Yearly Archives: 2008

What’s the Going Price for a Joint? More Than You Might ThinkBy PAUL ARMENTANO What’s the current price for a bag of weed? According to the latest figures from the FBI, the human cost is roughly 739,000 a year. That’s … Continue reading →

The terminology associated with these cases is ludicrous: “failed intelligence” indeed. Intelligence is anything but what these assholes with the FBI, NSA, CIA, CSIS, and others are using or doing. Omar Khadr and Guantánamo: Canada’s Glaring Double Standards on TortureBy … Continue reading →

No Place to Run, No Place to Hideby Virginia Lockett Looking back now, I think it was around 3 AM on September 26, 1985, while lying on the floor of the Virginia Beach Convention Center, staring at the underside of … Continue reading →

The FBI and The Telephoneby Christopher Brauchli Once there was an elephantWho tried to use the telephant-No! No! I mean an elephoneWho tried to use the telephone.-Laura Elizabeth Richards, Eletelphony It’s only money. And when most of your effort is … Continue reading →

Bill Moyers talks with David Cay Johnston BILL MOYERS: From time to time over the next few months we will step outside the election bubble and look at the hard cold facts of power. We’ll have the help of some … Continue reading →

And they’re not working to help you. Data on Antidepressants Often ShelvedBy Gene Emery, Reuters, Posted: 2008-01-17 11:44:44 BOSTON (Jan. 17) – Nearly a third of antidepressant drug studies are never published in the medical literature and nearly all happen … Continue reading →

For Muslims, “terror is realizing that Americans have no moral conscience.”By Paul Craig Roberts, Jan 18, 2008, 06:37 After pandering to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert’s right-wing government last week, US president George W. Bush carried the Israeli/neoconservative campaign against … Continue reading →

So, this morning the market started a little rebound and was up over 150 points. Then His Majesty Bush II gave his speech about economic stimulus, where he naturally had to pitch the idea of making his tax cuts for … Continue reading →

Getting Out the Bling Vote: From Kibby’s Cool Spot in Belize, politics makes sense — sort ofBy Joe Bageant Hopkins Village, Belize I know it’s unpatriotic as hell, but I just cannot get a hard-on about the ’08 American presidential … Continue reading →

Here are two points of view for fairness and balance. First Greg Palast presents the theory that by recycling petrodollars, we can keep the party going forever. We buy oil from the Saudis and the Saudis bail out our banks … Continue reading →

Canada puts U.S., Israel on torture watchlistBy Reuters 18/01/08 — OTTAWA, Jan 17 (Reuters) – An official Canadian government document has put both the United States and Israel on a watch list of countries where prisoners run the risk of … Continue reading →

Chomsky debate: repression and manufacturing consentBy Ron Ridenour, Axis of Logic ColumnistJan 16, 2008, 15:12 Noam Chomsky is a steadfast effective critic of United States imperial foreign policy and the corporate global empire, and is probably the most influential single … Continue reading →