Andymatic

Month: February 2006

  • National Archives Reclassifies Thousands of Documents

    In a seven-year-old secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have been removing from public access thousands of historical documents that were available for years, including some already published by the State Department and others photocopied years ago by private historians. [Historian] Mr. [Matthew] Aid was struck by what seemed to him the innocuous […]

  • How to Torture Using Items Found Around the Home

    Stunning interview on Democracy Now with Professor Alfred McCoy, author of A Question of Torture. Snippets: 1950 to 1962: C.I.A. runs a massive research project spending over $1 billion a year to crack the code of human consciousness. Dr. Donald O. Hebb of McGill University found that he could induce a state of psychosis in […]

  • Behind ABC's Sex-Slave Story

    Also from Counterpunch: Debbie Nathan analyzes the Primetime Live story on sex-slave/human-traffic of (gasp!) American white girls. For example the girl Mya wasn’t a sex-slave, she was simply a prostitute: The “sex slave” part is a hoax. Police in Mesa, Arizona and Union City, California, say that Miya — who was 19 and thus legally […]

  • 1930s Plans for US to Invade Canada, Mexico, UK

    Floyd Rumin reports in Counterpunch of the 1930s contingency plans to invade just about anybody (should it become necessary). He compares those old plans to invade Mexico with the planing of the Iraq invasion: In both plans, the goal is to seize control of another nation’s oil. In both plans, there is a priority on […]

  • Kucinich Files Resolution for War/PR Records

    From PR Watch: Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced a Resolution of Inquiry, demanding from the White House, Defense and State Departments “certain documents … relating to any entity with which the U.S. has contracted for public relations purposes concerning Iraq.” Kucinich affirms the public’s “right to know” about attempts “to manipulate the news, falsify intelligence or […]

  • Thursday Night Musings

    Ron is on his way over. He is probably going to San Francisco tomorrow to then fly out to Asia with his buddy Gilbert. They are going to Singapore and then to Hong Kong – one of their best friends is working the flight from Singapore to Hong Kong. They’ll be in Hong Kong for […]

  • The Long War

    I’d wondered about this: when Bush turned to calling the War on Terror: ‘The Long War.’ Since Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism didn’t stick, we now have The Long War. Isn’t that a bit presumptuous? It is ingenius branding. The longer the war goes on, the longer it is expect to keep going on, the […]

  • Rest in Peace, Juan

    Juan Montealegre, partner to Chicago-based Yeast Radio producer Richard Bluestein passed away last weekend. I hadn’t listened to Madge in a while and missed the events and found out from Richard via IM. This may be the first ever podcast eulogy. Prayers and peace to Richard and Juan. Overseen by Ragan Fox and Rachel Kann.

  • Frontline: The Meth Epidemic

    If you can catch Frontline’s show on the crystal meth epidemic that is destroying the country from the west to the mid-west and is due to arrive very soon in the east, you need to. It is excellent excellent television and very informative – and shocking. Quick facts: Remember Quaaludes? A guy from the DEA […]

  • Aussie Newspaper Publishes Suppressed Abu Ghraib Photos

    I was wondering the other day how the ACLU’s lawsuit to get the remaining Abu Ghraib photos published. Well the Sidney Morning Herald got them leaked and has published some of them online.