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The Extinction Oscillator
Jul 1st
“Now we’re entering a new era when the village seems about to...”
— David Brin
Jul 1st
If you eat food in America, see "Food, Inc."
Jul 1st
Tom Tomorrow
Jul 1st
Infrastructure for Souls
Jul 1st
James Buchan considers Ahmed Kasravi,...
Jul 1st
“What very few people realize is that Malthus was right about...”
— Paul Krugman
Jul 1st
“An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the...”
— Dorothy Day
Jul 1st
Watch Watch
Take Your Gun to Church
Jul 1st
Debt is capitalism’s dirty little secret
Jul 1st
Matt Bors
Jul 1st
“All men dream: but nor equally, Those who dream by night in...”
— T.E. Lawrence
Jul 1st
Why President Zelaya's Actions in Honduras...
Jun 30th
Watch Watch
Howard Zinn speaks at the Progressive’s 100 Anniversary Conference
Jun 30th
“Gaza has been described as the “world’s largest...”
— Paul Craig Roberts
Jun 30th
“Free is the name of Chris’s new book, and it’s...”
— Seth Godin
Jun 30th
Red States, Blue States, and Morality
Jun 30th
Zombie Economy
Jun 30th
“The challenge of the 21st Century is how to create a global...”
— Kruse Kronicle
Jun 30th
robsright.com
Jun 30th
“There is no credible evidence against Jawad, and his...”
— Bob Herbert
Jun 30th
“While a lot of the media hype today focuses on the U.S....”
— Jeremy Scahill
Jun 30th
Firefox 3.5 released, ready to "upgrade" the...
Jun 30th
Iran’s Post-Election Uprising: Hopes & Fears...
Jun 30th
The Fallacy of a Guest Worker Program Returns
Jun 30th
“Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate...”
— Thomas Merton
Jun 30th
Pat Bagley
Jun 30th
slaverymap.org
Jun 30th
The Attitude That Will Change Nothing
Jun 30th
“But this is a quite common affliction in our political...”
— Glenn Greenwald
Jun 30th
“For long centuries, God perfected the animal form which was...”
— CS Lewis
Jun 30th
Mocking Christian Protests
Jun 30th
“The Honduran military is effectively a subsidiary of the...”
— Greg Grandin
Jun 30th
An Overview of the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
Jun 29th
“Like the USA, Michael Jackson was a has-been. He...”
— James Howard Kunstler
Jun 29th
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but...”
— Maya Angelou
Jun 29th
Betraying the Planet
Jun 29th
xkcd
Jun 29th
Brain Rules
Jun 29th
“The modern world, as Kafka predicted, has become a world...”
— Chris Hedges
Jun 29th
The Joy of Tech
Jun 29th
“And after watching a series of scandals unfold, I’ve come to...”
— Paul Krugman
Jun 29th
“I’m not really any sadder about Michael...”
— Bob Rossney
Jun 29th
The coming age of internet censorship
Jun 28th
David Fitzsimmons
Jun 28th
“Maniacal flag-waving is a well-known symptom of decline in...”
— David Brin
Jun 28th
“Suppose the Night at the Museum had featured a character in...”
— Tim Giago
Jun 28th
PostSecret
Jun 28th
Hate mail-apalooza
Jun 28th
“He [George Will] hasn’t addressed two very obvious...”
— John Casey
Jun 28th
“Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the...”
— James Madison
Jun 28th
Jeff Danziger
Jun 28th
“I expect the Republicans to throw money at the Military...”
— Marie Marchand
Jun 28th
The Health Care Industry vs. Health Reform
Jun 28th
List of best-selling albums worldwide
Jun 27th
“Today is an historic opportunity to pass truly meaningful...”
— Al Gore
Jun 27th
Dreaming of Nonsense: The Evolutionary Enigma...
Jun 27th
caglecartoons.com
Jun 27th
“A government that will give you a trial before imprisoning...”
— Glenn Greenwald
Jun 27th
The "Piece Church"
Jun 27th
“The most important component of the policy package...”
— Sic Semper Tyrannis
Jun 27th
How the Food Makers Captured Our Brains
Jun 27th
“Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But...”
— Bill Moyers
Jun 27th
The Prurient Trap
Jun 27th
“The new reality is here, and has been since 1973, the last...”
— Joe Bageant
Jun 27th
Loyal ‘Simpsons’ Fans Fetch Higher Ad Rates...
Jun 26th
“The ’70s died for me on Thursday, June 25, 2009. Farrah...”
— Anthea Butler
Jun 26th
“We like to think that the Bible, or any other text, means...”
— James Kugel
Jun 26th
Germany Imagines Suburbs Without Cars
Jun 26th
Peray
Jun 26th
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in...”
— James Madison
Jun 26th
Never Forget: The International Day in...
Jun 26th
“The current crisis could have been mitigated if increased...”
— Marshall Auerback
Jun 26th
Why are There 60 Minutes in an Hour?
Jun 26th
Manny Francisco
Jun 26th
Fireman kills pets to save on boarding
Jun 26th
“He missed his childhood and now he’s gonna miss his...”
— Bob Lefsetz
Jun 26th
New FCC Chair Brings Us Closer to Net...
Jun 26th
Rob Rogers
Jun 26th
Web slows after Jackson's death
Jun 26th
Why Businesses and Economists Are Backing the...
Jun 25th
“Why not just tell people I’m an alien from Mars. Tell...”
— Michael Jackson
Jun 25th
Watch Watch
Michael Jackson - Rock With You
Jun 25th
"What Can I Do?"
Jun 25th
“Extensive evidence now exists that Begin’s preference for a...”
— Robert Parry
Jun 25th

Court Says Strip Search of Child Illegal

continuum: Court Says Strip Search of Child Illegal The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a...
Jun 25th
Houston police mum on marijuana prisoner’s...
Jun 25th
“So, what we have is one perfectly good party for hedge fund...”
— Bill Maher
Jun 25th
Sex Scandal Flow Chart
Jun 25th
“Every day in America, a.k.a. Oceania, we see the growing...”
— Paul Craig Roberts
Jun 25th
“Let’s sum up what conservatives (and neo-conservatives) are...”
— Jacob G. Hornberger
Jun 25th
“President Obama has taken us into an expansion of Bush’s war...”
— Kathy Kelly
Jun 25th
Mike Thompson
Jun 24th
How Churches Are Like Record Labels and...
Jun 24th
The Church In 2034
Jun 24th
“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that....”
— President Richard M. Nixon
Jun 24th
“Dissenters in Iran and China persist despite repression that...”
— Amy Goodman
Jun 24th
“The followers of Christ have been called to peace. And they...”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jun 24th
Getting beyond a foolish argument…
Jun 24th
bartcop.com
Jun 24th
“Half of the American citizenry is now explicitly pro-torture...”
— Glenn Greenwald
Jun 24th
Our Brains Are Not Us
Jun 24th
“We have a storyline that allows us to justify the inequality...”
— John A. Powell
Jun 24th
On the coming neo-feudalism
Jun 24th
“The public thinks it is entitled to fly anywhere in the...”
— What Captain Sullenberger...
Jun 24th
“When authorities resort to propaganda confidence building...”
— Global Guerrillas
Jun 24th
US drone kills 45 people attending a funeral...
Jun 23rd
“What is Christianity? It is Christ. Nothing more. Nothing...”
— A Jesus Manifesto
Jun 23rd
Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent...
Jun 23rd
Capitalism as an Unnatural System
Jun 23rd
“An elitist used to be a person who believed in rule by the...”
— Geoffrey Nunberg
Jun 23rd
Watch Watch
HAARM.org - Message Strategy Session
Jun 23rd
Debunking 10 Brain Health Myths
Jun 23rd
“Entertainment is a form of play, and even in non-human...”
— Peter Stromberg
Jun 23rd
“Some 47 million Americans are uninsured — many because...”
— Helen Thomas
Jun 23rd
Scientology: The Truth Rundown
Jun 23rd
Bill Day
Jun 23rd
“All this was possible because Alan Kay, an engineer at...”
— Chris Anderson
Jun 23rd
UAVs for Airborne Law Enforcement
Jun 23rd
“The tree’s branches are real but only there to support the...”
— ongoing
Jun 22nd
Work starts on New Mexico spaceport
Jun 22nd
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means...”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Jun 22nd
Victory in the Culture Wars: the Hidden...
Jun 22nd
“The President is offering the public a series of stories...”
— Drew Westen
Jun 22nd
“The dreadful moment may arrive with the functional...”
— James Howard Kunstler
Jun 22nd
“After the Soviet Union’s dissolution in late 1989,...”
— Steve Lendman
Jun 22nd
Mike Luckovich
Jun 22nd
Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads...
Jun 22nd
“…gay people can and do reproduce. Gay women can do so...”
— Rondam Ramblings
Jun 22nd
“I am no friend of the Iranian regime, which helped create...”
— Chris Hedges
Jun 22nd
“Christians might want to check in with what some folks are...”
— internetmonk.com
Jun 21st
Conservatives Are Wrong About Free Market...
Jun 21st
Three major myths about marriage
Jun 21st
Jeff Danziger
Jun 21st
“The fact is that the United States — like nearly every...”
— Orcinus
Jun 21st
The Forbidden Apple of the US Press
Jun 21st
“The Internet is a big distraction. Yahoo called me eight...”
— Ray Bradbury
Jun 21st

Firefox 3.5

Firefox and more: browser memory usage Firefox 3.5 dominates in memory efficiency. Average usage...
Jun 21st
David Fitzsimmons
Jun 21st
Three Civil Rights Activists in Mississippi
Jun 21st
“The enemy may be the cosmopolitan intellectual, but the...”
— Richard Hofstadter
Jun 21st
Iran in full revolt
Jun 20th
Health Care Costs: Am I missing something? Or...
Jun 20th
xkcd
Jun 20th
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United...
Jun 20th
Watch Watch
John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner
Jun 20th
“Copyright is a powerful weapon, and it grows more powerful...”
— Cory Doctorow
Jun 20th
“It’s not the fear of being drawn into a conflict. It’s...”
— Moorhead Kennedy, one of the...
Jun 20th
David Horsey
Jun 20th
Civil religion, prophecy and Obama
Jun 20th
“If the Republican Party and we of the Religious Right had...”
— Frank Schaeffer
Jun 20th
Joe Heller
Jun 20th
“This is Iran. This is what it means to live under Ayotollah...”
— Lila Ghobady
Jun 20th
“The country is headed toward a single and splendid...”
— Thomas Jefferson
Jun 20th
“Ultimately, “Glenn Beck’s Common Sense” is just what you...”
— Submitted to a Candid World
Jun 20th
14 theories of church growth from 7 research...
Jun 20th
bartcop.com
Jun 19th
GPS coordinates lead crew to destroy wrong...
Jun 19th
“Fascism has always been a phenomenon of the right. Every...”
— Orcinus
Jun 19th
“…the iPhone 3GS is triumphantly the product of a company at...”
— Stephen Fry
Jun 19th
UN: World hunger reaches 1 billion mark
Jun 19th
“My generation is tired of being disillusioned. We refuse to...”
— tehranbureau
Jun 19th
Doug Hampton's letter to Fox News
Jun 19th
“Back to the nation, the new Gilded Age rolls on. The Supreme...”
— Rogue Columnist
Jun 19th
Doctors Just Want to Be Doctors
Jun 19th
Crude Oil Prices: 1861-2008
Jun 19th

American Radical: The Life and Times of...

AMY GOODMAN: I.F. Stone famously said, “All governments lie.”
D.D. GUTTENPLAN: Yes, but he also said the truth slips out, because they lie, but they put out so much information that they can’t always hide things.
I want to talk about Vietnam for just a second, because, in a way, the most important issue of I.F. Stone’s Weekly was in 1965 after the State Department put out a white paper on Vietnam justifying the American escalation of the war. And they basically painted the Viet Cong as tools of North Vietnam who were, in turn, tools of Moscow and China, so that the whole war could have been stopped, in the view of the Johnson administration, which later became the view of the Nixon administration, if you put sufficient pressure on Moscow and China.
And what Stone showed was—he basically went to the appendix. He always said you should read a government document from the back, because that’s where they put the stuff they don’t want you to notice, which they have to include, but they don’t want you to notice it. So at the back of the State Department white paper was a report on weapons captured by the US forces in Vietnam. And Stone showed—it was a detailed list—that 95 percent of these weapons were made in the West, that they were either American or British, and that they had obviously been captured by the army of—you know, the Vietnamese army that we were arming, so that, you know, far from being a Moscow-equipped and–backed force, the Viet Cong were an indigenous native opposition to the South Vietnamese government and that their—and their weapons came from the weapons we were giving to the army that they were defeating.
And this—in a sense, what was important about it is, first of all, that it exposed the government’s big lie about Vietnam, and secondly, it gave legitimacy and credibility to the opposition, because it came out of the time when, for example, the Students for a Democratic Society were trying to decide what was the big issue to organize around in the United States. And they asked Stone to speak to them. And that’s sort of interesting, because he was a lot older than they were. And, you know, in general, they didn’t have a lot of time for journalists of his generation. He was the only journalist asked to speak at the first Vietnam War Moratorium. And he basically said, “Look, the government is carrying on this war, and there’s no peace movement here.” You know, there were stirrings of a peace movement, but it had been so terrorized by McCarthyism and so marginalized that he felt that that was the most important cause, and that was what they should throw themselves into wholeheartedly.
Jun 19th
“…rentier interests are so overwhelmingly dominant in our...”
— John Robb
Jun 19th
“The Washington Post does more to advance neoconservative...”
— Glenn Greenwald
Jun 19th
Robot Babies
Jun 19th
Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran
Jun 19th
“The whole system is such a many-headed hydra monster! And if...”
— The Health Care Hydra
Jun 19th
Watch Watch
Rethink Afghanistan (Part 4): Civilian Casualties
Jun 18th
“Virtuality is becoming as much a part of humanity as books,...”
— John La Grou
Jun 18th
Tax Cuts: The B.S. and the Facts
Jun 18th
“The lack of any valid legal basis for their decision and,...”
— Vincent Bugliosi
Jun 18th

Gore's Victory

FACT: Al Gore received more votes than George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election —...
Jun 18th
Pogue’s Productivity Secrets Revealed
Jun 18th
how to be happy in business - venn diagram
Jun 18th
“There’s an old joke: in heaven the police are British, the...”
—  Far too often, new media...
Jun 18th
“Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first...”
— Florynce R. Kennedy
Jun 18th
Andy Singer
Jun 18th
“What’s is highly troublesome is this: The way that...”
— Will Bunch
Jun 18th
“Ultimately, the best locutions are those that credit...”
— Spinoff Book Titles -...
Jun 18th
The Ideological History of the Supreme Court...
Jun 18th
“Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the...”
— Joseph Campbell
Jun 18th
Refugees: Forced migration
Jun 18th
Think Twice Before Buying a Computer in China
Jun 18th
Rev. Moon, North Korea & the Bushes
Jun 17th
The Joy of Tech
Jun 17th
Thoughts on Opera Unite
Jun 17th
“The recession of the ’80s transformed the working class into...”
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Jun 17th
Real Climate Economics
Jun 17th
“I’m always a little reticent to draw lessons from...”
— Clay Shirky
Jun 17th
Andy Singer
Jun 17th
Sonia Sotomayor's 'empathy' isn't all it's...
Jun 17th
You can't say the F-word at the Supreme Court
Jun 17th
“Under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, the...”
— Jeremy Scahill
Jun 17th
Neo-Nazis are in the Army now
Jun 16th
bartcop.com
Jun 16th
The O'Reilly Procedure
Jun 16th
“Barack Obama, taking another page from Dick Cheney’s...”
— Rondam Ramblings
Jun 16th
“There have been numerous news reports that the US government...”
— Paul Craig Roberts
Jun 16th
High-flying kites could power New York
Jun 16th
“The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a...”
— George Carlin (via...
Jun 16th
Misogynists at war?
Jun 16th
Top 7 Conservative New Media FAILS So Far...
Jun 16th
“It seems unlikely that at any point in the past the vast...”
— Exploring Our Matrix
Jun 16th
Watch Watch
cosmic voyage to elsewhere : The scale of the Universe
Jun 16th
“Not since the 1979 Iranian Revolution have massed protesters...”
— Robert Fisk
Jun 16th
“It is the acid test of nonviolence that … there is no rancor...”
— Mohandas Gandhi
Jun 16th

Is there really any difference between...

sds takes issue with a posted link at this here internet establishment… Joseph Goebbels was Adolf...
Jun 16th
Matt Bors
Jun 16th
“Phoenix is built on many myths. Perhaps the greatest is that...”
— Rogue Columnist
Jun 16th
“A few months ago the U.S. economy was in danger of falling...”
— Paul Krugman
Jun 16th
Mike Keefe
Jun 15th
The Heirs of Joseph Goebbels
Jun 15th
“Two men read the Bible, each in their own place. The first...”
— Exploring Our Matrix
Jun 15th
A 'time bomb' for world wheat crop
Jun 15th
Tom Tomorrow
Jun 15th
“Yet, when an election occurs in another country and an...”
— Robert Parry
Jun 15th
“The predominant bias of the media isn’t really best...”
— Glenn Greenwald
Jun 15th
“Humans’ rapid expansion in terms of population and per...”
— Paul J. Crutzen
Jun 15th
More Talk, Less Chalk: Lexically Sparse...
Jun 15th
“What interests me is why the Democrats would want to rely on...”
— Stephen Suh
Jun 15th
“Secrecy is the linchpin of executive-power abuse and...”
— Glenn Greenwald
Jun 15th
Iran protesters defy rally ban
Jun 15th
Safari 4’s Full-Page Zoom: Impressive
Jun 15th
“On the economic front there is no foreseeable way in which...”
— Michael Hudson
Jun 15th
R.J. Matson
Jun 15th
How to Lose 30 Pounds in 24 Hours: The...
Jun 15th
“This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s...”
— Chris Hedges
Jun 15th
What is the global ocean conveyor belt?
Jun 15th
“This means the end of the dollar. It means China, Russia,...”
— Michael Hudson
Jun 15th
Data Center Overload
Jun 15th
Rural Mich. counties turn failing roads to...
Jun 15th
“To put it bluntly, the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU)...”
— James Howard Kunstler
Jun 15th
Matt Bors
Jun 14th
“Another big misconception is that the best way to resist...”
— Dagmar Herzog
Jun 14th
Why I Choose Streets Over Shelter
Jun 14th
Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be...
Jun 14th
John Sherffius
Jun 14th
HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK?
Jun 14th
“…what people tend to ignore is that all health care systems...”
— David Brin
Jun 14th
Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam
Jun 14th
Watch Watch
RE:FORM - 2009
Jun 14th
“I said some years ago that the genius of Rupert Murdoch and...”
— Charles Krauthammer
Jun 14th
American Nazis
Jun 14th
“The path to power for both Italian Fascists and German Nazis...”
— Orcinus
Jun 14th
“You can prove any thesis to be true if you make up your own...”
— The Goldberg Principle
Jun 14th
The iPhone 3GS and Forensics: Encryption...
Jun 14th
sipri.org
Jun 14th
“Boeing, BAE Systems (British), Lockheed Martin, Northrop...”
— Amitabh Pal
Jun 14th
“A fairly reliable rule of thumb in our political debates is...”
— Glenn Greenwald
Jun 13th
Speaking of Talk
Jun 13th
“What kind of church would embrace George Tiller? A church...”
— What Kind of Church Accepts...
Jun 13th
Iran's political coup
Jun 13th
“Does anyone- I mean, really, seriously- have any idea what...”
— internetmonk.com
Jun 13th
Penguins March to Victory in Detroit
Jun 13th
Debunking Canadian health care myths
Jun 12th
'Rebirth of a Nation - The Making of Modern...
Jun 12th
Bill Day
Jun 12th
“So here we have the entire health care debate in a horrible...”
— Rondam Ramblings
Jun 12th
“We know you have absolute and utter contempt for the...”
— Orcinus
Jun 12th
David Horsey
Jun 12th
“For the first time, the well-respected Energy Information...”
— Michael T. Klare
Jun 12th
“The U.S. transfers tens of billions of dollars to Israel...”
— Glenn Greenwald
Jun 12th
U.S Army Burns Bibles in Afghanistan
Jun 12th
Tom Toles
Jun 12th
“When someone with whom we disagree clearly crosses the line,...”
— Rachel Held Evans
Jun 12th
“And then there’s Rush Limbaugh. His rants today aren’t very...”
— Paul Krugman
Jun 12th
Wall Street's Toxic Message
Jun 12th
Watch Watch
End Times
Jun 11th
“The other (far less likely, but far worse case) scenario is...”
— Orcinus
Jun 11th
Scripture, American Style (1)
Jun 11th
Pat Bagley
Jun 11th
Exploring the Mysteries of the Mind with the...
Jun 11th
10 cars that seem to last forever
Jun 11th
“The web is now a massive system of connected people and...”
— Tim Berners-Lee
Jun 11th
“The responsible white separatist community condemns this. It...”
— John De Nugent
Jun 11th
Jeff Danziger
Jun 11th
“You probably don’t know much about Sheila Bair, but...”
— Robert Scheer
Jun 11th
Made in America: Corporate PR, Not Practice
Jun 11th
“Redemption means actually being liberated from the...”
— Walter Wink
Jun 11th
Jimmy Margulies
Jun 11th
‘R2-D2′ and Other Lessons From Bell Labs
Jun 11th
“Obama’s address seemed to have been constructed around the...”
— B. Raman
Jun 11th
MLK Commandments for Volunteers
Jun 11th
Yahoo Nukes Man's Photos Over Obama Comments
Jun 11th
“…many of the right-wing groups saw the war from the very...”
— Sara Robinson
Jun 11th
“People write a lot of comments on my blog, and I actually...”
— Matt Mullenweg
Jun 11th
The 2009 Social Security Trustees' Report:...
Jun 11th
David Horsey
Jun 10th
“On yesterday’s episode of Glenn Beck’s Fox...”
— The Daily Doubter
Jun 10th
In Iran, disparate, powerful forces ally...
Jun 10th
Watch Watch
“i” on News
Jun 10th
“The 3% of projected deficits made up by healthcare reform...”
— Stephen Suh
Jun 10th
“Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see:...”
— George Carlin
Jun 10th
“It’s hard to put into words how inebriated with...”
— Glenn Greenwald
Jun 10th
Bad Samaritans
Jun 10th