HOLY CRAP!!! Harper's and Mr. Fish don't mince words.

[im10ashus]

[npincus]

1. WOW

that was in Harper's?

[im10ashus]

2. Yes!

http://www.harpers.org

[npincus]

4. oh my, I hope's it's in the print version, too!

I'll say it again- WOW!

[REP]

40. It's On-Line Only ... But Read The Current Issue's "Notebook"!

It's called "On Common Decency."

[Warpy]

11. Sure was

Harper's is the best magazine out there, better even than The Nation, my other favorite.

It's the one I struggle to read even with failing eyesight and a raging headache.

Plus, the crosswords are to die for.

[paparush]

3. OUTSTANDING!!!

[mod mom]

5. I got a subscription after their article of the Ohio Election theft.

This magazine never disappoints!

[im10ashus]

6. I enjoy it too.

I love the weekly review and index.

[petgoat]

30. Dr. Benjamin DeMott's essay about the 9/11 Commission

"Whitewash as Public Service" did a lot to bring me to the 911 Truth movement.

http://www.harpers.org/WhitewashAsPublicService.html

Lewis Lapham has signed the WorldCantWait statement.

http://www.worldcantwait.org/

[Voltaire99]

42. Best US monthly.

Current issue - with cover and essay by Art Spiegelman - is fantastic. I'll miss Lapham, but Harper's is obviously in good hands.

[Truthy Nessy]

7. wowee zowie!!!

My mouth is still open!

[Gabi Hayes]

8. Mr. Fish and Steve Bell don't FFF around

[im10ashus]

12. Another of my recent favorites here:

[Gabi Hayes]

13. Cagle at Slate has a whole bunch of his cartoons

some really NASTY stuff there, too

[WiseButAngrySara]

17. LOL! Make that he and Laura are "unconvinced!" But, but, but.... they

don't pay attention to polls! (Let alone read!

[jasmeel]

9. Ain't it the truth!

[asjr]

10. Finally, someone who will print

what I think! Mr Fish is obviously well-schooled and isn't afraid to print the truth.

[billybob537]

14. ROMFFLmao

WORST PRETZELDINK ever

[katinmn]

15. Mr. Fish is one of the best. Here's a link to many more Fish 'toons

http://www.harpers.org/Cartoon.html

[Hoping4Change]

19. Those are great. I love "support our quagmire."

Thanks for posting.

[katinmn]

21. Yes, he really has a bite! Did you see this one?

[im10ashus]

22. They really are spot on with their subtle critiques.

Time to renew the subscription.

[Hoping4Change]

26. I missed that one. It is effing powerful.

[Gabi Hayes]

16. ''Johnny's an American, Johnny looks up at the stars.

Johnny's an American, Johnny loves pussy and cars....''



I'm Afraid of Americans--David Bowie

[Hoping4Change]

18. Holy crap is right.

I love Harper's. Thanks for posting. BTW that quote from Plato is so on the mark.

[WiseButAngrySara]

20. This is AMAZING! I've loved Harper's for years. Your post title is

excellent, also!

:kick: and R! For Hope of exposure of the rats!

[struggle4progress]

23. Court throws out former CIA officer's conviction after 20 years in prison

October 29, 2003 11:09 AM

The Associated Press

HOUSTON - A federal judge threw out the conviction of a former CIA operative who has spent 20 years in prison for selling arms to Libya, saying the government knowingly used false evidence against him.

Edwin P. Wilson, 75, was convicted in 1983 of shipping 20 tons of C-4 plastic explosives to Libya - something he said he did to ingratiate himself with the Libyan government at the CIA's request.

In a scathing opinion released Tuesday, U.S. Judge Lynn N. Hughes said the federal government failed to correct information about Wilson's service to the CIA that it admitted internally was false ..

Adler said the Reagan-era officials who pushed the case had been embarrassed by revelations they were trading arms for information and made Wilson a scapegoat ..

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/103-10292003-187178.html


International Man of Mystery
The Ex-CIA Agent And Current Convict Has Many Stories To Tell. Some May Even Be True.
By Peter Carlson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 22, 2004; Page C01

WHITE DEER, Pa.

.. But the fun ended in 1982, when Wilson was lured out of Libya in a sting operation and arrested in the Dominican Republic. In three highly publicized trials, he was convicted of gunrunning, selling 20 tons of C-4 plastic explosives to Libya, and conspiring to kill his prosecutors. By early 1984, at age 55, he was sentenced to 52 years in prison and his many enemies figured he'd never get out.

Wilson swore he'd been framed, that he was working for the CIA all along. Few people paid attention. Half the cons in prison grumble about being framed by somebody.

But Wilson spent 12 years prying documents out of the CIA and the Justice Department with endless Freedom of Information Act requests. Last October, his efforts paid off: Citing those documents, a Houston federal judge threw out Wilson's conviction in the C-4 explosives case, ruling that the prosecutors had "deliberately deceived the court" about Wilson's continuing CIA contacts, thus "double-crossing a part-time informal government agent." ...

By 1996, he'd uncovered a Justice Department memo titled "Duty to Disclose Possibly False Testimony. " It described the CIA's Briggs affidavit -- which had helped persuade the Houston jury to convict Wilson -- as "inaccurate." Wilson filed a motion to overturn the Houston conviction, attaching the memo as evidence ..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59212-2004Jun21.html

[Gabi Hayes]

27. wow! I knew that's who it was.....I remember very well when that

all came down

all over TV

the guy who wrote Serpico....Peter Maas....did one on Wilson; very damning, and I believed all the condemnatory stuff written and televised. swallowed it whole

they interviewed Wilson from out of the country at the time, and all the stuff he said looks like it turns out to be true!

what a surprise

[im10ashus]

31. That's deserves its own thread, struggle4progress.

Thanks for posting!

:hi:

[struggle4progress]

39. Well, it's not exactly LBN anymore -- but is sometimes worth remembering

If a CIA operation, Edwin Wilson's 1977 sale of 20 tons of C4 plus detonators to Libya would have been initiated while GHWB was DCI, but the actual sale may have occurred after GHWB left the DCI post in January ...

[im10ashus]

44. Still a good post.

I don't always have time to catch all this great stuff here at DU. I am continually impressed with the amount of information I can garner here.


Thanks again!

:hi:

[grasswire]

24. the essay we dare not mention

In the latest issue is an essay so supercharged that we dare not even type the central sentence here.

I've never quite seen anything as stunning and courageous in print. We did discuss it a bit on DU last week

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=210393&mesg_id=210393

[Gabi Hayes]

25. the offending lines are here, a couple clicks down

you'll know it when you see it, but here's a starter:

'Am I allowed to write that I.......'


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/5/17/213832/793

[grasswire]

28. thanks much

someone finally posted what I was afraid to post.

What did you think of the essay?

[BrklynLiberal]

32. Wow!

:scared:

Colbert-sized cojones.

[im10ashus]

36. That's just amazing.

Thanks for sharing Gabi.

:hi:

[truth2power]

37. There's a link to a pdf file in this thread...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x211371

Scroll down. Silverweb posted the link. There's something about pdf files - I can't seem to edit/copy the url. So I linked to the thread.

Everyone should read this article. I don't know what the problem is with quoting it here. Metcalf did not (technically) advocate violence against anyone.

[im10ashus]

41. I am not sure what the problem with quoting is either.

I've heard far worse things said. :shrug:

[truth2power]

43. It makes me wonder about some DUer's reading comprehension skills..

Whatever he may, or may not, have been thinking, Metcalf did not threaten the Blivet or anyone else. This is what we've come to - afraid to open our mouths.

Osama must be laughing his ass off. Oh wait....that wouldn't be Osama...

Anyway, now it's going to be about thought crimes. Just what "those who perpetrated 9/11" (see OP toon for a hint) wanted. Makes me want to :puke:


edit> to add: see OP toon..

[SeveneightyWhoa]

29. Harpers is unquestionably the..

..most patriotic quasi-"mainstream" publication in America.

[mdmc]

33. Nice find

k/r

[Roland99]

34. Day-um!

[Cha]

35. Saving this one to

pass around! Wonder if it makes bush's monkey blood boil or will they let him see it?!

The truthiness HURTS.. squatter!

[Disturbed]

38. Busholini and his entire Junta should be flown

to Fallujah and dropped off with no luggage.