Go forth and read

By Libby

It's almost halfway through the month and I already have a lot of links saved that I'm never going to get around to blogging but are worth reading and should at least at be archived. It's Sunday night. What better time to catch up on your reading?

With all the focus on the primaries, Iraq hasn't been leading the news cycle but it's good to remember that it's still a mess over there. No matter what the White House tells you, the surge really didn't work. In fact, 2007 was the deadliest year for US troops since the invasion and as Dahr Jamail points out with a long list of 'benchmarks,' it wasn't so great for the Iraqis either.

Sibel Edmunds revelations on 9/11 is the most underreported, yet most explosive story in years. Our high ranking government officials gave nuclear technology to our enemies. You won't see it in the MSM. Only Chris Floyd has done it justice.

In better news, thread by thread, the veil of secrecy around the Bush administration is being shredded.

Of course, they won't have as many secrets to keep anyway. In a delicious irony, the telecoms have shut down wiretaps because the FBI failed to pay their bills.

If you're already worried about money, you probably don't want to read about the slow mo collapse of our house of cards economy. But better to be armed with knowledge, than be unpleasantly ambushed when it falls altogether.

On a lighter note, here's a defense of open wifi networks at home from a surprising source.

And here's some good news.I don't know about you, but one of my greatest fears is developing Alzheimers in my golden years. I'm thrilled to discover they may have found a cure.

Meanwhile, we've never been number one in health care outcomes, but in the last four years we've sank to rock bottom. The politicans are lying when they tell you we already have the best health care in the world. We don't and it costs too much for lousy coverage.

And finally, this one is old but I loved this quote by Eugene Robinson.

The word “change” has had great resonance in the Iowa campaign. In part, the yearning for change arises because George W. Bush has led the nation down so many dead-end paths. But from the conversations I had with Iowans, it seemed clear to me that change is also shorthand for the disconnect between the Washington state of mind and the widespread expectation, hardly unreasonable, that this city ought to actually get something done every once in a while.

Really and we don't care how it gets done as long as it answers to the will of the people instead of the whims of the corporations.

[h/t to Avedon and Radley]