Just sent to me on Twitter from Yehia_Osman, in Egypt: you can’t imagine how people old and young ran in the street like crazy screaming with joy and they can’t believe that they’re finally free. It’s so much like when u r able to breath again after having a plastic bag on ur head! I [...]
The End is near. I have no illusions about this regime or its leader, and how he will pluck us and hunt us down one by one till we are over and done with and 8 months from now will pay people to stage fake protests urging him not to leave power, and he will [...]
If you haven’t read Micah Sifry’s latest (very long) post about liberal disappointment and wilting grassroots, please go read it first before you read this (very long) rebuttal. A short paraphrase: President Obama isn’t a recent sellout. We are seeing the Barack Obama that always was, is, and has been — corporatist sellout. Really, David [...]