references the recent measles outbreak at Disneyland .. (story…

references the recent measles outbreak at Disneyland  .. (story here)

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“Senate Republicans are addicted to Koch.” .. (Senator Harry…

“Senate Republicans are addicted to Koch.” .. (Senator Harry Reid) .. (tempting though it may be to pronounce the dirty duo’s name as ‘Cock’, the more usual way of saying it in the U.S. is ‘Coke’) ..

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February is Black History Month in the USA

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“For forty years, Cuba has been under constant US attack:…

“For forty years, Cuba has been under constant US attack: military attack, economic warfare, efforts at strangulation, trying to induce maximal suffering on the population – straight outright terror, lots of it – so who’s the ‘rogue state’ ?” .. (Noam Chomsky)

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The American government is for sale, and you can’t afford…

The American government is for sale, and you can’t afford it .. (story here)

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“In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In…

“In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.” .. (Fran Lebowitz)

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Obama has just been in the news visiting Saudi Arabia, the…

Obama has just been in the news visiting Saudi Arabia, the USA’s ‘staunch and loyal ally’ in the middle-east, where blogger Raif Badawi was recently jailed for 10 years, fined 1 million Saudi Riyal (about $260,000), banned from using any kind of media or traveling until 2034, and sentenced to be lashed publicly 1,000 times with a 7ft bamboo cane after he started a website for social and political debate .. (story here).

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