>After the storm

>by Gary YoungeThe Guardian (August 29 2006)The sight of American politicians descending on New Orleans for the anniversary of Katrina is a curious one. You would have thought they would all have wanted to stay away, as most of them have all year. For Katrina signalled the failure of America's entire political class and the …

>No Quick Fix

>Re-engineering the atmosphere could be as dangerous as climate changeby George MonbiotPublished in the Guardian (August 29 2006)Challenging a Nobel laureate over a matter of science is not something you do lightly. I have hesitated and backed off, read and re-read his paper, but now I believe I can state with confidence that Paul Crutzen, …

>Wal-Mart may be just too American to succeed globally

>Outside its homeland, the company formula mirrors that of US foreign policy: brash, bold and increasingly unpopularby Richard AdamsGuardian (UK) Comment (August 24 2006)When Thomas Friedman - the American journalist who has become globalisation's loudest cheerleader - wanted to illustrate the powerful forces at work in the world economy, he got on a flight for …

>Real men in government use their position to sell weapons

>by George MonbiotPublished in the Guardian (August 24 2006)It's described by a senior official at the Ministry of Defence as "a dead duck ... expensive and obsolete". {1} The editor of World Defence Systems calls it "ten years out of date". {2} A former defence minister remarked that it is "essentially flawed and out of …

>When we need to be frightened,

>... and when we do notMinisters must not be allowed to scare us into accepting new terror lawsNew Statesman Leader (August 28 2006)Britain is experiencing probably the most sustained period of severe threat since the Second World War. With the disruption of the liquid bomb plot, we narrowly escaped mass murder on an unimaginable scale …

>Watch Out For The Terrorist Boogeyman

>by Charley ReeseKing Features Syndicate (August 23 2006)If President Bush is really religious, then I imagine he fell on his knees recently and thanked God that British intelligence uncovered the plot to blow up eight or nine airliners over the Atlantic.This excellent work by the British and Pakistani security forces has enabled Bush to switch …

>Groundhog Day

>The UK Terror Plot: Could This Case Blow Up?by James K GalbraithThe Nation (August 18 2006)James K Galbraith flew from Manchester to Boston on August 10, enduring eleven hours without a book.Let's see ... It's August. Bush is in Crawford on a "working vacation". His polls are in the tank. Congress is in revolt. The …

>Plot This

>Americans Shrug at Phony Binary Explosives Threatby Ted Rallwww.tedrall.com (August 22 2006)Attention, citizens of the national community: stay tuned for a HomeSec alert! A fiendish plot has been uncovered! Terrorists loyal to the sinister forces of Eastasia have been apprehended! It is another glorious victory for the homeland! All hail Oceania!It was hard not to …

>God Mode

>by Luke MitchellHarper's Magazine Notebook (August 2006)He has chosen death:Refusing to eat or drink, that he may bringDisgrace upon me; for there is a custom,An old amd foolish custom, that if a manBe wronged, or think that he is wronged, and starveUpon another's threshold till he die,The common people, for all time to come,Will raise …

>The Anti-Empire Report

>Some things you need to know before the world endsby William Blumwww.killinghope.org (August 18 2006)Saved again, thank the Lord, saved again"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible …