Month June 2007

Classic Newspeak

“U.S. military officials here increasingly envision a ‘post-occupation’ troop presence in Iraq” by cutting down to a mere 50,000 troops. Let’s look up “occupation” in Websters Dictionary. 3 a : the act or process of taking possession of a place…

Sudan spies on Iraq for CIA

Thus, the US is unwilling to condemn Dafur too harshly for killing tens of thousands civilians, just like they don’t want to recognize the Armenian Genocide because they need Turkey as an ally, like maybe to invade Iraq and kill…

Confronting the climate change crisis

This is the first of a number of posts on Ian Angus’ seminal “Confronting the Climate Change Crisis” on his blog, Climate and Capitalism. His primary point is that capitalism, due to its inherent structure, can not and will not…

Differences between Connecticut and Los Angeles

(We recently moved to Connecticut from Los Angeles and here’s some of the differences) The cats bring in chipmunks, not lizards. Politics is more openly corrupt, with multitudes of news stories about politicians linked to organized crime. (I’m not saying…