Around 8:30 this morning I saw high school students being hurried east along Houston Street. I figured they must be heading to a September 11′th memorial of some sort. The most likely local spot, I thought, would be the local firehouse on East Second Street. I hurried out, but they were out of sight by [...]
McNamara: From the Tokyo Firestorm to the World Bank By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Robert McNamara, who died yesterday, July 6, served as Kennedy’s , then as Johnson’s defense secretary. He contributed more than most to the slaughter of 3.4 million Vietnamese (his own estimate). He went on to run the World Bank, where he presided over [...]
Via The Huffington Post
Arthur C. Clarke, former Space Cadet of the British Interplanetary Society, and Science Fiction writer on the occasion of his 90th orbit around the sun. He is currently wheelchair bound, and sleeping 15 hours a day. But this does not keep his mind from roaming the Universe.
“I have a great faith in optimism as a [...]