Friday, June 5
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Christopher Lempa is the guest editor today. |
Tim Wingate reviews Larken Rose's new book.
Powell Told U.S. Tortured Detainees, But He Failed to Act
“On Jan. 15, 2004, International Committee of the Red Cross president Jakob Kellenberger expressed his concern to Secretary of State Colin Powell about the Bush administration’s attitude regarding international law.”
South Carolina Governor Trumped, Must Take Stimulus Money
“South Carolina's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Gov. Mark Sanford must accept $700 million in federal stimulus money, ending the only formal effort by a governor to reject funding intended to jump-start an ailing economy.”
Coffman Slams Ritter as ‘Terrorist Sympathizer’ Over Piñon Canyon Law
“U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman minced no words in a bizarre, Cheney-esque attack on Gov. Bill Ritter as a 'terrorist sympathizer' for signing a new state law that stymies future expansion of the Army’s contentious Piñon Canyon training site proposal.”
What Obama Didn't Say in His Cairo Address Speaks Volumes About His Mid-East Policy
“The U.S. has played a decisive role in sustaining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Obama gave no indication that its role should change.”
ALLiance Issue Two on the Cyber-Shelves
“Chris
Lempa’s productivity is something to behold. He has clearly seen the Time
Management for Anarchists Flash movie and learned its lessons well. Less
than a week after releasing his updated version of Canning
for the Revolution (his zine on canning) for this year’s Really,
Really Free Market, he has also managed to release (and write an essay
for) the second issue of ALLiance:
A Journal of Theory and Strategy.” Featuring an article by Root
Striker Michael Kleen.
Mexico Police Find 11 Bodies Inside Abandoned Car
More casualties of the drug war.
Ex-Countrywide
CEO Angelo Mozilo Charged With Fraud
I
just heard a Countrywide...errr...Bank of America employee said that banks
lent money out to easily. Who would have thought?
“'Altruism will be strongly favored if it leads groups to win wars,' said Sam Bowles, a Santa Fe Institute economist and institutional theorist, and author of the study, published Thursday in Science. 'That would counteract the way that selfish individuals usually dominate the altruistic ones in their groups.'”
Good
riddance...hopefully.
Konkin’s History of the Libertarian Movement
“Either
Samuel Edward Konkin
“In
June of 1989, the statist thugs in control of China sent tanks into Tiananmen
Square to solidify their power against the demands of the people.” Darian
Worden has some thoughts.
“It’s hard to keep up with all the fascist, totalitarian power-grabs that the megalomaniacs in Washington have been proposing recently.”
Can Science Reinvent the Economy?
“In this special feature, Mark Buchanan looks at some of the creative ideas being explored to tame the markets, not just by economists, but by physicists, engineers, biologists and others.”
Fun!
The auto bailout. (video clip, Editor's pick)
A photo blog.