Author Archives: RagBlog

And it’s great to see Noam paying so much attention to events in Latin America. South America: Toward an Alternative FutureNoam ChomskyInternational Herald Tribune, January 5, 2007 Last month a coincidence of birth and death signaled a transition for South … Continue reading →

Having gone through a horriblly traumatic marriage breakup, I can speak to this issue a little. I rejected taking anti-depressants, despite a counsellor’s recommendation that I do. I still have bouts of depression, but they are manageable in a strange … Continue reading →

… and it’s a pretty interesting analysis if you ask us (even if a bit far-fetched). We’d noticed that Negroponte thing and wondered. Steve picks it apart. White House ChessFrom News for Real The Washington media spent the holidays trying … Continue reading →

… and chronic hypocrisy. If one of the issues is ‘inadequate message control,’ the obvious question arises: “Then why didn’t the US Air Force bomb Iraqi journalism back to the stone age?” Or would that be too blatant a disregard … Continue reading →

Dick Cheney saying that “the Middle East is the key to preventing the world running out of oil” just shows how utterly fucking brainless he is. But who would expect him to read any source such as “The Party’s Over,” … Continue reading →

The bold below is what we mean by ‘almost right.’ Amerikan politics sucks. Contractors in war zones lose immunity: Bill provision allows military prosecutionsBy Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | January 7, 2007 WASHINGTON — An estimated 100,000 employees of US … Continue reading →

… which seems to be George Bush’s modus operandi. We believe this idiot surrounded himself with some of the most uneducated, illogical people in Amerika in order to explain the disaster that Iraq has become. Pinning hopes on jobs programs … Continue reading →

What is so utterly galling about this story is that the vast majourity of the Amerikan population finds nothing particularly shocking about it. Of course, in our view, that makes that ‘vast majourity’ guilty of war crimes under the terms … Continue reading →

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday threatened to cut off diplomatic relations with countries that criticized the execution of Saddam Hussein. He defended the decision to execute him on the Sunni feast of sacrifice, saying that Saddam had profaned religious … Continue reading →

From The Pensito Review Penny Award for the Most Worthless Piece of Paper in 2006: The Bill of RightsPosted by Buck | Jan. 6, 2007, 2:50 pm The Bush administration’s assault on personal liberties in 2006 rendered one of the … Continue reading →

They Killed My MUSLIM BROTHER in IRAQ Wake up, oh my Ummah!!! You have slept far too long… You have been dismissed and tamed… You have been chained up with the chain of ignorance… A great Ummah that reigned over … Continue reading →

From Wake Up From Your Slumber Ahmadinejad – LIVE from Tehran! This is the full speech of Iran’s president Ahmadinejad, at the Amir Kabir University in Tehran. It’s a must see. There was a lot of talk about this speech … Continue reading →