http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/opinion/12krugman.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin Blizzard of Lies - By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: September 11, 2008 Did you hear about how Barack Obama wants to have sex education in kindergarten, and called Sarah Palin a pig? Did you hear about how Ms. Palin told Congress, bThanks, but no thanksb when it wanted to buy Alaska a Bridge to Nowhere? These stories

http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen010908.htm o?< Technological Fundamentalism In Media And Culture By Robert Jensen 01 September, 2008 Countercurrents.org While media watchdogs and bloggers probe contemporary news media for signs of bias -- from every angle, on virtually every issue -- perhaps the most important of journalistsb biases is ignored: their routine acceptance of societybs

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint": Edmund Burke - Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France = "As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the

> President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia said Thursday that Russia would act as an international guarantor of the two pro-Russian enclaves at the center of the crisis with Georgia, and Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov said that Georgia could bforget aboutb territorial integrity because of the war. This is a very reasonable position, given Georgia's outrageous behavior, and it clarifies

August 04, 2008 http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/4/anthrax Anthrax Mystery: Questions Raised over Whether Government Is Framing Dead Army Scientist for 2001 Attacks The FBIbs prime suspect in the October 2001 anthrax letters case died last week in an apparent suicide. Bruce Ivins was an elite government scientist at the biodefense research lab in Fort Detrick, Maryland. He was among the