Terrorized by 'War on Terror', Z-big Brzezinski
In today's Washington Post, Zbigniew Brzezinski makes a empathic case for the results of the phrase 'War on Terror' being counter productive and of a deliberate effort having gone into the construction...
View ArticleThe Imaginary War in Iraq
Four years and counting.Congress is taking baby steps towards ending U.S. combat ops in Iraq - but at least it's steps in the right direction. Bush is cranking the surge ever higher, pushing troop...
View ArticleThe Flying Monkeys Confess: There Is No Muslim Boogieman.
Logical contradictions are real contradictions. Sooner or later, the bullshit artist contradicts himself one too many times, and the game is exposed. So it is with the latest conservative hobgoblin...
View ArticleWar on Terror. Deconstructed.
War on Terror. A clever phrase devised by Dick Cheney while high on blood thinners. War on Terrorists. An attempt by his politico-spinners to narrow down an impossibly broad conflict to something...
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Sunday Talk - The Right Stuff
Inside: The Sunday LineupIn the Comment Section: (Video) BarackBuster !! (Video) A Salute to Single Moms, Everywhere !! (Video) Sunday Wackos (Slides) Your Moment of Zen (Video) Reid/Edwards:...
View ArticleCorporate Power and Global Domination
Corporate accountability in the era of globalization and global corporations is rather difficult to quantify. From a purely qualitative analysis, the trends of corporate behavior in corporations'...
View ArticleBeautiful Iran
It was shocking to hear several Republican hopefuls use Iran as a whipping boy during last night's debate. It's truly frightening to consider the possibility that these supposedly responsible elected...
View ArticleBrzezinski Says It's All Your Fault
Zbigniew Brzezinski was the guest on Charlie Rose last night. He covered the usual subjects, giving Bush 43 a failing grade, detailing the horrendous foreign policy mistakes he has made, and taking a...
View ArticleHamas - The Arab World's New Liberal Interventionists
I bet this one will piss a lot of people off...
View ArticleZBIG for Obama
This is short and sweet...Yes, Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor for Jimmy Carter is throwing his support behind Obama.Primarily, due to Obama’s approach to foreign affairs and the...
View ArticleVideo of Brzezinski Obama Endorsement
Many of you may have heard or read about the endorsement by Zbigniew Brzezinski of Barack Obama for president on Friday. Zbig, as he is known, has been one of the only powerful voices in the much...
View ArticleDean of Democratic Foreign Policy Backs Obama
Considering Ms Clinton's latest melt down in playing a political fear card Zbigniew's timing couldn't have been better.Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the most influential foreign-policy experts in the...
View ArticleThe Anti-War Primary Now Has a Name: Obama
"In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late.”Martin Luther KingAll presidential candidates either define themselves through big issues or become defined by...
View ArticleZbig Zings Zelikow
With all the attention on The Decider's speech this evening The NewsHour had Philip Zelikow, former aid to Condi Rice, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor in the Carter Admin, who...
View ArticleExit Chemerinsky, Enter Larry Summers: more musings on academic freedom (with...
I am delighted to read that UC Irvine chancellor Michael Drake reversed course after the national uproar about his hiring-then-firing of Edwin Chemerinsky and that now Prof. Chemerinsky is firmly back...
View ArticleClinton Israel statement possibly undermines Mideast negotiations
Hillary Clinton produced a very worthy health care proposal yesterday that drew praise from pundits as diverse as David Brooks and Ezra Klein.We should give her props for that.However, her recently...
View ArticleObama: I have more valuable Experience than Hillary (w/poll)
A debate I believe he will win. Democratic presidential hopeful Barrack Obama said Saturday his public service experience trumps that of rival Hillary Rodham Clinton's, and he tried to use her...
View ArticleBzrezinski criticized for unsportsmanlike conduct.
In an article in Salon.com on September 19, Steven Clemons describes a debate at a recent Washington dinner party attended by eighteen people at which "Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft squared...
View ArticleIRAN vs US... China can help: Brzezinski
In today's Washington Post, Zbigniew Brzezinski former National Security Advisor to President Carter, scholar, author, and 'foreign policy realist' has a don't miss Op-Ed: A Partner For Dealing With...
View ArticleObama's Troubling Policy Advisors
Obama advisors like Zbigniew Brzezinski give cause for concern. Brzezinski has been an eminence gris in US politics for almost half a century, beginning with the Kennedy administration. Brzezinski...
View Article''I wanted him to know my son's name''
'...for when he's commander in chief." -- Tracy Jopek, speaking about her son Ryan David Jopek.I'll explain the quote in the diary below. It has to do with one big reason why this election is about a...
View ArticleAn Interesting Take on the Kosovo Situation. w/poll
Washington Gets a New Colony in the Balkans: Kosovo’s "independence." by by Sara Flounders
View ArticleBarack Obama, "The Candidate"
This week in a local paper, Leland Lehrman, Editor of the Sun News, wrote an article uncovering some of the guise of Barack Obama.It's a very detailed article tying up some loose ends I had not put...
View ArticleBrzezinski on Iran
Zbigniew Brzezinski and William Odom have a major article in the Washington Post today calling for a more sensible policy on Iran. Two quotes: Current U.S. policy toward the regime in Tehran will...
View ArticleThe Real meaning of Realpolitik
Yesterday's Washington Post contained an important op-ed by Zbigniew Brzezinski and William Odom entitled "A sensible policy on Iran" that I think sheds important light upon the difference between...
View ArticleMajor Bipartisan Coalition to Speak Out on Detainees
According to an article by Scott Shane in the New York Times:A bipartisan group of 200 former government officials, retired generals and religious leaders plans to issue a statement on Wednesday...
View ArticleBarack Obama warned on Afghanistan by an old pro
"History never repeats itself but at best rhymes...." - Mark Twain 18??"We have to understand that the situation is precarious and urgent here in Afghanistan, and I believe this has to be the central...
View ArticleWow: Brzezinski Takes On Afghanistan "Surge" Idea, Says Lieberman Wants World...
As usual, Zbigniew Brzezinski is running against the grain and making comments that others (even those who agree) wouldn't dare say publicly.First, on sending more forces into Afghanistan (or, as he...
View ArticleStop treating us like imbeciles
Just look at the picture. There they are, three old, rich white guys (Mitch McConnell [R-KY], Thad Cochran [R-MS], and Pete Domeinici [R-NM]) telling us that our oil problem can be solved by looking...
View ArticleGeorgia vs. Russia: Prelude to WWIII?
From today's Pravda:Georgia, Ossetia and Public OpinionIf the people of the world are being asked to judge the actions of the Russian Federation through press reports based on the information that is...
View ArticleBlood on the Floor at Morning Joe (Update w/Video)
Just call him "Zbig the Scar Slayer." Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski just destroyed Joe Scarborough on his own show and left him speechless and lying bloody on the ground. Scarborough had been ranting and...
View ArticleZbigniew Brzezinski, Your Next President.
That’s right, whether Obama or McCain win the election next week, it’ll be Zbigniew Brzezinski – David Rockefeller’s Prime Minister – at the controls of both sides of the charade through his sons.
View ArticleDr. Zbigniew Brzezinski smacks down Joe Scarborough. . . AGAIN
I remember there was a diary up a while ago where Dr. Brezezinski smacked Joe around a bit, and this morning he did it again. I find it so hard to reconcile how Mika turned out like that when her dad...
View ArticleAn Architect Of Financial Crisis To Announce Plan To Fix It.
Tax cheat and one of the architects of the current economic disaster Timothy F. Geithner is scheduled to unveil a separate financial stability plan Monday that could cost hundreds of billions more to...
View ArticlePlease View This Video
Great video from yesterday of Zbigniew Brzezinski, talking about class conflict as a result of the current economic crisis. Forgive me if this has already been posted (and ignore the moronic comments...
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The Week in Editorial Cartoons w/Poll: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
THE WEEK IN EDITORIAL CARTOONSThis weekly diary takes a look at the past week's important news stories from the perspective of our leading editorial cartoonists (including a few foreign ones) with a...
View ArticleTheir opinions = fact, Our facts = opinion
I've been trying to formulate in my head what makes me so enraged at the mainstream media. I used to get annoyed when I heard the blatant falsehoods parroted as though they had some truth, some value....
View ArticleRANT: Of conjuring, and thundering f*ckwititude
Required provisions for this diary: Rubber hip waders. Hose. Industrial strength disinfectant. Pocket full of bread crumbs to trace your way back to reality.
View ArticleWill It Be Hubris Or Humility In Afghanistan?
If only a little of the humility President Obama regularly expresses would rub off on some others in Washington. Tom Friedman expresses the more usual Washington hubris when he says the US should tell...
View ArticleZbigniew Brzezinski is one smart man
Say what you will about the Carter administration...he had some very bright people around him. This will be a short diary, but the bottom line is that talent counts.Everytime I've ever seen Zbig on TV...
View ArticleWatching Cartoons
A person could blog while on short trip to Florida, certainly, but it is too hard to study Red Sox minor leaguers and observe whether Tim Wakefield can actually get off the mound, while considering...
View ArticleWaPo: Obama Developing Mideast Peace Plan
In his column for the Washington Post, David Ignatius details the comings and goings of the administration and how they're likely to develop a peace plan for the middle east due to Israeli...
View ArticleU.S. ME Policy is Explicitly Against Regional Self-Interest
It is impossible for a feeling person to watch common citizens brutally crushed by a tyrant without wishing a benign force would intervene to stop the bloodshed. Is the U.S. military such a benign...
View ArticleAmerica's Gravest Threat
(Please recommend)America Is Facing A CrisisOnce again, the nation is engaged in a fundamental debate about its future. What should we do with Medicare? How do we protect social security? How do we fix...
View ArticleYes, We Can Nominate Chuck Hagel SecDef.
I would like to challenge the meme that Chuck Hagel is a Republican and, therefore, should not be supported in any fashion on the DailyKos. There are a lot of former Republicans who are now DailyKos...
View ArticleSyrian Evil and What Americans Believe
The talks over Syria have gone nowhere and so the chorus rises again."Obama is a wuss.""Something must be done.""Nobody will take us seriously if we do not act."As before, the only action on the table...
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Ukraine's leaders face battle for credibility, financial crisis, and...
This post follows from President Obama suspends U.S. participation in G-8 preparation in 90 minute call to Validimir Putin which contains updates through midnight last night.Steven Erlanger, of the New...
View ArticleZbigniew Brzezinski's parents were from the (Polish-)Ukraine.
There's a simple explanation for Zbigniew "Zbig" Brzezinski's rabid anti-Russian hatred in the current Ukraine crisis (and others involving Russia). His forebears (and family name) are Poles from what...
View ArticleLOL at the Old Grey Lady...also, Zbigniew Brzezinski, former NSA Advisor to...
xThe idea behind the secret channel was for Russian military officials to brief Michael Flynn about the Syrian war https://t.co/GbvaLUKOGxpic.twitter.com/xoCRPVuMHA— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) May 27,...
View ArticleZbigniew Brzezinski's Story About Afghanistan
Zbigniew Brzezinski once told a story. It is about how, on July 3, 1979, Jimmy Carter signed a directive giving secret aid to opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan.There is an important...
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