Saturday, February 16
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Anthony Gregory is the guest editor today. |
Sudha Shenoy on the U.S. military establishment.
A video of Robert Higgs. Here’s the mp3 version. An important talk indeed.
Baghdad Is Still a City at War
And “Iraq remains a great sump of human degradation and poverty, unaffected by the ‘surge.’” Patrick Cockburn on the war that has destroyed millions of lives, McCainian propaganda notwithstanding.
Keith Olbermann on Bush and his FISA surveillance state. He’s always great on Bush, but let’s wait and see how he treats a Democratic fascist president.
Most of You Will Eat Shit Until the Day You Die
“I'll be blunt, even rude: You can call it Republican shit. You can call it Democratic shit. You can call it progressive shit. It's still shit. It's still murder, and torture, and criminal war, and a growing surveillance state. If you vote for the Democratic or the Republican candidate for president -- and if you vote for almost any of the candidates for national office -- you're voting for murder. You're voting for torture. You're voting for criminal war. You're voting for the growing surveillance state.” Arthur Silber.
Mike Moore on U.S. imperialists and their desire to unilaterally weaponize and dominate space.
Scott Horton Interviews Scott Horton
On the waterboarding torture state.
Livin’
on the Edge
We’re
“on the edge” of a recession, says Greenspan.
Economic
Nonsense About Immigrants
Bumper Hornberger, as usual, defends the free market and rights of alien workers.
Obama
No Worse Than Republicans on Guns
He says the 2nd Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms, though he of course supports gun control laws anyway.
Obama’s crazed foreign aid scheme.
How
to Make a Million Before You Turn 20
I
wish someone told me this about 17 years ago!
Alex Hanna on the lying straighttalk express.
40
Most Inappropriate Children’s Book Covers
A 405-year-old clam.
Anthony Gregory on the tragic universal embrace of the New Deal.
A photo blog.