Live from the Nuke Free Zone

You’ve probably heard about the earthquake-induced tsunamis and flooding in the Bay of Bengal this past Sunday which has killed over 100,000 people and left many more homeless. The breakdown of medical and sanitation services threatens to increase the sad tally in the coming days and weeks. Our writers might be busy and not post […]

From the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 2, Verses 1-20:
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
And Joseph […]

Trawling the dkos diaries for interesting stuff…

Look at what you used to be able to get on a working man’s salary
Cumulative Congressional election results
CNBC’s idea of a debate is between the the Club For Growth and the Cato Institute
Remembering Christmas Eve terrorism of 1951
I want to be wrong for Christmas
The Bush torture order hasn’t made […]

Lots of stuff to go over today. First we’ll start with some big news that there’s been a total media blackout over: an FBI memo cites “the President’s Executive Order” authorizing torture. This comes on the heels of the release of a
memo showing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered the use of torture, which would have […]

The continuing saga of Yukos, the bankrupt Russian oil giant, just took a mysterious step forward with the sale at government auction of Yukos’s most productive facility, Yuganskneftegaz, to a company that nobody has heard of and, until recently, did not exist. Without any known assets or property, the Baikalfinansgroup managed to secure a $1.7 […]

The media this Christmas season is raising a ruckus about some supposed “war on Christmas”, stringing together a bunch of disconnected events and claiming they are part of an organized culture war against Christians. Let’s look at the facts.
This year, Target banned the Salvation Army bell-ringing charity solicitors from its stores, implementing a no-solicitors policy […]

A University of Idaho history professor reports that a well-funded white supremacist group has targeted his college town for conquest.

Former San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb, whose series on Central Intelligence Agency connections to Nicaraguan Contra drug smuggling brought nationwide attention in the ’90s, was found dead December 10 of multiple self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head.
Robert Parry has an informative eulogy.
There’s also an article on K5.

A fellow blogger over at guppychild recently wrote an article about the indifference about politics these days.
The main, and probably self-evident, point of her argument is that people get apathetic about politics - in the sense that most Americans and probably even more Canadians truly are - because we’ve convinced ourselves that it Doesn’t […]

Haha! Contrary to your nefarious plans, I survive mostly unscathed to trouble your dreams - er, I mean, sorry I’ve been so out of touch lately, guys. Trying to put together a big article which ran away from me, along with some other writing projects, so here I am trying to play catchup. Not sure […]