Robert Weitzel: Palestinian, Israeli kids are cannon fodder for Rapture

Seeded on Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:23 PM EDT (Madison.com)

Pastor John Hagee opposes any peace plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, supports Israel's persecution and "imprisonment" of 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and advocates pre-emptive nuclear strikes against Iran.

israel, middle-east, politics, john-mccain, palestine, john-hagee

Clive Thompson on Why the Next Civil Rights Battle Will Be Over the Mind

Seeded on Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:41 PM EDT (Wired News)

Hypersonic sound broadcasts audio in a focused beam, so that only a person standing directly in its path hears the message. The boundaries of the privacy of the brain are being eroded. New technologies raise a new ethical question: Do we have a right to "mental privacy"?

science, surveillance, hypersonic-sound

IOF snipers can shoot Palestinian protestors "lawfully"

Seeded on Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:09 PM EDT (The Palestinian Information Center)

IOF soldiers can now lawfully fire at Palestinian demonstrators protesting at the apartheid-wall being built by the Israeli occupation according to a report in Maariv.

israel, middle-east, west-bank, palestine, world-news

Iraq Retrospective: Read The Quotes That Sent Us To War

Seeded on Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:34 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

As the war in Iraq enters its sixth year, Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky have published a "definitive, footnoted, hilarious but depressing compilation of experts who were in error" about the war from the beginning.

politics, iraq-war, neocons

Fallon Leaves: Will Iran War Follow?

Seeded on Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:34 PM EDT (AntiWar.com)

"The rather sudden resignation of Adm. William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (Centcom), has any number of people worrying that war with Iran will surely follow. Adm.

us, bush, iraq, cheney, iran, war, world-news, fallon

Breakdancing Drunks on the Edge of a Cliff

Seeded on Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:43 PM EDT (Smoking Mirrors)

"It has been admitted by representatives of the C.I.A. that there is no Al Qaeda. Yet we see Al Qaeda everywhere. It is a giant game of Wack a Mole with no moles.

us, cia, politics, war, 9-11, al-qaeda

So-called psychic files $4.5 million suit against news blog

Seeded on Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:38 PM EDT (OregonLive.com)

"A so-called Internet psychic who was acquitted of sex abuse charges in Washington County Circuit Court last May is suing a French Web site for defamation in Portland's U.S. District Court.

internet, bloggers, free-speech, oregon-state, us-news