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Chicago’s Chris Ware – the shyest cartoonist around – proffered a cover for Fortune Magazine recently.  It is a Ware-ian take on the Great Recession and its discontents. Take a look at the details in the cover up close by zooming into the image – you won’t be surprised that it was rejected.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umCpBZHS_qU Stop the George W. Bush Presidential Library! Welcome to the sports report.  Please enjoy these adorable cats protesting the George W. Bush Presidential Library.  More sports related items will be found here soon.

The sale of the USS McInerney, soon to be the PNS Almagir, with its anti-submarine warfare systems and helicopter systems and sea-to-land systems, anti-aircraft systems and guided missile systems, is just another arms deal.

Former TIH guest Naomi Klein evaluates Evo Morales’ stance on climate change and how it could impact global environmental policy.

“On the Charlie Rose programme in January, he recounted a story about a lecture he delivered in Israel a year before his appointment, telling of his involvement in Northern Ireland. Asked afterwards by a member of the audience about the length of the Northern Ireland conflict, Mitchell confirmed it had been 800 years. His questioner [...]

It is safe to say that for the last thirty years the US left has ceded religious questions, and the concepts therein, to the right.  Liberal paeans to lust (Carter) and sin (Clinton) aside, it is just not discussed as much among activists and thinkers of a progressive bent.  The epitome of this trend is [...]

There are more doctors and patients asking questions about the necessity of CT scans and xrays.  Whistleblowers are losing their jobs over this one, which probably means there is some truth to it. The practice of limiting radiation to children has been relatively widespread in the world of pediatrics and now becoming more common in [...]

Caterpillar Inc didn’t wait long to start belly-aching about the cost of health care reform.   But their numbers involve some accounting slight of hand, according to David Greising of the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/us/28cncpulse.html

Former guest Dave Zirin and Sherry Jones weigh in on the recent controversy caused by athlete Caster Semenya due to the possibility that she is ‘intersex.’ http://edgeofsports.com/2010-04-02-514/index.html

Follow this logic, and the patenting of human, animal, and plant genes is completely absurd and causes a chilling effect on research: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/03/ben-goldacre-gene-patents

Welcome to the Moment of Truth The text of the most recent Moment of Truth is HERE. The text of this week’s aborted commentary is is below: F-U Governance Welcome to the Moment of Truth, feeding the fever tree fever. Oh, in case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an alienating dystopian technofascist nightmare of [...]