Hold Fast

Tibetan blogger Woeser has a post with a great deal of background information connected to a recent video release from the Tibetan Government in Exile of footage from China’s brutal crackdown on Tibetans following the spring 2008 national uprising. Woeser’s original post is here. The China Digital Times has translated it. Woeser gives great detail [...]

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Timothy Geithner is too big to fail.

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s various troubles has shifted national political attention off of RNC Chairman Michael Steele. Steele is out to change that today.

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Glenn Greenwald asks: Does anyone expect there to be any systematic prosecutions for those most responsible for the looting, systematic fraud and grand-scale theft of the last decade? No.

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I’m not sure why Nick Kristof is surprised that experts on TV tend to get things wrong, often big things that the media is more than happy to repeatedly defer to them on, regardless of past performance. Academic studies of natural deference to experts really don’t prove anything. Expertise is another extension of authority – [...]

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Hunter of Daily Kos on the contemporary Republican Party: Honestly, I would begin to regain a shred — a mere, dismal thread — of respect for the Republicans if they had an ounce of self awareness on this one, or heaven help us showed a moment of sheepishness over it, or even just f–ing recognized [...]

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Via AmericaBlog.

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Christy Hardin Smith highlights some very important ways that the transition from a Bush presidency to the Obama presidency will impact workers in America. For the first time in eight years, the Department of Labor will be run by someone who understands working issues and supports the rights of America’s workers. This should mean oversight, [...]

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Via the BBC, in an article about the Chinese government blocking all access to YouTube because the site has videos of Chinese troops and security forces beating peaceful Tibetan monks and protesters: On Tuesday, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said that China “is not afraid of the internet”. Right, the Chinese government is simply afraid of [...]

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Melissa McEwan nails the response that I had when watching Bill O’Reilly’s dishonest smear piece on Amanda Terkel.

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