Category Archives: Barreling Right Along

A few random thoughts on Omar Khadr

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Sabina Becker

By now, it should be no secret to any of you who have read this blog over the years (thank you!) that I am utterly against the so-called War on Terror. I’ve repeatedly said that it is not a war … Continue reading →

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Why Chelsea Manning is a hero, not a traitor

Posted on May 20, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Jimmy Dore breaks it all down, in horrifying detail. What Chelsea Manning revealed to Wikileaks shows that the villain here isn’t one lone whistle-blowing ex-army private, nor a site devoted to publishing leaked information from people like her, but the … Continue reading →

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What is going on in Flint, Michigan?

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Sabina Becker

The Young Turks are on it, and none of the major media are anywhere in sight: Did you know that there’s now a water protector camp in Flint, protesting the profiteers who are trying to frack the fuck out of … Continue reading →

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The bullshit hypocrisy of Luis Almagro

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Oh joy, oh bliss, oh yay. Once more, a brave lone voice of democracy has spoken out against a country creeping ever so slowly yet steadily toward dictatorship. No, he’s not talking about the recent power-grab of Sultan Erdogan in … Continue reading →

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WTF is going on in Syria?

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Jimmy Dore seems to think that the latest poison gas bombing in Syria was not the work of Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian Arab Army, but that of the al-Nusra Front and/or the government of Turkey. I’m inclined to strongly agree, especially … Continue reading →

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What’s going on at Standing Rock

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Sabina Becker

The Young Turks explode the myths about the camp: No, the water protectors were not removed to “clean up debris” — a laughable excuse when it’s all about a polluting, infamous corporation’s “right” to build a polluting, infamous pipeline through … Continue reading →

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Drumpf voters in Iowa oppose DAPL pipeline!

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Now here’s something you don’t see every day: A number of Iowa farmers who voted for Drumpf are now being given concrete cause to regret that misguided choice: their lands are being seized and stripped of topsoil under a misuse … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: Line up, there’s a head count

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Sabina Becker

You’ll say yeah to anything if you believe all this… President Gas is President Gas again. And that ain’t all he is: Dressed in pounds and dollars and yen…President Kill wants killing again! You think I’m kidding? Oh hell no. … Continue reading →

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The Karlov assassination: Who’s responsible, and what it all means

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Cenk Uygur, who is Turkish himself, breaks down what happened in Ankara two days ago. Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov was gunned down during a presentation at an art gallery by an off-duty riot policeman, who had disguised himself as a … Continue reading →

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#NoDAPL is not over, people!

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Sabina Becker

This battle has just begun. And no, what the US Army Corps of Engineers did yesterday, though it was the right thing to do, is NOT the end of the pipeline. The Sioux people of Standing Rock are not done … Continue reading →

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