The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

It's been a fairly busy day, and I couldn't decide what to write about, but this might be worth passing along. I heard about it on the Shortwave Report, a radio program that plays on my community radio station on Fridays, so I looked around on the web, and sure enough, it was true:For the first time in recent history, the Foreign Operations Budget (State Department) openly details direct

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

It's been a fairly busy day, and I couldn't decide what to write about, but this might be worth passing along. I heard about it on the Shortwave Report, a radio program that plays on my community radio station on Fridays, so I looked around on the web, and sure enough, it was true:For the first time in recent history, the Foreign Operations Budget (State Department) openly details direct

You See? I Told You

Damn! I should have spent more time on yesterday's post.It turns out that US media have reacted to the revelation that the Oslo attacks were apparently the work, not of al-Qaeda, but a right-wing Christian fundamentalist Nordic farmer, by continuing to claim that al-Qaeda did it, or Muslims in general.Before the dust had cleared, the Only President We've Got agreed (via), though cautiously as is

You See? I Told You

Damn! I should have spent more time on yesterday's post.It turns out that US media have reacted to the revelation that the Oslo attacks were apparently the work, not of al-Qaeda, but a right-wing Christian fundamentalist Nordic farmer, by continuing to claim that al-Qaeda did it, or Muslims in general.Before the dust had cleared, the Only President We've Got agreed (via), though cautiously as is