick Turse

"A Failed Formula for Worldwide War: How the Empire Changed Its Face, But Not Its Nature

By Nick Turse 

"They looked like a gang of geriatric giants. Clad in smart casual attire -- dress shirts, sweaters, and jeans -- and incongruous blue hospital booties, they strode around “the worlRead full post »

OCTOBER 24, 2012 6:58AM

Linh Dinh: "Voting for Death"

"Criminal v. Criminal

Voting for Death 

by LINH DINH

 

"America, you have become a nation of enablers and apologists for tyranny and mass murder.  You condemn the Nazi and gulag guards of times past even as you celebrate your own mercenaries and torturers, even as you explain away, if/… Read full post »

Philip Giraldi (born c. 1946) is a former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a columnist and television commentator who is the Executive Director of the Council for theRead full post »

"Barack Obama has been proven by more than one fact checking organization to be a habitual liar."

 ObamaIf the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it “would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democRead full post »

"A Rabbi's Path to Palestinian Solidarity"

 

"Any discussion of Israel's political and military actions is likely to evoke emotional reactions among Jews that can split friendships and families." 

SNIP

"Rabbi Brant Rosen, a congregational rabbi in Evanston, Illinois and co-chair of the Jewi/… Read full post »

OCTOBER 8, 2012 3:14PM

" The Maimed Amongst Us"

"Chris Hedges gave this talk Sunday night in New York City at a protest denouncing the 11th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan. The event, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, was led by Veterans for Peace."  

 

"Many of us who are here carry within us death. The smell of decayed… Read full post »

"At a demonstration in support of Bradley Manning this month, I was handed a postcard of a dead child with the caption 'Tell this child the Democrats are the lesser of two evils.' It behooves us not to use the dead for our own devices, but that child did die thanksRead full post »

This post is dedicated to my dear friend, Jan, who likely is second to none in research.

 SNIPPET

" . . . I have no patience for my liberal friends’ insistence on robotic support for Obama, or even for my progressive friends’ qualms about whether to remove their Obama bumper stiRead full post »

It becomes more and more shocking on a daily basis:  "libby- I would have left your comment if your hadn't called our president a "mass murderer." Sorry...keeping it civil here." 

Unspeakable Things: The Liberals’ Clumsy Dance Across Obama's Killing Floor

WRITTEN BY CHRIS FLOYD  Read full post »

JUNE 2, 2012 6:35PM

NOBODY says it quite like Ted

 

"Next Memorial Day, Remember America’s Victims Too

Self-Delusion and the Cult of Militarism

 

May 30, 2012

"Memorial Day: our national celebration of charred meat . . . "

SNIP

"However, as we begin the countdown to next year’s Warapalooza—only 362 more days before you fiRead full post »

The guy with the withered look in the stained purple dress is doing my work for me.  In today's superlative failed blog post by lew, a post that has garnered a single comment and a single rate, he recommends reading Ha'aretz, a publication I've been reading for longer than he's been practic… Read full post »

In the traveler's latest post, he claims that my comment:  "Are You really asking for integrity from lew, Kim? Good luck with that?" is abusive and a personal attack.  Maybe he suffers from short (or long) term memory deficit.

 If someone is caught lying, isn't that sufficient reason t… Read full post »

MAY 5, 2012 8:54AM

obama: a good and decent man!

Warrior in Chief

By PETER L. BERGEN

Published: April 28, 2012

 

"THE president who won the Nobel Peace Prize less than nine months after his inauguration has turned out to be one of the most militarily aggressive American leaders in decades."

SNIP

"Liberals helped to elect Barack Obama inRead full post »

 

SYNDICATED COLUMN: The Pravda-ization of the News

Ted Rall

 

"No Context, But Propaganda Is Amusing

Try as they may to make the news as boring as possible, U.S. media outlets keep churning out hilarious “news” stories. Hardly a day passes without the release of some piece whoseRead full post »

APRIL 29, 2012 8:06PM

What a monster tsunami looks like

Despitethe fact that I have made references to radiation in food, repeatedly, and despite the fact that scientists know that the resuts of the Japan earthquake's radiation is slowly spreading world-wide, one of my dearest friends, here, has a relative planning to come to Japan  to teach.

I've ex… Read full post »

Someone made this utterly baseless and inane statement on LibbyLiberalNYC's last (GREAT, as usual) blog post, soI'd like to present the view from both the left and the right.

 

From the right

 

 

Obama Is A Clear And Present Danger To Our Constitutional Rights

 

"By action and worRead full post »

APRIL 23, 2012 9:20AM

The insanity of Japan



The #4 reactor building that houses spent fuel pool #4 is leaning, cracking and falling apart, due to the almost constant earthquakes, open air radiation releases, and the weight of the water in the
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I seldom disagree with my good friend ONL, but from my vantage point, and from my personal experience, Paul Craig Roberts has a different viewpoint; one with which I happen to agree.

 China's GDP fell to 8.1% last month, and all the economists are suddenly falling all over themselves about an… Read full post »

Not only has obama embroiled us in more foreign conflicts than his predecessor, expanded, NOT decreased the military budget, dispatched more drones in three years, than shrub did in eight (with commensurate more collateral damage, presumably), but his apologists here, offer us that he is better than… Read full post »

Israel will not stand idly by as thousands of activists prepare to arrive on Sunday; it will not miss an opportunity to look ridiculous in the eyes of the world.

By Gideon LevySun, April 15, 2012 

 

"And with what shall we frighten the Israeli public in advance of the seventh dayRead full post »