Book Review: Failed States by Noam Chomsky (The Palestine Chronicle)
Failed States critically examines the assumptions of those espousing the glories of American democracy and its benign intentions worldwide....more...Eavesdropping, Gagging, And the Constitution (Scoop.co.nz)
Is the National Security Agency being "turned against the people," as the Congressional committee led by Sen. Frank Church warned might happen? We the people cannot know; it's classified....more... The Mask and the Judge: full text of the speech by Sir Alan Moses (Times Online)
1. There are not many essays with the title, the Charm of Judges. I know only of one....more... Das Boot (New Times Broward-Palm Beach)
The coming-out tale Summer Storm is set at a rowing camp, where teams of boys and girls from around Germany train for a regatta. One of the crews, made up of gay boys from Berlin, is called the "Queerstrokes," and that's about par for the course in terms of subtlety here....more... Is Rumsfeld Trying To Control U.S. Intelligence? (Free Internet Press)
President Bush's selection of Gen. Michael V. Hayden to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency sets the stage for new wrangling with the Pentagon, which is rapidly expanding its own global spying and terrorist-tracking operations, both long considered C.I.A. roles. Overseeing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's drive to broaden the military's clandestine reconnaissance and ...more... |