Republicans are quite determined to see President Obama fail. They are full of ill-will.

They are also tough and mean. This is only the beginning and it's pretty bad.

There was a hideous cartoon comparing the president to a crazed monkey that was shot dead by the police a few days ago. The rants that he's a socialist, a communist, wants to nationalize the banks, is giving away money to lazy and irresponsible people (instead of Wall St. bankers and speculators).

Propaganda against Iran is back on the front page: it's claimed Iran wants to make nuclear weapons just like Saddam was making nuclear weapons.

The fact that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq at all doesn't seem to...

Republicans are quite determined to see President Obama fail. They are full of ill-will.

They are also tough and mean. This is only the beginning and it's pretty bad.

There was a hideous cartoon comparing the president to a crazed monkey that was shot dead by the police a few days ago. The rants that he's a socialist, a communist, wants to nationalize the banks, is giving away money to lazy and irresponsible people (instead of Wall St. bankers and speculators).

Propaganda against Iran is back on the front page: it's claimed Iran wants to make nuclear weapons just like Saddam was making nuclear weapons.

The fact that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq at all doesn't seem to slow down the same lies being used against Iran: to be clear, Iraq had no chemical WMDs, no biological WMDs, no nuclear WMDs.

and Iraq had no links to 9/11, al-Qaeda, anthrax attacks or Mohammed Atta -- but this was the drum beat that mislead nations to war and the drumbeat hasn't stopped at all...just moved onto to another target.

Charges that the President is also a 'secret Muslim,' are back on the agenda with the implied accusation that he's not the best friend of Israel and these accusations will help coverup and stop complaints about ongoing and increased Israeli aggression.

The general are lobbying to increase the war in Afghanistan. Double talk on the phony plans to leave Iraq also have begun in earnest: the generals intend to stay.

Any real progress for peace or justice remains a hard struggle forward. Stopping uncritical and blind support for pro-zionist extremist would be one good step forward.