This is what weenie-punditry looks like, from a corporate weblogger-for-hire, one who is apparently held in high regard by some of my favorite linkmongers: Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell and most of the opinion media have done everything in their power to scare the daylights out of Americans, going so far as to invent links between […]

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Vancouver, Canada — 30,000 or so… A fun stroll through downtown Vancouver yesterday… and though of course estimates vary on how many people were out, suffice it to say there were far more than expected. The final assembly point was desperately undersized, and the overflow of protesters solidly filled more than eight city blocks. The […]

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We in Canada and other nations who suggest that the Bush administration is on a disastrous course and unworthy of support are frequently charged with “anti-Americanism” — a vain and peculiar folly, or a moral crime akin to racism … Johano Strasser, president of the German PEN Center, the international writers’ organization that defends freedom […]

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Weapons in America’s overwhelming Shock and Awe arsenal As the prospect of total war lurches ever-closer to reality, it appears that America’s planners intend to attack according to the principles of “Shock and Awe” — an apocaplyptic rain of warheads, thousands fired in a matter of hours, generating a shitstorm that will make Desert Storm […]

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::::: [This posting is best enjoyed while listening to the accompanying soundtrack — a 7.9 MB download of “Creative Freakout” by The Hellers, available as part of Otis Fodder’s 365 Days project. While enduring the tedium of download-time, why not fix yourself a tasty, brand-name beverage? Treat yourself right and consume quantities of processed liquids, […]

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