The problem with Republicans’ political ethics is highly contingent. Take the words of George W. Bush, for example. When he contemplates the other nations of the world, he declares an inflexible and unhelpful dichotomy: “either you’re with us, or you’re against us.” But when it comes to judging himself and his own […]

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Are we going to let the people of India defeat us in the competition to restrain greenhouse gas emissions? If you want to be defeatist in this contest, then vote for a right wing politician who won’t even try to win. If you want America to be the winner, vote progressive in 2008.

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On December 4 2007, Steve Inskeep of NPR News asked the Democratic presidential candidates whether they, if elected, would encourage American citizens to ferret out and turn in illegal immigrants to law enforcement authorities. Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio answered the question by evoking the Americanism of Emma Lazarus:
Rely on the Constitution. You know, […]

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Pak Helman, on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, used to earn the equivalent of one hundred dollars catching shrimp every week. More recently, however, since the jungles in his province have been aggressively logged so as to provide raw materials for the international market, his catch of shrimp has declined to only the equivalent of five dollars per week.

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Senator Joseph Biden rejects the notion that in the face of dangerous Chinese-made products, there’s not much to be done:
With the WTO guidelines, we could stop these products coming in now. This president doesn’t act. We have much more leverage on China than they have on us.
Let’s get something straight here. We’re making them into […]

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Illinois Senator Barack Obama spoke yesterday on the Fall 2007 National Intelligence Estimate regarding Iran, which concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program far back in 2003:
It is absolutely clear that this administration and President Bush continues to not let facts get in the way of his ideology. And that’s been the problem […]

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In a debate of Democratic Party presidential candidates on December 4 2007, Barack Obama had this to say about improving Chinese labor conditions:
I am interested as I said in making sure the Chinese population is fed and clothed and advancing. That is important. It is not in the long-term interests of China to […]

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All righty then. Is George W. Bush’s declaration that Pervez Musharraf is a friend of democracy who hasn’t crossed any lines in Pakistan not enough for you? Do you need a bigger sign of the moral rot in American foreign policy since the Republicans took power? Fine. Here’s a billboard painted […]

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If you need a sign of the moral rot the United States has suffered under George W. Bush, consider Bush’s comment regarding Pakistani Dictator Pervez Musharraf, who has suspended that nation’s constitution, jailed its lawyers, outlawed dissent, and replaced the Supreme Court with new members who promptly rubber-stamped his path into an illegal third term […]

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There’s a lot more at stake in the 2008 presidential election here in the United States than just the national condition of the USA. People all over the rest of the world are becoming increasingly concerned that America’s declining respect for liberty is dragging the rest of the world down into a diminished state […]

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