"Having decided that readers and viewers in post-Cold War America cared more about celebrities, scandals and local news, newspaper editors and television news executives have reduced the space and time devoted to foreign coverage by 70% to 80% during the past 15 to 20 years"... more here

The Fire This Time

Similarities between Operation Eternal Freedom and George Orwell's 1984.

Foreign Policy In Focus

FEMA: the most powerful organization in the United States

to anyone who is contemplating joining the american armed forces

"Fascism, which was not afraid to call itself reactionary... does not hesitate to call itself illiberal and anti-liberal." --Benito Mussolini

Who is Ramsey Clark and who are the IAC

Cops videotaping protestors at last week's peace rally in Berkeley. Why isn't this on the news?
more cops videotaping protestors

9-11 Peace Network
Independent Media Center

shocked and horrified

war dissenters punished and silenced

Interview with Noam Chomsky about the terrorist attacks and the war
Re: bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone age - written by an Afghani in the U.S.
The reason for all this...
Why this has happened
Violence doesn't work
A petition for peace
Michael Moore's views on the tragedy
nonviolence.org
antiwar.com
Background on Afghanistan from the NY Times

"He moved as slowly as an hour hand amidst a crowd of second hands" --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Sinister Ducks
I always suspected ducks were evil, but now there's proof!

"The skin is a continuing caress, each pore a rung of thrills on the endless ladder of sensual pleasure." --Malcolm de Chazal
"If we resist our passions, it is more often because they are weak than because we are strong." --La Rochefoucauld

Come and see!
But, for your own safety, please don't stare directly in to the face of God, okay?

Hey, did you know there was a "real good" version of windows? Yes indeed! Check out WinRG

Close your eyes and step forward through the back door of the room. Where does it lead? To your cave. Step forward into your cave. That's right, you're moving deeper into your cave. And you're going to find your Power Animal... "slide."

I've never been so accurately insulted in my life!