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“We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle in Iraq. These events swung American public opinion in our favor”
-- Benjamin Netanyahu
News and Opinion
New Effort to Rebut Torture Report Undermined as Former Official Admits the Obvious
Eight former top officials wrangled by Bill Harlow — the former CIA flak who brought us the CIASavedLives.com website after the Senate report was issued last December — are publishing a book in the coming weeks entitled “Rebuttal: The CIA Responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Study of Its Detention and Interrogation Program.”
Meanwhile, however, Alvin Bernard “Buzzy” Krongard, who was the CIA’s executive director from 2001 to 2004 — the number-three position at the agency — was asked on a BBC news program if he thought waterboarding and putting a detainee in painful stress positions amounted to torture.
“Well, let’s put it this way, it is meant to make him as uncomfortable as possible,” he said. “So I assume for, without getting into semantics, that’s torture. I’m comfortable with saying that.”
He added: “We were told by legal authorities that we could torture people.”
Anti-Austerity Candidate Corbyn: Tony Blair Could Face War Crimes
MP Jeremy Corbyn says Iraq war illegal, Blair must divulge details of 2002 meetings with George W. Bush
Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn, a left-wing MP who's leading the polls, said that former Prime Minister Tony Blair could possibly face war crimes for his involvement in the Iraq war.
The long-time MP, whom the Guardian's Ewen MacAskill characterized as "the anti-austerity candidate, in tune with similar movements in Greece and elsewhere in Europe," made the comments Tuesday In an interview with BBC2's Newsnight.
"I think there are some decisions that Tony Blair has got to confess or tell us what actually happened in Crawford, Texas in 2002 in his private meetings with George Bush," Corbyn told interviewer Emily Maitlis.
He said that the still unreleased Chilcot Inquiry, an official investigation into Britain's role in the Iraq war, is going to come out, and "Tony Blair and the others that have made the decisions are then going to have to deal with the consequences of it."
Asked by Maitlis, "So should [Blair] be tried for war crimes?" Corbyn said, "If he's committed a war crime, yes. Everyone who's committed a war crime should."
Obama administration faces criticism over human trafficking report
Several U.S. politicians sharply criticized the Obama administration on Monday over an annual global report on human trafficking in response to a Reuters article chronicling how senior U.S. diplomats had watered down rankings of more than a dozen strategically important countries.
Democratic Senator Bob Menendez called the account “alarming & unacceptable if true”, tweeting that “we must get to the bottom of this” at a Senate hearing set for Thursday to review the 2015 Trafficking in Persons report.
From 9/11 to Mass Surveillance, The Man Who Knew Too Much - Thomas Drake
Pentagon remains stubbornly unable to account for its billions
Defense Department officials celebrated after their auditor certified that the Marine Corps had successfully accounted for all the money it received and spent in 2012. They said it was a key milestone in the Pentagon’s long, troubled quest to earn that certification for all its billions of dollars in annual spending. ...
The self-congratulations turned to embarrassment this March, however, when the Pentagon’s auditor suddenly reversed itself and withdrew its endorsement, saying newly discovered facts called into question “the completeness of the information on which we based our opinion,” according to a memorandum sent by a senior auditor to the Pentagon’s Comptroller and other top Pentagon officials.
No one said so at the time, but the Corps had not properly accounted for roughly $800 million worth of transactions on its books, insiders say. That amount represents the sum of misstated and improperly documented transactions by the Corps, according to a report by the independent Government Accountability Office released on Aug. 4.
The GAO report further said these shortcomings in the Marine Corps’s accounting are typical, not rare. The same undocumented transactions and unreliable methods of financial record-keeping plague the Defense Department’s entire accounting apparatus, and threaten its ability to meet a congressionally imposed deadline for becoming fully auditable in two years, according to the report. ...
Provocatively, the GAO report also said that senior managers from the Pentagon’s auditor’s office, which withdrew the certification of credibility for the Marine Corps’ accounting, had improperly certified the Corps’s financial report in the first place, over the objections of lower-ranking specialists who oversaw the work.
Al-Qaeda Whittles Down US-Trained Rebels in Syria
Late last month, the first US-trained rebels from a group called “Division 30,” also called the New Syrian Forces (NSF) by US officials, arrived in northern Syria. The faction is the result of hundreds of millions of dollars in US spending to create a new force,but amounted to only 54 people. It’s getting progressively smaller.
Almost immediately after arriving, the rebels ran afoul of Syrian al-Qaeda faction Jabhat al-Nusra, who captured between eight and 18 of them. Not long thereafter, more fighting left one of the NSF dead, and today al-Qaeda is confirmed to have captured another 5 fighters.
Losing a few fighters here or there would normally be seen as “acceptable losses,” but with only 54 rebels to start with, there could be as few as 30 of the NSF fighters even left in the field, depending on just how many have actually been taken by al-Qaeda.
Obama foresees 'another war in Middle East' without Iran deal
Does the American public oppose the Iran deal?
As forces pro and con lobby Congress on the landmark deal, the polls have been a source of hope, disappointment and — at a minimum — perplexity for people following the debate.
A week ago, for example, an Economist/YouGov poll showed that 51 percent of Americans support the agreement. On Monday morning, however, Quinnipiac released a poll showing 57 percent of Americans oppose it. Then, a few hours later, a Wall Street Journal/NBC poll came out showing that Americans are evenly divided: one-third back the deal, one-third oppose it, and one-third don’t know enough to offer an opinion. ...
Take two polls conducted over roughly the same time period last month.
One, overseen by the Pew Research Center, first asks people how much they’ve heard about the deal, then poses the question: “From what you know, do you approve or disapprove of this agreement?” Of the 79 percent who’d heard of the deal, 48 percent disapproved, while 38 percent approved.
The second, a Washington Post/ABC News survey, first explains the agreement (“As you may know, the U.S. and other countries have announced a deal to lift economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for Iran agreeing not to produce nuclear weapons. International inspectors would monitor Iran’s facilities, and if Iran is caught breaking the agreement economic sanctions would be imposed again.”) before asking whether respondents support or oppose it. The level of support was 56 percent.
A Pew analysis chalked up the differences to the wording of the question.
The U.S. is enabling a terrible mistake in Yemen
Don't look now, but another nation in the Middle East is falling to pieces.
This time it's Yemen, which was already the poorest nation in the region when a civil war broke out early this year. Things have only gotten worse since Saudi Arabia intervened with major military force.
It's a humanitarian disaster. But it also illustrates the increasingly obvious downsides to America's close relationship with Saudi Arabia. By not pushing the Saudis to back off, or even speaking out on their mistake, America is setting the stage for future disasters.
The average Yemeni is naturally suffering horribly. How bad has it gotten? Here's Matt Purple:
The Saudis have been blockading Yemen since March to repel ships seeking to arm the Houthis. They've pledged $274 million in aid for the country they're bombing, but have demanded that Houthi-controlled areas be excluded and tossed up bureaucratic roadblocks that have made the effective distribution of supplies impossible. The result is that Yemen has been isolated from the world and left to die. More than 80 percent of its population — 21.1 million people — is in need of aid. Thirteen million are at risk from starvation and 9.4 million are imperiled by thirst. [National Interest]
In many ways this mirrors the situation in Iraq. Yemen has been chronically unstable for years, beset by corrupt government, repeated armed uprisings, and the poisonous legacy of Western colonialism. Yet foreign intervention, supposedly to help "stabilize" the country, is doing little but dragging out the conflict while causing mass suffering and death.
Court Rules Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Violates Fourth Amendment
A divided appellate court panel in Richmond, Virginia, ruled on Tuesday that citizens do not give up their privacy rights just because their mobile-phone providers know where to reach them.
The decision is the strongest assertion of the Fourth Amendment rights of mobile phone users out of three appellate court decisions on the matter, setting up a likely Supreme Court hearing. ...
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling rejected the “third party doctrine,” a legal theory that private information held by a company is not protected by the Fourth Amendment’s prohibitions against unreasonable search and seizure. ...
“People cannot be deemed to have volunteered to forfeit expectations of privacy by simply seeking active participation in society through use of their cell phones,” the court wrote.
'Unable to Get Enough Information,' Sandra Bland's Family Are Now Suing Texas Police
The family of Sandra Bland, the black woman found dead in a Texas jail three days after a confrontation with a white state trooper, is now suing the arresting officer and other Texas authorities as a "last resort" after being "unable to get enough information about the case." ...
The lawsuit made against the Texas authorities, with Bland's mother as plaintiff, seeks unspecified punitive damages "for egregious acts and omissions" by Brian Encinia, the trooper who carried out the shooting, the Texas Department of Public Safety, Waller County, the sheriff's office and two jail employees.
It states that Bland should never have been arrested, that Encinia falsified an assault allegation to take her into custody, and that she was later held in "reckless" conditions without proper supervision to keep her safe.
The lawsuit says the Department of Public Safety failed to property train Encinia, that Waller County jail personnel failed to properly monitor Bland "to keep her safe and secure," and that the county inadequately trained jail employees on how to handle inmates who are potentially suicidal.
The Texas Commission on Jail Standards has already cited the jail over some of these matters, including that guards failed to observe Bland in-person at least once every hour. Larry Simmons, an attorney for Waller County, said the county would soon file a response to the lawsuit and intend to "vigorously defend the case."
Alabama officer kept job after proposal to murder black man and hide evidence
A police officer in Alabama proposed murdering a black resident and creating bogus evidence to suggest the killing was in self-defence, the Guardian has learned.
Officer Troy Middlebrooks kept his job and continues to patrol Alexander City after authorities there paid the man $35,000 to avoid being publicly sued over the incident. Middlebrooks, a veteran of the US marines, said the man “needs a god damn bullet” and allegedly referred to him as “that nigger”, after becoming frustrated that the man was not punished more harshly over a prior run-in.
The payment was made to the black resident, Vincent Bias, after a secret recording of Middlebrooks’s remarks was played to the city’s police chiefs and the mayor. Elected city councillors said they were not consulted. A copy of the recording was obtained by the Guardian.
“This town is ridiculous,” Bias, 49, said in an interview. “The police here feel they can do what they want, and often they do.” Alexander City police chief Willie Robinson defended Middlebrooks. “He was just talking. He didn’t really mean that,” he said in an interview.
Within months of the recording, Middlebrooks was the first officer to respond to a controversial fatal shooting by a colleague of an unarmed black man in the city. He was closely involved in handling the scene and gave a key account of what happened to state investigators. His fellow officer was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing and both men continue to police the city of about 15,000 people about 55 miles north-east of Montgomery.
Black and White: Survey Reveals Huge Disparities in Assessing Police Violence
Just days ahead of the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown's killing by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri—a death which propelled the national Black Lives Matter movement and a national conversation about racialized police violence to the forefront—a new poll released Wednesday reveals just how different the perceptions and experiences regarding law enforcement in the United States remain for black community members compared to their white counterparts.
Conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Chicago, the new survey found black people are much more likely to have had a personally negative experience with police officers, with more than 3 in 5 saying they or a family member had been ill-treated by police based on their race, compared to just 3 percent of white respondents who said the same. In addition to actual experience, the perceptions of law enforcement practices and behavior were starkly different between black and white civilians.
Strikingly, when it came to assessing the severity of problematic police violence in the country, nearly three-quarters of black respondents consider violence against civilians by law enforcement officers to be an extremely or very serious problem, while less than 20 percent of white people feel the same.
Juan González: Puerto Rico’s Economic "Death Spiral" Tied to Legacy of Colonialism
Puerto Rico's First-Ever Bond Default Exposes Island's 'Debt Colony' Status
Wall Street hedge funds largely responsible for island's crises of poverty, unemployment, and debt
Just a month after Governor Alejandro García Padilla claimed that Puerto Rico's overall $72 billion debt is "not payable," the government missed a $58 million bond payment for the first time on Monday, compounding the duel crises of debt and poverty that analysts say is rooted in the island's true status as a "debt colony" of the United States. ...
James Henry, senior fellow for Columbia University's Center on Sustainable Investment and senior economic adviser for the Tax Justice Network, told Common Dreams: "They have selectively defaulted. They are defaulting on publicly-traded stuff and trying to negotiate private agreements with hedge funds. Hedge funds have a lot of clout in governments and are likely going behind the scenes to help influence who gets paid back. If Puerto Rico ever wants to borrow again they have to pay back these guys. That's the vulture approach."
As journalist Raquel Reichard put it on Wednesday, "Some have called the $58 million default a calculated effort, as Puerto Rico paid 'the big guys' with the legal power to sue, while it shortchanged the low-risk creditors in its own backyard." ...
Analyst Eric Draitser recently argued that the real culprits are the "Wall Street banks who have parasitically, and quite handsomely, profited from Puerto Rico’s financial straightjacket."
"Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, and many others rushed to underwrite massive loans in the form of bond purchases in order to then turn around and sell those bonds to hedge funds and other investors in the US and around the world, thereby raking in tremendous profits on the underwriting fees," wrote Draitser. "Essentially, Wall Street banks came in with enormous capital then transferred the risk on to other speculators, while making handsome profits as middlemen."
The Anti-Capitalist Greek Left Says No to Austerity and Bailouts
Finally! SEC Votes to Disclose Exorbitant CEO-Worker Pay Ratio
"We finally have an official yardstick for measuring CEO greed," said Institute for Policy Studies analyst Sarah Anderson.
In a move supporters are cheering as a victory for workers—and filing under the "better late than never" category on the part of the government—the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday voted to adopt new rules requiring a public company to disclose the pay ratio between its CEO and employees.
Advocates say the disclosure rule, which is required under Section 953(b) of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, is commonsense and hope it will provide some relief to the gross economic inequality in the American workplace.
"We finally have an official yardstick for measuring CEO greed," said Sarah Anderson, director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). "This is a huge victory for ordinary Americans who are fed up with a CEO pay system that rewards the guy in the corner office hundreds of times more than others who add value to their companies."
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal which will feature news from Salt Lake City: Joe Hill to writes to Hilton & Haywood: the case is dropped. Defense Committee doesn't agree.
Tune in at 2pm!
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Hat tip jayraye:
Fault Lines: Stolen Wages
Despite Epic Crash of World Economy, White Collar Prosecutions at 20-Year Low
Despite lofty rhetoric from politicians who vowed in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis to hold Wall Street accountable, U.S. Justice Department statistics show a "long-term collapse" of federal white collar crime prosecutions, which are down to their lowest level in 20 years, according to a new report from Syracuse University.
The analysis of thousands of records by the university's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) shows a more than 36 percent decline in such prosecutions since the middle of the Clinton administration, when the decline first began. While there was an uptick early in Barack Obama's presidency, current projections indicate that by the end of the 2015 fiscal year, such prosecutions will be at their lowest level since 1995.
But while news of the 20-year low is troubling, it's not particularly surprising. As journalist David Sirota noted on Thursday for the International Business Times:
In 2012, President Obama pledged to "hold Wall Street accountable" for financial misdeeds related to the financial crisis. But as financial industry donations flooded into Obama’s reelection campaign, his Justice Department officials promoted policies that critics say embodied a "too big to jail" doctrine for financial crime.
Sirota went on to point out, both the former head of the Justice Department's criminal division, Lanny Breuer, and former Attorney General Eric Holder made similar remarks at the time. "Prior to serving in the Obama Justice Department, both Breuer and Holder worked at white-collar defense firm Covington & Burling," Sirota wrote. "Both of them went back to work for the firm again immediately after leaving their government posts."
Shadow Puppets: Outside Groups Pulling the Strings in 2016 Election
Representing a "fundamental shift in how presidential campaigns are funded in the United States," so-called shadow campaigns are already dominating the 2016 election cycle, according to a new study issued Tuesday by the Brennan Center for Justice.
The report, Shadow Campaigns: The Shift in Presidential Campaign Funding to Outside Groups, reveals that ostensibly independent groups—many of which in reality enjoy close ties to individual candidates—have raised hundreds of millions of dollars, greatly outpacing the candidates' own campaign committees.
Furthermore, the study finds, 95 percent of the outside money, or $270 million, has been collected by groups not subject to contribution limits, raising questions "about whether big donors are attempting an end-run around the strict limits on contributions to candidates' formal campaign committees."
"The advantage of funds raised through unlimited-contribution groups is obvious," the report explains. "One wealthy donor can write a check for millions. Campaign committees, on the other hand, are limited to donations of $2,700 for the primary election. In theory, candidates are not permitted to 'coordinate' with groups that can raise unlimited funds. But with flawed coordination rules that go almost entirely unenforced, in reality the path is open for candidates to work closely with, and even exert control over, supportive outside groups—even to the point of assigning close advisers to run them."
FBI investigating security of Hillary Clinton's private email account
The FBI has begun looking into the security of Hillary Clinton’s private email setup, contacting in the past week a Denver-based technology firm that helped manage the unusual system, the Washington Post has reported, citing two government officials. ...
A lawyer for the Denver company, Platte River Networks, declined to comment, as did multiple justice department officials, the Post said. ...
The server installed in her Chappaqua, New York, home as she was preparing to take office as secretary of state was originally used by her first campaign for the presidency, in 2008, the Post reported, citing two people briefed on the setup. A staffer who was on the payroll of her political action committee set it up in her home.
Responsibility for setting up and maintaining the server that handled personal email communications passed through a number of different hands, starting with Clinton staffers with limited training in computer security and eventually expanding to Platte River, the Post reported.
Sorry, Hillary Clinton fans: her email errors are definitely newsworthy
Despite her campaign’s attempt to paint the scandal as persecution, anyone who cares about government transparency and security should demand information
The Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and its supporters have spent the last week trying to paint the continuing scandal over Clinton’s private email server as a partisan persecution with no significance to the presidential race. But anyone who cares about government transparency, overclassification and cybersecurity should care about Clinton’s email scandal – including her strongest supporters. ...
First, there’s Clinton herself. She repeatedly denied having classified information in her emails, yet now we find out there are likely “hundreds” of emails containing it (more on that later). One of her closest aides, Philippe Reines, excoriated Gawker months ago for claiming he was using a private email address to conduct state business during his tenure at the State Department, yet he apparently just turned over 20 boxes of emails containing just that. Does the public not deserve an explanation about these seemingly false statements?
Using private email for public business is also a tried-and-true tactic to evade public records requests, no matter what Clinton defenders might say. And it is beyond question that it worked, as Foia requests filed for these emails were stonewalled for years and only thanks to the attention are now just starting to trickle out. It may be part of the reason why Clinton’s State Department had a “dismal” record on transparency, which is certainly an issue a lot of non-Republicans care about.
Should citizens not have serious concerns given Clinton was a target of dozens of intelligence agencies as Secretary of State and put herself at increased risk of spying by using private email with unknown security features? In an age where both political parties claim that cybersecurity is such a serious concern that they are willing to trample citizens’ basic privacy rights, it’s a wonder the argument is being made presidential candidates should be above reproach.
The Clinton campaign and its supporters have jumped on the mistakes in the initial New York Times report about Inspectors General allegedly making a “criminal” referral to the Justice Department, only to walk back the story the next day. The Times mistake culminated in the campaign writing an almost 2,000-word screed aimed at the Times that was posted on hillaryclinton.com Thursday night.
Clinton’s camp can quibble over whether it was a “criminal inquiry” or “security inquiry” until they are all blue in the face, but the underlying story remains correct: it’s against the law to mishandle classified information, and there are apparently many, many emails with classified information in them, despite Clinton’s repeated denials.
Martin O'Malley Worked With Lobbyists to Recruit Pro-Business Democrats
As he campaigns for the presidency this year, Martin O’Malley has cast himself as a populist “public enemy” of Wall Street and a champion of the working class against America’s moneyed elite.
But only a year ago, O’Malley was working with corporate lobbyists to recruit business-friendly politicians into the Democratic Party.
In 2011, O’Malley co-founded a group called The NewDEAL, a nonprofit described as an effort to highlight the work of “pro-business progressives.” Rather than championing anti-bank populists, the group worked to promote moderate Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, now an attorney who counts Walmart as a client.
Critics have noted that O’Malley campaign as a populist stands in sharp contrast with a career of moderation. In 2007, as co-chair of the Democratic Leadership Council, a group dedicated to promoting business-friendly politicians, O’Malley authored an opinion column for the Washington Post with Harold Ford urging Democrats not to stray too far from the “center” of politics.
The Evening Greens
Worker Dies at Disabled Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
A 30 year-old man died this weekend as he worked on decommissioning Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, which was devastated in the 2011 Tohoku tsunami, in which 20,000 died or were reported missing.
It is not yet known whether the man's death was due to radiation exposure, and an autopsy is pending. ...
In a statement released Monday, the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), said that the man had been taken to the emergency room after complaining that he wasn't feeling well. "His death was confirmed early in the afternoon," Tepco said. ...
This is the third recorded death at the stricken Fukushima plant since the start of the decommissioning work. In March 2014, a laborer at the plant was killed after being buried under gravel while digging, and in January 2015, a worker died after falling inside a water storage tank. ...
On some days, radioactive emissions at the Fukushima plant can be as high as 2.16 millisieverts [mSv] — more than one-tenth of the allowed annual exposure for nuclear energy workers. As a result, workers are limited to three-hour shifts, and labor in grueling conditions, particularly in the summer, when the temperature can reach 113 degrees. The heat is made worse by the heavy protective gear worn by workers to protect themselves from radiation exposure — including suits boots, gloves and masks.
Relentless California wildfire jumps highway barrier despite cooler weather
A huge wildfire has defied containment efforts and jumped a highway, opening a new front for firefighters in California.
The week-old Rocky fire leaped across highway 20 in multiple places and scorched hundreds of acres of brush on Tuesday, expanding its total range to 65,000 acres. It is 12% contained.
“We were really working hard to keep it south of highway 20 but the fire spotted ahead,” said Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. “It has grown at such an explosive rate. The speed is really unprecedented and shows just how dry the conditions are.”
The blaze is the worst of 21 wildfires scorching parched woodland across the state. Some 9,000 firefighters backed by aircraft are battling to contain the fires but four years of drought have created tinderbox conditions.
Thunderstorms expected this week may cool temperatures and increase humidity but they are also likely to bring wind and lightning, which has caused many of the recent fires. “It’s definitely a concern,” said Berlant.
Bombshell Study Reveals Methane Emissions Hugely Underestimated
The amount of methane being leaked from natural gas production sites has been hugely underestimated, according to a "bombshell" new study released on Tuesday.
In a paper published at Energy & Science Engineering, expert and gas industry consultant Touché Howard argues that a much-heralded 2013 study by the University of Texas relied on a faulty measurement instrument, the Bacharach Hi-Flow Sampler (BHFS), causing its findings to low-ball actual emission rates "by factors of three to five."
"The data reported by the University of Texas study suggest their measurements exhibit this sensor failure, as shown by the paucity of high-emitting observations when the wellhead gas composition was less than 91% CH4, where sensor failures are most likely," Howard writes, "during follow-up testing, the BHFS used in that study indeed exhibited sensor failure consistent with under-reporting of these high emitters."
Jamie Henn, communications director for 350.org called Howard's findings a "bombshell," adding: "The more we learn about fracking, the worse it is for the environment."
If Howard is correct, the study throws into question countless other estimates of methane emissions from natural gas production through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which has been hailed as a low-emission energy solution.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
TTIP: what does the transatlantic trade deal mean for renewable energy?
Thanks to Reliance on "Signature" Drone Strikes, US Military Doesn't Know Who It's Killing
Ted Rall: 14 Years Ago, a Woman Vindicated Me Now
Hat tip Agathena:
Fire at World’s End
Polls show Bernie winning
Those Embarrassing Supporters are Hurting Their Candidate
On the Death of Mullah Omar, and Other Afghan News
Can't be an -ology without a journal
A Little Night Music
Ray Agee - Tin Pan Alley
Ray Agee - Hard Loving Woman
Ray Agee - Hard Working Man
Ray Agee - The Devils Angels
Ray Agee - I Feel So Good
Ray Agee - Tough Competition
Ray Agee - I'm Not Looking Back
Ray Agee - I'm Losing Again
Ray Agee - Your Precious Love
Ray Agee - You Hit Me Where It Hurts
Ray Agee - It's Hard To Explain
Ray Agee - Love Bug
Ray Agee - Mr. Clean
Ray Agee - Leave me alone
Ray Agee - The Monkey On My Back
Ray Agee - Swingin' Partner
Ray Agee - It's a Helluva Thing
Ray Agee - My So Called Friend
Ray Agee - Flirting blues