Month: April 2013

There are so many possibilities, but the design of the system assures that we cannot be confident of ever getting the truth. One thing that is odd, however, is that the FBI thinks that the best way to prevent al-Qaeda from...

I want to quote from Jeremy Scahill’s interview yesterday with Amy Goodman. Scahill is doing the rounds in promotion of his new book: Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield. Whatever else you want to say about the book, it...

Reinhart and Rogoff wrote the single most influential economic paper supporting the Austerity policies introduced by Governments around the world. Now a paper by some graduate students reduces their findings to rubble –...

Putin on Boston bombings: We suffered from terrorists almost never labeled such in the West (RT.com) – Putin was commenting in Moscow during his annual Q&A session on the flood of comments in the US, many of them from...

Republican lawmakers, thought leaders, and entertainers can be divided loosely into three groups: assholes, the crazy, and the stupid, although there can be considerable overlap. And we can also create subsets for these groups....