2006
A Coverup Under Two Presidents: The Unsolved Mystery of the Oklahoma City Bombing
by mikepower
Long before the Iraq war, long before 9/11, the U.S. government had already mastered the art of fluffing its intelligence on a looming threat, botching the response and then working furiously to cover its mistakes.
The Smirking Chimp: Bush thinks he's a war leader like Lincoln:
by mikepower
History will look back on George Bush as a justifiably insecure man who went to war to aggrandize himself. Lincoln was a skilled debater and a thoughtful, eloquent speaker; Bush can barely string single-syllable words into a coherent sentence.
Foreign Affairs - A Natural History of Peace - Robert M. Sapolsky
by mikepower
Contrary to what was believed just a few decades ago, humans are not "killer apes" destined for violent conflict, but can make their own history.
Andrew Bartlett: Johan Hari teeters on the ledge of deligitimation
by mikepower
IIn his efforts to smash George Galloway, Johan Hari writes; “he was rejected at the ballot box by 64 percent of the people"...Saint Oona was rejected by 66 percent.
Richard Dawkins: Beyond belief - The renowned evolutionary biologist tells John Crace why he finds the resurgence of religion so annoying
by mikepower
Even secularists talk about Jewish, Catholic and Muslim children. There's no such thing. Children aren't born with a particular religious gene. What they are is children of Jewish, Catholic and Muslim parents. If you started to talk about monetarist or Ma
2005
www.BloodForOil.org
by mikepower
A growing collection of over 300 free anti-war, anti-occupation, anti-empire and peace posters by artists worldwide against war.
The Seattle Times: Opinion: Legalize drugs — all of them
by mikepower
I was a cop for 34 years, the last six of which I spent as chief of Seattle's police department. But no, I don't favor decriminalization. I favor legalization, and not just of pot but of all drugs, including heroin, cocaine, meth, psychotropics, mushro
GREENIE WATCH
by mikepower
Most Greenie causes are, however, at best red-herrings and are more motivated by a hatred of people than anything else.
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