Saturday, May 10, 2008

A PICTURE IS WORTH HOW MANY WORDS? LET HELEN THOMAS CLUE YOU IN...

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Helen Thomas: A Picture Worth a Thousand Words

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Russ Feingold: Government in Secret

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Thomas L. Friedman: Dumb as We Wanna Be

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Bob Herbert: The Pastor Casts a Shadow

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The Gospel of Consumption

And the better future we left behind

By Jeffrey Kaplan

By 2000 the average married couple with children
was working almost five hundred hours a year more
than in 1979. Continue

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Iran: Will it be jaw-jaw or war-war?

By Pat Buchanan

"It would be a mistake to think that we are out of
combat capacity," Mullen declared. A second U.S.
carrier just entered the Persian Gulf. Continue

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The Challenge Of Modern Slavery

By Loretta Napoleoni

Almost every product we consume has a hidden
dark history, from slave labor to piracy, from
counterfeit to fraud, from theft to money laundering.
We know very little about these economic secrets
because modern consumers live inside the market
matrix. Continue

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Reality

By Mark A. Goldman

Americans, in general, seem averse to contemplating
reality. Up until now it’s been easy to get away with it,
for as long as energy was cheap we were all free to
pursue personal interests and put most everything else
out of our minds. But soon reality is going to confront
us at every turn. For some, it's already happening.
Continue

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Neocons and the Truth: Bitter Enemies to the End

By Glenn Greenwald

This isn’t just a matter of documenting guilt with
regard to what happened with Iraq. The Washington
Post’s David Ignatius today became just the latest
establishment spokesman to warn (or celebrate) that
“judging from recent statements by administration
officials, there is also a small, but growing, chance of
conflict with Iran.” Continue

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A Human Rights Crime

By Jimmy Carter

The world must stop standing idle while the people
of Gaza are treated with such cruelty. Continue

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Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY NOVELIST F. SCOTT SINCLAIR

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A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS

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