03-21-09
- A Small Dash of Sanity:
- Immature Children Control Our Discourse (digbysblog)
- Judge Blocks Rule Permitting Concealed Guns In U.S. Parks (washingtonpost)
- Restore the Rule of Law! - Where Is the Accountability? - Looks Like It's Hiding in the Same Hole as Bush's Accountability:
- Israeli soldiers admit to deliberate killing of Gaza civilians (timesonline/uk - independent/uk) "cold-blooded murder. . . . 'That’s the beauty of Gaza. You see a man walking, he doesn’t have to have a weapon, and you can shoot him,' one soldier . . . ." said. "The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights released the names of 1,417 Gazans that it says were killed in the war, saying that 926 were civilians. The Israeli Government contends that most of those killed were combatants or legitimate targets." Israeli front-line soldiers contend otherwise.
- Israeli Army T-Shirts Mock Gaza Killings (skynews) -- Israel has become their former Nazi abusers.
- Update 03-24-09: Will Israel be Brought to Book? (guardian/uk) "The evidence of war crimes in Gaza is a challenge to universal justice: will western-backed perpetrators ever stand trial?"
- The Great Economic Shakedown:
- Madoff Took Fall for New York’s Richest And Most Powerful Politicians (opednews) "This article by Wayne Madsen . . . offers a plausible hypothesis why Madoff’s conviction is the end of the line, and prosecutors aren’t looking for co-conspirators."
- Arun Gupta: The Great Unraveling (indypendent)
- Krugman: Despair Over Financial Policy (nytimes - wonkroom) "The Geithner plan has now been leaked in detail. It’s exactly the plan that was widely analyzed — and found wanting — a couple of weeks ago. The zombie ideas have won."
- Greenwald: The virtues of public anger and the need for more (salon) "The public rage we're finally seeing is long, long overdue, and appears to be the only force with both the ability and will to impose meaningful checks on continued kleptocratic pillaging and deep-seated corruption in virtually every branch of our establishment institutions."
- Senate Republicans block Senate version of law to recapture AIG bonuses (americablog) "The defenders of the rich come to the rescue, again."
- Military-Industrial Complex:
- Is Anyone Covering Iraq?, The Lonely Soldier, and Got Docs (grittv video)
- Fermi's Gamma-Ray Sky (apod)
