AlterNet: Blogs: Video: "Last night on Countdown, Keith Olbermann slammed Bill O'Reilly for saying on his radio show, 'I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence.' In an ironic twist, Olbermann used the words of President Bush — who just last week said, 'Some Americans do not understand the effect that references to nooses and lynching can still have' — to excoriate O'Reilly's insensitive remark.
Broken Spring? : Information Clearing House This is a sequel to my June 2011 article, ‘After the spring’, on the upheavals in the Arab world. It is an article that has been painful to write, because it brings bad tidings and offers a pessimistic analysis of the upheavals, at least in the short term, in a number of Arab countries. The outcomes and potential outcomes of these uprisings have also acquired new, very significant dimensions. These include a complex entanglement with the accelerated preparations for a possible attack on Iran, and a poisonous, sectarian aspect that could have the consequence of ripping Syria and the Middle East apart.
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