Just to start a September thread, here's another Thai take on the Victor Bout case. The author has wide experience in Thailand and vicinity, and is presumably well known to intelligence operatives. Comparison with the output of [url=http://www.debka.com]everyone's favorite hasbara ... Read more 

our barkeep's recent posts on youtube. makes sense with his fascination with cranes and ships. he is keeping a watchful eye on what bp is doing in the gulf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWyP5zNznyU ... Read more 

what the hell. at least sean penn's time there was a bit more humble. his piece on democracy now was, i would say, pretty compelling.

but wyclef as president of haiti? my gut screams cia. my brain screams simple, exploitive capitalism; the branding of an island nation with american pop culture to smooth the deeper exploitation of possibilities like the geo-strategic deep-sea port.
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I needed to alert you that there could be some interruptions in LS availability this weekend. The webhosting service is forcing a migration from their to-be-imminently-decommissioned old host servers to their fancy, powerful shared grid service (whatever the hell that is). I gather this would be very advantageous if this were a much more highly-trafficked site, or was subject to sudden huge spikes in traffic.
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I have had the privilege, pleasure and honor of working with Alan for the past twenty years. My respect and admiration for him is immense. He is no longer a boss, I contract with him for his data processing needs, but I consider him a personal friend.

My blurb about his new web site follows:

A new web site http://alanbetts.com/ ... Read more 

when they came for you



when they came
for furkan
waves wept
for such a sailor
does not come
often enough
this night
i imagine
four holes
in furkan's head
& weep
not only
for him
& the other
heroes the other
naturally the other
is multiple
& resistant the other
always the other
wa ... Read more 

Let the games begin...
The poor, those miserable bastards, can eat cake:
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts07302010.html

And where did all that money come from?

Peace
DaveS ... Read more 

According to the Guardian, the inevitable has finally happened , that is someone with access to the documents being generated by the slaughter in Afghanistan has done a Dan Ellsberg and released the lot through wikileaks.
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Is the intelligence community out of control?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/23/AR2010072304752_pf.html

Here again are recent sequences that i have been asked to post on Christopher's behalf..from his poem..when they came for him.

working way
through threnody
enveloping waters
going to ocean
& not coming
back to boat
where
five israeli bullets
tore you
apart from us
who needed you
furkan dogan
so many
need you
now
as war being
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i wanted to give this its own thread, though it's sort of a carryover from the generational back and forth in july's open thread.

i mentioned briefly that i saw christopher nolan's latest cinematic gem, inception, and after marinating a few days, and reading a really insightful review by poet ron silliman (found here: http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/-- ... Read more 

I don't have the competence to judge the prospects for this Craig Murray project, but it
certainly seems interesting and "serious". It is, of course, somewhat more large-scale garden-tending than usual, and, I hope, may show the force of good example and hard-work in producing positive change.
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Here is a bit of a disjointed thing I started working on. It's really a work in progress and I'm sure these ideas suffer from more than just my poor english skills. I thought if I threw this out here, maybe we could hammer it into something more scholarly... or at least something I could use at dinner parties when the talk turns political.

rememberinggiap has at this time asked me to post these new sequences from 'when they came for you'

these eyes burning
soul a desert
this day
valleys
before & after
history's impassable
mirror not memory
not in
any sense
alive
to this
murder of furkan
israeli bullet
bought in bazar
worked out
in washington
where night
is at
poin ... Read more