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As British as afternoon tea

by Mark Curtis

[ december 03 ]

"By invading Iraq, and bombing Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, the Blair government is simply continuing a British tradition of promoting regime change."

The US: The world’s deepest debtor

by Philip S Golub

[ december 03 ]

"In the longer run, Asia will divest itself of some dollars and the US will have to pay increasingly punitive premiums to attract foreign investment. Higher interest rates will curb US economic activity and have deflationary global repercussions by increasing the debt service load of developing countries."

New purported Bush tape raises fear of new attacks

by Robert Jensen and Sam Husseini

[ november 03 ]

"Intelligence analysts around the world are studying the videotapes. 'It certainly looked and sounded like him, but we get so few glimpses at Bush in real-life situations that it is hard to tell,' said one operative from a Western intelligence agency."

Question Eleven

by Leuren Moret

[ november 03 ]

"According to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission guidelines for occupational exposure, the 186,000,000 grams of depleted uranium released during the Gulf War combat operations is enough to poison every American man, woman, and child 100 times. "

Declaration of Independence

by Brian Kimberling

[ november 03 ]

On the eve of King George's visit, an abridged and updated version of a familiar document.

An unnatural history of the dead

by Michael Standaert

[ november 03 ]

"In early 14th century Europe, the danse macabre, or the 'dance of death', developed as a literary and pictorial device representing a procession of the living and the dead, from emperor to child, from bishop to hermit, as a reflection on this impartiality and inevitability of death."

Viva Papa!; or, Humanism betrayed

by Joe Palmer

[ october 03 ]

"People have forgotten that it is impossible to derive humane ethical principles from theological premises because reasoning and evidence are necessary to determine what is right or wrong, and religious dogma does not yield physical evidence or logical thinking."

Down to the wire - APEC 2003

by Ian Cole

[ october 03 ]

"The homeless, according to Bangkok's Governor Samak, are much like the stray dogs and building shelters for them would only encourage more vagrancy." It's damned hard work preparing a city for visiting dignitaries.

Onwards, Christian soldiers

by Robert Jensen

[ october 03 ]

Lt Gen William Boykin, the Pentagon's deputy under-secretary for intelligence, claims he is "not anti-Islam or any other religion". They're just cults.

De libero arbitrio et IX/XI - On free will and 9/11

by Joe Palmer

[ october 03 ]

"This essay is about cultural conditioning, that is, about values that are second nature to us because of the way we live together, and about popular theological arguments at the time of the fall of Rome"