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    Year 2008

    May

    3QD Interviews Richard Dawkins [video, 47 min.] Warning: the wmv file has a long load time.
    The Cult of the Presidency by Gene Healy
    The Truth About Veteran Suicides by Aaron Glantz. More veterans die by suicide than by combat.

    Evolution: What is 'Natural'? by Richard Dawkins [audio,10 min.]

    Children's Guide to Religion [video, 3 min.]
    Iraq war as incubator of terrorism by Joel Brinkley
    GOP getting crushed in polls, key races by Jim Vandehei & David Paul Kuhn
    How a complex eye evolved [video, 3 min.]
    You Walk Wrong by Adam Sternbergh. It took 4 million years of evolution to perfect the human foot. But we’re wrecking it with every step we take.
    Real Clear Numbers: 101,000 U.S. Casualties a Year by Alexander Cockburn
    Richard Dawkins interviewed by John Humphrys on Cardinal Murphy O'Connor [audio, 3:18 min.]
    Family lived with 90-year-old's corpse for weeks because a religious "superior" said it would come back to life
    Senator Rambo by Charley Reese. John McCain promises only more of the same.
    McCain’s ‘Spiritual Guide’ Has a Big Issue with Islam [video 1:47 min.]
    Nine Brain Quirks You Didn’t Realize You Had by Scott H. Young
    Government in secret by Russ Feingold. The Yoo memo is just one example of Bush's hidden laws.
    Israel's Original Sin by Jett Heer
    Michael Pollan: The omnivore's next dilemma [video, 18 min.]
    Just for fun: Extremely Stupid [video, 2:45 min.] A SNL classic.
    Battle of the Hawks by Robert Scheer
    Buried Prejudice: The Bigot in Your Brain by Siri Carpenter.
    Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks by Sam Harris
    Brian Cox: What really goes on at the Large Hadron Collider [video, 15 min.]
    War Made Easy by Norman Solomon. Includes video.
    The last excuse for the Iraq war is founded on a myth by Peter Wilby
    Research Volunteers Needed for a study of belief and disbelief from Sam Harris
    Does your brain have a mind of its own? by Gary Marcus. Why can't we stick to our goals? Blame it on sloppy evolution.
    The Pentagon vs. America by Scott Ritter
    Shaw TV Interview with Richard Dawkins [video, 38 min.]
    Bush, and Black and White, in the Middle East by Thomas McAdams Deford
    Even the Insured Feel the Strain of Health Costs by Reed Abelson and Milt Freudenheim
    Craig Venter: On the verge of creating synthetic life [video, 33 min.]
    Mirror Neurons [video, 13 min.] These neurons help explain why humans react socially.
    The Rhetoric of John McCain: "The War is Largely About Oil -- Let Me Clarify That" by Robert Fantina
    The Bush-McCain Challenge Can you tell the difference between Bush and McCain?
    The Bohr paradox by Robert P Crease. Niels Bohr's role in hisotry of physics can be difficult to appreciate.
    Church, State and Campaign ‘08 by Bill Boyarsky
    Poll: Bush most unpopular president in history Only 28% approval rating, 71% disapprove; worse even than Nixon.
    Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection This is the largest study of this kind.
    The Fed Sinks the Dollar by Michael Hudson
    Why Do People Laugh at Creationists? (Part 24) [video, 10 min.]
    Bill Good Interviews Richard Dawkins [audio, 32 min.]
    Did the US Supreme Court Just Elect John McCain? by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
    Sir Martin Rees: Earth in its final century? [video, 17 min.]

    April

    Ultra-dense galaxies found in early universe by Pieter van Dokkum
    Abuse of faith by Sheryl McCarthy
    Has U.S. Science Lost Its Competitive Edge? by Jeffrey Mervis
    New Source for Biofuels Discovered by Researchers This would free land to produce food instead of fuel.
    Parents prayed as diabetic daughter died were charged with reckless homicide
    Surging to Defeat: Petraeus’s strategy only postponed the inevitable by Andrew J. Bacevich
    Is There an Army Cover-Up of Rape and Murder of Women Soldiers? by Ann Wright
    Refining The Date Of Dinosaur Extinction And The Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary
    Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man [video, 17 min.] We are differnt from bonobos only by degree, not by kind.
    Chart showing public acceptance of evolution in 34 countries
    TV military 'analysts' are part of what Ike warned against by Nancy Grape
    An Atheist in the Pulpit by Bruce Grierson
    Atheist soldier is sent home from Iraq because he doesn't believe in a god
    Why Don't We Die When the Sun Goes Down? [video, 4 min.]
    The War on Terror feeding frenzy by Ian S. Lustick
    Epicurus on Happiness [video, 24 min.]
    Skepticism toward Bush claims about Syria and North Korea by Glenn Greenwald
    Interview with Daniel C. Dennett [audio, 40 min.]
    Florida lawmakers debate offering a Christian license plate Not only unconstitutional, it would force nonbelievers to pay for them.
    Military “analysts,” the media, and the selling of Bush’s wars PDF Print E-mail by Max J. Castro
    Is religion a threat to rationality and science? D. Dennett & R. Winston. Dennett says 'yes," Winston attacks Dennett without answering the question.
    Brian Greene: The universe on a string [video, 19 min.] In nontechnical language, Greene explains string theory.
    Pearls Before Breakfast by Gene Weingarten. Can a great musician impress people who don't know he's great?
    Meet John "Dubya' McCain by J. Peter Scoblic. If you like Bush's foreign policy, you'll love John McCain.
    Full Interview: Jason Beghe on Scientology [8 part video] Why he got in and why he left.
    Myth Busting Mom-isms One they left out: If you masterbate, you will go blind (I did it until I had to wear glasses).
    What the Iraq War Is About by Paul Craig Roberts
    The New Walls of Baghdad by Steve Niva
    Michael Shermer: Why people believe strange things [video, 13:37]
    The Roots of Qi Ancient Chinese thought that Qi (that allegedly explained acupuncture) represented air flowing through the arteries.
    The VA conceals a suicide epidemic among veterans [video, 3 min.] About 18 suicides per day, far more than killed in combat!
    US News Media's Latest Disgrace by Robert Parry
    Talking to ourselves by Susan Jacoby. Americans are increasingly close-minded and unwilling to listen to opposing views.
    Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda by Richard Dawkins
    Bill Maher: New Rules [video, 5 min.] The Pope must wear a slip, defense of elitism, etc.
    12 Answers to Questions No One Is Asking About Iraq by Tom Engelhardt
    Interviews with Richard Dawkins and Michael Shermer [audio, 59 min.]
    NYT: Pentagon Primed TV Military Experts
    "Hero" John McCain as Phony and Collaborator: What Really Happened When He Was a POW? by Alexander Cockburn
    Gods and earthlings by Richard Dawkins. The 'science of intelligent design' is science fiction.
    The literary roots of human rights by Stephanie Schorow
    More on that nuclear umbrella by Leon Hadar
    Ben Stein’s Blunder by Michael Shermer. In the movie Expelled, Stein falls for the pseudoscience of "intelligent' design.
    Daily Show: President Bozo Meets ‘Legs Benedict’
    An Open Letter to Charlie Gibson and George Stephanapoulos by Will Bunch
    Carl Sagan: We Crave Privilege [video, 2:18 min.]
    Scientists Flesh Out Plans to Grow (and Sell) Test Tube Meat No more killing animals for food, a vegetarian dream?
    Spending Godless Money by Mitchell Kahle
    The Debate: A Shameful Night for the U.S. Media by Greg Mitchell
    Religious education as a part of literary culture by Richard Dawkins
    Fine-tuning full of loose logic by John Bice. The religious belief about a "fine-tuned" universe designed for humans makes no sense.
    Vitamins 'may shorten your life'
    Enemies Foreign, Enemies Domestic by Jeff Huber
    Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss [video, Discussion 52 min, Q&A, 53 min.] Warning: long load times. Original site.
    God is imaginary: 50 simple proofs
    Parents left son accused of witchcraft to die
    Tortured explanations for shameful behavior by Michael Winship
    Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis [video, 28 min.]
    Bush's Brand of Morality: When Black is White and White is Black by Robert Fantina
    The Government Is Trying to Wrap Its Mind Around Yours by Nita Farahany
    The World According to Monsanto: A Documentary That Americans won't Ever See [video, 1 hr. 49 min.]
    IBM creates 'racetrack memory' for faster and cheaper storage Spintronics. Imagine an I-Pod holding 3,500 movies.
    The Torture Memo by Stephen Gillers
    Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher [video, 6:26 min.]
    Health Care Horror Stories by Paul Krugman
    It's Occupation, Not War by Charley Reese
    Taming Islamic Intolerance Through Provocations by Alamgir Hussain. Must read
    Just for fun: The Ginger Refuge [video, 8 min.] The "ginger" race have red hair and people look down on them.
    Nine Propositions on the U.S. Air War for Terror by Tom Engelhardt

    Discussion between Richard Dawkins and Paula Kirby [videos: Intro, Dawkins Talk, Discussion Part 1, Discussion Part 2]

    Penn & Teller Bullshit: End of the World [video, 29 min.]
    While Petraeus Testifies, U.S. Iraq Personnel Take Cover by Daniel Schulman
    In backing the Basra assault, the US has only helped Sadr by Jonathan Steele

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    Rampant Sex Abuse Alleged at a Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Another term for Mormons.
    Keith Olbermann: Rep. Davis: The Worst Person in the World [video, 3 min.]
    Petraeus' Ghost by Patrick Cockburn and Tom Engelhardt
    The Trillion-Dollar War by Veronique de Rugy
    Stephen Hawking: Asking big questions about the universe [video, 10 min.]
    Study: Marriage Costs Women Seven Hours Of Housework A Week
    The Emerging Surveillance State by Rep. Ron Paul
    Jonathan Miller Interviewed [video, 28 min.] Director of The History of Disbelief and The Atheism Tapes.
    Light of the world [video, 11 min.] Still images of cities around the world taken from the international space station.
    Was Killing Iraqi Children Worth It? by Jacob G. Hornberger
    Health Insuarance illegal: Islamic body
    A People's History of American Empire by Howard Zinn [video, 8:35 min.]
    The Art of War Sun Tzu's classic for download. "There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare." -- Sun Tzu,
    Forty Years Later, (The Late) Martin Luther King Still Silenced by Jeff Cohen
    The Elegant Universe Watch all three hours of this NOVA special.
    Dawkins & Attenborough: Evolution of Wings [video, 9:37 min.]
    Intelligence Failure--Why America Can’t Think Its Way Out of Iraq by Nikolas Gvosdev
    When People Can't Stop Praying by Lauren Cox. Scrupulosity describes the mental disorder.
    The UN Inhuman Rights Council by Alamgir Hussain
    Priest 'made £3m from fake exorcisms' As if there's such a thing as real exorcisms. Ed.
    Intimidating the Press by Dan Froomkin. It's a case study in how the Bush administration intimidated the press after 9/11.
    Petraeus' Grand Delusions by Tom Engelhardt
    Edward Current: Creation Science Must Be Taken Seriously! [video, 6 min.]
    Flying Spaghetti Monster Lands Outside Tennessee Courthouse [video, 2 min.]
    Restoring the Constitution: A conversation with Daniel Ellsberg by Thomas P. Healy
    Fitna–Geert Wilders’ Film Critical Of Koran [video, 15 min.] Banned by many sites, watch it before this one goes away.
    Pat Condell: The Religion of Fear [video, 6:49 min.]
    Manipulations of Capital by Paul Fabra. In no case should financial managers be enabled to gamble with our capital.
    The End of Empire? by Howard Zinn and Tom Engelhardt
    Mine is Longer Than Yours by M. Kinsley. Thoughts on death and dying.
    Nun Pleads to Stealing From Neb. Diocese
    Embarrassed US Starts to Disown Basra Operation by Gareth Porter
    Delusional Bush Dances Toward War by Ray McGovern

    Shocking Biblical Discovery: Jesus Was A Girl!

    Newly discovered artifacts confirm that Jesus Christ was a woman.

    Dated at 1 B.C., this makes it the earliest evidence for an historical Jesus.

    Warning: Sexually explicit material, NSFW (Not Safe For Work) and NSFC (Not Safe For Christians).
    Christopher deCharms: Looking inside the brain in real time [video, 4 min.]
    World doesn't end, Doomsday cult gives up
    If You Like Bush, You'll Love McCain by Glenn Greenwald

    March

    The Clean Energy Scam by Michael Grunwald
    Something Fishy The "Christian" fish symbol derived from paganism, not Christianity.
    The Decriminalization of Corporate Crime by Stanley Kutler
    Today, I weep for my country Speech by Sen. Robert Byrd just prior to the invasion of Iraq -- and John McCain's response.
    Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind [video, 18 min.]
    Gay Scientists Isolate Christian Gene [video, 1:15 min.]
    Killing and Dying in Iraq for Nothing by Jacob G. Hornberger
    The 'Silent' Ninth Amendment Gives Americans Rights They Don't Know They Have by Daniel A. Farber
    Trust the Government to Do for the Economy What It Has Done for Iraq by Tom Engelhardt
    Carl Sagan: The Heart of Science [video, 10 min.]
    Creationist Lunacy Invades Science Museum [video, 9:21 min.]
    NPR Underreports Iraq Deaths
    Expelled Overview by Josh Timonen. "Please don't give them any of your money to see it."
    Atheist Intolerance [video, 3:21 min.]
    Wider Islamo-Christian War? by Mark Glenn
    Five years after U.S. invasion Iraq's future remains uncertain by Gwynne Dyer
    Baby died after failed 'faith healing'
    Just for fun: A Completely Honest R&B Song [video, 2:27 min.]
    The March 20, 2008 US Declaration of War on Iran by John McGlynn
    Lying for Jesus? by Richard Dawkins. The producer of the film Expelled, shoots himself in the foot.
    4,000 Periods and One Comma by Greg Mitchell
    Countdown: McIdiot Versus the Truth [video, 6 min.]

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    Where angels no longer fear to tread Scientists study religion.
    There must be a reckoning for this day of infamy by Seumas Milne
    Discussion on PZ Myers being expelled from Expelled [video, 9:29 min.]
    Cosmic Alchemy with Steven Hawking [video, 48 min.]
    Scott Ritter: Reflections by Gordon Prather
    EXPELLED! by PZ Myers
    No Admission for Evolutionary Biologist at Creationist Film
    Gore Vidal Speaks Seriously Ill of the Dead by Gore Vidal
    The sixth year: The tragic, futile war in Iraq grinds on
    Scientology and the Age of Dianetics [video, 1:39 min.]
    Just for fun: What a gentleman! [two short videos]
    This is the war that started with lies, and continues with lie after lie after lie by Patrick Cockburn
    Why Did the US Invade Iraq? by Jim Lobe
    Barack Obama Speech on Race & Politics [video, 38 min.] This will go down as one of the great speechs in American history.
    Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke dies aged 90
    Scientology: The S Files [video, 25 min.]
    Bush’s Legacy of Failure by Robert Scheer
    Five Years, No End in Sight by Dahr Jamail
    Time Machine: CERN's Large Hadron Collider
    Symptoms of Religious Addiction
    Precious liberty by AC Grayling
    Triple Shock to the Global Economy by Eric Le Boucher
    Bear Stearns in Bankruptcy: Can You Feel Their Pain? by Dean Baker
    The Fifth Estate: The Lies that Led to War [video, 44 min.]
    Wiretapping's true danger by Julian Sanchez
    Philip K. Dick, Meet George W. Bush by Tom Engelhardt
    Do you think you are aware? Take the test
    McCain: Not Eligible To Be President [video, 3:26 min.]
    Conservatism Is Dying by Eric Lotke
    Catholic church seems to have lost the plot with new deadly sins by Eillis O'Hanlon. The original plot never made any sense to begin with.
    Richard Dawkins on The Alan Colmes Show [audio, 54 min.]
    Betting the Bank by Paul Krugman
    Counting the spiralling, elusive costs of war in Iraq by Bunn Nagara
    Scientists find 'master' breast cancer gene
    Breast cancer gene breakthrough 'could halt disease from spreading'
    Five great auditory illusions
    As in Europe, Christianity's influence is fading in America by Lee Salisbury
    What Has Been Learned After Five Years? by Anthony Gregory
    Richard Dawkins on Freethought Radio [audio, 38 min.]
    Just for fun: Old Negro Space Program [video, 10 min.]
    No to Torture, Yes to the Constitution by Rep. Ron Paul
    Evolution: What About God? [video, 57 min.]
    Blind faith can actually make you blind 50 people blind themselves by staring at the sun looking for a vision of Mary.
    Are Americans Sacrificing Enough Now? by Jacob G. Hornberger
    Edward Current: The Lord Will Not Be Mocked! [video, 3:38 min.]
    Bush and Cheney Attempted Coup [video, 10 min.]
    Iraqis still ask if U.S. invasion was worth it by Dean Yates
    So Much for the Surge by Eugene Robinson
    An invention called 'the Jewish people' by Tom Segev
    The Iraq War Will Cost Us $3 Trillion, and Much More by Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz
    Real Time New Rules: March 7, 2008 [video, 6 min.]
    Finally, a reason to start drinking alcohol I started a long time ago.
    What John McCain Should Know by Aaron Glantz
    Christopher Hitchens: The Moral Necessity of Atheism [videos: Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3, Pt. 4, Pt. 5, Pt. 6, Pt. 7, Pt. 8]
    Shocking new revelation: Unchecked government powers get abused by Glenn Greenwald
    Fire Angel Debunk [video, 3 min.]
    Best sex should last around seven minutes Around 7 minintes? These researchers haven't a clue about good sex.
    McCain's Consistent Folly on Iraq by Steve Chapman. "Wrong in 2003, wrong now, and still getting praised for it."
    John F. Kennedy's Speech on Secret Societies, Done to Slides [video, 5:23 min.]
    Do you believe in God? An ongoing poll, per country, on belief in a god.
    ‘Great Satan’ Gets Struck Out by Robert Scheer
    Real Time Overtime Feb. 29, 2008 [video, 10 min.] With Christopher Hitchens, Harry Shearer, Shashi Tharoor, Dan Savage.
    Was the Bible written while high?
    Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables But rest assured that True Believers will continue to believe despite the evidence.
    Out of the Blue by Jonah Lehrer. Can a thinking, remembering, decision-making, biologically accurate brain be built from a supercomputer?
    Just for fun: I'm Fucking Ben Affleck [video, 5:48] Jimmy Kimmel's response to "I'm Fucking Matt Damon".
    The War Election by Norman Solomon
    A Caller Claims Proof of Creationism [video, 10 min.]
    Scientology Charged with Fraud and Extortion [video, 37 sec.]
    5 Years Ago: Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld Scoffed at Dangers of Postwar Iraq by Greg Mitchell
    Christopher Hitchens on Real Time with Bill Maher [video, 8 min.]
    Just for fun: Eddie Lzzard Illustrated: Noah's Ark [video, 5 min.]
    The Three Trillion Dollar War with Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes
    Ayaan Hirsi: Leaving the Faith [video, 8 min.]
    Abu Ghraib prison turned soldiers evil by design Research done by author of the 1971 Stanford prison experiment.
    Some hateful, radical ministers -- white evangelicals -- are acceptable by Glenn Greenwald
    War at Any Cost? by Rep. Ron Paul
    The God of the Gaps [video, 59 min.] 
    Record-high ratio of Americans in prison America ranks as the world's No. 1 incarcerator.
    Congress to Bush: You've Lost Mail by Dan Froomkin
    Interview with Richard Dawkins [audio, 48 min.]

    February

    Social Networks are Like the Eye: A Talk with Nicholas A. Christakis
    Department of Malicious Falsehoods by Scott Horton
    Richard Dawkins: The Giant Tortoise's Tale [video, 8 min.]
    Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early [video, 2:43 min.] From the Onion.
    What the Times Didn’t Tell About McCain by Robert Scheer
    Is Bush to Blame for the Economy? by Dean Baker
    Susan Jacoby on Bill Moyers Journal [video, 25 min.] A discussion on her new book, "The Age of American Unreason".
    Iraq Broils: Al-Qaeda Resumes Attacks, Turks Invade by Patrick Cockburn
    The Calm Before the Conflagration by Chris Hedges
    Survey: Americans switching faiths, dropping out
    Pat Condell: Take a Cruise, Tom [video, 4:39 min.]
    Pakistan Demonstrates the Wisdom of America’s Founding Fathers by Jacob G. Hornberger
    Getting the Strait Story by Brian Beutler
    The List of Things That Offend Muslims
    Electron filmed for first time ever
    The Imperial Presidency is Here to Stay by Steve Chapman. And Obama, Clinton and McCain seem fine with that.
    Richard Dawkins: The Lava Lizard's Tale [video, 8 min.]
    Atheists in the news: An Increasingly Outspoken Minority [video, 4:44 min.]
    The Myth of the Surge by Nir Rosen. Hoping to turn enemies into allies, we armed Iraqis who fought with the insurgents. But it's already starting to backfire.
    Election Madness by Howard Zinn
    Atheist sees image of Big Bang in piece of toast
    Baby Bible Bashers, part 1 [video, 9:41 min.] This looks very much like a form of child abuse.
    Protecting America – From the President by Paul Craig Roberts
    Visiting the Torture Museum by Karen J. Greenberg and Tom Engelhardt
    Richard Dawkins at DLD08: Life, a gene-centric view [video, 1 hr.]
    Dawkins has a new book comming out! To be called "Only a Theory?"
    Just for music: Robert Plant - In The Mood [video, 5 min.] A 1980s classic.
    A Veto of the FISA Bill Endangers Americans by Keith Olbermann. Includes video.
    Florida votes to teach evolution in schools for the first time (!)
    No You Can't [video, 1:40] A satire on the GOP position.
    The Dumbing Of America by Susan Jacoby. "Call Me a Snob, but Really, We're a Nation of Dunces."
    How Never to Withdraw From Iraq by Tom Engelhardt
    Richard Dawkins: Break the Science Barrier [Videos: Part 1-1, Part 1-2, Part 2-1, Part 2-2, Part 3-1, Part 3-2]
    The Big Religion Chart Although not a religion, atheism comes in as the third largest, behind Christianity and Islam.
    Counting Iraqi Casualties -- and a Media Controversy by John Tirman
    Washington wouldn't be thrilled about U.S. militarism by Paul C. Campos
    Bill Maher: New Rules (Bush's war addiction, handshakes, the fighting Romneys, etc.) [video, 5 min.]
    Ideology Makes for Bad Policy by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III
    Can the US Brace Its Fall? by Jim Lobe
    Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images of the Prophet If only the news media would do the same.
    Penn And Teller Get Hippies To Sign Water Banning Petition [video, 3 min.]
    Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge? by Patricia Cohen

    Freethought Takes on Organized Religion in National Billboard Campaign

    And from the FFRF website:

    "Imagine No Religion" Billboard Debuts in Chambersburg, Penn.

    [To take it one step further, imagine no one believed in any superstition. Then to take it it to its final step: Imagine no one held any kind of belief! Ed.]
    Dark Matter Mystery [video, 4:37 min.]
    Pleas for condemned Saudi 'witch'
    Our crimes in Iraq must not be forgotten by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
    Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting [audio, 23 min.]
    Are Americans Really That Stupid? [video, 5:48 min.]
    Olbermann - Congress's Shameful Cover-Up! [video, 6:15 min.]
    The Fear Factory by Guy Lawson
    'Jesus' cosmetic row in Singapore Cathollics are against vanity products but what about Jesus dildos?
    Europe: Divorce the US Military by Neil Clark
    Better Than Free by Kevin Kelly. The internet copies everything, and it's free.
    Howard Zinn on Civil Disobedience [video, 3:49 min.]
    Your Senate votes to screw you again! by Jerry Mazza. Your personal records will no longer be private.
    Bush Turns US Soldiers into Murderers by Robert Parry
    Pat Condell: Sharia Fiasco [video, 6:33 min.]
    The War Against Tolerance by Chris Hedges
    Iraq's Tidal Wave of Misery: The First History of the Planet's Worst Refugee Crisis by Michael Schwartz
    Jacob Bronowski: Knowledge or Certainty - There is no absolute knowledge [video, 2 min.]
    Hitchens and Boteach Debate on God [video, 94 min.]
    The Iraqi Brain Drain by Michael Schwartz and Tom Engelhardt
    Why Darwin matters by Richard Dawkins
    Creationists seek foothold in Europe
    IRAQ: More Bombing Creates New Enemies by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail
    Christopher Hitchens on Books & Ideas [video in three parts approximately 8 min. each]
    The Surveillance Scam: Why the Protect America Act Is a Bad Idea by Tim Lee
    Richard Dawkins talks about The God Delusion [video, 3 min.] Also see my review on The God Delusion.
    What on Earth is Wrong with Gravity? [video, 49 min.]
    Robert Fisk: Torture does not work, as history shows
    Christopher Hitchens Debates Timothy Jackson [eight videos, approximately 10 min. each.]
    The Legacy of Bush II by Robert Scheer
    Questioning the Mosul offensive by Dominic Moran
    Blasphemy by Daniel Dennett
    Why Don’t Jews Like the Christians Who Like Them? by James Q. Wilson
    Iraq’s Tragic Future by Scott Ritter. The "surge" is not a strategy, it is an escalation, one that will not prevent the coming collapse of Iraq.
    5 Years Ago: When the Press Helped Colin Powell Sell the War by Greg Mitchell
    Scientists discover how to turn women's bone marrow into sperm Yeah, but men can still pee out of a car window.
    Pervert priests can't be let hide behind privilege Tools by Ian O'Doherty
    The Greenback Is Losing Global Appeal by Michelle Higgins
    Pat Condell: God the Psycho [video, 6 min.]
    Would It Be Torture If It Was Done to You? by David Bromwich
    So much for Church 'remorse' over the sex abuse scandal
    Scientology's Fanatical Military by John Duignan
    German Authorities Slam "The God Delusion" for Kids And I'll bet these "German Authorities" are Christian.
    Truth or Terrorism? The Real Story Behind Five Years of High Alerts by Tim Dickinson
    A week in Iraq: 'People say things are better, but it's still terrible here' by Patrick Cockburn
    NFL Pulls Plug On Big-Screen Church Parties For Super Bowl
    Are Darwin's Theories Fact or Faith Issues? PZ Myers vs. Geoffrey Simmons [audio, 42 min.] Simmons, what an ignoramus!
    MySpace deletes hacked Web site for atheists and agnostics Atheists are still more oppressed than blacks and women.
    Keith Olbermann: Special Comment Regarding FISA [video, 9:39 min.]
    Is the U.S. Failing in Afghanistan? by Mark Thompson
    Edward Current: Calculate Your God Delusion Index [video, 6 min.]
    Pilot pinned down after 'invoking' God on flight Insanity and god belief go hand-in-hand.
    Richard Dawkins on The Big Debate [video 57 min.]
    The 'war on terror' licenses a new stupidity in geopolitics by Simon Jenkins
    America still works by Michael Lind. The long term trends for the U.S. are more favourable than many think.

    January

    David Gallo: Underwater astonishments [video, 5:21 min.]
    Why do atheists care about religion? [video, 5:41 min.]
    Bush's delusions die in Gaza by Gary Kamiya
    Belief in Belief by Christopher Hitchens
    42 Reasons We Won’t Miss President George W Bush
    Our one-way trip to disaster by James Carroll, on Bozo's State of the Union address.
    Judiciary Committee should move to impeach Bush and Cheney by Elizabeth Holtzman
    The Blockade of Gaza: Worse Than a Crime by Uri Avnery
    Interview with Richard Dawkins, Liz Green show, BBC [audio, 12 min.]
    Geophysicists: Theory of Global Warming 'Well Established'
    Pathetic Arguments for Foreign Intervention by Sheldon Richman
    Why Bush Wants to Legalize the Nuke Trade with Turkey: Exonerating Neocon Criminals by Joshua Frank
    Atheism Week, Day 7: I am an atheist [video, 3 min.] I love her.
    The End of Privacy by Elliot Cohen
    Iraqis: 'US the Biggest Producer of Terror' by Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail
    What the Church Should Be Saying about War and Foreign Policy