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21-26 May 2007 Opit's LinkFest! on My Opera

May 21 - Found on the Blogs

Wednesday, 21. May 2008, 22:11:45

Memorial Day Post
Lions led by Donkeys
Contrary Brin
Corn,ethanol,farms, food and the logic of the granary
The history and common sense of farm subsidies...and what happened
What does any of this have to do with biofuels and ethanol ?
The right way to apply hard liquor
IPS News
Women's Co-operative buys in bulk to beat food inflation
Czech Republic: people battle radar site
Muslim youth try humour to rout stereotypes
U.S. might just choke the WHO
Not enough done to protect biodiversity
School recruiting could violate international protocol
NewsDaily
A proposed ban on cluster bombs could jeopardize U.S. participation in joint disaster relief and peacekeeping operations around the world ( Promise ? )
PR Watch Audio
Blue Girl Red State
Peace breaking out in Lebanon ?
They violated international law, they employed torture, and Condoleezza Rice is complicit
The spy who posted his professsional resume
The Existentialist Cowboy
Bush's conspiracy to Create an Amerian Police State Part VIII : Atrocities are justifed with lies, myths or propaganda ( or ? )
Ten Percent
Naomi Klein on Golden Shield
The Independent Censor Mark Steel on the Raytheon 9
Bush here in June - you're not fucking welcome
Afghanistan - the Dirty War ( Death Squads )
The Sheriff of Nottingham anti-'terror' squads terrorize university
Data Mine ( data glut )
George plays a blinder - Monbiot
Continuity of government : the road map for martial law
iraq update
Pentagon 'three-day Blitz' plan for Iran
Blackwater reminder
New Iraq deployments could maintain U.S. force level
bomb,bomb,bomb Iran : updates
destructive rural realities in iraq and seeds of democracy
Iraq seed treasure destroyed
PEJ News
Oil companies complicit in rights abuses
Romeo Dallaire compares Canada and the US to terrorist organizations ( Lt-Gen )
Conference on Defence Association's charitable status questioned
Canada and B.C. have abandoned the right to vote of citizens without fixed residences
Intelligence Daily
Israel proposes naval blockade of Iran
Israeli press reports Bush pledge of war on Iran
Israel to privatize prisons for profit
NSA destroyed evidence of domestic spying
Vaccines...how to create disease and genocide
( Did you get the bit where, after taking women and children from their homes because their men were suspect because of an anonymous 'tip' that was never substantiated ( not the men taken - too sensible ), the kids were to be immediately vaccinated over the objections of their mothers ? )

24 May - So much for 'Supporting the Troops' in a valiant effort

Saturday, 24. May 2008, 00:28:04

vets chimperator

It's late and my connection is suffering gremlins. I thought I'd see what you thought of the author of the Smirking Chimp - a lady with passion.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/author/sheila_samples
Articles and Answers ( see Intel )is a collaboration in which she had been involved. If you login to the bb Forum there called 'Today's Thoughts' Steve Mungie's file piece lays out the legislative and bureaucratic sandbagging arrangements designed to deny veterans fair treatment.

Not available

24 May - News Picks - Blogstyle

Sunday, 25. May 2008, 00:00:29

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South American nations found union
Did statin drugs cause Senator Kennedy's brain tumour?
The energetic contamination of beef products
Another looming Bush disaster
Over 50% ocean shark species threatened with extinction
Balneus
Olympic competitors should be naked
Oil is like tobacco, so increase prices !
Rudd loves cluster bombs ?
Fight corporate psychopaths with cryptic crosswords ?
Livability in Victoria
What we should have learnd from Keynes
Mobile phones, EMR, brains, suicide, sleep, sterility ( I read the long version )
Mountain Runner
American public diplomacy wears combat boots
Contracting out foreign military training
Understanding Smith-Mundt's barriers
U.S.-Iraqi forces raid Shiite areas during prayers
Thousands march against South Africa violence
No Doubt About It
Pill culture pops - self medication epidemic
Homeland Insecurity - 'How to win friends and influence people ?'
NAFTA on steroids - NWO
Renewable energy commercialisation in Australia
At last, Burma opens it doors to aid
How safe are vaccines ?
( or, how to seem to address a question you pose )
Gold nanoparticles resurrect failed HV drug
BlueBloggin
Clinton's RFK assassination remark
Bush promises war on Iran, then denies it

26 May - Weekend News on Blogs

Sunday, 25. May 2008, 23:06:28

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Bugs harmed by nuclear radiation ?
Googling Google
How this blog saved my life and saved me $100,000
Blue Girl Red State
"What if a Democrat wins ?" - stirrings in the 'apolitical' military ( snark, that )
EPA absolutely failing at risk assessment
Aftershock in China
General Accounting Office weighs in on use of contractors
Is th world really running out of oil?
The Existentialist Cowboy
FBI evidence that indicts George W. Bush for mass murder, war crimes and torture
( Justice Dept. report )
'Executive privilege' : legitimate or cover up ? ( bullshit )
Exposed: a world wide network of idiots and ideologues
Dad2059's SFBlog
Yet another One World Order weapon against humanity 'The Codex Alimentarius'
Some evidence for the Living Earth
Does the NWO Matrix include 'The Matrix' ?
Dogma and the Technological Singularity
HAL the Ironman, more Anthropic Principle and Warp Drive
Heathlander
Norm Finkelstein arrested in Israel
Hamas ready to accept a Palestinian state
Apartheid Israel
How to deal with peaceful protesters
Save the children ? Not if they're Palestinian
Ten Percent
Free Hich ! ( from Complex System of Pipes )
Free Hicham Yazza
Error...yeah, right ( Credit ratings unchanged after bad reports )
Friday ! Bill O'Reilly tantrum
Raytheon 9 Days 3&4
The Sheriff of Nottinngham II Masters student writing dissertation on terrorism hounded
Burma Relief
Complex System of Pipes
shock doctrine comes to manchester
possession of radical material
result ! abortion limits
free derry 2008
while I should have been revising - denial of education
dark days
a week in blackandtanchester

18-20 May 2007 Opit's LinkFest! on My Opera

18 May - Miscellaney interrupted by headlines

Sunday, 18. May 2008, 14:20:59

green energy cars

KeyScrambler
( Something I've used for months and had forgotten to install on the new drive. )
Leno fears Top Gear USA may suck ( Ouch! The cultural limitations implied here on the ability of U.S. people to get 'real news' affects media survivability too. )
Open U.S. borders to efficient cars
Is a motor scooter in your future ?
( I ride. There's a reason they're called 'murdercycles'. Over 50% of fatalities are caused by bikers being cut off by traffic turning in front of them. And : windshields and fairings have added immensely to both quality of ride enjoyment and ability to take a ride in cooler conditions. )
It's not called the Air Car
PSA-Venturi parnership selected to provide electric vans to the French Post Office
SunTory Mermaid HT AutoblogGreen
The karma of lithium-ion batteries
Ottawa moves to limit smog-causing chemicals in paint, cleaners
Canadian doctors head to China quake zone ( Where they should be well received. Dr. Bethune's historical Chinese effort won't have hurt their odour a bit. But it's the Canadian military's water-providing expertise which is likely most needed - and least likely to be used. Such are the consequences of regressing from UN peacekeeping to complicit Imperial adjunct. Remind me once again why we're in NATO. )
Canadian shelters destined for Burma land in Thailand ( Just in time to forward them to China if Myanmar doesn't immediately 'get a clue'. )
Family of man stranded by no-fly list appeals to Ottawa to bring him back( Privacy concerns all right. Privacy to enjoy guilt free from charges of misconduct or liability for starters. Never been charged. All I need to know. )
BAE executives detained in US over Saudi case
Mine removal a dangerous, endless task in Afghanistan
BlueBloggin Kennedy's hospital date has loosed vitriol in comments. BossKitty closed them because of obscenity of 'thought': and added a character reference of the participants. )
McCain's YouTube problem just became a nightmare

18 May - News of the Blogs

Sunday, 18. May 2008, 23:17:52

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Olympic swimmers learn from sharks,dolphins
The Israeli lobby and why it isn't good for Israel
Fledgling rebellion on Facebook is struck down by force in Egypt
Mass killings in South Korea in 1950 kept hidden from history
No Doubt About It
A shameful chapter in US history
Big brand hiding
Abuse of Power in Texas
Detainees drugged for deportation
Saudi Nukes
Run Your Car on Water ( now the ads are all over the place, questions should start. See tags ' alternative-energy' in Opit's Bookmarks on Delicious. Upper left on Links page. )
Clean cheap nuclear power ? ( Radical tech )
The court where whistleblowers win 1% of the time
"Policy suggests public integrity is more dangerous than treason"
Lougheed gets green light for GPS III saellites
Splotchy Virus story
Clapso
The poor don't profit from it either
Over a century of Dem and Republican rule - the real enemies ( Jerry's on a proper rant : not to say he's inaccurate ! )
The rise of the Wal-fare system
The dem White Rabbit is running late
It just gets curioser and curioser - Dems continue to Fund 'War'
Military families call on Congress to reject Pelosi's betrayal of our troops
.....the DIRTY DEMS have NO INTENTION of ending the war
(and a post that looks like it was excerpted straight from 'Dilbert' )

19 May - Checking Mail

Monday, 19. May 2008, 08:10:11

news articles

The Rock HT MsBeHaven ( sidebar )
Toxic chemicals are maiming thousands around the world
Water - AlterNet
The Triple Threat : Our Food, Water and Climate Challenges
Sinking without trace : Australia's unknown climate change victims
Latin America : Why there's a water crisis in the most water-rich region
To save rivers, help farmers
Turkey plans to sell lakes and rivers to corporations ( ! )
Asia teeters towards food crisis from lack of water
Goldman Prizewinner saves one of the world's most important drinking sources
Those who control oil and water will control the world
Inverted totalitrianism : a new way of understanding how the United States is controlled
Democracy in America is a series of narrow escapes, and we may be running out of luck
Anarchism shouldn't be a dirty word
Obama stands up to Bush, the FCC and Big Media
Outsourced warfare represents a radical,dangerous, disgusting ideology
U.S. Sergeant refuses to go to Iraq : "This Occupation is UnConstitutional and Illegal"
Why some hospitals are allowing unnecessary suffering
UC Law bans classroom web access
Government Secrecy and the mysterious Cyber Initiative
Why buying CNet makes sense for CBS
Windows XP's Afterlife

19 May - Old Haunts

Monday, 19. May 2008, 10:27:16

blogs

Royal Enfield Dealer Promo HT Fixer and Gordon Do watch "Big Brother is Watching You,much closer than you think"
Outta the CornfieldBloggers selected for the DNC
( This is an Out of Iraq Bloggers Caucus member )
OOIBC
'We Mourn the Dead From Iraq'
Admiral Fallon out at CENTCOM, pushed diplomacy
There will be no 'Iraq Savings' ( sounds real )
Here is a portent for the fall
Watching Those We Chose
Does the government want blacks to smoke more ?
W's ingenius argument
Vote movers : moving back the Blue Dogs
5 Energy Monitoring Startups to help you cut home power
Will a canary be our last meal ?
Political Animal
Religion and happiness
Red Light Cameras
How old is John McCain ?
McCain and the lobbyists
The small donor revolution
Down the memory hole
No oil for you
Guantanamo "If they'd been on the battlefield, they'd have killed any detainee as an enemy. But they're not willing to see them killed in the wake of a sham trial."
Talking to terrorists ( 'Flip-flop' McCain )

20 May -Norwegianity

Tuesday, 20. May 2008, 09:57:54

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Norwegianty
Too much of this blog is news to review it properly ( a cessation of blogging has been announced : a not uncommon event for prolific bloggers ). Past experience tells me this should be a highly rated read. So does this...

"Obama's not an African American he's an African American. You see the difference, right ?

The words are the same, but one means somone descended from ancestors who were brought to the New World in chains. The other means someone who was born in Africa ( or whose parents, grandparents, etc. were) but who is either a naturalized or native born American. Obama's father was African, but he wasn't brought here in chains.

Chains make all the difference. If you know an American racist ( and who doesn't? )at some point you've heard them talking about Africans. Howeve rudely they made the reference, chances are it wasn't as rude as their contempt for African Americans ( the kind associated with chains ). Or maybe you have heard nothing of the sort and are wondering if I'm batshit insane, a blue-eyed idiot flapping his gums about shit he knows nothing about.

Except I've worked with hundreds of African clients, coaching them on geting jobs in America. Ghanians, Cameroonians, all kind of Nigerians, some North Africans, a handful of South Africans, one Ugandan, and lots and lots of Eritrean, Tigrean, Oromo, Sudanese and Somali refugees. They all had one thing in common : they knew that American racists treated them better than native African Americans and they exploited that difference. When racist peckerhead supervisers and co-workers said to them "You're not like ...", my clients would smile, nod their head, and keep working. Whether they were or weren't different was irrelevant , the important thing was to stay on the "You're OK for a nigger" side of the line.

Because American racism isn't so much about color as it's about property and some people don't let go of property well. In this case generation after generation of American racists have taught their children the same lesson in how to be mentally diseased. And a similar number of generations of healthy Americans have taught their children how to exploit that mental illness, keeping working whites, blacks, browns, tans, yellows, etc. at each other's throats.

If racism ever ended in America, economic justice would prevail. But so long as we stay at each other's throats, the parasites at the top will continue to eat our lunch, cherrypicking our ranks for lovers, lieutenants and goons while keeping myraid rules in place for keeping us in our place.

It doesn't what color you are, when you hear someone say the word nigger, they're just cheering for the status quo and 400 more years of economic imbalance and continued rule of the parasite class over the rest of us."

(There's more. Good posts get lost because they aren't current.)

10-17 May 2007 Opit's LinkFest! at My Opera

0010 May - Morning Surfing

Saturday, 10. May 2008, 09:44:54

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Canada and the origins of the Israel-Palestine conflict : Part 1 of 3
The Heathlander
Chomsky on the Israel lobby - video
BlueBloggin
Pakistan rejects Maj.Gen. Jay W. Hood- Bush still clueless
Bush threatens to veto foreclosure bill ( Once upon a time you would have thought he didn't know what a veto was )
Hitting a nuclear roadblock
Politics 'n Poetry
Saskatoon newspaper pulls in a ringer to smooth it over
So much for journalistic integrity...
Nuke reactor at Diefenbaker Lake ? ( Nukes are water hogs: putting one in at the drinking supply for 40% of the province ? )
Sexual Politics
Blackwater packs it up in Potrero
Lebanon descends into chaos
Lebanon : Moment of Truth
Indymedia journalists targeted in Ecuador, five arrested
Want to remember everything you learn ?
Fungus genome : key to clean fuels ?
Maybe Microsoft isn't completely useless on the web, after all
For sea lovers : a final resting reef
The Daily Galaxy
TheEarth's first zero-emissions city...in the Middle East ?
The new space-based technology of intelligence
Where in the world is Osama bin Laden ?...the sequel
A manned mission to asteroid 2000 SG 2344 ?
Bio Art. Life imitates art.
Ancient lakes of aAntarctica...living biological labs millions of years old
Is Mars between ice ages ?
"Human Nature" -how will it affect our species chances of long-term survival ?
Magno-voltron : NASA's new electromagnetic spacecraft
The Andes' vanishing Quelccaya ice cap- largest tropical body of ice in the world
Real-life droid army of robotic spiders to be deployed by end of year
The world's largest and deepest lake, 25 million years old, is in trouble
Google Ocean 3-D visualisations of world's marine ecosystems
The crisis is coming...how peak water could reshape civilization

11 May - BlogRoaming

Sunday, 11. May 2008, 21:51:14

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I played 'hooky' with the grandkids for the weekend. Now it's down the road again.

Continuity of government planning has ALREADY superseded the Constitution as a higher authority
BlogTalkRadio censoring 911 Truth
The Existentialist Cowboy
Bugliosi : George W. Bush should be tried for mass murder
Biochips for everyone !
Shipbuilding torpedoed by subprime leads to freight cost surge
Ten Percent
Direct relief to grassroots aid in Burma
Sick bastards - Welfare Reform Act
Conservatives, eh ?
Damage - casualties of war
Tasers can cause fatal heart rhythm
Burma : Junta losing friends
Three reason to use Intense Debate
My verdict on Disqus : two thumbs up
( Now if I could figure out how to post Disqus on Opera. CoComment slows surfing in Firefox: that's with multiple tabs,of course. )
Blue Girl Red State
Penagon begins assessing impact of rising food prices
International aid used for bribes in Myanmar
Another lobbyist with ties to McCain forced to quit
BlueBloggin
Racism in the Secret Service
Craig Murray
'Torture team' UCL law professor publishes an indictment of the Bush Administration
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
Turkish creationist gets three-year sentence
Weikart misquotes Darwin
House committee subpoenas
Denying the Nakba is tantamount to denying the Holocaust
West Bank farmers face ruin after olive trees uprooted

Friday News Quickies

Friday, 16. May 2008, 00:09:54

news

Micrsoft unveils Telescope for the masses
UFO files released by UK National Archives
Nitrogen, like carbon, also leaving footprint
Robotic suit designed for super-soldier era
GM : Live green or die
For Wall Street workers, ax falls quietly
The 10 most important technologies you never think about

16 May - First Collection

Friday, 16. May 2008, 12:40:47

news views

Majikthise
Second-guessing Cary Tennis : Creationism Edition
( Lindsay pens a response re : letter to a friend asking to be talked out of "Lying in a Good Cause" )
DoJ says court should get tough to secure testimony
US to send 500K Tons of food to North Korea
Burma death toll jumps to 78,000
MPs bid to block 42-day detention
Maui, the Valley Isle
Liberality
You always have options ( Breast cancer )
$Blind in Texas
Sure as hell ain't our war
Guys from Area 51
McCain was for talking to Hamas before he was against it
IBM replants chip-cooling tech in solar farms
Les Enrages
Caught with your packets down - ISP's deep-scanning
Tokatakiya
Message from "Save the Children" in Myanmar
Give Colbert Mugabe's degree

17 May BlogRoaming

Saturday, 17. May 2008, 12:52:36

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Blue Girl Red State
For a personal blog that morphed into political discussion - not just commentary - this now group blog is forcing me to pay attention to who's new blogging there ! Recent headlines,comments,etc. are easily found on the sidebar - including an occasional quip from yours truly.
Surveillance.pdf
Found in Blue Girl Red State comments
Sharp, MIT make strides in methanol fuel cells
Clean tech promising but tricky in the developing world
WaterHealth International
The Existentialist Cowboy
BUSH'S CAPITAL CRIMES
Election theft
Bush goes rogue
Bush exploits 911
RULES FOR RADICALS : HOW TO START TAKING BACK OUR GOVERNMENT
Saul Alinsky : American Radical
BUSH : AN 'ACCESORY BEFORE THE FACT' OF MASS MURDER
'UNTIMELY DEATHS' THAT BENEFITED R.M. SCAIFE, THE C.I.A. AND THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Meet Jonahan Aponte
Windows SP3 causes "Blue Screen of Death" on AMD based PCs
(Which is what I have. I know the vulnerability name. That's no big help.)
MoD 'covered up' Hercules bombing
TP Zoo
Let the fallout begin - GWB an 'appeaser' says Egyptian Press
Unseen : the rest of the O'Reilley rant
Folding DNA to create nanoscale shapesand patternsHT Rolfe Schmidt
Grumpy Lion
Are we talking about the embryonic American Shutzstaffel or Sturmabteilung or Stazi ?
John McCain : Messiah !
Keith Olbermann rocks Bush's world !
Republicans, losing elections, clueless - again
Hagee's non-apology apolgy dupes Catholics and earns McCain's undying love ( 2 milliseconds ? )
Clinton demographics at work in West Virginia
Our troops in Iraq just want to be loved...awww...isn't that sweet ? ( The Memo )
Conviction vindicates wiretap victims
BlueBloggin
Edwards rules out Vice-Presidential run with Obama
- about Jim Webb
- about Kathleen Sibelius
Economic stimulus check glitch - update
California legalizes gay marriage ( the natural outcome of discriminating against gay civil unions )
Burma millions vulnerable and China earthquake may be man-made ( filling of the Three Gorges dam )
Darfur : Grief useless,rhetoric empty, nothing changed
British veterans in worse condition than US veterans ?
Real Liberal Christian Church
George W Bush canot be trusted on Iran nor on anything else for that matter
Bush faith-based initiative unConstitutionally established official US religion
Democrats stop appeasing terrorists. Impeach Bush et al
Restatement about political ( false ) Zionist state's documented terorrist founders
Bush, McCain and Obama : dead of the Holy Spirit of truth
Bible student threatened for teaching Constitution
Electric-vehicle batteries are ready
EPA official ousted for offending Dow Chemical
Killing people to make a killing in markets
Is there an emboldenment effect from the insurgency in Iraq? What a waste of time ( Lies, damned lies, etc. Calling them the Resistance would not be PC.)
Yoo, Supreme Court decision monstrous forever

That's all for now. Going golfing and to a barbeque. Getting a motorcycle ride and a life over holiday weekend.

2-4 May 2007 Opit's LinkFest on My Opera

2 May - Morning News Picks

Friday, 2. May 2008, 08:27:50

news

Barracks for Charlie Co. CO 2/508 82n Airborne
HT The Broken Soldier
The inevitable result of lies, graft and neglect: money 'spent' without oversight or accountability causes these results everywhere.
U.S. brings Iraq-like surge to Afghanistan
No one else has a clue what to do, obviously - except the self-styled masters of success and cooperation ( and graft).
The Bomb Squads : how to survive a Gaza refugee camp
Britain's Brown mauled in local elections
Medial Journal calls for review of Taser safety Objects to reliance on company statements. Again: oversight MIA
Thailand floats idea of rice cartel
Australia, the largest producer, has been hit by drought : note the cartel is proposed as a model to increase food prices, a normal effect of scarcity in a 'free market'; not to combat starvation. Price gouging/monopoly of an essential for life thus becomes an economic model due to political opportunism.Basics of Empire : talk Free Trade and act Monopoly.
Global Food Crisis : The Tickling Bomb
GM crops good for streams ?
Charred earth examined as carbon-storing option
Ugly parasitic plant reappears after two decades
Finally, digital poducts flow from Kodak's labs
Using the Wikipedia API
Learning to use Boolean Search Operators in Google
Open your favorite websites directly from Vista Start Menu
Mozilla speaks out against free-but-proprietary web apps
Oosah : a hub for your personal online media
Google offers snapshot of VisualRank efforts
8 dirty secrets of the Security Industry
Woman believed to be D.C. Madam kills self
How convenient - for the embarassed and powerful
Beijing chooses Edmonton for key Confucius Institute
Singapore research breakthrough to usher in low-cost solar cells ?
Race to algae-based biodiesel heats up
Utilities, plug-in cars : near collision ?
Personal, 'green' airplanes propel foward

3 May - First Look at the Web

Saturday, 3. May 2008, 12:41:17

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Yesterday's extensive links list died of misadventure. The featured blog was
The Existentialist Cowboy and Len exceeded himself - if that's possible. Time pressures are encouraging me to skip the precis and just encourage you Hart-ily to go see what's up.

You name it, exercise helps it
New kind of star discovered in Big Dipper
In '88, a lesson in using symbols as bludgeons i.e., truth would be disastrous, focus full-bore on bullshit
The Moderate Voice
Who tried to kill Hamid Karzai ? "Now comes the search for the perpetrators, conducted by the perpetrators themselves."
Court upholds NC's public financing of judicial campaigns
Disgruntled Republicans crossing over in Democratic Primaries aren't just obeyin Rush Limbaugh
Why Liberation never felt so good and other Glorious News from Bush's Forever War
Credit card crackdown
A Lost Story ( worth finding )
Can any candidate take us out of Oceania and back to the U.S.A.? Or is that solely up to us ?
Rumors of conspiratorial undergound movements are usually Bull$*#&

3 May - More BlogNews

Saturday, 3. May 2008, 18:37:52

occupation

Secret Bush "Finding" Widens War on Iran
Contractors Gone Wild
U.S. bombs hospital
The Carter Coup
protect_democracy's submissions
Kiko's House
Why Liberation never felt so good and other Glorious News from Bush's Forever War
David Hackworth: An Appreciation
Quotes from around yon blogosphere
Jackboot Feminism : New details emerge on WVWV's voter suppression scandal
Newspapers 1 : On the brink of extinction ?
Newspapers 2 : The decline and fall of MoDo
The few, the proud, the bad
Cuba looks to biotechnology