marccooper.comAbout MarcContactMarc's Video Blogs

Archive for December, 2011

Dont Occupy — Organize!

Thursday, December 29th, 2011

This is where I part company with at least one group of folks claiming to be part of the Occupy movement: the senseless and distasteful idea of  “occupying” Iowa campaign offices.  There have already been some scattered arrests but I don’t think this part of the “movement” is going to go very far because it [...]

Remembering Christopher

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

I first met Christopher Hitchens when we were both in our early 30′s  in the early 1980′s. Together we produced a day of fundraising for The Nation magazine on the local Pacifica station, I think it was in late 1981, and over the next three decades we remained as friends –  and as colleagues when [...]

Flash! WIllard Mitt Romney Is Rich!

Sunday, December 11th, 2011

There’s something about American politics and the way it plays out that is downright befuddling. Or, better said, aggravating. Maybe “insane” is a better descriptor. As you have probably heard, the big news story coming out of the recent GOP presidential debate is that Mitt Romney offered to make a $10,000 bet with Rick Perry [...]

What The Rise of Gingrich Means

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

The rise of Newt Gingrich as a very possible and I would say probable nominee of the Republican Party tells us many things. In a sentence: just about everything we’ve been spoon fed about and by the Republican Party over the last three years is little more than one heaping, steaming pile of shit. It [...]

The Horman Case: Former U.S. Military Official Indicted

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

A Chilean judge has indicted the former U.S. military group leader in his country for being linked to the murder of two Americans in the days immediately after the 1973 coup.  I am VERY pleased to say that the official indictment and request to extradite retired U.S. Navy Captain Ray Davis cites testimony I gave [...]