Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The BBC reports … (click here) … The influential governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Salman Taseer, has died after being shot by one of his bodyguards in the capital, Islamabad. Mr Taseer, a senior member of the Pakistan People’s Party, was shot when getting into his car at a market. Interior Minister Rehman Malik said … Read more
John Pilger, the famous war correspondent, film-maker and author, who has also twice won British journalism’s highest award, that of Journalist of the Year, has published a pledge in today’s UK Guardian. He starts off with … Since Sunday, 28 November, WikiLeaks and five major newspapers from around the world (the Guardian, the New York … Read more
Official Fox News policy is to simply make it up … I’m not kidding, staff have been directed to push fiction as fact. We all knew it, in fact when faced with a believer in woo quite often the first question that pops into your head might be, “Do you by any chance get all … Read more
Michael Moore has posted $20,000 of his own money to bail Julian Assange and has offered all his IT facilities to keep Wikileaks rolling … why? He makes a very good case with points such as these … We were taken to war in Iraq on a lie. Hundreds of thousands are now dead. Just … Read more
Within his latest Slate article (Dec 13), Hitchens is gunning for Nixon and Kissinger … Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized, and excluded …his role as the only unindicted conspirator in the Nixon/Watergate gang, and since the exposure of his war crimes … Read more
Hitchens alert folks … there is an article in Vanity Fair by Christopher Hitchens … and this time its all about the Tea Party he has a few words to say … In it, he (quite rightly) goes after Glenn Beck, that racist nut, and all those who go along with all the nonsense he … Read more