Oil Supply and Demand

I got an e-mail from Marty Sereno, professor, Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, regarding "Oil and Instinct." What follows is his e-mail message (minus a last paragraph about helium) interspersed with my replies. --- Marty Sereno: I received an...

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This is all Woodrow Wilson’s fault

Saturday beginning at 4pm Eastern time on the Weekend Interview Show, I'll be talking with Jim Powell, author of Wilson's War: How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin and World War II. In the second hour, the guests will be Elaine Cassel to...

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How to make a difference in Iraq

L to R: Rafat, Dr. Salam and Raed Raed Jarrar, his family and girlfriend Niki began a project some five months ago to purchase and distribute medicines in Iraq. They thought that being Iraqi (except Niki, who's Iranian), they'd know the best places to distribute the...

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Iraqi Victims of American Delusions

Since a murderous, violent resistance movement (which antiwar people predicted) rules much of Iraq rather than the liberation cakewalk and democratic utopia (that prowar people predicted), an inevitable class of victims of the American invasion of Iraq has emerged...

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Recommended reading

Jonathan Schwarz has a great interview with Chris Floyd posted. Just so you know what you're missing if you don't go over there and read this interview, here's Chris Floyd on Matt Taibbi (who I vote for as the subject for Jonathan's next interview, if he can't get JD...

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Oil and Instinct

I've received some replies to my blog entry of April 3. Unfortunately, most of them rehash issues I've already addressed. I did provide a link to the pre-April 3 debate but I don't blame people for not going back and reading all that before e-mailing in their...

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Rummy in Kyrgyzstan

Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld is expected to show up in Kyrgyzstan to "discuss issues of future expansion of defense cooperation between the United States and Kyrgyzstan." Translation: you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.

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David Horowitz: All Wrong, All the Time

I hear that David Horowtiz spent half a million bucks on developing his conspiracy site, "Discover the network," which purports to document the "subversive" activities of anyone he disagrees with. If so, his donors should ask for their money back, because if the entry...

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