Before committing suicide. Before signing off his webpage on MySpace.com Monday, Army Pvt. Dylan Meyer typed a farewell note to the world."Jesus, I don't know if any of you have heard what has happened to me yet, but I just want to remind you not to be sad. Laugh, that's what lifes about," Meyer wrote. "When it is all said and done, and all the b------t is cleared away, it is the ones you love who you will remember." The next morning, Meyer was found dead in the Army barracks at Fort Gordon in...

Check out this NYT review of the new book Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer. "What's most depressing about Kinzer's book, however, is not the drastic clash it describes between professed American morality and actual American behavior. For, after all, the historical record of other democratic imperial powers, like Britain and France, has been even worse than that of the United States. Operating in the real world as a great power is not a...

Says the great Alan Bock in his review of Ted Galen Carpenter's new book America's Coming War With China. Wow, did you guys realize that, like Israel, Taiwan is not a state in the Union? That makes them none of our government's business.

Here AMY GOODMAN: And what makes you think it's happening now? JULIAN DARLEY: Well, history has shown -- the most dramatic example being that of the U.S., which its own oil production peaked in 1970 -- history shows that this happens to all nations. Now, when it happened to the U.S., it was able to import yet more oil. It was already an oil importer in 1970. It was able to yet import yet more oil. Now it imports approximately 60% and rising. So when this happens to a nation, it turns to other...

There has been some discussion over the past few years on the matter of the future of oil production and whether we're already past the peak. It always sounded like a bunch of propaganda to me, and by my reading of the new article "Peak Oil Panic" by Ronald Bailey in Reason my guess was about right. The problem is not a lack of oil, but government intervention in the market which poses the threat

About the firing of Mary McArthy, Carter's nuclear threat to Iran, Truman's over Azerbaijan, Hersh's anonymous sources, official lies, wiretaps, detention camps etc., etc. Click here to watch.

"It's a heck of a note... to have to root for the Rockefellers."

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Used to be that Tim Gillin, Anthony Gregory, Brandon Snider, and Derek Walker wrote shit on here... And my other buddy Tim was spozda too. Where the Hell did everyone go?

According to Government Executive Magazine, people hate RFID, and they're shit out of luck. Via Claire Wolf

Jonathan Schwartz at A Tiny Revolution on the despicable lovers of Bill Clinton's claim that the 1998 Operation Desert Fox (which was named after the Nazi Erwin Rommel) destroyed the last of the Iraqis wmd ability: "This is an appealing tale for Clintonistas, because it him look good. First, it gets him off the hook

The fight was between Ibrahim Jaafari, from Da'wa, who's been PM since early last year and Abdul al-Mahdi from the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution. The Kurdish and Sunni factions had opposed Jaafari, who until a few days ago was insisting that he wasn't going anywhere. Needlenose was saying that Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani had intervened and told Jaafari to step aside. (Nice to know the Shi'ite theocrats rule in the end, huh?) Anyway, The deadlock is finally broken. The Sunnis have decided...

At Endervidualism. "I suspect some libertarians greatly overestimate how attractive liberty is to today's Americans. How many young people and college students would happily permit the government to monitor all their e-mail in return for unlimited free music downloads? How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a person to pledge never to publicly criticize the president? How many people would happily surrender most of their constitutional rights in return for a president's...

Since you're the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, I figure you must be the appropriate person to address this to. I have another piece of evidence to go into your articles of impeachment against George Bush and Dick Cheney: "Drumheller, who retired [from the CIA] last year, says the White House ignored crucial information from a high and credible source. The source was Iraq's foreign minister, Naji Sabri, with whom U.S. spies had made a deal. "When CIA Director George Tenet delivered...

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