For those of you who saw the Sept. 11 debate between Popular Mechanics and Dylan Avery and his researcher on Amy Goodman's show, here's a quick HOWTO on viewing the extremely popular 9/11 conspiracy doc Loose Change. FIrst, download the flick using this torrent. I have confirmed it contains two high quality movie files (one is called "extra footage"). If you don't know how to download a torrent, install Azureus. The torrent you downloaded will now open with it by default. Azureus will do all...

And I thought his speeches were pathetic... Here are a couple of parts of Bush's Friday press conference that warrant some review (There are more, but I no longer have the patience.): "QUESTION: Mr. President, former Secretary of State Colin Powell says the world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism. If a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former secretary of state feels this way, don't you think that Americans and the rest of the world are...

It seems to me that when the Bush administration makes loud accusations about a Middle Eastern state's "weapons of mass destruction" programs, the average Joe would question it. After all, they must have made up a hundred lies about Iraq: that the motivation for the invasion was to protect the people of America, that Iraq had "reconstituted nuclear weapons" (the evidence for which was forged documents and rocket tubes), that Saddam had a "long-standing relationship" with al Qaeda (providing...

By Paul Sperry Antiwar.com. "In its miniseries about the missteps that led to 9/11, ABC spared not only Bill Clinton but also George W. Bush. Our hawkish War President had almost nine months to respond to the USS Cole attack and did nothing, even as his security staff fired off memo after memo fingering Osama bin Laden and urging retaliation.Clinton claims, feebly, that he didn't have enough evidence to pin the October 2000 attack on bin Laden. But Bush certainly did. On March 2, 2001,...

Don't think so?

Someone recently asked me, "Why is it that you say America cannot be a republic and an empire?" Well, my friend, here is your answer: The Secretary of the United States Air Force wants to shoot you with ray guns in order, he says, to justify shooting them at foreigners. "If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation [and we really want to shoot them at foreigners as soon as possible]." Now comes the test. Will he...

Man, oh, man. Bob Dreyfuss has done it again. Go read, and get back to me. Go ahead and throw in Robert A. Pape's new one for the Cato Institute.

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Antiwar.com research editor, Jason Ditz, has an interesting analysis of what's going on in the Blair government over in the UK. It seems Blair wants to replace himself with a guy named Reid instead of his long-time heir apparent, Gordon Brown. But why? And why did Blair fire ex-Stalinist Jack Straw as Foreign Secretary? Check it out here.

Yes, I know, you already knew that, but I have to complain about the Presiden't speech Monday night. There was a bunch of Roosevelt-invoking garbage in there, obviously, but there's one particular lie that Bush will not stop telling the people of this country, which, due to its total absurdity, is beginning to chap my Texas hide. So let's get this straight once and for all: If America leaves Iraq, the chances that al Qaeda will take over and use the oil money to build a giant al Qaeda...

The assholes from Popular Mechanics made fools of them today on Democracy Now! Really stupid. Update: Those indestructable towers the kooks want you to believe in:

Pondering Surrender by Anthony Gregory LewRockwell.com Five years ago, Americans, all horrified by the terrorist attacks, tended to have two different ideas about the underlying cause and the appropriate response. One was to blame the attacks on terrorists who simply hated our freedom. "Freedom itself was attacked," said President George W. Bush. "And freedom will be defended." The president soon led the country into war and pushed through a series of new measures to consolidate the national...

"That was during a time of patriotism."

As reported by Antiwar.com's Debbie Clark: Saturday morning, after a march around the Capital building, 30-35 people from Camp Democracy - mostly Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War members - went to the Pentagon to see the new 9/11 memorial. As they were nearing the end of the tour, Geoffrey Millard, a disabled Iraq war veteran, left a stack of pamphlets about the dangers of depleted uranium on a brochure stand as they were entering the chapel. At first, no one noticed and...

Like this guy did: Go to LibertyStickers.com! There are more than 600 government hating slogans. See especially the Scott Horton section. (Those are the ones I still get royalties for. : ) ) Some guy bought 11 of these this morning.