Yearly Archives: 2006

We sent good wishes to him previously here. Here is our candle for his health.

I Don’t Think We Westerners Care About MuslimsRobert Fisk Ladies and gentlemen, when I first went to the Middle East — on holiday from Belfast, of all places — 1972, I went to Egypt, and anxious to try and pick … Continue reading →

Iraq and the Problem of Evil It’s not yet the last days in Iraq, but it might as well be. A recent poll shows that 71% of Americans oppose the way Pres. Bush is handling the war, and only 9% … Continue reading →

The Builder Who Bombed in IraqBattered Over Failed Projects, Parsons’s CEO Fires Back at Government CriticsBy Griff WitteWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, December 22, 2006; Page D01 Until this year, Parsons Corp. was about as quiet as a $3 billion engineering … Continue reading →

Rules of Engagementby William Langewiesche November 2006 On November 19, 2005, in Haditha, during Kilo Company’s third tour of duty in Iraq, a land mine planted by insurgents exploded beneath a Humvee, killing a 20-year-old Marine. What happened next — … Continue reading →

Normally we do not report the day-to-day carnage in Iraq – it is well reported elsewhere. But this article is unique in that something else is mentioned at the very end of the article that is intriguing to say the … Continue reading →

The War On ToddlerismTreating children as young as four as sexual deviants, criminals and subversives emphasizes slip towards the police stateSteve WatsonInfowars.netThursday, December 21, 2006 Nothing emphasizes the decline of America into an authoritarian police state more than the treatment … Continue reading →

Years and years ago, while watching the mainstream culture move ever farther away from what I considered good sense, and wondering if I should go with them, or hew to my own path, however clouded or obscure it might get, … Continue reading →

A New Year’s Eve Menu for Two (31 December 2000) This is actually a rather British dinner, but without the usual Yorkshire pudding. It is well loved in North America which makes me include it in this section. When one … Continue reading →

This comes courtesy of Mariann, the “Wiz.” She says it’s “perfect for the “Blow and Snow season”, eh wot??” Peru president favors using cocaine-producing leaf for saladThe Associated PressPublished: December 19, 2006 LIMA, Peru: President Alan Garcia on Tuesday suggested … Continue reading →

Historical Perspectives on Latin American and East Asian Regional DevelopmentNoam Chomsky; Delivered to a Boston meeting of Mass Global Action, December 15, 2006 There was a meeting on the weekend of December 9-10 in Cochabamba in Bolivia of major South … Continue reading →