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This was on the front page of the Palm Beach Post today... Mummified baby found in suitcases By Kevin Deutsch Palm Beach Post Staff Wr...

A famous and very outspoken journalist in Turkey was killed in broad daylight on Friday in Istanbul. He was apparently shot in the head on ...

Thanks to everyone so much for your comments to my last blog. I really enjoy those rare moments where a sort of conversation or dialogue is ...

I was shocked and disgusted this morning to read the online edition of the Journal Sentinel and find that an ALL WHITE jury acquitted the of...

Yeah, so I've been thinking about doing this for a while. Since the last time we spoke I have moved approximately 1500 miles away from m...

There are early reports breaking that a series of "incidents" have occurred in the London Underground and on another bus. Accordi...

I'd be hard pressed to believe that anybody ever visits this blog anymore, but nevertheless.... This article appears in the Guardian fr...

Every night I go to sleep listening to the BBC World Service on NPR. I find that this keeps me up to the minute on what's going on, as I...

This week the capitol of Bolivia, La Paz has been the scene of several days of protests by the country's majority indigenous population....

This is great. I would have loved to have been there. Thanks to Geoff for sending me this. Arrest made at Coulter speech ; Student arrested...

I love stories like this . Sociologist Jerry Lembcke looks into the whole myth of the soldier returning from Vietnam and being spat upon by ...

So yesterday was May Day, and the first of many, many years that I conciously chose not to participate in what I view as the masturbatory ef...

This video is without a doubt the funniest shit I have seen in some time, and he's totally serious. Mark Morford has a few good things ...

Good old boys dig up a tree and discover thousands.

I saw this while "working" at Mel's tonight and had to post it. Is Bush curious or "curious"?

In a recent draft memo that was obtained by the Congressional Quarterly it was stated that the Department of Homeland Security has for unkn...

This is probably one of the oddest stories that have come from Iraq in a while. According to the Shia involved in the government somewhere ...

This article appeared on a website called the Sunshine Project . They frequently do FOIA requests of government documents and release them ...

Noted Anarchist web server flag.blackened.net has recently come under attack by the FBI, being served two subpoenas by the Oakland branch of...

As expected, the Minuteman craze was little more than hype created by some very conservative activists who are angry about immigrants coming...

So just a little personal update... this morning at 5:30 I get a call from Neuman. He tells me that one of the interview tapes that we have ...

In a story that just broke across several wires there are reports that the Kyrgyz revolution that just occurred last week was supported by ...

Looks like the US is taking another step towards destablising the entire region. Between destroying Iraq and making bold threats to both Ira...

Been on spring break all this week and I could handle another one. I'm so fucking sick of school it's unreal. I've also been get...

A story that I've written about a couple of times in the past is about the Zanon Workers Collective in Argentina. There are actually aro...

Something that has come up recently in one of my classes that I think is worth looking at more thoroughly is Hunter Thompson's influence...

Well, I've been attempting to maintain several different blogs and thinking about starting others whenever a new idea strikes me. As of ...

Here are a few stories that have popped up in the news recently about the profession of journalism and the challenges that reporters face bo...

I happened upon this article on a website called Jihad Unspun . They claim to have the statement issued by Al-Qaida about the suicide bombin...

Putin On the Ritz (sorry to anyone who already may have used this lame title) It looks like Bush and Putin finally did the hokey pokey to...

Eulogy for Hunter S. Hunter S. Thompson killed himself this week. I know it may be hard for some of you to believe but he was actually ...

My first real post in probably about 6 months. It seems that CNN has continued their policy of failing the basic tenets of journalism... ...

Mr Manajid, from Falluja - a hotbed of armed opposition to the US-led occupation in Iraq - said if he was not playing football "for su...

US Document Reveals Scale of Conflict

It's been a while so I thought I'd throw this up quickly... Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley B...

Venezuelan troops are already on standby readiness for attacks * In the countryside, the Colombian army often fights as follows: paramili...

G8 Summit begins today Well, no real surprise that very few activists turned out for the G8 summit, and I think it has little to do with...

Hooray! Hooray! Now is the time for a people's parade! Break out the wine; a toast, a toast to a multiple felon and war criminal and to ...

Just dropping in briefly while at work. I'd like to give a shout out to some of the new people that have been stopping by, mysteriously ...

David Dellinger has passed... I really did not agree with a lot of his politics but I do have enormous respect for the stance that he took i...

The disturbing and repulsive behavior of the US military in Iraq, including the Abu Ghraib issue and the recent attack on a wedding party , ...

New Issue of Workers Solidarity online now also check out this great article: The Jesus Landing Pad

Cold Turkey by Kurt Vonnegut In my extremely agitated state yesterday I forgot to leave a link to the Nick Berg video. Here it is: ...

The Nick Berg Lie I would like to preface this with the statement that I am not a person prone to conspiracy theories, however when the ...

"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely wit...

Proclamation by an adversary of the US Government

"Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience ... Therefore [individual citizens] have t...

I couldn't resist: if the pic doesn't show up, go here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,1211576,00.htm...

Is there a way to be constantly horrified but not shocked? I feel like that's the state that I've been in for months now with the te...

Okay, so everybody in the club gettin tipsy? May Day I'm sure everyone who visits this page knows everything that's going ...

the horror is endless, but really, vote for kerry, he'll change everything Soldiers Fire on Civilian Minibus Leaving Fallujah G....

In a shameless attempt to get more hits, I've resorted to the unthinkable, unbelievable, shameful, and sinful topic of sex: Is Your P...

What the hell have I been saying all along? Please read on: A realistic election strategy the Left can really get behind

Pictures like this one are being intentionally hidden from the American public for obvious reasons. These were obtained through the freedom ...

This article, just issued yesterday, relates to an internal top secret memo that blows the lid on the entire Iraq situation. The author of t...

In one year, American GIs have fallen from the status of super-warriors to ordinary men in the eyes of Iraqis who have seen them fall victim...

Comparing Iraq and Vietnam

When those in power threaten, condemn and accuse the powerless of lies, you know you're doing something right. Here's a not so sympa...

"The US will never leave Iraq," he says more soberly. "You know what I want to see happen in Iraq? I want to see a federal Ir...

We're just going to have one big carnival of assasinations!!!

The US has officially comitted (another) war crime as they bombarded a civilian area and killed more than 600 people and wounded another 100...

Assasination now a viable political option... as long as you have the market cornered on hegemony. Apparently bolstered by the state ter...

This is just amazing from Democracy Now! Sadr also issued a statement Wednesday making a comparison to Vietnam. He said "I call ...

Rumors of March 15, 2005 being a pivotal day in the lives of many young people are growing stronger. Here's a link to check out so that ...

Condi's Testimony Before Congress Though it's not going to really expose anything except the fact that she's proficient at l...

File this under sickest story of the fucking week: Indian Killer Tribute Sparks Controversy Leave it to those crazy Pennsylvanians. T...

To All of You Naysayers and Democratic Hangers-On As if there needed to be any thorough sort of explanation, here is proof, in fact that...

Fallujah So what was up with the Fallujah incident? Were the the actors in the event just fanatical people who seek nothing more than de...

Hello to my three or four readers, who may or may not still be checking this blog out. I realize that it has been a considerable period of t...

Both men are well-bred sons of wealthy and powerful East Coast families; both were educated at Yale and were admitted to its most exclusive ...

Give up, It is pointless... This has been the personal message on top of every mailing that I receive from the local Catholic Worker, Ca...

“the international press must discontinue the practice of repeating rumors and innuendos and begin to spend quality time learning the truth ...

Haiti Burning... As Haiti has been continuously under a state of chaos for nearly a month, the "international community" has f...

I don't do much media critiquing but found this interesting tidbit in the national syndicates: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article....

I can't fucking believe this. This sinking hole of a town that I grew up in (literally, it's built over a huge mineshaft) has its ow...

In light of some new, drastic and surprising events in my life part 2 of the previous story may be suspended for some time. I look forward t...

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A Weekend With the Feds in the Family part 1 This weekend was pretty wierd for me. I went with my partner to her aunt and uncle's ho...

Wow, so I'm trying to muster up the inspiration to write through this quagmire of dull predictability in my life. The gamut of white rad...

An Ollie North Experiential Omnibus Amid the shouts of 'Ollie North, Shame On You...' all I kept thinking was, 'Ollie North,...