kuro5shin.org has a decent little article on the history of Iraq and how it came to be the way it is now. There is a lot of good information that reflects how the problems the US is having in building a new government could have been predicted by looking at the last few hundred years  Read more »

EDIT: Including article so nobody has to login to Mercury News. Report: Bush talked of bombing Al-Jazeera (San Jose Mercury News) ——– Report: Bush talked of bombing Al-Jazeera ROBERT BARR Associated Press LONDON – A civil servant has been charged under Britain’s Official Secrets Act for allegedly leaking a government memo that a newspaper said  Read more »

Outsourcing outrage Indian call-center workers suffer abuse.

Long but entire. From Capitol Hill Blue Incivility Breeds Threats to Democracy By EUGENE G. BERNARDO II – Providence Journal Nov 11, 2005, 00:36 In 1982, noted criminologists James Q. Wilson and George Kelling developed the “broken windows” theory of crime. The premise was that when a broken window in a building is left unrepaired,  Read more »

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