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Outsourcing the Military: Blackwater and Bush

The second-largest army in Iraq does not belong to a country, it belongs to a corporation. They are the tens of thousands of private security contractors in which Blackwater dominates. … Continue reading

23 March, 2007 · Leave a comment

Spotlight on Sherffius

John Sherffius, Cartoonist for the Boulder Daily Camera. A feature selection of recent cartoons from Cagle’s Cartoon site Click on thumbnails for full-size (if using Firefox or IE7, you can … Continue reading

23 February, 2007 · 5 Comments

Why Fisk is wrong about Lebanon

Mike Whitney responds to a short article by Fisk in The Independent that claims a civil war based on “sectarian hatred” is imminent. Many of the comments responding to the … Continue reading

29 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

BushCo and Big Oil Manipulating the Oil Reserve for Polls and Profit?

Eye-opening article by Thomas I. Palley: Manipulating The Oil Reserve in TomPaine.com (January 26, 2007). His bio: Thomas Palley runs the Economics for Democratic and Open Societies Project. He is … Continue reading

28 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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