SchwartzReport: Frank Rich on Fantasyland — A Public Without the Truth Gets a Government Far Removed From the Truth

Fantasyland Denial has poisoned the GOP and threatens the rest of the country too EXTRACT: The country has a larger problem-‘intellectual nihilism,” as the writer Noam Scheiber recently labeled it. Since 9/11, often but not always under the right’s aegis, truth has been destabilized in America. The Bush administration’s contempt for what it dismissed as …

Mini-Me: Fukushima Impact on US West Coast – Keeping the Truth Off the Table….+ Fukushima / Nuclear Meta-RECAP

Huh? Impact to US West Coast from Fukushima disaster likely larger than anticipated, several reports indicate Non-naturally occurring radionuclides from the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant’s triple meltdown last year radioactively contaminated the entire northern hemisphere within days and the US west coast bore a significant brunt of so called hot particles, an independent scientific paper …

Eagle: President Obama Tells the Truth – A Good First Step – But Can He Turn On A Dime & Force Electoral Reform in 30 Days?

Republicans pounce on Obama remark: ‘You can’t change Washington from the inside’ He has not been able to change the ‘tone’ in Washington, Obama says, calling that ‘disappointing.’ President Obama — who ran his 2008 campaign on the promise of “hope and change” — made a surprising admission after four years in office on Thursday: …

DefDog: The Truth About Afghanistan – A Book, “No Worse Enemy”

Author Q&A Afghanistan: “It’s Just Damage Limitation Now” Briton Ben Anderson is a documentary filmmaker (the BBC, HBO, the Discovery Channel), but he turns to the written word in No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan. The book offers a gritty – and grim — assessment of the war. Anderson …

Mini-Me: Time for NATO Truth & Reconciliation Commission? + NATO RECAP

Huh? DATE OF EVENT:  1980-06-27 2012-08-26  Botched 1980 Gaddafi Assassination Kills All Aboard 2012-08-25 An Assassination of International Proportions 27 June 1980 and A Cover-Up by NATO : civilian jet with 81 civilians shot by French Mirage instead of Qaddafi Plane over Sicily 2012-07-06 Wikipedia / Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 2011-10-18 Libyan secret documents said to …

NIGHTWATCH: Afghanistan Truth Check – Still Hosed

Afghanistan: Special comment: This week Coalition forces commander General Allen said that only ten of Afghanistan’s now 405 districts, in 34 provinces, are responsible for half of the violence in Afghanistan. They are Sangin, Nowzad, Musa Qala, Kajaki, Nad e Ali, Nahr e Sarraj in Sangin Province plus Pol-e-Alam in Lowgar Province and Maiwand, Panjwai …