Tearing Apart Emperor Brooker: or Shooting Fish in a Barrel

By Scott Creighton
The following is my response to Charlie Brooker’s yellow journalism piece from the Guardian. but first, a little background:
Charlie wrote this about the 2004 election “John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley, Jr. – where are you now that we need you?” Wiki. He admitted later it was in bad taste, after [...]

Kucinich on Secret Meetings and Democracy

by Scott Creighton

“Since 1825 there have been 3 secret sessions of the House of Representatives” All three appear to have dealt with the Contra affair or Iran/Contra, “..and no time since 1983.”.
As the House prepared to go into an unprecedented secret session to “debate” the, now passed FISA Bill, Dennis Kucinich [...]

“Fool me Once… Can’t Fool Me Again.”

by Scott Creighton
Lesson 1: If you are incapable of thinking BEYOND just one line talking points, don’t call into talk shows with with people like George Galloway. They will make you look ridiculous.

Lesson 2: Iran is not the “evil empire” that you have been led to believe by people that want [...]

Still Don’t Want to Mention the Facts About McCain’s Real Military Record?

by Scott Creighton
Well, this is what you get for your cowardice.

We are about to become engaged in a full scale war with Iran and if you think that Iran will just sit back and do nothing when we (or Israel) “selectively targets” key nuclear sites (located in civilian areas) then you [...]

Worse Than McCain?

Mike Whitney, from CounterPunch here.
Every four years, liberals and progressives are expected to set aside their beliefs and stand foursquare behind the Democratic Party candidate. This ritual is invariably performed in the name of party unity. It doesn’t matter if the candidate is a smooth-talking politician who’s willing to toss his pastor of 20 years [...]