Cathy Sherman
Beeld dit: Drie kerels gaan in een staaf. Batender vraagt, „wat u?“ zal hebben Een „bier“, zegt de eerste kerel. Tweede men zegt, de „Whisky“ en het draaien aan de derde kerel vragen, „wat over u?“ „Oh me, heb ik werkelijk een goede sterke schop, met veel stempel aan het nodig… Yep, denk ik dit […]

Als bewijs dat gezondheidsinformatie continutes om integreert te worden meer en meer losgemaakt van werkelijkheid, hebben de heersende stromingsmedia (MSM) een nieuwe golf van verkeerde informatie gelanceerd die wordt ontworpen om de gezondheidsvoordelen van drinkwater te wantrouwen! Just today, for example, Fox News ran a story entitled, Skip the Water, Have a Soda Instead. ((http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,345…)
Other news organizations, such as […]

I’ll admit it: I used to admire John McCain.
To paraphrase the UFO poster from “The X Files,” I wanted to believe.
Specifically, I wanted to believe the guy talking tough about campaign finance reform was committed to getting money out of politics. This was the Arizona senator who in 2002 taped a radio ad praising his […]

By Jim Yardley
BEIJING - A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced an outspoken human rights advocate to 3 1/2 years in prison after ruling that his critical essays and comments about Communist Party rule amounted to inciting subversion, his lawyer said.
The conviction of the advocate, Hu Jia, 34, one of the most prominent human rights activists […]

By James H. Ewert Jr.
Kalle Lasn is a fighter for the right to communicate. A privilege, says the founder of Adbusters magazine, that goes one step farther than the freedom of speech.
“You can stand on the corner and shout at people as they are going by,” Lasn says. “But if a handful of corporations have […]

WASHINGTON: Members of the U.S.Congress have as much as $196 million (126.2 million) collectively invested in companies doing business with the Defense Department, earning millions since the start of the Iraq war, according to a new study by a nonpartisan research group.The review of lawmakers’ 2006 financial disclosure statements, by the Washington-based Center for Responsive […]

Is there an alternative to petroleum?
Here’s one possibility: Bio-diesel.
The raw material - used cooking grease - is currently being wasted.
BioLiberty.Net, a group of Gulf War veterans, is developing a production system that converts grease to a fuel.
One of the uses of the fuel is to help clear the lots of poor, elderly and handicapped land […]

Mike Adams
As we wind our way towards an election between the numerous professional liars who have been put forward as candidates for U.S. President, it seems to be a great time to remind us all about the financial issue being routinely ignored by virtually everyone (except Ron Paul, of course, who was never really embraced […]

Liverpools £26.5 million striker Fernando Torres is delighted that the Anfield faithful have created a song just for him.

“It is fantastic,” he told liverpoolfc.tv. “For me, Stevie Gerrard is the best player, he is the hero of the fans. So when I hear them sing the song they have for me it makes me feel […]

AP reports that “President Bush on Wednesday [in Bucharest, Romania] renewed urgent calls for NATO to start the admission process for Ukraine and Georgia despite a split among alliance members and fierce Russian objections.” Bush was just in Ukraine and is scheduled to meet with President Vladimir Putin in Russia on April 6.
Sen. TINY KOX
Kox […]

A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested “clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers.” Since the start of the Iraq war, there’s been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle blogs — and the servicemembers who want to keep them. One faction sees blogs as security risks, and a collective waste of […]

Howard Zinn
There’s a man in Florida who has been writing to me for years (ten pages, handwritten) though I’ve never met him. He tells me the kinds of jobs he has held—security guard, repairman, etc. He has worked all kinds of shifts, night and day, to barely keep his family going. His letters to me […]

Today Meg Hillier, the minister in charge of the ID cards programme, came to Cambridge for discussions on the scheme with local business and civic leaders.
Her visit received a ‘welcoming committee’ of NO2ID activists, who staked out two of the main entrances to Jesus College.
In an interview on Radio Cambridgeshire this morning, Ms. Hillier repeated […]

I’ve been joking the last few years that if you invested in military stocks on January 20, 2001, you’d be sitting pretty right now.
Well, now I’ve got some more evidence to back up that not-so-funny joke.
Since the Iraq War began, aerospace and defense industry stocks have more than doubled.
General Dynamics did even better than that.
Its […]

Bush’s Law: Eric Lichtblau on Exposing the NSA’s Warrantless Wiretapping Program and How the White House Pressured the New York Times to Kill the Story.
Democracy Now! 
In a national broadcast exclusive, we speak with New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau about his new book, “Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice.” Lichtblau won the Pulitzer Prize […]