Daily Archive: December 15, 2003

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Biting The Hands That Fund You

We rely on Europe?Old and New?to finance our private companies and … our government … the United States’ biggest exports today aren’t movies or software programs. They’re paper products?stocks, bonds, and other securities. The...

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Oh Delilah

I’ve read several reports that the Undoubtedly Most Wicked Tyrant Of Our Age Hussein was caught due to a tip off by an underpaid flunky, but I’ve also seen this unusual angle – Hussein...

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Who Needs Allies?

Private corporations have penetrated western warfare so deeply that they are now the second biggest contributor to coalition forces in Iraq after the Pentagon … While the official coalition figures list the British as...

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Postmodern Euergetism

In Hollywood, “celebrities” get to charge charities to make appearances at fund raisers. And there I was thinking they were doing it out of generosity… Many celebrities appear at these events not solely out...

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Open Wide!

So I keep seeing, over and over, tv clips of the captured Saddam Hussein (who in his bedraggled condition bears an uncanny resemblence to the Unabomber). They keep showing him opening his mouth wide...