Libya

Why Rightbloggers Should Drop Benghazi, IRS, and AP, Focus on Umbrellagate and Bulworth

As the Benghazi prosecution appears to fizzle, rightbloggers have sought to replace it with a pair of new scandalettes involving the IRS and the Associated Press. We think this shows a disappointing lack of imagination. In the far-flung meth labs of the right, fresher outrages are cooking that Amer ... More >>

Occupy Heavily Monitored for Potential Criminal Activity, HSBC Slapped on the Wrist for Actual Criminal Activity

Apparently non-violent demonstration against corrupt banking is subject to more criminal scrutiny than actual corrupt banking. Documents released by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund Saturday show that the FBI identified Occupy Wall Street as a "potential criminal and terrorist" threat as ear ... More >>

The Best Art of 2012

Voice critics pick their favorite shows from the past year

Killed Navy Seal's Mom To Romney: Stop Using My Son!

Mitt Romney has repeatedly dredged up the story of how he years ago met Navy SEAL Glen Doherty, who was recently killed in the attack on the US consulate in Libya. And Doherty's mom is appalled. "He shouldn't make my son's death part of his political agenda," said Barbara Doherty. "It's wrong to ... More >>

As Romney Goes Down, Rightbloggers Double Down on Liberal Media Bias B.S.

By now you've heard about the Romney 47% video and the lousy poll numbers he's been getting. Were you aware that it's all the fault of the liberal media? Yeah, we know, you've been hearing conservatives talking about liberal media bias forever. It's their version of the Bowery Boys' Routine 11. But ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: September 19-25, 2012

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, Noxious Anti-Islam Video Producer, Was Government Informant

This is interesting: Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the guy believed to have produced that anti-Islam movie which apparently sparked the murder of a U.S. Ambassador in Libya was a federal informant, The Smoking Gun reports. Nakoula, 55, flipped and informed on Eiad Salameh, who was running a major check ... More >>

Alexander Cockburn, 1941-2012

Alexander Cockburn, trenchant political writer and former Voice columnist, has died of cancer in Germany at the age of 71, announces his friend and collaborator, Jeffrey St. Clair. "He didn't want to blog his own death as Christopher Hitchens had done," writes St. Clair at their mutual endeavor, Cou ... More >>

Tim Hetherington: It's War

Pazz & Jop Voter Comments: Singles Going Steady

Rolling down from "The Deep"

Ginger White, Herman Cain's Alleged Mistress, Matter of Fact About Affair

George Stephanopoulus' toe-curling interview with Ginger White, the alleged mistress of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, is the sound of a candidacy dying. White says Cain's not fit to be president, among other things.

The Horse-Drawn Carriage Debate Continues; Local Groups and Celebrities Call for a Ban

Michelle D. Anderson​The effort to ban horse-drawn carriages in New York City rages on. Another report of a carriage horse collapse in a two-week span has left animal-rights advocates -- including celebrities such as Glee's Lea Michele and Pamela Anderson -- with a renewed passion to end the u ... More >>

Rightbloggers Denounce the End of the Iraq Occupation and the "Horrific Murder" of Gaddafi

The American people have long been sick and tired of our occupation of Iraq, and on Friday President Obama called ally-ally-in-free. You'd think there'd be little cause for dissension; as Glenn Greenwald noted, the deadline was agreed to in the Bush era. But you know how it is with rightbloggers ... More >>

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark--The Tangled Web They Wove

It's not a musicalamity, just an ordinary bad musical

Bill Keller, New York Times Boss, Still Not Loving WikiLeaks, Twitter

​Yesterday the New York Times announced that Bill Keller will step down as the executive editor and be replaced by managing editor Jill Abramson, while Keller will focus on just writing. Keller seems to have started this transition when he took on a column in the redesigned New York Times Maga ... More >>

Bin Laden Audio Recording "Puzzling"; New York Ranger Found Dead

​An unreleased audio message from Osama Bin Laden recorded just before his death has been described as "puzzling" and "a head scratcher" by an official. In the recording, Bin Laden talks about the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, but not Libya, Yemen, or Syria. It's confusing that Bin Laden would ... More >>

Donald Trump's Worst Quotes of the Week

​We'll save you the sappy intro and cut right to the chase this afternoon: America, it's time to wake up and smell the toupee. Donald Trump is a schmuck, and as he's traveled the country this week he's done a pretty good job of displaying just that. In the past week few days alone, he's done s ... More >>

New York Serial Killer Spawns Music Video: Brent City Mafia's "Ocean Parkway"

​It's not that current events shouldn't be fodder for art, even when the news is at its most horrifying, like the potential serial killer murdering women on Long Island. But Brent City Mafia, a Long Island rap crew with 8 subscribers on YouTube as of this evening and no website we could find, ... More >>

New Jersey State Senator Mulling 'Snooki's Law'

​Okay, we're going to present a couple facts that will probably anger you, but they need to be introduced in order to report this story. 1) Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi was asked to speak at Rutgers University. 2) Over 2,000 students attended the lecture. 3) She was paid $32,000 by the state-funded ... More >>

Obama a "Mouthpiece" For Racist American Policy, City Councilman Charles Barron Says

​Well, we guess the era of good feelings between President Barack Obama and City Councilman Charles Barron is officially over. Barron, a Brooklyn councilman not known for subtlety, recently accused Obama of being a "mouthpiece for a racist, imperialistic American foreign policy controlled by ... More >>

Al Jazeera English to Introduce Twitter-Heavy News Show

​Al Jazeera English is launching a new show in May called "The Stream" based around input from various social media -- instead of a traditional news program format, The Stream will rely on tweets, Facebook activity, and YouTube videos from people watching and Internet in general. Producers wil ... More >>

Donald Rumsfeld Memo: Super Dumb!

​Donald Rumsfeld was the Secretary of Defense of the United States two different times, under President Gerald Ford in the mid-1970s and again under President George W. Bush from 2001 until 2006, meaning he's been around for three major wars, in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Or not just arou ... More >>

Spike Jonze and Vice Founder Bribe Their Way Out of Jail in Yemen

​An interesting and surprisingly hip item out of Saturday's Page Six: director Spike Jonze (Adaptation., the new Arcade Fire video) and Shane Smith, the founder of the once-coke-fueled Vice magazine who isn't Gavin McInnes, were detained in Yemen while searching for al Qaeda during the filming ... More >>

Giggle-Fit Turns Balding Swiss Finance Minister Into Totally Adorable Funny Dude (Video)

Merz​This clip of Switzerland's finance minister Hans-Rudolf Merz is funny for a number of reasons, including, to start, the juxtaposition of a totally boring parliamentary meeting and a giggle fit, ever the more funny because OH, MY GOD, WE'RE GIGGLING DURING A PARLIAMENTARY MEETING. You can ... More >>

It's True: BP 'Fesses Up to Pan-Am Bomber Terrorist Ties, Trying to Lend a Hand for Oil Buddies

​Remember when you heard the literally unbelievable news that eco-disaster record holders BP had also, at one point, tried to secure the release of the guy who bombed Pan-Am Flight 103 (which caused the death of 270 people)? And then remember when you heard that it was so they could secure an ... More >>

Morning Links: New York City's Homeland Security Cuts; Strippers Want a Pole Tax; New Baby Falcons!

​• President Obama is in New York today, the day after the Department of Homeland Security cut funding to prevent terrorism in New York. (The final DHS budget decision for the year gives the New York City area $111 million for transit security -- a 27% cut from last year's funding of $153 mi ... More >>

OUT OF AFRICA

Tinariwen rock it desert-style

Daily Flog: Games -- Nuclear, Political, and/or Olympic

Letters

Pursuing Terrorists in the Great Desert

The U.S. Military's $500 Million Gamble to Prevent the Next Afghanistan

Sustenance Enough?

Indie-rock heavy hitters get confused figuring out why they're doing it, doing it, doing it

George Bush’s Nuclear Dawn

President pushes oil, atoms in quixotic energy plan

Letters

Fueling 'Democracy'

Atrocity Exhibition

An archival assemblage of World War I horrors ponders the political power of violent images

A Gusher of Propaganda

Slick Talk About How the War's Not About Oil

Blood, Stats, and Tears

How the Coming War Stacks Up

Key Interceptions

INS Selects a Least Valuable Squad of Workers

Out in the Cold

An Afternoon on the INS Line

Nation

Saviors of the Children

Far-Right Bush Delegates Ally With Religious Conservatives at UN Conference

Chicken Run

Scared Congress Seeks Shelter in Nuclear Henhouse

Dick Cheney's Pipe Dream

VP Eyed Oil in Caspian Region

The Empire Strikes Back

War vs. Peace: Novelists and Essayists Tell the 'Voice' Where They Stand

The Human Gaza Strip

Horoscope

The New School’s Kerrey Crisis

An Antiwar Institution Agonizes Over a President Who Killed Unarmed Vietnamese Civilians

Blasts from the Past

Amazing Grace

Why Louis Farrakhan is Desperate to Meet Joe Lieberman

Nation