I love how TIME tries to get ‘under the skin’ of the story

The fact that US Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman — who rarely appears in public — made the trip all the way down from the isolated embassy compound in the hills outside Beirut wasn’t enough one young woman following alongside the coffin of a bodyguard slain in Wednesday’s attack. “Where is George Bush?” she yelled.
EXCUSE ME? (thats [...]

Imperialism isn’t a Yuppy thing anymore!

I don’t want to bash the U.S. government anymore than I have to, but this is really getting out of hand!
US food aid is ‘wrecking’ Africa, claims charity
The US arm of the charity says America is causing rather than reducing hunger with a decree that US food aid must be sold rather than directly distributed [...]

It don’t get any better than Chomsky…

Man, I swear, it doesn’t get any better than Noam Chomsky talking about globalization…

My favorite part: “We’re all in favor of globalization, the question is, is it going to be in the interest of people or in the interests of private power? But everybodys in favor of it, like, nobodys opposed [...]