Opinion & Editorials
Zero Party Politics | In a country with about the same land mass as Los Angeles County which has been at war off and on for nearly four decades, “Ground Zero” for the Lebanese is arguably their entire country—and at the center of their Ground Zero is downtown Beirut, captured and occupied b...
Zero Anthropology | One of the first points I wanted to make is that I dreaded from the start the extent to which Julian Assange had become the public persona for Wikileaks, believing it to be unnecessary and a point of vulnerability.
The Daily Bell | These sorts of articles are actually quite numerous on the 'Net, but this is a very good example of one. Here are the top ten list of conspiracy theories from AlterNet and our comments beneath.
Telegraph | I suppose it’s too much to ask that people set aside the motive for a second and consider that someone has just announced that they’re giving a very large sum of money to a very good cause?
David Rothscum Reports | That's not a label I gave myself. My parents named me when I was born. The media, politicians, and political "scientists" named my political views when they discovered them and needed a box to fit them in.
Desert Peace | To tell you the truth, I am frankly worried about some of my colleagues who are committed Zionists having difficulty in dealing with reality in the wake of the severe difficulties facing the Zionist project in historical Palestine.
New York Times | It is just a technical matter, the Obama administration says: We just need to make a slight change in a law to make clear that we have the right to see the names of anyone’s e-mail correspondents and their Web browsing history without the messy complication of asking a judge for ...
New York Times | The Catholic Church continued to heap insult upon injury when it revealed its long-awaited new rules on clergy sex abuse, rules that the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said signaled a commitment to grasp the nettle with “rigor and transparency.”
Kenny's Sideshow | Slippery are the roads of Carinthia in Austria but the politics of healthy nationalism are more difficult to negotiate. Joerg Haider was an outspoken, successful politician in Austria for decades before he took the short drive that ended his life on October 12, jus...
Cryptome | Thanks for publishing your interview with Stephanie. Granted it is a bit harsh -- but what you said is about journalism is entirely true, and I'm glad you said it. I decided to write in because I wanted to share my thoughts on the Wikileaks case.
Toronto Sun | What David Chen did, was chase and catch a guy who was stealing plants from his Lucky Moose Market in Toronto’s Chinatown. With the help of two employees, Chen tied the guy up, locked him in a van, and called the cops.
New York Times | A few months ago, I wrote about Verizon Wireless’s outrageous practice of selling phones whose arrow keys are preprogrammed to connect to the Web. And if you hit one accidentally, you get zapped with a $2 Internet charge, instantly.
FOX News | Usually the police leave them alone, and yet other times they act like a military force engaged in urban combat. This February, cops stormed a Columbia, Mo. home, killed the family dog and terrorized a 7-year-old boy -- for what? A tiny quantity of marijuana.
Sleepy Kid | In the lead-up to the midterm elections, the Republicans’ single fleeting ray of hope was a botched joke by Senator John Kerry. The joke was obviously aimed at George W. Bush, but they took it to suggest that Kerry thought only those who flunked out of school end up in the military...
Haaretz | If a people who so recently experienced such unspeakable inhumanities cannot understand the injustice and suffering its territorial ambitions are inflicting, what hope is there for the rest of us? Following Israel’s bloody interdiction of the Gaza Flotilla, I called a life-long f...
Daily Kos | Basically, a bunch of Chinese workers have spontaneously gone on strike, all over the country. This is all coming out of China, meaning the scope of the problem is probably 100x larger than reported.
The Atlantic | To read Charles Krauthammer today is to enter a twilight zone of an alternate reality. A country permanently occupying and colonizing a neighboring region, and treating its original inhabitants as dangerous interlopers, is the victim.
Salon.com | Over the years, and especially since 2006, the Jewish state's deadly, over-the-top military actions in response to provocations from Hamas and Hezbollah — and now from a flotilla ferrying humanitarian aid to Gaza — have backfired. And in each case, the Jewish state has grown less sec...
Video | If you are just learning about Jewish people and Israel, let me tell you that you should look into the Haredi Jewish Community and Messianic jews. The Haredi Jewish community started a group called “Jews Against Zionism.” Yes, that is right. There are jews who are NOT Z...
Patrick Wall | In light of the recent explosion of media coverage about the clergy sex abuse scandal, revelations about the inaction of bishops to stop offenders, and the full-scale global cover-up of the rape of hundreds of thousands of children, let’s take a little quiz.
Guardian | No explanation can justify or whitewash the crime that was committed, and no excuse can explain away the stupid actions of the government and the army. Israel did not send its soldiers to kill civilians in cold blood; this is the last thing it wanted
Newsweek | Poor Rand Paul. First he clobbers the establishment favorite, Trey Grayson, in Kentucky's GOP Senate primary. So far, so good. But then he tells Rachel Maddow that the U.S. was wrong to prohibit business owners from discriminating against people because of their race, and suddenly, he...
Energy Bulletin | Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am not an expert or a scholar or an activist. I am more of an eye-witness. I watched the Soviet Union collapse, and I have tried to put my observations into a concise message. I will leave it up to you to decide just how urgent a message it...
New York Times | This feels like a populist moment. Americans are Tea Partying. Greeks are rioting. Incumbents are being thrown out; the Federal Reserve is facing an audit; Goldman Sachs is facing prosecution. In Kentucky, Ron Paul’s son might be about to win a Republican Senate primary.
American Conservative | Eighteen months ago, TAC publisher Ron Unz discovered an astonishing account of the role the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, had played in suppressing information about what happened to American soldiers missing in action in Vietnam. Below, we presen...
Ludwig von Mises Institute | On May 3, 2010, I gave a talk to a class of students studying public health policy at the University of Washington. I began the talk by asking the students how many of them believed that the current healthcare system in America was flawed; everyone in the class raised...
Human Rights Watch Backgrounder | According to the latest statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice, more than two million men and women are now behind bars in the United States
Reason | Over at the publication famous for (among other impressive accomplishments) having a political columnist write about licking doorknobs at Gary Bauer's campaign headquarters, Gabriel Winant uses the Rand Paul/Civil Rights Act controversy as a teaching moment about the irredeemable immat...
Family Car Guide | We've already brought you the tale of Madeline Leonard, the mentally-disabled woman who was overcharged by a Canadian Mazda dealership for a 2010 Mazda 6, when in fact she hadn't even intended on buying a new car.
Guardian | If you didn't have peripheral vision, it would probably be fine. If you didn't glance to the sides of Israel's highway 443 between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, then it wouldn't smack you in the face that the road is – how shall we put it? – segregated
Author House | Beyond the thousand-yard stare, beneath the buzz cut, there was another Timothy McVeigh. Now America finally gets to meet the real Oklahoma City Bomber, and hear his shocking account of his crime, as reported by McVeigh’s fellow death row inmate, David Paul Hammer.
Buzzle | A few days prior to the crash that killed Princess Diana, the Mercedes Benz in which she died was stolen! Strange thing is, when found the only thing missing from the car was the onboard computer chip; that chip is responsible for controlling steering and braking!
Rense | Support, or at least ignore, tyranny or the corporate media might call you a racist, anti-Semite, a terrorist, or all three epithets. Today, vocal, non-violent, civil disagreement or disobedience can be deemed as terrorist activity.
Little Alex in Wonderland | In today’s New York Times, Bill Clinton once again tries to tie the Oklahoma City bombing to those of us who hold “the belief that the greatest threat to American freedom is our government, and that public servants do not protect our freedoms, but abuse them.”
News Busters | Why does the mainstream media keep trotting out the Boy Who Cried Right-Wing Terrorist? Better known as Mark Potok of the hard-left Southern Poverty Law Center, he has been trumpeted by a number of media outlets seeking to promote the notion that "right-wingers" are lurking ...
Young Americans for Liberty | “They shouldn’t be laughed at. It’s not a joke,” Chomsky told the packed theater. “Ridiculing the Tea Party shenanigans is a terrible mistake. Why are those voices of discontent being mobilized by the extreme Right?”
Gather | He does not really point out the difference between Libertarianism and Conservative but Libertarianism and Neoconservatism. Those who have read my articles and comments know that I a dead set against the One World agenda of the NEOCONSERVATIVES and their New World Orde...
Sander Hicks, Huffington Post | Instead, the Vatican keeps shoveling out more denial, playing the victim, blaming the media. The homily I heard this Easter Sunday in downtown NYC made me cringe at its false claims: the Church is "under attack" and the Pope needs our unqualified support and praye...
Reason.com | If you believe the president’s Republican critics, Barack Obama takes a law enforcement approach to terrorism. His FBI came under fire for reading Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian national who nearly blew up an airplane on Christmas, his constitutional rights.
San Francisco Examiner | "Sarah Palin targeted Democrats who voted for the bill with an image of gun-sight crosshairs. Rush Limbaugh pledged to ‘defeat these bastards.’ One Republican shouted ‘baby killer!’ on the House floor. I defend dissent with every fiber of my being, but these rants have g...
Shenandoah | This is not something I say lightly after reviewing this information and reinforcing the commentary from the Rangel rule which restricted and penalized voluntary emigration and/or renunciation of one’s citizenship from the United States.
News Busters | What's the likelihood of an EXTREMELY liberal media outlet publishing an article about firearm related homicides declining while permits to carry concealed weapons increase? About as likely as Keith Olbermann saying something nice about Sarah Palin, right?
New York Times | After taking office last year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel privately told many Americans and Europeans that he was committed to and capable of peacemaking, despite the hard-line positions that he had used to get elected for a second time.
Examiner | In November I documented current and historical evidence that the US “leadership” was considering “false flag” attack plans to kill Americans, plant evidence to blame Iran, and then launch a “defensive” attack upon Iran.
Future of Freedom Foundation | The medical system does need reforming — radical reforming. It’s more expensive than it ought to be, and powerful interests prosper at the expense of the rest of us. The status quo has little about it to be admired, and we shouldn’t tolerate it.
Tragedy and Hope | During a recent interview, wherein Professor Shlomo Sand was being interviewed by a colleague of mine; I found myself witnessing a rare opportunity to take an apparent contradiction in history.
Guardian | I'm a lightweight; always have been. I didn't get properly drunk until I was 25, on a night out which culminated in a spectacular public vomiting in a Chinese restaurant. Ever wondered what the clatter of 60 pairs of chopsticks being simultaneously dropped in disgust might sound li...
Lew Rockwell | It is not surprising that, when culture is in collapse, so too is the level of thinking upon which it is based. This is doubtless the social equivalent of the proposition that water can never rise higher than its source.