Game Over. Empire on the ropes! Obama’s problems are compounded by the fact that he is surrounded by people, such as Pentagon supremo Robert Gates, that remain locked in “war on terror”/Long War mode. Vice President Joe Biden and special envoy to the Afghanistan-Pakistan theater Richard Holbrooke – not to mention General David “I’m positioning [...]

Michael Hudson is back, and telling us — as usual — that the emperor has no clothes. Not with Orlov yet in his recognition of the industrial fallacy of what Mark Jones called “radical technological optimism,” but he can spot the spin on finance from a mile away. For the record, and without any hesitation, [...]

“Right now the Washington economic stimulus team is putting on their Scuba gear and diving down to the engine room to try to invent a way to get a diesel engine to run on seawater.” * * * * * Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for showing up. It’s certainly nice to travel [...]

BEFORE August 29, 2006 On August 27, an artillery round fired by the Pakistani military found its mark on a cave in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, bordering both Afghanistan and Iran, and killed an 80-year-old man with a magnificent white beard. His name was Nawab Akbar Bugti, and he was the leader of a [...]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been working for over five years to force a National Animal Identification System (NAIS) onto American animal owners. NAIS is designed to identify and track each and every individual livestock and poultry animal owned by family farmers, hobby farmers, homesteaders, and pet owners across the country. USDA claims [...]

Life, Death and the Boundaries of the Person DNA maps and genetic cleansing; embryo cloning and euthanasia; organ transplants and physician-assisted suicide–never before have the traditional boundaries of life and death become so blurred. Never before has science intruded so pervasively into the sanctuary of the person. Where once only angels would tread, the medical [...]

Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby “schooled” to confuse teaching [...]