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Break-ins plague targets of US Attorneys
These crimes raise serious questions about possible use of deliberate intimidation tactics not only because of who the victims are and the already wide criticism of the prosecutions to begin with, but also because...Typically burglars do not break-in only to rummage through documents
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May 1, 2008, 12:09pm
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Pope Ignores the War, Gets Free Pass on Sex Abuse
Pope Benedict XVI maneuvered his way through Washington without upsetting his American hosts by criticizing the Iraq War, torture, and the Supreme Court's enthusiasm for capital punishment...
"A country is not just what it does - it is also what it tolerates."
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Apr 23, 2008, 2:01pm
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12 Reasons to Get Out of Iraq
1. Yes, the war has morphed into the U.S. military's worst Iraq nightmare; 2. No, there was never an exit strategy from Iraq because the Bush administration never intended to leave -- and still doesn't; 4. Yes, the war was about oil. (Add #13 - "War - any war - is just not right for people or the planet! Remember that on Earth Day)
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Apr 21, 2008, 1:51pm
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Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep from Singing? (Interview)
"If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things?
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Apr 20, 2008, 5:35pm
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Week of Truth - April 16th - 22nd
A Nationally Coordinated 9/11 Truth Effort to-BREAK THE CORPORATE MEDIA BLOCKADE! This is the first in a series of Week of Truth events to coalesce the power of the national truth movement. The current installment - features New York Times Best Selling Author, Steve Alten and his new book, The Shell Game.
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Apr 16, 2008, 11:00am
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How to Change the Way We Think about Water
We need to shift our understanding of water as a commodity to an appreciation for water as a human and environmental right. (Water that is allowed to move according to its own nature cleanses itself and sustains life. This is our model for the future.)
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Apr 13, 2008, 4:58pm
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Nutrition 'Science' Has Hijacked Our Meals -- and Our Health
Much of what lines supermarket aisles is not food. It's merely foodlike, and it's making us sick. Michael Pollan: I have a bunch of rules to help you find the actual food. One is "Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."
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Apr 3, 2008, 2:06pm
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Cheney Impeachment Not Off the Table
It is up to us, now, whether we shall have constitutional separation of powers or shall have kings. It is up to us whether an unrestrained executive will be able to march our children and grandchildren off to an endless series of resource wars likely to dominate this century.
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Mar 21, 2008, 11:36am
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Iraq War as War Crime (Part Two)
Robert Parry: From the start of George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq - five years ago - the toll on Iraqi civilians and on out-gunned Iraqi soldiers was staggering. Indeed, that appears to have been part of the message Bush's neocon advisers wanted to send to other countries that might think of resisting Washington's imperial ambitions.
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Mar 19, 2008, 12:22pm
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Iraq War as War Crime (Part One)
Robert Parry: The Iraq War – now ending its fifth bloody year – represents not only a human tragedy of enormous consequence and possibly the greatest strategic blunder in U.S. history but also a systemic failure of American political and journalistic institutions.
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Mar 19, 2008, 12:19pm
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The Best Home Remedies May Be Sitting in Your Spice Cabinet
AlterNet: Scientists are finding that spices can ease inflammation, kill bacteria and viruses, and even cause cancer cells to self-destruct... Some research suggests that compounds in spices might help fight everything from Alzheimer's disease and cancer to depression and diabetes.
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Mar 17, 2008, 3:59pm
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Cheap Oil Is Over: Kiss the Gas-Guzzling NASCAR Era Good-Bye
All over. A suburban nation of snowmobilers, dirt bikers and NASCAR races -- all of it was made possible by the one-time blessing of cheap oil. (Excerpt from an essay by James Howard Kunstler published in the book Thrillcraft: The Environmental Consequences of Motorized Recreation)
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Mar 12, 2008, 12:11pm
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Off the Books: The Outsourcing of American Foreign Policy, Part II -- Operation Blowback
More of Peter Dale Scott's book - The Road to 9/11, plus interview with author - "The United States doesn't know the first thing about how to create an empire... I want America to just accept the fact that the military solutions it's trying to impose, first on Vietnam, now on Iraq, they don't work, they can't work."
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Mar 11, 2008, 11:09am
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The World's 50 Most Powerful Blogs
From the Guardian, UK: The Huffington Post to Copyblogger and everything in between. Sample - The F Word (feminism in Britain)- Also Tree Hugger, Crooks & Liars, Gigazine (Japan), Students for a Free Tibet, Basic Thinking (Germany), Marbury (British Blog-American Politics)
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Mar 11, 2008, 10:09am
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The Myth of the Surge
Rolling Stone Magazine: Hoping to turn enemies into allies, U.S. forces are arming Iraqis who fought with the insurgents. But it's already starting to backfire. A report from the front lines of the new Iraq. (Loyalty that can be purchased is by its very nature fickle.)
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Mar 7, 2008, 4:47pm
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