CNN’s failure to question Paul Ryan’s falsehoods is emblematic of the idiot wind blowing through American electoral politics.

Why does the media want us to focus on vapid details about a candidate’s family or past- instead of his politics?

Read more: Media and Electoral Propaganda: A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy of Stupidity

The line that “Obama is a traitor because he leaks [National Security Secrets]“ is suddenly a talking point in this presidential campaign.

What do you think should be kept from the public towards american strategic interest?

Read more: Barack Obama and Leaking National Security Secrets

Glenn Greenwald: New vindictive restrictions on detainees highlights the falsity of Obama defenders regarding closing Guantanamo Bay (GITMO).

Do you think GITMO will ever go away, or will it just be replaced?

Read more: The Obama Guantanamo Bay Myth

Do you think our initiative in working with Israel, Google, & Microsoft to create the Stuxnet worm created the cyber-war equivalent of Pandora’s box that we have the most to lose in?

Read more: A Weapon We Can’t Control: Stuxnet Will Come Back to Haunt Us?

‘Ralph Nader and Bruce Fein visited Harvard Law School for a talk sponsored by the HLS Forum and the Harvard Law Record. At the event, “America’s Lawless Empire: The Constitutional Crimes of Bush and Obama,” both men discussed what they called lawless, violent practices by the White House and its agencies that have become institutionalized by both political parties.’

Read more: Ralph Nader at HLS: The constitutional crimes of Bush and Obama (video)

‘Israeli Mossad agents posed as CIA officers in order to recruit members of a Pakistani terror group to carry out assassinations and attacks against the regime in Iran, Foreign Policy revealed on Friday, quoting U.S. intelligence memos.

Foreign Policy’s Mark Perry reported that the Mossad operation was carried out in 2007-2008, behind the back of the U.S. government, and infuriated then U.S. President George W. Bush.’

Read more: Israeli Mossad agents posed as CIA spies to recruit terrorists to fight against Iran

‘Ron Paul is the only anti-war candidate running for president. More than that: he wants to do away with overseas bases and reduce the military to the strictly defensive force envisioned in the Constitution; one that only wages wars Congress declares. He also wants to dismantle the apparatus of empire and to halt American meddling in the affairs of foreign countries. This would entail, among other things, the end of all Bush-Obama wars, the demise of the military-industrial complex, and the termination of America’s virtually unconditional military, economic and diplomatic support for Israel.’

Read more: A Snare and a Delusion: Ron Paul’s Anti-Imperialism

George H. W. Bush: “What is at stake is more than one small country, it is a big idea—a new world order…

MoJo’s Anthology of the Iraq War | Mother Jones

“Since 2003 we’ve investigated Bush’s lie factory, the real WMD, shady contractors, war resisters, KBR fraudsters, wounded heroes, and much more.

It began with bunker-busters exploding along the banks of the Tigris on live TV in 2003. It officially ended Thursday, with a simple flag ceremony. Between these events, America’s war in Iraq roiled the world. Here below are the many ways in which Mother Jones investigated and explained the war to our readers over the years. For America, the conflict is now officially over; its impact, of course, will continue to be felt for years to come.”

Watch Now: MoJo’s Anthology of the Iraq War | Mother Jones

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