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As Long As It Is Legal Tender
Boutique businesses for money launderingFrom Joe Bageant’s Blog. Joe, I have just read your essay Dead Man Shopping. Your writing simply dazzles. I wish you could enjoy the temperate climes of California. I wonder why certain writers, like Joan Didion … Continue reading
His Overwhelming Grace and Exasperated Wrath
God Damn America, Especially PennsylvaniaBy Greg Palast The kids were snoozing so I drove along the back roads skirting the Lackawanna River on a dawn hunt for black coffee and a newspaper. I think even Norman Rockwell would have found … Continue reading
Stay the Same – Get Left Behind
Blogger Michael Lewis. “Getting Free”From Michael Lewis’ Hayduke Blogs. I’m reading a book, by James Herod, called Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods. You can read it, and others online, download a .pdf copy or send the … Continue reading
Forcing the Candidates to Get Serious About Ending the Wars
Anti-war Campaigners Have To Change Electoral TacticsBy Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill Neither Clinton nor Obama has a real plan to end the occupation of Iraq, but they could be forced to change position 25/03/08 “The Guardian” — — ‘So?” … Continue reading
Seeking to Terrify the World into Submission
Elaine Brower Winter Soldier 2008: A Marine Mom’s Eyewitness Account of the Testimonyby Elaine Brower I. I have spent the past seven-plus years as an activist against the policies of George W. Bush and his regime. Already, my son has … Continue reading
Truth Without Angelizing: These Colours Don’t Run
When America Can’t Handle the Truthby Pierre Tristam The word, attributed to the late writer Saul Bellow, is “angelization” — willfully putting someone beyond blame. Angelizing America is the common tongue of all national politicians, the oath candidates implicitly take … Continue reading
You’ve Just Lost Your Life’s Savings
And made some very rich people that much richer. Congratulations, America, for taking it on the chin for the fat cats once again. When will you learn? Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog A Picnic for Wall Street Insiders: The … Continue reading
Pissing Off As Much Brass As Possible
Listen to what this remarkably articulate young man tells us. He tells us that our government is in the business of torture, that the euphemistic semantics (of those who want to conceal their bad behaviour) does count, and that we … Continue reading
From the Creeps Who’ve Spent Billions on War
White House Official Tells Judge: Searching for Missing Emails Too Much Workby Jason Leopold / March 24th, 2008 The White House’s chief information officer said the Bush administration should not be compelled to search for millions of emails on individual … Continue reading
Our Reputation in the World Is in the Toilet
Happy Anniversary, America! How Lethally Stupid Can One Country Be?By David Michael Green 24/03/08 “ICH” — — Watching George W. Bush in operation these last couple of weeks is like having an out-of-body experience. On acid. During a nightmare. In … Continue reading
The Neocons Had Deliberately Gamed the System
From Juan Cole’s Informed Comment. This demonstrates the depth of criminality centred in the White House and highest levels of the BushCo administration. It is beyond me how we do nothing in the face of such contempt for the law … Continue reading
Just What We Need
Army Holds Annual ‘Bring Your Daughter To War’ Day
