The price of oil. “At his concert last week, British folk-punk shit-disturber Billy Bragg tossed CDs into the crowd. They contained an unreleased song: ‘The price of oil.’
“Rip these to mp3, get them on the ‘net, get them on file-sharing networks.” MJ has the link – go grab the MP3 and listen up!

it would have been difficult to fathom how completely Bush and the executive branch could have lost the public relations effort surrounding a possible strike on Iraq, as pointed out in this article: US Threats to Iraq Contested by Friend and Foe. Bush et al. have thrown up so many trial balloons I can’t even see the sun.

: The history of the dot-com economy and the history of the war on terror — recounted in a single cartoon!

: Hierarchies.org. Who’s zooming who?

. Although it is based on conjecture and circumstantial evidence, the story about Unocal, the Taliban and the Bush government in the pre-Sept. 11 period seems to be surviving very nicely. The latest appearance is an article called “Pipeline dream” by William Rivers Pitt in WorkingForChange. It’s a sober article that’s careful to remind readers of the tenous nature of some of the information included.