Friday, January 2
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Christopher Lempa is the guest editor today. |
Lost Souls of Afghanistan's Heroin Trade
“A
look at the rise in drug addiction in Kabul since the invasion of
Afghanistan.” This is what war does. Is it worth it?
U.S. Soldiers Will Remain in Green Zone Next 90 Days
"The Americans will supervise us," said Brig. Gen. Emad al-Zuhairi, commander of the Baghdad Brigade, the Iraqi military unit in charge of the Green Zone. "We hope this is just the first step." (Washington Post)
Iraq Takes Control of Green Zone and Basra Airport
“In a second symbolically significant New Year’s Day handover, the Iraqi government accepted security and administrative duties at the main airport in the southern city of Basra. The airport had been used by British forces since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.” (NY Times)
The Gaza Crisis: Israeli Airstrikes & U.S. complicity
“The death toll in Gaza continues to rise. The carnage is everywhere – city streets, a mosque, hospitals, police stations, a jail, a university bus stop, a plastics factory, a television station. It seems impossible, unacceptable, to step back to analyze the situation while bodies remain buried under the rubble, while parents continue to search for their missing children, while doctors continue to labor to stitch burned and broken bodies back together without sufficient medicine or equipment.”
The Real Goal of the Slaughter in Gaza
“Ever since Hamas triumphed in the Palestinian elections nearly three years ago, the story in Israel has been that a full-scale ground invasion of the Gaza Strip was imminent. But even when public pressure mounted for a decisive blow against Hamas, the government backed off from a frontal assault.”
Black
Oak Presents a Journal of Mid-American Culture
Featuring
a review of Bill Kauffman's works, an interview with Dr. Tom Sunic. Sunic
explores “liberal totalitarianism, post-modernism, and Americanism.”
'Prison-like'
Immigration Facility Open
“Refugee rights organisations have criticised the Rudd government’s decision to hold suspected asylum seekers in a controversial detention centre on an isolated Australian island in the Indian Ocean.”
Treasury Opens Door to Aid for Broad Array of Firms, Industries
“The U.S. Treasury threw the door open to taxpayer financing for a widening array of companies and industries by drafting broad guidelines on aid to the auto industry.”
How Hypocrisy on 'Terrorism' Kills
“Israel, a nation that was born out of Zionist terrorism, has launched massive airstrikes against targets in Gaza using high-tech weapons produced by the United States...."
“The answer is: A system that encourages oligopoly: government for business, and business for government. This is State Capitalism, and this is how it works: they get your money, in order to make you ever more dependent, ever more acquiescent.”
I Don't Get the Joke: My Year-End Tirade
James
Randi tries to understand Rick Warren.
An
Agorist Primer Is THE Must Read Libertarian Book of 2009
So
says Brad
Spangler.
Root
Striker
Jim Davies outlines a plan to achieve liberty in our lifetime.
Applying
Liberty in Today’s World
A
great lecture series hosted by the Foundation
for Economic Education.
Trapped
Water Cause of Regular Tremors Under Vancouver Island
“University
of British Columbia researchers are offering the first compelling evidence to
explain regular tremors under Vancouver Island.”
Utah
Phillips on War and Non-Violence
A photo blog.