Perhaps the most remarkable candidness in the US Senate’s all-night Iraq Debate came from Washington Senator Maria Cantwell, who examined the idea that has long burned in the hearts of those who engineered the Iraq occupation — the privatization of 70% of Iraq’s oil resources. The crafters of this plan have spent over a decade [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Sen. Cantwell says the O-word
Posted in Economics, Foreign policy, Hydrocarbon Law, Iraq War, Larry Craig, Maria Cantwell, United States, democracy, oil, politics on July 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
US discussion on health care
Posted in Economics, Finland, United States, health, health care on July 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Moore’s Sicko is rolling out in US theaters to generally positive reviews. The premise is simple: for any industrialized country, universal health care should be a no-brainer. Unfortunately, certain institutions of the US medical-industrial complex (e.g. insurers) and many voters do not accept this notion. For video on a piece by CNN’s resident neurosurgeon/reporter Sanjay [...]
The “Dead Skunk” Commutation
Posted in Dead Skunk, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Language, Law, United States, War on Terror, democracy, politics on July 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Joe Wilson (on George Bush’s quid pro quo commuting of Scooter Libby’s 30-month sentence for perjury and obstruction of justice):
This stinks to high heaven.
So here’s the song by Loudon Wainwright III:
You’ve got to love the crossed-arm body language of the German crowd. BTW: The translation for the Finnish word for skunk [...]
