For Tom
The personage depicted, not photoshopped, is Nikolai Yezhov.
20.9.10
...but this is the worst I can remember...also this book is a nicely tucked and folded metaphorical condemnation of the Iraq business and its main participants.
10.9.10
Chile and the United States:via open democracy
Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup, September 11, 1973
-
Mondoweiss on the current trial in Israel viz. the death of Rachel Corrie
-
Mr Fish does Fla Quranflagration.
meanwhile, in Afghanistan...
-
and it looks like once again the real cause of another "energy-related" catastrophe is the marketplace's inability to conform to anything like human moral standards, as the San Bruno Ca gas explosion appears to have been the result of PG&E, the local utility company, experiencing restructuring, deregulation, downsizing, and general adherence to the "fellate the shareholders" ethic.