Are Politicians Failing Our Lobbyists?
May 16, 2008
Panelists discuss the alarming trend of politicians who break their promises to the lobbyists who helped elect them.
Posted by m.idrees
Filed in Corruption, Lobbying, Satire, US Politics
The Fanonite
“…for the last forty years, our thought has been trapped in hollow structures of language, a stale, dead but immensely successful rhetoric. This has represented, in my view, a defeat of the intelligence and of the will.” — Harold Pinter
-
Pages
-
Recent Posts
-
Recent Comments
TimothyL on Hiatus Athletes and nation-… on The Politics of Free Spee… Freeborn on Darfur and the Politics of… Master Physicist on Hiatus ladymae on Georgia War a Neocon Election… Categories
- Afghanistan (51)
- Africa (40)
- Aid (3)
- ALBA (3)
- Apartheid (32)
- Arms Trade (4)
- Art (32)
- Asia-Oceania (38)
- audio (18)
- Australia (4)
- Balkans (3)
- BBC Watch (38)
- Big Business (68)
- Bolivia (6)
- Book Review (14)
- Boycott (15)
- Brazil (8)
- British Politics (177)
- Capitalism (13)
- Caribbean (6)
- Central Asia (4)
- Channel 4 (4)
- Chechnya (1)
- china (12)
- Civil Liberties (40)
- Colonial Feminism (6)
- Colonialism (7)
- Comedy (21)
- Consumerism (6)
- Corruption (43)
- Covert Ops (2)
- Crime (1)
- Cuba (12)
- Culture (33)
- Darfur (17)
- Democracy Promotion (14)
- Documentary (48)
- Dog (20)
- Economy (42)
- Education (23)
- Energy (9)
- Entertainment (7)
- Environment (17)
- EU/Europe (76)
- Fascism (22)
- Film (32)
- France (20)
- Free Speech (23)
- Genocide (19)
- Globalization (35)
- Guardian (19)
- Guitar (1)
- Gulf (14)
- Hackwatch (48)
- Hamas (37)
- Hizbullah (10)
- Human Rights (207)
- Humanitarianism (23)
- Humor (29)
- IMF (4)
- Imperialism (85)
- Intelligence (18)
- Iran (215)
- Iraq (500)
- Islam (18)
- Islamophobia (72)
- Israel Lobby (344)
- Israel-Palestine (697)
- Justice (36)
- Lapdogs (1)
- Latin America (74)
- Lebanon (173)
- Liberal Hawks (1)
- Life (13)
- Literature (33)
- Lobbying (12)
- Media (319)
- Middle-East (1035)
- Military (162)
- Monkeys (4)
- Music (64)
- Nationalism (12)
- NATO (8)
- Neocons (111)
- Neoliberalism (57)
- New York Times (11)
- Nuclear (18)
- Observer (10)
- Occupation (392)
- Oil (24)
- Orientalism (15)
- Pakistan (108)
- Philosophy (24)
- Poetry (8)
- Propaganda (371)
- Race (92)
- Rats (37)
- Refugees (17)
- Religion (14)
- Resistance (112)
- Russia (7)
- Satire (13)
- Science (6)
- Scotland (13)
- Semantics (3)
- Sociology (3)
- Sports (2)
- Talks (13)
- Technology (2)
- Torture (42)
- Travel (1)
- United Nations (36)
- US Politics (953)
- Venezuela (54)
- War (731)
- War Crimes (124)
- War of Terror (409)
- Women's Rights (15)
- Zionism (82)
Archives
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- April 2006
Links
- 1820
- Adbusters
- Al Jazeera International
- Amira Hass
- Anthony Loewenstein
- Antiwar.com
- Atlantic Free Press
- Bella Caledonia
- Bendib Cartoon
- Benjamin Heine
- Buntnessel
- Canadian Dimension
- Cold Type
- Complex System Of Pipes
- Conflicts Forum
- Counterpunch
- Craig Murray
- Cutler’s Blog
- Dahr Jamail
- Democracy Now
- Dissident Voice
- Doug’s Darkworld
- Electronic Intifada
- Ethnic Ashkenazim Against Zionist Israel
- Feral Scholar
- Flashpoints Radio
- Forever Under Construction
- George Monbiot
- Index Research
- Informed Comment
- Institute for Middle East Understanding
- James Petras
- Jim Lobe
- John Pilger
- Jonathan Cook
- Le Colonel Chabert
- Le Monde Diplomatique
- Lenin’s Tomb
- Liberally Mirth
- London Review of Books
- Mark Curtis
- Michael Greenwell
- MondoWeiss
- Neo-Resistance
- Noam Chomsky
- Norman Finkelstein
- Palestine Chronicle
- Palestine: Information with Provenance
- Patrick Lang
- Peace Palestine
- Postcards From The Revolution
- Reclaiming Space
- Red Amazon
- Ressentiment
- Robert Fisk
- Rolled-up Trousers
- Sabbah’s Blog
- Spinwatch
- Steph’s Blog
- The American Conservative
- The Cat’s Dream
- The Cylinder
- The Onion
- The Real News
- Tracked in America
- TruthDig
- War and Piece
- Winter Patriot
-
Visitors
-
Blog Stats
- 350,501 hits
-
Top Posts
-
Meta
Leave a Reply