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The Ever-Expanding Private Security Empire
FBI Abuse of “National Security Letters” — New Revelationsby Tom Burghardt / April 19, 2008 When biochemist Magdy Mahmoud Mustafa el-Nashar was released from custody in Cairo in 2005, no one could have be more relieved than the vacationing former … Continue reading
Whirling Steadily Down a Big Wide Culvert
Slip of the TongueBy Jim Kunstler Barack Obama caught hell last week for daring to tell the truth about the ragged thing that the American spirit has become. He said that small-town Pennsylvania voters, bitter over their economic circumstances, “cling … Continue reading
Obama Draws Massive Crowd in Philadelphia
Barack Obama spoke before 35,000 wildly enthusiastic fans Friday night, April 18, at Independence Park in Philadelphia. This was the largest crowd drawn by any candidate so far in this marathon campaign. Photo by Ozier Muhammad / The New York … Continue reading
This Bill Ayers Matter : A Fresh Take
Courage and Conviction: In Praise of Bill AyersBy Dave Lindorff / April 18, 2008 The pundits are having a heyday with Hillary Clinton’s sleazy McCarthyite attack on Barack Obama during the April 16 debate, trying to link him to the … Continue reading
Fries With That? : The Musical
Thorne, I don’t know for sure if you’ll like this short comic video, but since you wade through so much serious stuff every day I thought you might like a change of pace. Cracked me up. Larry Piltz Food Court … Continue reading
BushCo Violates Federal Law, Again
President Is Rebuffed on Program for ChildrenBy Robert Pear / April 19, 2008 WASHINGTON – The Bush administration violated federal law last year when it restricted states’ ability to provide health insurance to children of middle-income families, and its new … Continue reading
Leaving Behind the Bunker and Barrier Mentality
Leaving Cheyenne Mountain: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Loathe the BombBy William Astore / April 17, 2008 It took more than four years just to excavate and construct that mountain redoubt outside of Colorado Springs, that Cold War … Continue reading
The $3 Trillion Shopping Spree
Thanks to Juan Cole and Brave New Films.
Brewing a Disaster with North American Agriculture
Photo by Aimee DonnellySowing Disaster: Why We Need a New Farm Billby Christopher D. Cook / April 18, 2008 Congress passes its share of boondoggles, but there’s a real doozy on the docket April 18. If the nearly $300 billion … Continue reading
Hugo Chavez: Accomplishments of a Rebel
Venezuela: Democracy, Socialism and ImperialismBy James Petras / April 17, 2008 Introduction Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez remains the world’s leading secular, democratically elected political leader who has consistently and publicly opposed imperialist wars in the Middle East, attacked extra-territorial intervention … Continue reading
From a Foreign Correspondent
This came to us covertly and we don’t know who wrote it. But it’s pretty darn funny, so we hope you enjoy as we did. The Rag FUCK A DUCKANYTHING FOR A BUCK I’m watching the financial channel here in … Continue reading
Ben Stein’s "Expelled" : A No-Brainer
He Blinded Me Without ScienceBy Chez Pazienza / April 17, 2008 Ben Stein has a message for Darwin: “Fuck you!” It seems incomprehensible that Stein — former Nixon speech writer, game show host, eye drop pitchman and Neil Cavuto love … Continue reading
