We Americans are different: we think we’re special and the rest of the world thinks we’re especially isolated and willfully ignorant. Newsweek, it turns out, panders to both sides of the equation, printing two dramatically different versions of its weekly magazine– one for domestic readers and a completely different version for foreign readers. Check it [...]

Whatever you think of Hugo Chavez and his Bush is Satin speech yesterday to the UN General Assembly, he may be inadvertently sabotaging the American Left by aligning himself with them. Waving a copy of Noam Chomsky’s book Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States, Chavez said “It’s an excellent [...]

 Alleged voting irregularities during both the 2000 and 2004 were under reported by the mainstream news media. They are most commonly thought of as mere rumors generated by conspiracy theorists unhappy with the election results, as inadvertent errors caused by technological problems on the part of voting equipment or organizational mishaps on the part election [...]

Dubai ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum– aka “Sheik Mo”– has been celebrated by Time Magazine as a world-shaping titan and embraced by the Bush family as a business partner. This week, however, a court in Lexington, Ky., indicted him as a trafficker in boy slaves. The class-action suit accuses the Sheik of financing the [...]

War on Terror
A Review of Work Performed, September 2006
I. Update
1) There are 140,000 American young men and women fighting in Iraq and 19,000 fighting in Afghanistan. President Bush claims the period of “employment” for these men and women will not end any time soon and that it will be up to future leaders to [...]

Computer Scientists at Princeton released the results of the first-ever independent assessment of Diebold voting machines today.
And the news ain’t good.
In a Salon story today, Brad Friedman writes:
“The study reveals that a computer virus can be implanted on an electronic voting machine that, in turn, could result in votes flipped for opposing candidates. According to [...]

Disneyland visitors were greeted by a blow up doll dressed up as a Guantanamo Bay inmate wearing a bright orange jumper and black hood at the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride. The piece stayed up for an hour and half before staff shut down the ride to remove it. The culprit? None other than the enigmatic [...]

Truth Out today posted an Agence France Presse round-up of international newspaper editorials. There are no big surprises but the general disgust on the part of editors around the world toward the Bush response to the attacks in the last five years is sobering.
Papers in Europe and the Middle East were the most brutal– which [...]

As America remembers 9/11 five years later (as if we’d forget only five years later) with memorial services and explotation movies and TV specials(World Trade Center, United 93, ABC’s “The Path to 9/11,” etc.), let’s not forget the conspiracy theories we love to google so much.
I’m no conspiracy theorist, and no, I haven’t sat down [...]

September 11, like all commemorative days, is an event during which our collective memory is actively shaped. And this year Disney owned ABC is vying for significant influence over how 9/11 is remembered. Last night and tonight ABC stations nationwide are broadcasting “The Path to 9/11” a two-part miniseries described by Salon’s editor-in-chief Joan [...]