Month: June 2005

NEOConeHeads! (Bood, please do it now!) From the same crowd who promised us Iraqis dancing in the street and welcoming us as liberators, another cornerstone of the neocon delusional reality has crashed back to earth. …...

“Should have read it 30 yrs ago, but I’ve finally gotten around to reading Harvey Wasserman’s History of the United States, with introduction by Howard Zinn. This is an easier read than Zinn’s history...

Treasury yields sink even as rate rise looms (Financial Times, 24 June) US 10-year Treasury yields looked set to close below 4 per cent this week even as investors prepared for the Federal Reserve to raise short-term interest...

the following is the text of a diary posted today on dailykos.  I will not be posting much over the next week or so, so I decided to do this as my penultimate post for now ad dailykos ———- In the past I...

(cross-posted at Daily Kos and Euro Tribune) This morning when I went out to buy a newspaper, I found that “La Repubblica” has already printed the names of the American CIA agents who allegedly kidnapped Abu Omar on...