In Coherence

Joe Stiglitz, a nobel prize winning economist (he wrote Globalization And Its Discontents- excellent book), revises his estimate of the tota...

A couple of interesting articles from Chan Akya, a columnist for Asia Times Online . Is the US on the brink of a precipitous decline? Akya...

Here's a revealing interview of the American journalist Nir Rosen on Democracy Now. He's the author of the book In the Belly of the...

Austin Bramwell, former National Review director and trustee, lays the smackdown on contemporary American 'conservatism'. A lot o...

Here's a revealing Channel 4 documentary showing one of the horrific realities of life in present day Iraq- the death and torture squad...

Just thought I'd add some commentary to a previous post about a suggested redrawing of the Mideast map by Col. Ralph Peters . The purp...

Well here's one... Brought to you by No Terror ...couldn't find out who was behind the campaign on their website...they seem a littl...

Wannabe American satrap brings peace to the Middle East after spending a few hours with Adobe Illustrator. A gigantic new Kurdish state...a ...

So there is actually still a real journalist left in mainstream US television news. Kudos to Olbermann for pointing out the real threat to ...

This is a looong term graph of the value of existing homes in the US housing market. A similar bubble, to varying degrees, has occurred in ...

Any commnents on the new name and look for the blog?

Some recent events which would have literally garnered 100x as much media attention if the perpetrators were Muslims: Tamil Tigers kill hund...

A very highly recommended lecture on the Israel/Palestine conflict given by Professor Norman Finkelstein at Yale University. Don't hav...

A nice piece written by John Mueller a political science professor from Ohio State University. In this article he gives a realistic assessm...

Conservative media figure, Joe Scarborough , has an amusing segment of Bush's 'lack of gravitas'. Finally it seems like some of...

You notice anything developing here? I can see two divergent conclusions arising from this: 1. Limited Supply 2. Price gouging Believe me, ...

A few of the articles I've found illuminating from the last couple of weeks about the war being waged in Lebanon. In my opinion, it...

The following was posted on one of my favorite internet forums. It's a great excerpt from John Dean's latest critique (that's ...

This time its the notorious John Dean . Yes the 'master manipulator' behind Watergate turned Nixon staff turn-coat. Well, like man...

A couple of excellent articles courtesy of US-born reporter Nir Rosen in Iraq. Rosen is one of the very few English language reporters in ...

Just wanted to share a very very good documentary that you can watch in its entirety on google video. The documentary is Errol Morris' ...

What would life be like without firearms? Well for one, a whole lot less entertaining. Here's a video of a handgun versus a samurai swo...

I think most 'informed' people out there would say that a US led attack on Iran is not very likely any time in the near future. The ...

Another great article from a former Reaganite turned fierce critic of the Neoconservatives Paul Craig Roberts. America is being set-up for ...

Yet another insightful piece from former Reaganite turned vehement critic of the Neoconservative agenda, Kevin Phillips, entitled American P...