Peace-A-Rena

I read about the famous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment in college just a few years after it took place. Even then (soooo many years ago!) it was understood to be an extremely important event in the understanding of human psychology — although the experiment itself was aborted quite prematurely. The experiment’s director, Philip Zimbardo, has […]

an honest diplomatic response to Bush’s phony “climate summit”:
A senior European diplomat attending the conference, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the meeting confirmed European suspicions that it had been intended by Mr Bush as a spoiler for a major UN conference on climate change in Bali in December.
“It was a total charade and has […]

Tristero at Digby’s place looks today at “the problem of modern rhetoric” within the Right/Left political debate, prompted by the supposedly right-wing answer to MoveOn.org. MoveOn’s Eli Parisher makes the same mistake the left (including me) usually does in phrasing things to make other lefties nod their heads, and everyone else’s eyes glaze over.

The wingers’ […]

From USA Today
As of Sunday, Sept. 30, 2007, at least 3,803 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 3,099 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.
The […]

It’s disgusting what these chickenhawks will do just to be able to say they are “winning”. Winning what the fuck, you are not supposed to ask (and so the corporate media doesn’t). Certainly “hearts and minds” are no longer on the table.
This article courtesy our neighbor to the north, where apparently truth can still be […]