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Pop Goes Another (Banking) Weasel
The notice that appears if you visit the Integrity Bank Web siteIntegrity Bank Becomes 10th U.S. Failure This Year (Update2)By Alison Vekshin and Ari Levy / August 29, 2008 Integrity Bank of Alpharetta, Georgia, was closed by U.S. regulators today, … Continue reading
FISA Foils ACLU Yet Again
Secret Spying Court Stays Secret, Rejects ACLU Plea AgainBy Ryan Singel / August 29, 2008 For the the third time in a year, a secret spying court rejected an ACLU request to let some sunshine pierce its dark curtains of … Continue reading
Dumbing Down the War on Terror
Dumbest salvo yet in the war on terror, courtesy of the London policeBy Cory Doctorow / August 30, 2008 Today I spotted this sign at a Tesco’s grocery store in Islington, London — it might just be the single stupidest … Continue reading
Suing to End Twenty-First Century Slavery
This story yields speculation of another relatively predictable outcome: the acquital of KBR of any wrongdoing (see our post, Because the Empire is never, Ever Wrong – this is really all the same story, differing details). As Juan Cole points … Continue reading
Joan Baez: A Core Message of Pacifism
Joan Baez, the queen of America’s folk scene in the Sixties, says she has ’never really been a songwriter’ (Source: TimesOnline)Joan Baez: ‘I Was Right 40 Years Ago and I Am Right Now!’by Will Hodgkinson / August 29, 2008 Age … Continue reading
A Chance to Be Heard Above the Propaganda
Federal Reserve buildingA Master-Slave Society: Democrats in Denver Should Skip One of Their Parties and Read the American Monetary ActBy Richard C. Cook / August 28, 2008 How are things going at the Democratic Party National Convention in Denver this … Continue reading
US Presidential Politics: Really Only for Comedians
A “Papa and Daughter” Ticket?By Diane Stirling-Stevens / The Rag Blog / August 29, 2008 I was delighted to find someone has already put my opinion of McCain’s pick (and reason for it) into a picture! McCain dumped his first … Continue reading
UN Ambassador Wolff: Just Making Sure We All Understood the Hypocrisy
Alejandro Wolff, trained all-American hypocriteRussia and U.S trade barbs over IraqBy Louis Charbonneau / August 28, 2008 UNITED NATIONS — U.S. and Russian envoys exchanged sharp words on Thursday over Iraq and Kosovo at a U.N. Security Council meeting on … Continue reading
Because the Empire Is Never, Ever Wrong
Jose Nazario (right) with lawyersEx-Marine Acquitted in Killing of IraqisBy Chelsea J. Carter / August 29, 2008 RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Jurors wept and embraced former Marine Jose Luis Nazario Jr. after acquitting him of voluntary manslaughter in the killings of … Continue reading
Jack Abramoff Has Been Singin’ the Blues
Frankly, I cannot agree with the suggestion that this weasel deserves leniency, but I’m a hard-nosed radical bastard. We can perhaps remain hopeful that his ‘singing’ will result in a few other deserving crooks professional colleagues also doing a little … Continue reading
Go Sign On to Something You Believe In Today
The Land of the Silent and the Home of the FearfulBy Dave Lindorff / August 28, 2008 I was a speaker last night at an anti-war event sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Monmouth County, Progressive Democrats of America … Continue reading
Why Can We Not Do Something About Poverty?
Kabul street childrenWorld poverty ‘more widespread’By Steve Schifferes / August 27, 2008 Tackling global poverty requires both public and private investment The World Bank has warned that world poverty is much greater than previously thought. It has revised its previous … Continue reading
