Tuesday, July 26, 2005
The Decline and Fall of Conservatism by Butler Shaffer: "As I read and listen to the conservative rampage against the very values that once defined their position, I am reminded of my young adult years, when those of us who held individualist views had to work, ever so hard, to confront collectivist doctrines. The Marxist/socialist camp was wrong on just about every issue, but they offered a challenge to the mind that had to be met. I find no inner substance to modern conservatism that requires careful examination. Their oratory remains at the level of adolescent taunting, or what one might hear at a labor union beer-party. Like sharks lurking offshore, most conservatives are a deadly force to be avoided, not intellects with which to reason."
Thursday, July 21, 2005
News Flash: The Military Doesn’t Protect Our Freedom by Brad Edmonds: "Freedom IS free"
Meeting a Suicide Bomber by Butler Shaffer: "everyone who supports the war system takes on the character of a “suicide-bomber.” Such people are often prepared to die – and to send their children to die – to perpetuate the “necessity” and “glory” of this self-destructive ritual. So, too, are those that the state defines for us as our “enemies,” and who are prepared to give their lives for such madness."
Friday, July 15, 2005
Saving a Dying Corpse by Butler Shaffer: "if you can cut through the veneer of propaganda as “news,” and begin to ask such questions as how US-supported persons and organizations (e.g., Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban) could suddenly became threats to America, you will begin to understand the nature of the herding game being played at your expense."
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Why Are They Killing Us? by Patrick J. Buchanan: "'(S)uicide-terrorist attacks are not so much driven by religion as by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland. From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Chechnya to Kashmir to the West Bank, every major suicide terrorist campaign – over 95 percent of all incidents – has had as its central objective to compel a democratic state to withdraw.'"
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
The Asymmetrical Rhetoric of War and Peace by Gary North: "The case for peace is mostly logical. The case for war is mostly rhetorical. So, men keep going to war."
Monday, July 11, 2005
The Tiananmen Square Massacre didn't happen.
Jay Mathews describes what did . . . The Myth of Tiananmen
Wikipedia also describes the event in detail, including what happened to those arrested. The questionable fate of the "Tank Man" is also discussed here.
Here too . . . http://www.alternativeinsight.com/Tiananmen.html
"The first hand accounts described a confrontation that came close to a battle but was peacefully settled. Students left the square without fatalities."
And here . . . Remember Tiananmen Square!! by Jude Wanniski
Jay Mathews describes what did . . . The Myth of Tiananmen
Wikipedia also describes the event in detail, including what happened to those arrested. The questionable fate of the "Tank Man" is also discussed here.
Here too . . . http://www.alternativeinsight.com/Tiananmen.html
"The first hand accounts described a confrontation that came close to a battle but was peacefully settled. Students left the square without fatalities."
And here . . . Remember Tiananmen Square!! by Jude Wanniski
Friday, July 08, 2005
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
A Solution?
More Nuremberg Trials? by Murray Polner
More Nuremberg Trials? by Murray Polner
