Democracy? Yeah, right

"2004 will only offer voters a choice between the same wafer, and a new marshmallow, both designed to keep a majority from even thinking about voting."

Justifying the Means

"It is said that the end justifies the means, in the case of Pakistan we have to watch out that the means used may well justify the end, as it almost did in 1971."

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Crude Oil Prices Rising / Gasoline Prices Dropping — What Does It Mean?

"...gasoline prices do not go down while crude oil prices go up, except in highly extraordinary circumstances! This reality should be a signal to the masses that something extremely unusual and highly significant must be pending at the highest levels of national and world governance. This pattern is absolutely unsustainable, and common sense should tell us to treat it that way."

Making the U.S. Safer for Opium Dealers, Terrorists and Neocons

"Since the Bush-Cheney Gang invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the opium industry has grown to $2.3 billion a year. When the Taliban was in charge, the trade was almost totally suppressed. During the 80s and early 90s, when Ronald Reagan and “Daddy” Bush were running the U.S., the Mujahedin, which morphed into al-Qaeda, received hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from the CIA, including plastic explosives, enough to blow up “half of NYC...”

How the News Media Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Rumsfeld

"Major U.S. news outlets are hardly inclined to be up in arms about Rumsfeld’s record of prewar deception when they remain so dainty about critiquing their own. What passes for soul-searching at the New York Times and the Washington Post is much more like autoeroticism than self-flagellation. No wonder Rumsfeld the media star is back."