Riding The Juggernaut

Critics of Wikileaks claim that some things must be kept secret, that governments need to be able to act confidentially, and that ordinary c...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident..." - Thomas Jefferson, US Declaration Of Independence. Today, much of the world's mo...

Some people might say my life is in a rut, But I'm quite happy with what I got People might say that I should strive for more, But I'...

Here's me playing Devils Advocate for Mueller on Glenzilla today: Like I said yesterday, I would really like to believe that this is not...

1. McCain's foreign advisor for Latin America is Otto "Death Squads" Reich. I kid you not. And he is busy comparing Hugo Chave...

Me on Glenzilla's blog a couple of days ago: Forget The Election Obama just won. Wall Street tomorrow is going to confirm everything th...

If it's any comfort, I don't understand it either .

I blogged yesterday about that new poll showing most people around the world don't believe Al Quaeda was behind 9-11. Joshua Holland ha...

I have just spent over an hour watching The Falling Man, a documentary about the search to identify a man who jumped from the World Trade Ce...

Howard Zinn : Well you know, whatever hope there is lies in that large number of Americans who are decent, who don't want to go to war, ...

Dilbert creator Scott Adams on the choice of Palin as VP: Since selecting Palin, the discussion in the media and in kitchens across America...

I just finished listening (again) to this old taped interview with Jerome Hauer (22MB Mp3 download). I was frustrated that the interviewer ...

Prof Q says the collapse of Fannie and Freddie spells the end of neoliberalism (whatever that is). Here's my comment: The supreme irony...

A Japanese scholar says Kim Jong-Il has been dead for 5 years : So who pulls the strings now if Professor Shigemura's claims are correct...

It's been an interesting weekend in Australian politics, and I am pleased to say that I payed very little attention to any of it (it was...

First it was FISA, now this : Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama said the surge of American forces in Iraq has ``succeeded beyond our wild...

From the Financial Times : Watchers of political donations and property developers will be interested in the latest appointment of former at...

There are a lot of things I could fault about Atrios - he's lazy, and not as curious as he should be, and too eager to court the mainstr...

But But But!

Hilarious: "I can't believe this has happened to one of our soldiers in his own country. He just didn't know how to react. &q...