By reader request a rant of DeAnander’s from Stan’s Man on Fire review thread has been promoted to a frontpage article.
I believe Stan posted this review in headbanging frustration at the liberal idiocy of this recent “fair and balanced” discussion of porn at Alternet. The two “debating opponents” — neither of whom, of course, […]

It’s common knowledge that the Israeli occupation, and Israel in general, are Third Rails in US public discourse — touch them and die (politically, anyway). Through a peculiar combination of (1) commemoration (some would say exploitation) of the Nazi epoch, (2) down-n-dirty realpolitik in DC, and (3) the strong Biblical literalist strain in American […]

A few closing thoughts for the evening… on immigration. The Republican chiefs — beholden to the same business interests as Democratic chiefs for big chunks of campaign cash — are now being hoisted on their own petard by the demands of capital accumulation. One of those demands is cheap, throwaway labor inside the […]

an essay by Derrick Jensen
I’m scared to write this essay, scared to have it published, scared it will be read by police officers or customs agents, scared that the next time I’m stopped for some traffic violation or the next time I try to cross a border, some police officer or customs agent will remember […]

More than once, we have remarked here about the emerging
“national” consciousness of the nascent Latin@ movemen tin the US; and of its potentially tectonic consequences. Bradblog (a commercially successful whitelib site) has posted some stunning footage of this state-sponsored xenophobic terror, featuring Jonathan Mann’s riskily-acquired footage, the that is a must-see.

Jephraim Gundzik writes for Asia Times on financial matters; and he is one of a handful of investment advisers who seems to maintain some connection with Planet Earth. This is not an optimistic assessment; and some have been saying for some time that the magic carpet of the housing market had faulty aerodynamics. […]

Hezbollah’s big challenge
By Pepe Escobar
BEIRUT - “You are in heaven and those who killed you will go to hell,” reads a poster in a middle-class, predominantly Sunni neighborhood in north Beirut.
Those depicted in heaven include Saddam Hussein, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri (killed in a car bombing in 2005), and […]

…here is Black Agenda Report’s Richard Muhammad
Enabling Imus
American Life - Racism & White Privilege
Wednesday, 11 April 2007
by Richard Muhammad
In a horrific display of racist solidarity, white media men have circled their wagons around Don Imus, the career broadcast bigot who called the Rutgers women’s basketball team a bunch of “nappy […]

Not his words, mine. A suicide bombing in the Parliamentary cafeteria of the Green Zone means, basically, the most secure perimeter in Iraq was penetrated. That is a shift. Quantum.
The United States military, oxidized by four years of occupation, has crossed the event horizon for a tactical defeat in Iraq, more humiliating […]

[With Kim Sky’s permission, I am reposting an email about the soldier-effigy burning. It brings forward a helluva lot of contradictions; and I can’t think of a better place for a discussion of them than among y’all. -SG]
Portland Anarchists Burn Soldier Effigy — now on Drudge Report
this has been kind of interesting. drudge […]