Pam Martens is a lefty muckraker who does articles for Counterpunch, Alternet, Z… the usual suspects. Having done a bit of this with the Tillman case (I & II), I can appreciate how much time and work it takes to dig up facts that people don’t particularly want to se dug up. Kudos. The content [...]

This thread started as a conjunctural world system analysis by Kolko, but morphed (my bad) into a debate/discussion of the history and role of the notion of Objectivity… and hence to the question of epistemology, and from there to Illich’s treatise on medicine as out modern Nemisis. Click here to go back to the original [...]

from Sex & War (and Ann Kibbey): We see and hear selectively. There were two images that predominated on the airwaves on September 11, and only one of them was the perverse and hypnotic repetition of the aircraft crashing into the buildings and the billowing erasure of the Manhattan skyline (controlled, uniform, and repeated, just [...]

A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of [...]