Author: mike

Apparently, only 30% of the artifacts in Kabul’s National Museum remained when the Taliban took power. They finished off what was left with pickaxes and mallets.

This article is old (September 13) but it does have a valuable interview with an anonymous FAA official who confirms that an F-16 was flying an aerial dogfight with Flight 93, the one that...

I love this. That annoying In Search of Excellence book by Tom Peters that underpins so much of modern management “science” used fraudulent data. I will now continue to disbelieve most of the “solutions”...

This is a nice article on the secret schools for women that operated in Kabul during the Taliban regime. The system where these penniless female teachers were secretly paid tiny sums by other women...

When even the CIA think that the Bush’s Pentagon appointees are more than a little nuts, then maybe it’s time to worry?

This is a fairly balanced article that explores the human rights abuses and use of children by both sides, Israeli and Palestianian, in the occupied territories of Hebron.

This Taliban Jail Riot (“they were shot while attempting to escape” sounds eerily familiar) all started when some Taliban prisoners beat up a Guardian journalist, according to this eyewitness account. Apparently, the Taliban prisoners...

The sheer bravado of the Bush Gang in raiding the US Treasury coffers to pay off their big business friends… and then calling this looting patriotism, will definitely be studied for generations to come...

More conspiracy theory stuff about the WTC bombing.