Saturday, September 20, 2008

saturday reads

A study of the Pentagon's satellite imagery concludes that ethnic cleansing -- not last year's surge of U.S. military forces -- is the main factor in the reduction of violence in Iraq.


Think Progress: Bush Compares The Financial Crisis He Created To The Terrorist Attacks He Never Saw Coming

Paul Kruman: Crisis Endgame

McCain on banking and health

Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.


False charges dropped against Democracy Now journalists.


A far-right group was forced to abandon a press conference launching a campaign against plans for a new mosque and Muslim immigration in the German city of Cologne yesterday, when protesters targeted them with stones and paint.


The freakshow that is 'Blacks Against Obama'.


Public Integrity, Redefined


America's new growth industry - show trials.


Dave, you can count me out too.


People with strongly conservative views were three times more fearful than staunch liberals.

Friday, September 19, 2008

friday reads

Hurricane Ike briefs



Avast! It's Talk Like a Pirate Day.


Glenn Greenwald: The Bush/McCain/Palin contempt for subpoenas and the rule of law


Steven Pearlstein: Scrambling to Clean Up After A Category 4 Financial Storm
What we are witnessing may be the greatest destruction of financial wealth that the world has ever seen -- paper losses measured in the trillions of dollars. Corporate wealth. Oil wealth. Real estate wealth. Bank wealth. Private-equity wealth. Hedge fund wealth. Pension wealth. It's a painful reminder that, when you strip away all the complexity and trappings from the magnificent new global infrastructure, finance is still a confidence game -- and once the confidence goes, there's no telling when the selling will stop.



Tomgram: Steve Fraser, The End of a Gilded Age


A local candidate in Vermont has promised to charge and prosecute President Bush for murder if elected as that state's attorney general.


Products Placed: How Companies Pay Artists to Include Brands in Lyrics


PSA (via Fleshbot)

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