Politics and Economy

On kidneys, drinking and war crimes guilt

By Mark W. Anderson
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Because worse than having your kidneys fail is the knowledge, deep in your gut, that you are, in the end, alone, and nothing more than a war criminal and a murderer.  More

The mother of all media tests

By Mark W. Anderson

With movement towards fundamental change in the U.S. policy towards Iraq perhaps starting to appear — hell, even President Bush is bowing to the inexorable reality that American troops have to leave these days — the news that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki supports Barack Obama’s plan to withdraw US troops from Iraq within 16  More

Hunter S. Thompson: It was all in the knowing

By Mark W. Anderson

Thompson’s ethos was grounded in the belief that the conformist, big business military-industrial complex that still ruled the country when he started his career was at the core of what was wrong with America, and that the only acceptable response was complete disdain for and avoidance of the rules whenever  More

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