Tuesday, May 6
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Robert Kaercher is the guest editor today. |
Iraqi
Official: ‘No Conclusive Evidence’ of Iran Arming Shi’ite Militias
But that’s not what Uncle sez. Even if the Iranian government is arming Shi’a militias in Iraq, it’s more than a little disingenuous for the US government to cry “foul!” After all, they invaded the friggin’ country.
“And,
to cap it all, no matter how bad and how widespread the abuse may get, the
administrators can always count on the pro-establishment wing of their
supposed critics to go to the public and to the legislature to beg for even
more tax money and even more prison guards to be sent into the psychiatric
prison system, so that the very people who created these maddening prison-ward
hellholes can be rewarded for their institutionalized violence by being
allowed to take even more money from taxpayers to go on doing the same old
thing…”
D.C.
Madam: ‘There Was No Way Out’
“Convicted
‘D.C. Madam’ Deborah Jeane Palfrey railed against what she called a
‘modern-day lynching’ in notes to her mother and sister before hanging
herself at her mother's Florida home, police disclosed Monday.”
Iron
Man and the Merchants of Death
“The
phrase ‘Merchants of Death’ takes center stage in the movie Iron
Man…The phrase and the movie deal with the odd juxtaposition of
capitalism and war as found in the weapons industry. Here we have innovations
and efficiency of the type we associate with the private commercial sector but
serving ends that are the very opposite of capitalism. The industry serves
war, not peace, depends on coercion, not human volition, and profits from
destruction, not creation.”
Death’s
Factotum: Michael Gordon and the Times Pour Poison Into Nation’s Ear
“[Judith]
Miller is gone from the mainstream heights, but [Michael]
Gordon soldiers on at the Times -- literally. Although he is probably not
paid directly by the Bush Regime to peddle their propaganda, he serves
precisely the same function as the military brass that the Administration
embedded as ‘independent analysts’ on the network news shows -- a
nefarious practice most recently exposed in great detail by...the New York
Times.”
Defending
America’s Foreign Policy Through Adsense
“The
‘war on drugs’ claims another one…”
Gas
Tax Revolt in New York Today
Rule
of Law Anarchism: A Strategy for Destroying the State’s Legitimacy
“Our
task is this: to weaken the power of the state, and to strengthen the power of
the free society, until we have secured our freedom and are no longer subject
to the state.”
Study Links Breastfeeding to Increased Intelligence
(Editor's pick)
Ronald
McDonald to Be Featured on New Dollar Bill
It
would make perfect sense!
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