February 2011
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Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for...
– Swami Vivekananda
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Glenn Greenwald: How Propaganda Poisons the Mind -... →
kateoplis:
Last week, on January 3, The Guardian published a scathing Op-Ed by James Richardson blaming WikiLeaks for endangering the life of Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the democratic opposition in Zimbabwe. Richardson — a GOP operative, contributor to RedState.com, and a for-hire corporate spokesman — pointed to a cable published by WikiLeaks in which American diplomats revealed...
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Take me to your Lizard
[An extraterrestrial robot and spaceship has just landed on earth. The robot steps out of the spaceship…] “I come in peace,” it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, “take me to your Lizard.” Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with Arthur and watched the nonstop frenetic news reports on television, none of which had...