LINKS FOR TUESDAY

Famous professional evil clown, Bill O'Reilly is at it again and Counterpunch's Kurt Nimmo meditates on both him and the new McCarthyism. But, wait! In a strange twist of events, Fox's pixie bastard suddenly decides that his most recent round of denunciations maybe just went a wee bit too far. Eschaton provides the details.

Over at Capitol Hill Blue, lawyer and author Steven Brill gives a detailed, easy to read account of how US Attorney General and Christian fundamentalist John Ashcroft rammed the draconian Patriot Act down Congress's throat.

So you still think Cowboy Bush is trying to catch terrorists in Iraq? Or trying to disarm Saddam Hussein? Well, you're dead wrong. The coming war is quite consciously about oil and US world dominance, and the plan to do it goes back thirty years! Democracy Now fills us in by streaming audio. Still a doubter? Read this.

Finally, here's a bit of samba streaming midi in honor of Carnival.

Some of these links lifted from J. Orlin Grabbe.

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