Water!

WATER! Two thirds of the world surface, over sixty five percent of the human body, falling from the sky, or locked in the ice caps at the poles. it seems so simple but it causes so much trouble. Water is necessary for all agriculture and just about every industry to varying degrees. The growing concern of both states and private individuals, is their ability to continue to suite growing needs with dwindling supplies. It is source of regional conflicts and mass suffering,frozen and locked away...

Hegemony or Freedom

At a glance the libertarian world view presents a simple paradox, if every one is free to do as they please, how does one ensure that libertarian society exists. The simple truth however is that for economic freedom to exist there must first be complete and total political freedom. Political freedom in the libertarian sense that any one can freely associate with any group they choose without duress. This stand in direct opposition to the hegemonic impulses and ideals of the current system,...

Dorgan on Colbert

M writes: "I'm probably more suspicious of the free market than you are, but I share all of your anti-war views. "Did you see Byron Dorgan on Colbert the other night? Worth a look." Me: Actually, it's not that I think markets are perfect or anything (people are a mixed bag after all), it's just that I think they are much harder on the biggest criminal corporations than government will ever be. Re: Dorgan: The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cByron Dorgancolbertnation.comColbert Report...

A socialist dream or a practical maxim.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The famous Marxist saying seems to ring incredibly hollow in today’s ostensibly equal societies. Its implications are relatively strait forward, through the apparatus of the state and by means of ‘Democracy’ whether in the form of western liberal democracy or in workers soviets. All will contribute and all will receive there share of the product of the society, or more precisely of the state. The state in the end produces one...

A couple things

Okay, so ever since I posted my interview of Ron Paul on my site where I keep em all (including the ones too far off topic for Antiwar.com like this one), I've lost a bunch of subscribers to the podcast feed. Antiwar lefties who hate economics? Ron Paulians who can't stand hearing someone ask him a good question? What gives? Gardner Goldsmith interviews me. That fascist Glenn Beck is right, Obama is a fascist. Greg Palast on the looting of GM's pension fund by JP Morgan-Chase. Chris Hedges...

Abuse Photos Show Rape.

Whilst most of the mainstream media focus on trying to justify waterboarding, General Taguba speaks of rape and other sexual abuses at Abu Ghraib in todays Telegraph. ‘These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency, At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee. Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and...