Why ruling by force and fear doesn’t work

Fall of an Evil Empire Those they subjugated refused to completely knuckle under, so they waged a vicious reign of terror against them. However they also needed these same subjects to fight their wars for them. (Quite the contradiction, eh?…

Say it again, bro’

It’s really great to see the press finally press the White House on Karl Rove’s crimes. Isn’t it clear by now that he’s going to jail? Isn’t it high time they cut their losses. And they should never have been…

The L.A. 8 – 18 years of harassment

The L.A. 8 have been in court, on trial. and harassed by the feds for eighteen years. Even though courts have ruled that what they were doing was completely legal, the U.S., in a complete miscarriage of justice, is attempting to…

Greens, anarchism, and organizing

Peter Camejo, twice California Green Party candidate for governor and VP candidate with Nader in 2004 has published his thoughts on the current state of the GP, focusing on California where the vast bulk of registered Greens in the country live. The…

Quote of Note

“Why should placing bombs be illegal and bombing civilians from the air not be?” — Martin Varsavsky, via his blog , 7/7/05 Link – isen [isen.blog]

Sigh

The Group of Eight summit bowed to U.S. pressure on Friday by approving a declaration on climate change that avoided taking any concrete steps to fight global warming, such as setting targets or timetables for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. All…

Homegrown

Investigators have concluded that the bombs that ripped through three subway trains and a bus on Thursday were relatively crude devices containing less than 10 pounds of explosives each. That finding supports a theory gaining momentum among the authorities that…