Category: Paleoblogs

  • Bin Laden’s ‘reverse psychology’ endorsement of Bush in 2004

    It sure seemed like Bin Laden wanted Bush reelected at the time. What better recruiting tool could he ask for?

  • Thanks for the Memories

    In the post below, I said, ” So, I would appreciate hearing from those ‘of a certain age’: Did you learn about this at the time. Or only later? Or never, until now?” Thanks for the replies! “I remember it happening and have heard many reports since, but I was in the Army for much…

  • I’m wondering who knew…

    …about these student killings at the time? Mexico Charges Ex-President in ’68 Massacre, AP, 7/1/06 “Echeverria was interior secretary, a powerful position overseeing domestic security, when Mexican troops ambushed mostly peaceful student protests at Mexico City’s Tlatelolco Plaza on Oct. 2, 1968, just before the capital hosted the Olympics. Officially, 25 people were killed, though…

  • Shameless

    NYT “[In 2005] Amir Attaran, a law professor at the University of Ottawa and fiery advocate on malaria…testified that the American agency, the United States Agency for International Development, was too cozy with ‘the foreign aid industrial complex.’ “Only 1 percent of the agency’s 2004 malaria budget went for medicines, 1 percent for insecticides and…

  • PeopleAggregator relaunches

    I seem to recall playing with a prototype of PeepAgg back in the heady social-web miniboom of 2003 but it seems that the real thing is now in alpha. I was invited, I joined it, and I’m poking around. In many ways it looks like other social network systems, especially Yahoo! 360 and Tribe, in…

  • Billmon explains the swiftboating of Kos

    I know the seven or eight readers of this site are not blog junkies and may not have been following the recent campaign against Markos Moulitsas Zúniga and his “minions” for… well, it’s confusing, but for an excellent summary slash analysis see Billmon’s The Swiftboating of Kos in his venerable Whiskey Bar. (Note: Even Atrios…