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August 7, 2011 :: Eva Scherson :: No Comment Yet
There is dispute as to whether attendance at Gov. Perry’s prayer rally was 30,000, as organizers claim, or 15,000, as other news sources have estimated. Observers have expressed concern that the event featured radicals whose views oppose the constitutional order of the American political system, and who have called for the establishment of an absolutist theocratic regime.
August 6, 2011 :: Eva Scherson :: One Comment
Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), who is reportedly contemplating a run for the presidency, will be attending an evangelical prayer service on Saturday, labeled “The Response”. Perry has been heavily criticized for his participation, both by critics who say the event violates his constitutional oath to treat all Texans equally and by groups like the Anti-Defamation League, which is concerned about the hate-based policies of some of the event’s backers.
August 3, 2011 :: Eva Scherson :: No Comment Yet
In a stunning move, the American Conservative Union (ACU), which runs the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), has barred one of its former sponsors, a conservative gay rights group called GOProud. The ban comes just as moderate Republicans are calling on the party to embrace same-sex marriage and gay rights, put the culture wars behind them, and focus on conservative principles more in line with Constitutional freedoms and market economics, as their platform.
February 13, 2011 :: Eva Scherson :: No Comment Yet
Rick Santorum, onetime Republican senator from Pennsylvania, threw in his lot with Hosni Mubarak, criticizing Pres. Obama for siding “too soon” with the pro-democracy movement that was calling for the ouster of a brutal authoritarian dictator who ruled for three decades through a relentless campaign of abduction, torture and disappearances.
February 12, 2011 :: Eva Scherson :: No Comment Yet
On a day of joy for the people of Egypt, Republican presidential hopeful, Gov. Tim Pawlenty shamed himself and his nation by criticizing Pres. Barack Obama for siding with Egypt’s pro-democracy movement, and suggested that from his point of view, the dictator Mubarak is “our friend”. He also said “with bullies, might makes right”, and suggested US foreign policy should degenerate into the adolescent dysfunction of the bullies.
February 8, 2011 :: Eva Scherson :: No Comment Yet
The new Republican plan to amend the Affordable Care Act to institute a form of “backdoor ban” on abortion procedures would give legal protection to doctors who let women die without needed treatment, and impose a severe tax on any business that seeks to provide full health coverage to its employees. The original language of the plan specified that only in cases of “forcible rape” would a woman be entitled to treatment where abortion might be the only way to save her life.
January 31, 2011 :: Eva Scherson :: 6 Comments
Bashar al-Assad, who inherited the hardline regime that has ruled Syria for nearly four decades, and whose government imposed strict Internet controls after the beginning of the uprising in Egypt, has announced he will move to implement political reforms in his country. It is not clear how those reforms would affect his government’s control on power, or whether his office would be up for a national election, but the announcement is the latest sign of how pervasive an effect the Egyptian protest movement is having across the region.
January 23, 2011 :: Eva Scherson :: Comments Off
Glenn Beck has once more taken extremist hate-speech to a new extreme, calling for the murder of liberals and progressives, whom he alleges are revolutionaries who are plotting an armed struggle to overthrow the United States government. It is the most unfounded and absurd of his conspiracy theories to date, and is clearly aimed at inciting a violent emotional reaction from people who are susceptible to the language of combat and armed intervention in the political realm.
January 19, 2011 :: Eva Scherson :: Comments Off
China’s president Hu Jintao is visiting the United States and will be the focus of several state-level functions, including a full state dinner and a special luncheon hosted by the vice president, Joe Biden. In the face of US demands that China remove rate controls and allow its currency to appreciate, Pres. Hu has said the yuan should be thought of as the world’s currency standard, with other currencies priced against its value.
December 30, 2010 :: Eva Scherson :: Comments Off
There is much controversy over attempts to defend Henry Kissinger in the wake of revelations that he said the use of gas chambers to exterminate Jews was not “an American concern”. He was not just making a statement about past atrocities, and the ethical underpinnings of what should motivate diplomatic or military action; he was in fact suggesting to Pres. Nixon that if the Soviet Union, from which Jews were emigrating in large numbers, were to commence a new genocide, it would be of no concern to the US.
November 1, 2010 :: Eva Scherson :: Comments Off
The anti-immigrant Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio has won notoriety across the world for his roundups of people he determines to be “likely illegal immigrants”, whom he then detains in tent camps in the desert heat. Now, he has been forced to sever ties with an anti-immigrant group, after it sent out a mass email claiming he planned to spearhead an effort to prevent Hispanic Americans from exercising their Constitutional right to vote.
October 13, 2010 :: Eva Scherson :: Comments Off
Karl Rove is a professional liar who has made it his priority to worship at the feet of billionaire corporate interests and those among the wealthy who prefer to avoid doing their part to repay the society that made them wealthy. His modus operandi is: formulate a series of falsehoods which will be repeated by as many individuals, media outlets and sources of propaganda as possible, and support that campaign with money from anyone with enough vested interest that the money will not stop flowing.
August 26, 2010 :: Eva Scherson :: Comments Off
The American right has been relentless in its assault on the character, talents and leadership qualities of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter since the Republican campaign against him in the 1980 presidential election cycle. Their attacks have rested on the assertion that his altruistic politics, his emphasis on responsible governance, and his wariness of handing public services to private profit-makers, were a general failure of leadership. In fact, their attacks on Carter are rooted in a rhetorical sympathy for the fundamentalist clerics who took power in Iran.
August 8, 2010 :: Eva Scherson :: Comments Off
John Boehner says the United States should not have any qualities or any conditions of life that might serve as “an incentive for illegal immigrants to come here”. He was commenting specifically on the question of whether the Constitution should grant citizenship to anyone born in the United States, but his reaction suggests that anything of any kind which might be considered a point of attraction for anyone from another country should not be tolerated.
July 24, 2010 :: Eva Scherson :: Comments Off
Fox News has adopted an all-campaign, all-the-time approach, in which it hires Republican politicians to pose as “reporters” and “anchors” and pushes mystical assumptions about market philosophy that have nothing to do with markets and everything to do with making it easy for those on top to stay there. Fox is steeped in a battle with its own intellectual values, fighting to portray itself as populist, while pushing the most elite-inducing economic philosophies and arguing consistently against actions that would defend ordinary people against unaccountable power.
July 3, 2010 :: Eva Scherson :: Comments Off
Sen. Olympia Snowe, Republican of Maine, is known for being a moderate, a pragmatist, and often the key to determining what gets done in a hotly divided partisan environment. She has consistently sought to take responsible positions on environmental policy, but has supported her party in many key votes. Now, she is pledging to push for a broader coalition of support for a scaled-back climate bill. Her approach is being called “utility-only”, focusing carbon emissions capping on power generation utilities, something supporters say will make the pending legislation more viable economically and administratively.
June 2, 2010 :: Eva Scherson :: One Comment
The humanitarian aid vessel known as the Rachel Corrie —named for the American activist killed when she refused to move from an attempt to block the Israeli military (IDF) from a bulldozing operation— is now en route to Gaza, and will likely face the Israeli military blockade, which seeks to maintain an absolute embargo on any cargo and any persons entering Gaza except by way of the IDF. Israel has said it will not “seek confrontation”, but it will “defend Israeli citizens threatened by this terror from the sea”.
May 31, 2010 :: Eva Scherson :: Comments Off
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long been known as “hawkish” on security. He has long been a staunch defender of Israel’s right to use force to defend its interests, even preemptively. He defended and justified the two aggressive, and ultimately counterproductive, aggressive campaigns waged by his predecessor, Ehud Olmert, first against Lebanon, then against Gaza. Now, after a commando raid killed 9 unarmed aid workers, there are questions about whether Netanyahu’s radicalism may be eroding, not promoting, Israel’s security.
February 12, 2010 :: Eva Scherson :: Comments Off
Let down your guard for five seconds, and you will likely find some emanation of the pseudo-conservative hostility market explaining that Pres. Obama is deliberately plotting the destruction of the United States of America, that his administration is lazy and incompetent, and that terrorists are about to seize control of the homeland. Those propagandists, who expect you will not notice their absurd claims are in fact lies, are the ones who are, very deliberately, trying to ruin America.
December 19, 2009 :: Eva Scherson :: One Comment
After two weeks of intense and sometimes bitter negotiations, US president Barack Obama arrived in Copenhagen to marshal all his diplomatic skills in brokering the beginnings of a viable framework for global carbon emissions reductions. Late Friday, it was announced that five nations —the United States, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa— had carved out a deal that would, for the first time, bring all the world’s major economies into the same camp on efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
December 10, 2009 :: Eva Scherson :: Comments Off
Big business interests have come out in fierce opposition to the proposed EPA regulation of emissions that contribute to the greenhouse effect, and the fundamental destabilization of global climate patterns. The opponents of new regulatory measures allege such regulation would unduly hamper the ability of businesses responsible for the emissions to profit from their existing business model. Supporters of heavy investment in carbon-based industries are, without any pretense otherwise, seeking a free pass on harm to human health.
November 21, 2009 :: Eva Scherson :: Comments Off
Can we expect China’s cooperation on emissions reduction? It’s clear that China has shifted its energy policy somewhat, to take account for the potential long-term strategic economic benefit of being a major source for green energy technology, know-how and to use green energy to fill out the nation’s energy supply and possibly permit exportation of energy or fuels.
October 25, 2009 :: Eva Scherson :: 4 Comments
A coalition of nationally visible Republicans have chosen to abandon their own party and back a Conservative party candidate in a special election in upstate New York. The split reveals a growing tension between Republicans concerned about regaining power and those whose mission is to impose a hardline conservative agenda on the nation. These two groups are now engaged in an increasingly hostile struggle for the soul of the Republican party.
October 11, 2009 :: Eva Scherson :: Comments Off
We are watching the national media backslide into the irresponsible primordial ooze of the “culture wars”, where the false caricatures of “family values conservatives” and “promiscuous progressives” (read ‘progressive’ into sexuality, social policy and spending) are pitted against each other in a nostalgic bid to recapture the oversimplified false stereotypes of the 1960s hotbed moment.
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