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When Democracy Gets in the Way, The U.S. Squashes It. A Good article at Common Dreams. It reviews the century of American interventions to thwart democracy. Hawaii, Cuba, Iran, Guatemala, the list goes on and on.

good article at the NYTimes

from the story:

Shortly after school began in September, the teacher told his sixth-period students at Kearny High School that evolution and the Big Bang were not scientific, that dinosaurs were aboard Noah’s ark, and that only Christians had a place in heaven, according to audio recordings made by a student whose family is now considering a lawsuit claiming Mr. Paszkiewicz broke the church-state boundary.

Funny article at CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Despite criticism for adjourning last week without acting on several major legislative initiatives, members of Congress can boast significant achievements in at least one area of federal lawmaking -- naming post offices.

I just found a good article from the Guardian that elaborates on the IBM/Holocaust story:

One of the excuses that IBM used to try to mitigate their culpability was that they had no control over their european subsidiaries after the nazis took these companies over. However as the article says:

For those of you who get Free Speech TV, the documentary Still We Ride is on tonight. Its a film about the battle between bike riders and police repression in NYC in the weeks before the RNC convention in New York in 2004.

BBC article on Cheney's support of torture

from the article:

In a radio interview, Mr Cheney said the simulated drowning of terrorism suspects during questioning in order to save American lives was a "no-brainer".

There's an article at the BBC website on an exhibit in Oslo, Norway that shows examples of homosexuality in the natural world. The article says of the exhibit, "It says homosexuality has been observed among 1,500 species, and that in 500 of those it is well documented."

We just added a new forum for Music lovers. This is a good place to post reviews of your current favorite music as well as ask people what they are listening to and what they bought but didn't like. As well as being the place to debate the merits of different albums and musicians.