Wednesday, March 12
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Anthony Gregory is the guest editor today. |
The Good Cop and Bad Cop of World Government
"Despite what the left believes, the UN is no pacific check on the US and never has been. It is a complicit party to US hyperdominance." Column by Anthony Gregory.
An Open Letter to David Horowitz
"It would also be another chance for me to purge myself of my former neocon views, flawed ideas and faulty beliefs that have now aided in killing untold thousands of innocents." Column by B.R. Merrick.
George
McGovern Has Gone Capitalist!
“Freedom means responsibility,” says the great antiwar statesman, in a downright decent column on the limits and perils of economic regulation.
A
Legal War Would Have Been Worse
The constant nitpicking about the Iraq war’s legality is delusional, disingenuous and inhumane. Column by Brendan O’Neill.
Will Grigg on the president’s pro-torture veto.
On this issue, too, the US is bully of the world. Column by Emily Bazelon.
New
Website Has Police Furious
Rate your local cops. Another victory for the market! (Update: Uh oh! It looks like the website has been taken down.)
“2
Foot Yard is a trio that explores the boundaries between art song and pop
song, using distinct elements of both, formally and aesthetically. The
instrumentation includes violin, cello, voice, and drums, which alternately
evoke the intimacy and warmth of chamber music, and the raw and visceral
expression of rock.” An amazing band. And check out this
wonderful rendition of their song “Octopus.”
A
New Work of World War II Revisionism
Mark Kurlansky reviews Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization. I’m excited, but see Mark Brady’s different point of view.
Reporter
of Anthrax Probe Faces $5,000-a-Day Fine
For not naming sources. Ah, the land of the free.
More
Evidence of Chemicals Behind Gulf War Syndrome
Co-Creator
of The Wire Condemns War on Drugs
Radley Balko interviews Ed Burns, co-creator of the one of the best television shows ever, which I will miss dearly now that it is over.
An
Innocent Man, 26 Years in Prison
Yes, this does raise interesting issues regarding attorney-client confidentiality. But I think this is also just another lesson that the state can’t be trusted on criminal justice matters. The state frequently puts innocent people in prison. And who is held responsible?
Woman
Forgotten in Cell Over Weekend
“A
woman being held as an illegal immigrant spent four days forgotten in an
isolated holding cell at a courthouse with no food, water, or toilet,
authorities and the woman said.” And they might still deport her!
The
Holocaust Happened to People Like Us
MTV warns against the police state.
Lowering
the Drinking Age to 18
Several states are considering it. [They need to eliminate it completely. In Europe, parents teach their children how to drink, by letting them have some wine with a meal. They don't have the alcohol-related problems we have in the U.S. - Ed.]
Legislators
have their eyes set on this so-far legal drug.
Laughably, they call it the “new marijuana.”
MP3
Player Turns Ten Years Old
A
Teachers’ Union Gets Something Right
A possible call to abolish homework.
Another
Menace to Society Put in Her Place
How much you’re allowed to have in Zimbabwe.
Drugs,
Genetic Experiments, Pollution and Social Inequality
The Vatican updates its list of no-nos.
The
10 Most Bizarre Military Experiments
And what went wrong.
The
Koch Cycle: Episode One
Watch
the exciting preview to the first prequel of the series chronicling the
libertarian civil war, brought to you by Anarcho-Pacifist Films.
A photo blog.