Archive for September, 2007

Bloggers who risked all to reveal the junta’s brutal crackdown in Burma

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Times Online, UK

Young men from Myanmar who helped to inform the rest of the World through their blogs

Kenneth Denby in Rangoon

Internet geeks share a common style, and Ko Latt and his four friends would not be out of place in cyber cafés across the world. They have the skinny arms and the long hair, the [...]

Kafka Komics: The Ugly American

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

by Don Nash Click to enlarge

Kafka Komics: Propaganda Kills!

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

by Don Nash Click to enlarge

Bush, Oil — and Moral Bankruptcy

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

CounterPunch, CA

By Ray McGovern

September 27, 2007

It is an exceedingly dangerous time. Vice President Dick Cheney and his hard-core “neo-conservative” protégés in the administration and Congress are pushing harder and harder for President George W. Bush, isolated from reality, to honor the promise he made to Israel to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

On Sept. [...]

Time for a Mass Resignation From the Democratic Party

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

CounterPunch, CA

Quit the Party!

By DAVE LINDORFF

Cynthia McKinney is doing it. It’s time for you to do it too.

Have you, like many Americans, found yourself wondering why President Bush, over and over again, would hand the Democrats in Congress the weapon needed to bring him down?

Just look at the list:

Last year it was the nominations of [...]

The Companies They Keep in Burma

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

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By J. Sri Raman t r u t h o u t | Perspective

The world has been informed in no uncertain terms of the concern of the First Family of the USA over the cause of democracy and freedom in Burma. The commitment of Washington to the corporate cause, [...]

Kafka Komics: Who said that?

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

by Don Nash Click to enlarge