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The Modus Operandi of Our Establishment Press
The Media, The Right and 1988: Endless Deja Vuby Glenn Greenwald / May 4, 2008 A large bulk of the political and pundit class are forever stuck in 1972, reflexively viewing every political conflict through its myopic prism (any war-opponent-candidate … Continue reading
Hope This Makes You Breathe Easier
The Greatest Story Never Told: Study Says Smoking Pot Doesn’t Cause Cancer — It May Prevent It!By Fred Gardner / May 4, 2008 Smoking Cannabis Does Not Cause CancerOf Lung or Upper Airways, Tashkin Finds;Data Suggest Possible Protective Effect The … Continue reading
We Must Also Save Ourselves from Ourselves
The Epitome of Conspicuous ConsumptionThe Gospel of Consumptionby Jeffrey Kaplan / May 3, 2008 Private cars were relatively scarce in 1919 and horse-drawn conveyances were still common. In residential districts, electric streetlights had not yet replaced many of the old … Continue reading
Winning Hearts and Minds, Yankee Style
Hospital In Baghdad Casualty of US Air StrikeMay 3, 2009 A hospital in the Iraqi capital’s Sadr City, a Shiite militia stronghold, was damaged in a US air strike on Saturday, wounding around 20 people, medics and witnesses said. A … Continue reading
More Lies May Still Take Us to War with Iran
Democrats Okay Funds for Covert Ops: Secret Bush “Finding” Widens War on IranBy Andrew Cockburn / May 2, 2008 Six weeks ago President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those … Continue reading
Stop Fighting and Start Talking, Junior
The UK Times Online assesses the success of the Iraq surge‘US military achievement in Iraq has reached peak’May 2, 2008 NEW YORK — An international think tank has called for fundamental political changes in Iraq, stressing that the US military … Continue reading
The Unjustly Imprisoned – Sami al-Haj Freed
Al-Jazeera Journalist Freed From Guantanamo After 6 Yearsby Mohamed Osman / May 2, 2008 An Al-Jazeera cameraman was released from U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay and returned home to Sudan early Friday after six years of imprisonment that drew worldwide … Continue reading
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Quote of the Day – Totalitarianism
“When any person is intentionally deprived of his constitutional rights those responsible have committed no ordinary offense. A crime of this nature, if subtly encouraged by failure to condemn and punish, certainly leads down the road to totalitarianism.” J.Edgar Hoover … Continue reading
Debating the Sunni-Shia Rift
Bad rap? Imam Sayyed Hassan al-Qazwini says the Western media focuses only on radicals. Photo courtesy of Adrian HaddadIs the Sunni-Shiite rift mostly politics and media hype?By Nicholas Blanford / May 1, 2008 A panel discussion Tuesday in Doha, Qatar, … Continue reading
The Amerikkkan Bureaucracy Churns Tediously
U.S. has Mandela on terrorist listBy Mimi Hall WASHINGTON — Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of freedom Nelson Mandela is flagged on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs special permission to visit the USA. Secretary of State Condoleezza … Continue reading
Can We Stop the Destruction?
Fantasy or Reality – Is There a Way Back?By Siv O’Neall / May 1, 2008 The world is standing on its head. Logic and reason are gone. Humpty Dumpty had a big fall and is sliding downhill faster than has … Continue reading
How We Love Our Children
A Fagin NationBy Jerome Doolittle / May 1, 2008 One of the many things we believe about ourselves that just ain’t so is that Americans, God love us, are absolutely crazy about children. Dote on them. Pamper them. Protect them … Continue reading
