The origin of al-qaida

| January 1, 2009

Add al-qaida to the How They Fooled Us file. Peter Chamberlain describes the CIA’s formation of al-qaida at The KickThemAllOut Project.

The retail crash

| December 4, 2008

Thanks to William Engdahl, “The Real State of the U.S. Economy,” for the following statistics on the shape of the retail industry today. * Ann Taylor closing 117 stores nationwide.

Remembering Alexander Solzhenitsyn

| August 12, 2008

Alexander Solzhenitsyn died this week. Although he was not the only reporter on Stalin’s death camps, he articulated the details of the suffering more eloquently than anyone. Eric Margulis has a nice piece on Solzhenitsyn’s career as the conscience of the West at LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis119.html

Which candidate should you support?

| January 6, 2008

Glassbooth at http://glassbooth.org offers a quiz to help you select the presidential candidate to support by matching your positions on the issues with his. NWOU took the quiz and discovered we were leaning to the wrong candidate. We conclude from this exercise that position matching is only part of the process of deciding which candidate […]

No evidence linking Bin Laden with 9/11?

| December 27, 2007

The Muckraker Report is a left-wing blog linked with the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Nation, http://centerforinvestigativereporting.org. We would like readers of the Forum to be aware of two articles from The Muckraker, FBI Says No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11, http://www.teamliberty.net/id267.html and Listen Up, Eye Rollers! Part I by Deanna Spingola, […]