<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Freezerbox Magazine - Power</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/section.php?id=1</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright &#38;copy; 1997-2026 Infocrat, LLC. All rights reserved.</copyright><image><title>Freezerbox Magazine</title><url>http://www.freezerbox.com/images/ads/freezerbox/bomb_88x31.gif</url><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/</link><width>88</width><height>31</height></image><item><title>No Hockey Mom Left Behind</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=577</link><description>And John McCain could have gone with Jenna Jameson.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=577</guid></item><item><title>No Taxpayer Left Behind</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=562</link><description>That stimulus check that's on the way? Don't spend it all in one pawn shop.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=562</guid></item><item><title>Obama Drama, Part I: Shooting the Messenger</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=558</link><description>Pennsylvanians never met a trans-fat they didn't like.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=558</guid></item><item><title>I Am Jello</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=554</link><description>Senator Jay Rockefeller's shameful post-9/11 record.
</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=554</guid></item><item><title>Man of Steal</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=545</link><description>Superdelegate: Here he comes to save the way things are.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=545</guid></item><item><title>Obama vs. Clinton:  Public vs. Private Talks</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=541</link><description>The extent to which a candidate believes in transparency should be as critical a factor as any in the election. </description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=541</guid></item><item><title>Megatons and Memory Holes</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=530</link><description>Richard Rhodes, Richard Perle, and the Man Who Saved the World.
</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=530</guid></item><item><title>Edward Lucas' Cold War Hustle</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=527</link><description>An &#60;I&#62;Economist&#60;/I&#62; correspondent's not-so-cautious case for a repeat of the costliest and most dangerous conflict in human history. 
</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=527</guid></item><item><title>Inside the Zone</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=523</link><description>Fifty years after the world's first major nuclear accident, radiation is still leaking into Russia's Ural Mountains -- and beyond.

</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=523</guid></item><item><title>Party Pooper</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=521</link><description>Senator Larry Craig wants it both ways -- and it's not the first time.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=521</guid></item><item><title>Can a Single Reporter Knock Off a Presidential Candidate?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=511</link><description>If the &#60;I&#62;Washington Post's&#60;/I&#62; John Solomon keeps hitting the Edwards campaign below the belt, the answer may be yes.
</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=511</guid></item><item><title>Dependence Day</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=506</link><description>Or what the bald eagle told the desert rat about the 4th of July.
</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=506</guid></item><item><title>&#34;Sometimes I Wish I Was Never Born&#34;</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=500</link><description>A &#60;I&#62;Freezerbox&#60;/I&#62; interview with missile defense.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=500</guid></item><item><title>The Bored Whore of Kyoto</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=499</link><description>European johns line up to tap Russia's carbon reduction potential.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=499</guid></item><item><title>Strange Bedfellows in Climate Politics</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=496</link><description>Did lefty pundit Alexander Cockburn and corporate behemoth General Motors secretly agree to swap climate positions?
</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=496</guid></item><item><title>Harmony and Harm in the Natural World</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=491</link><description>Though springtime is a bacchanal for birds in Bangladesh, it's not without its brutal side.
</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=491</guid></item><item><title>Going Ballistic</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=490</link><description>U.S. plans for missile defense systems in Eastern Europe could be a dangerous tipping point in relations with Russia. 
</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=490</guid></item><item><title>'Round Midnight</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=485</link><description>How Congress can start turning back the minute-hand on the Doomsday clock.
</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=485</guid></item><item><title>How to Get on the Scooter Libby Jury</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=484</link><description>Wanted: a few ignorant and indifferent men and women.
</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=484</guid></item><item><title>Oh No She Didn't!</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=481</link><description>Hillary Clinton is trying to backtrack on her Iraq record. Don't let her get away with it. 
</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=481</guid></item><item><title>Osama Bin Laden Is Dead, Again</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=480</link><description>Survived by his ideology and 10,000 jihadis.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=480</guid></item><item><title>George's World, George's World</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=474</link><description>You might have missed it, but Republicans are now the &#34;party&#34; party. Schwing!</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=474</guid></item><item><title>Anti-U.S. but Pro-American</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=466</link><description>The Military Commissions Act of 2006 and my new pal Lee-Enfield.

</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=466</guid></item><item><title>Foley-age</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=464</link><description>Mark Foley: Tragic victim of Democrat abuse.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=464</guid></item><item><title>Shattering the Solitude</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=462</link><description>Silence has charms to soothe the civilized breast.
</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=462</guid></item><item><title>Lab Rats for Rumsfeld</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=459</link><description>You too can subject yourself to military weapons testing.</description><category>Activism</category><pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=459</guid></item><item><title>Blood and Vomit</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=453</link><description>John Hersey's &#60;I&#62;Hiroshima&#60;/I&#62; turns 60.
</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=453</guid></item><item><title>How to Talk to Ann Coulter (If You Must)</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=451</link><description>Imagine the havoc Ann Coulter could wreak on American history if she had a Wayback machine.</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=451</guid></item><item><title>Nader Welcomes Lieberman to Life in the Third-Party Lane</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=450</link><description>Ralph Nader (sort of) endorses Ned Lamont.
</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=450</guid></item><item><title>With Enemies Like These, Who Needs Friends?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=449</link><description>Oh for an endless string of would-be terrorists like the rank amateurs that dreamed of blowing up New York's Holland Tunnel.
</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=449</guid></item><item><title>No Terrorized City Left Behind</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=446</link><description>What more does New York City have to endure to qualify for increased anti-terror funding?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=446</guid></item><item><title>Before 9/11 There Was Cubana Flight 455</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=445</link><description>Not only has the US taken three decades to arrest mad bomber Luis Posada Carriles -- we may grant him citizenship.
</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=445</guid></item><item><title>Follow the Leader</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=440</link><description>Remembering leader Rudy Giuliani's historic leadership of the Middlebury '05 commencement ceremony.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=440</guid></item><item><title>Shooting the Cactus</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=439</link><description>One of these days, maybe soon, the air-conditioned nightmare out west is just going to be a nightmare. A hot, waterless nightmare.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=439</guid></item><item><title>Letter from Nepal</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=438</link><description>A week waiting for the regicide that wasn't.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=438</guid></item><item><title>Ending the Oil Age, One Patriot at a Time</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=437</link><description>One less car trip a day is first step to national energy independence.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=437</guid></item><item><title>&#34;Drunken, Depraved Spawn of Hell&#34;</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=435</link><description>The good, old days, when campaign calumny reflected a young democracy's frisky spirits.
</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=435</guid></item><item><title>The New Democracy: &#34;American Idol&#34; Viewer Polls and Product Choice</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=426</link><description>One day Iraqis can exercise their democratic privilege by voting for Miss Iraq online.
</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=426</guid></item><item><title>Heart Attack</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=418</link><description>Al Qaeda finally goes for the jugular.

</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=418</guid></item><item><title>Open Letter to Dick Cheney: Get Back in the Hunt</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=417</link><description>Better yet--bring the entire Heritage Foundation on a Civil War reenactment weekend.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=417</guid></item><item><title>How an Oh-So-Metro &#60;I&#62;New Yorker&#60;/I&#62; Editor Responded to the WTC Tragedy</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=412</link><description>Ramping up for 9/11's fifth anniversary.</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=412</guid></item><item><title>Calling the Barrel Black</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=410</link><description>Giving subsidies to big oil is like giving the Yankees Barry Bonds to DH.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=410</guid></item><item><title>Bihar's Blues</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=406</link><description>Maoists, misery and mayhem in modern India.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=406</guid></item><item><title>What's So Patriotic About Peace?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=402</link><description>There are values beyond patriotism, peace vigils teach.</description><category>Activism</category><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=402</guid></item><item><title>Nucleotheism</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=399</link><description>Where do clergy--of any persuasion--get off not only countenancing, but promoting, nuclear proliferation?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=399</guid></item><item><title>No Champagne at Walter Reed</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=396</link><description>It's deja vu for &#60;I&#62;Intervention Magazine&#60;/I&#62;'s Viet vet editor.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=396</guid></item><item><title>Big Oil's Iraqi Coup de Grace</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=394</link><description>PSAs (not the public service announcement kind) cap off big oil's occupation of Iraq.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=394</guid></item><item><title>In the Wind</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=392</link><description>Environmental activist's legacy would include support for windmills in the Adirondacks.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=392</guid></item><item><title>Bigger Than Watergate</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=390</link><description>An indictment for a charge of attempted murder.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=390</guid></item><item><title>Pin the Tail on the Eco-Disaster</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=388</link><description>Ditch the donkey, break out the globe.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=388</guid></item><item><title>A Loose Cannon--or Firing in Formation?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=387</link><description>Was Irani President Ahmadinejad's call for Israel to be &#34;wiped off the map&#34; pre- or countervailing opinion among Iran's elite?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=387</guid></item><item><title>Where There's No Will, There's No Way</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=386</link><description>Like the US, Pakistan is as half-hearted about coping with a natural disaster as pursuing al-Qaeda.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2005 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=386</guid></item><item><title>Peak Freaks</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=385</link><description>From Petrocollapse to hyper fuel-efficient SUV's--two weeks with the energy crisis crowd.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=385</guid></item><item><title>Papa Smurf</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=382</link><description>Remembering E. F. Schumacher in the age of Peak Oil.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=382</guid></item><item><title>Getting Serious About Syria</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=383</link><description>After the disaster of Iraq, does the administration dare attempt another regime change?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=383</guid></item><item><title>Christ Our Lord Goes Neocon</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=381</link><description>Jesus hits the ground running in the New American Century.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=381</guid></item><item><title>What Does FEMA Really Stand For?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=372</link><description>The acrostics of a disaster.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=372</guid></item><item><title>The Water Next Time</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=370</link><description>This month it was New Orleans, next month it could be New York. Hurricane experts say it's only a matter of time before Wall Street is under water.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=370</guid></item><item><title>Occupation, not Koran, Mandates Suicide Bombing</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=366</link><description>Plus, we can rest easy: Rumsfeld shoots down London bombing-Iraq link.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=366</guid></item><item><title>When Oversight Becomes an Oversight</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=365</link><description>Congress opts for easy target -- steroid-slugger Palmeiro.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=365</guid></item><item><title>The Panopticon and the Public Spectacle</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=362</link><description>Execution today -- distanced not only from the public, but the condemned man himself.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=362</guid></item><item><title>Administration Fails to Meet Nazi Benchmark</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=360</link><description>Bush &#38; Co. more interested in thievery than tyranny.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=360</guid></item><item><title>The Polls Toll for He</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=359</link><description>The Ohio voting irregularities finally sink in.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=359</guid></item><item><title>Here Comes the Sun</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=358</link><description>A quarterly climate-change screed.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=358</guid></item><item><title>Double-Edged Sword</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=357</link><description>DNA testing could lead to more capital punishment, not less.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=357</guid></item><item><title>Karl Rove -- a Latter-Day Tom Sawyer?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=356</link><description>Boy Genius' successes suckering the press into whitewashing.</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=356</guid></item><item><title>In the Grip of the Caudillo</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=355</link><description>Nothing is certain in Pakistan except blatant patronage and the military's shadow.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=355</guid></item><item><title>Look, Ma -- No Scruples!</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=354</link><description>Matt Taibbi rides the news cycle.</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=354</guid></item><item><title>Polling Polling</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=353</link><description>Reinventing the poll.</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=353</guid></item><item><title>Of Hacks Political and Artistic</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=352</link><description>Mini-Pogroms Morphing into Cultural Reflex?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=352</guid></item><item><title>Just Say Yes</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=349</link><description>High comedy on the army-recruitment front.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=349</guid></item><item><title>People Like You</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=347</link><description>An open letter to critics of the Republican Party.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=347</guid></item><item><title>Last Best Chance</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=345</link><description>A nuclear 9/11 isn't inevitable, but apathy isn't helping the odds.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=345</guid></item><item><title>Throat Job</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=343</link><description>Newsweek blames Mark Felt for 9/11.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=343</guid></item><item><title>The Pawns Who Pay as Powers Play</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=340</link><description>When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets crushed. When two elephants make love, it is again the grass that gets crushed.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=340</guid></item><item><title>Saddam + Taliban + Apartheid = Islamic Republic</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=342</link><description>All the more reason not to invade Iran.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=342</guid></item><item><title>Fake Blood on the Maize</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=339</link><description>Starvation as a bargaining chip in Zambia.</description><category>Activism</category><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=339</guid></item><item><title>Brand This</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=338</link><description>Three years early, Democrat swine position themselves.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=338</guid></item><item><title>The Uncle Tom Award</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=337</link><description>Meet the civil rights group whose rhetoric comes from Wise Use, whose support comes from Monsanto, and whose agenda coincides precisely with that of George W. Bush.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=337</guid></item><item><title>Kyoto Fried Chicken</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=336</link><description>Global Warming and the politics of sleep.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=336</guid></item><item><title>Totally Gauche</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=335</link><description>What a new poll says about left vs. right.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=335</guid></item><item><title>It's the Pipelines, Stupid</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=332</link><description>How to bring down a giant, one blood vessel at a time.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=332</guid></item><item><title>Pravda, Izvestia, Time</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=330</link><description>On the Person of the Year issue.</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=330</guid></item><item><title>Dr. Strangefeld</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=329</link><description>Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the Long-Rod Penetrator.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=329</guid></item><item><title>Did Jesus Wear Birkenstocks?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=328</link><description>Conservative evangelical Christians are getting worried about the fate of God's creation. Can the greening of the GOP base happen fast enough to derail the party's scorched-earth plans for Bush II?</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=328</guid></item><item><title>Power 1, Truth 0</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=326</link><description>Anyone surprised by the media's current sycophancy need only look at the sad story of Gary Webb to see that it was a long time coming.</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=326</guid></item><item><title>Settling In</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=323</link><description>If you aren't somewhat back to normal by now, you should be. What November 2 meant, and what it didn't.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=323</guid></item><item><title>The Emperor Has No Information</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=322</link><description>Just what the hell is that thing? Recreating the Battle of the Bulge, 2004.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2004 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=322</guid></item><item><title>I Smell a Rat</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=321</link><description>I was curious about the Florida vote numbers. So I crunched them myself.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=321</guid></item><item><title>Tortures R Us</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=320</link><description>Alberto Gonzales wasn't the first U.S. official to consider the Geneva Conventions &#34;obsolete.&#34; A trip down memory lane in Honduras.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=320</guid></item><item><title>My DLC Problem, and Ours</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=319</link><description>What's love got to do with 2008?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=319</guid></item><item><title>Battleground Galactica</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=318</link><description>Counting down to November 2 in southwestern Wisconsin.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=318</guid></item><item><title>Capture the Flag</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=314</link><description>Can the GOP protect the national-security lie until November?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=314</guid></item><item><title>Duck and Cover</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=313</link><description>Assault weapons are as American as apple pie. They just don't taste as good.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=313</guid></item><item><title>The Party's Over</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=312</link><description>Why the protest that welcomed the Republican National Convention in New York City was worse than useless.</description><category>Activism</category><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=312</guid></item><item><title>The Energy Crunch</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=311</link><description>A $2 gallon of gas is just the beginning.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=311</guid></item><item><title>Kurtz Reflects</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=305</link><description>The media is even more pathetic when it's trying to apologize.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=305</guid></item><item><title>Staying Angry</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=304</link><description>Is your energy level flagging as November approches? Here are eight loathsome things about the GOP to keep you going.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=304</guid></item><item><title>Republican on the Fence</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=303</link><description>A Q and A with The Weekly Standard's Matt LaBash.</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=303</guid></item><item><title>Ann Coulter is a Silly, Stupid, Tramp</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=302</link><description>Ann Coulter's rejected USA Today column was even worse than you thought.</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=302</guid></item><item><title>The Conservative Case Against George W. Bush</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=300</link><description>Why so many Republicans are abandoning the GOP in 2004.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=300</guid></item><item><title>Mere Words</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=301</link><description>Deconstructing John Kerry's acceptance speech, which was worse than it sounded.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=301</guid></item><item><title>Top Hat Jesters</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=299</link><description>Billionaires for Bush rock the platinum vote, smirking.</description><category>Activism</category><pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=299</guid></item><item><title>One Hellhole, Under God</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=296</link><description>Why the Republican Party suddenly cares about Sudan--or at least pretends to.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=296</guid></item><item><title>The Slumbering Ranks</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=298</link><description>We know there's soldier depression and anger in Iraq--so where's the dissent?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=298</guid></item><item><title>Spite the Vote</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=297</link><description>How pissed off, spiteful white males will decide the most important election in history.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=297</guid></item><item><title>Doesn't It Ring a (Prison) Bell?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=291</link><description>The road to Abu Ghraib runs through Texas.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=291</guid></item><item><title>Breaking the Sound Barrier</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=289</link><description>An interview with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman.</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=289</guid></item><item><title>Nobody's Fool</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=286</link><description>Why a vote for Dennis Kucinich is the only one that matters.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2004 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=286</guid></item><item><title>Hair-Trigger Planet</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=285</link><description>The Cold War is over. The nuclear threat is not.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2004 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=285</guid></item><item><title>Press Freedom Under Fire</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=283</link><description>The first casualty of war is truth.</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=283</guid></item><item><title>Cheney on the Moon</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=281</link><description>The celestial endgame of Halliburton logic.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2004 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=281</guid></item><item><title>Veterans Target Profiteers</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=277</link><description>Lawsuit for Gulf War Veterans takes aim at WMD businesses.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2003 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=277</guid></item><item><title>America Is Nuts</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=276</link><description>Just how weird can things get?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2003 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=276</guid></item><item><title>Who Profits from Erasing Iraq's Debt?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=274</link><description>Financial transparancy takes a back seat to realpolitik and profit.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2003 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=274</guid></item><item><title>The Shameful Legacy of Radioactive Weaponry</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=271</link><description>America's deployment of depleted uranium is once again in the news, as its probable use in Afghanistan is uncovered.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2003 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=271</guid></item><item><title>Nein Means Nein</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=269</link><description>As we march to war, mainland Europe has declined to enlist: How has this Transatlantic divide opened up, and what does it mean for the future?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=269</guid></item><item><title>Marching in Circles</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=264</link><description>The US peace movement is marching to nowhere, thanks to outdated tactics and self-fulfilling prophesies of failure. Peace activists everywhere must embrace more direct tactics, such as boycotts and strikes.</description><category>Activism</category><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=264</guid></item><item><title>The Myth of Nature</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=263</link><description>In their desire to save the trees, advocates of 'Protected Area' policies forget something: poor people often live in the forests, and they have nowhere else to go.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2003 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=263</guid></item><item><title>Infernal Combustion</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=262</link><description>Six Prague activists envision a world without cars.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2003 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=262</guid></item><item><title>Havel's Polluted Sunset</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=261</link><description>Smoking hash at the Prague castle, and other presidential memories.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2003 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=261</guid></item><item><title>The Gathering Storm</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=260</link><description>Must our foreign policy be lawless?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=260</guid></item><item><title>Meet the New Boss</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=257</link><description>We should all feel glad that Henry Kissinger isn't running the 9/11 probe, but we shouldn't be too happy about his replacement, either.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=257</guid></item><item><title>Material Breach</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=255</link><description>Some background to the current drive to attack Iraq.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2002 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=255</guid></item><item><title>The Fake Parade</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=254</link><description>Under the banner of populist protest, multinational corporations manufacture the poor.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2002 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=254</guid></item><item><title>Chameleon Games</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=251</link><description>The Democrats have little to gain--and much to lose--by pretending to be Republicans.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=251</guid></item><item><title>From Checkpoint Charlie to Tora Bora</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=250</link><description>A look at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization--past, present and uncertain future.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=250</guid></item><item><title>War on Peace</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=247</link><description>Now is no time for complacency.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=247</guid></item><item><title>Stupid Ass NATO Summit</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=245</link><description>The last thing Prague needs is on the way.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2002 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=245</guid></item><item><title>Driving Nowhere</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=244</link><description>Why Bush's &#34;road map&#34; to peace is upside down.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=244</guid></item><item><title>Terrorist Training, American Style</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=243</link><description>It's no longer called the School of the Americas, but little has changed in Fort Benning.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2002 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=243</guid></item><item><title>All Quiet on the Western Front</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=228</link><description>Underneath the Bush/Hitler controversy are important lessons about the future of European politics.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=228</guid></item><item><title>Lost Innocence, Misplaced Memory</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=227</link><description>On terrorism and the elephants in our living room.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=227</guid></item><item><title>Toxic Jihad: Our Hidden Bombs</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=226</link><description>Both at home and abroad, the Bush Administration is selective in its value of human life.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=226</guid></item><item><title>Going It Alone</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=225</link><description>The world is suspicous of our motives in Iraq, and not without reason. A brief history of bad intentions.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=225</guid></item><item><title>No Thank You, Mr. President</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=223</link><description>An Israeli discusses the danger to Israel posed by Gulf War II.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=223</guid></item><item><title>Semtex: The Magic Marble of Pardubice</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=221</link><description>A brief history of the world's most famous plastic explosive.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=221</guid></item><item><title>Wars, Wackos and Warming</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=218</link><description>It's the end of the world as we know it--and Dick Cheney feels fine.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=218</guid></item><item><title>The Powell Doctrine</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=217</link><description>What they forgot to tell us while we were on the road to war.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=217</guid></item><item><title>Think the News Media Is Anti-Bush?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=216</link><description>I've got this Enron stock you may want to buy, too...</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=216</guid></item><item><title>Going AWOL</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=214</link><description>Uncle Sam wants you--and anything else he can get his mitts on.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=214</guid></item><item><title>Why Conservatives Hate Europe</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=213</link><description>War in Central Asia, turmoil in the Middle East--it would seem that Europe might be the least of our worries. Not to conservatives, though, who can find the sources of most world trouble lying in the mindset of our transatlantic allies.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=213</guid></item><item><title>The Bush Ethic of Responsibility</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=211</link><description>Bush's handlers say the president is reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics these days. A look at the 2003 Budget shows he doesn't understand it.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=211</guid></item><item><title>President Bush the Martyr</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=208</link><description>What the President--and his country--still don't understand about the Arab-Israeli conflict.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=208</guid></item><item><title>The Great Game Continues</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=207</link><description>Oil interests are crowding the vacuum left by the Afghan war, and if the US isn't careful, it might get locked out of the profits.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=207</guid></item><item><title>Our Men in Havana</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=204</link><description>For forty years, the only thing we have been able to do about Cuba is lie.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=204</guid></item><item><title>Palestine By George Lucas</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=203</link><description>The menaces we have to fear are not in phantoms, but in ourselves.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=203</guid></item><item><title>Warning Shots</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=202</link><description>Thoughts and facts on Europe's far-right.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=202</guid></item><item><title>The Mysterious Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=201</link><description>What it means--and what it doesn't.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=201</guid></item><item><title>Hugo Chavez for President</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=197</link><description>Was last month's failed coup in Venezuela Bush's mini-Bay of Pigs?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=197</guid></item><item><title>Beautiful Mind-Fields</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=195</link><description>A modern Modest Proposal &#195; la Jonathan Swift.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=195</guid></item><item><title>Poverty Post September 11</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=194</link><description>How the terrorist attacks gave us a fresh chance to address the problem of poverty.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=194</guid></item><item><title>Palestinians and the American People</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=193</link><description>A report from Ramallah on what the US public should know about the Arab-Israeli conflict.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=193</guid></item><item><title>Occupation and Terrorism</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=191</link><description>Politics out of a gun barrel.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2002 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=191</guid></item><item><title>End the Assaults</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=184</link><description>A plea from Palestine.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2002 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=184</guid></item><item><title>Enron Pipedreams Buried in Afghanistan</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=183</link><description>Is it a coincidence that Enron died when the Taliban did? Ron Callari on the politics of oil.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2002 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=183</guid></item><item><title>This Is American History On Drugs</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=181</link><description>Everything you wanted to know about the narcotics trade that didn't fit in a 30-second Super Bowl ad.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2002 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=181</guid></item><item><title>The Strange Case of John Walker</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=175</link><description>Cat Stevens or Charles Manson? America wants to know.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2002 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=175</guid></item><item><title>Why I'll Still Burn the Flag</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=178</link><description>Flag burning is still a desirable option after 9-11.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2002 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=178</guid></item><item><title>Despair and Martyrdom</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=171</link><description>A look at the psychology behind Palestinian suicide bombings.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2001 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=171</guid></item><item><title>Bystander Apathy</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=163</link><description>In this War on Terrorism, the image-makers are gearing up for an offensive against the American people. It's time to dig some trenches.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=163</guid></item><item><title>Life During Wartime</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=159</link><description>Four short essays from an empire of contradiction.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2001 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=159</guid></item><item><title>The Alibi of Broadway</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=161</link><description>Mayor Giuliani urges New Yorkers to spend, spend, spend. Unfortunately, the city his administration created was never meant to include New Yorkers.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2001 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=161</guid></item><item><title>Main Event: American Energy Policy</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=164</link><description>What do terrorism, global warming, 21st century resource wars and Dick Cheney have in common?</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2001 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=164</guid></item><item><title>Whose Intifada?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=158</link><description>Exploring the widening division among the PLO leadership, Toufic Haddad interviews Husam Khader, a radical leader of the Fateh political party.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2001 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=158</guid></item><item><title>We Want to Liberate You</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=166</link><description>An Interview with Marwan Barghouti, Secretary General of Fateh in the West Bank, who could one day replace Yasser Arafat.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=166</guid></item><item><title>Private Ryan, Amnesiac</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=165</link><description>As America girds for a new conflict, and as pundits offer endless comparisons to World War II, it becomes worth asking: did the Good War even exist?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=165</guid></item><item><title>A War On Terrorism?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=156</link><description>Think again.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=156</guid></item><item><title>Terrorism and Witch Hunts</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=155</link><description>One woman's view from Britain, where Tony Blair is facing a different kind of pressure from the British Peace Movement.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=155</guid></item><item><title>Why?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=154</link><description>If answered honestly, then trigger happy military attacks cannot possibly be the answer to the second urgent question: What Now?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=154</guid></item><item><title>Harvest of Sorrow</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=151</link><description>Is Osama bin Laden a product of the very country he hates?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=151</guid></item><item><title>The Chechan Dilemma</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=147</link><description>Russia's war in Chechnya is officially over, but the death toll keeps rising in what has evolved into a classic partisan conflict. Setting politics aside for the moment, Micah Jayne speaks with a reporter, a refugee family and an aid worker about how the war has affected their lives and when, if ever, they can all go home.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=147</guid></item><item><title>The Ties That Bind</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=162</link><description>Only months ago the United States was wailing in outrage at its expulsion from the UN's Human Rights Commission. Now, more quietly, it is once again assisting one of the most repressive regimes on earth.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=162</guid></item><item><title>Europe Faces Genoa</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=146</link><description>As Europe argues over the meaning of Genoa, the battle lines are hardening, from the streets all the way up to Parliament.</description><category>Activism</category><pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=146</guid></item><item><title>Indymedia: Another Genoa Casualty</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=145</link><description>Can a media obsessed with entertainment really cover an anti-globalization movement that offers none? And if it can't, are there any real alternatives?</description><category>Activism</category><pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=145</guid></item><item><title>The False Promise of Free Trade</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=140</link><description>If rich countries only want to help poor ones, then why do poor countries keep getting poorer?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=140</guid></item><item><title>Space Pearl Harbor</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=142</link><description>Bush's &#34;good war&#34;--arming the heavens and hiding the truth.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=142</guid></item><item><title>Remembering Child Labor In America</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=135</link><description>Today, Africa has the highest rate of child labor worldwide. But America has its own history of exploiting the young.</description><category>Labor</category><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=135</guid></item><item><title>Make-Believe Missile Defense For Everyone!</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=134</link><description>Let the Cheney boys have their imaginary space toys, and let the rest of the world get on with the business of actually dealing with the 21st century.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=134</guid></item><item><title>Show Me Your Stinking Badge</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=133</link><description>Six months after IMF financiers and anti-globalization protesters clashed in Prague, the Legal Observers Project continues its struggle to hold the Czech Police accountable for their crimes.</description><category>Activism</category><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=133</guid></item><item><title>Eyes Wide Shut</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=121</link><description>From the villages and refugee camps of Gaza, a
report on what the media chooses to ignore about the Palestinian Intifada.</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=121</guid></item><item><title>The Future Face of Protest</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=117</link><description>The WTO meets in the desert; the people will resist in the cities.</description><category>Activism</category><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=117</guid></item><item><title>Plutocracy, U.S.A.</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=125</link><description>Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton and John Jay envisioned an America run by the rich.  They would be excited by today's corporate-dominated Cabinet, the wealthiest ever assembled.  In 2001, plutocracy reigns supreme.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=125</guid></item><item><title>Evil Bastards</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=113</link><description>It's 2001 and the Dick Cheney White House still doesn't believe in global warming. God help us all.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2001 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=113</guid></item><item><title>Down The Memory Hole</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=130</link><description>Marc Rich versus the Iran-Contra pardons. Where was the outrage?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=130</guid></item><item><title>A Climate Change Primer For Bush's Smokestack Cabinet</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=108</link><description>While Bush and his petro-cronies deny climate change, the U.K. is taking action. The U.S. should be taking notes.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=108</guid></item><item><title>The Folly of National Missile Defense</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=107</link><description>Bush's hawk's nest is screeching for a full-blown National Missile Defense system. Start paying attention to this one. The stakes could not be higher.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2001 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=107</guid></item><item><title>Mad Cow Disease</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=106</link><description>Forget farm feed made from animal remains, Dr. Paul Kail explores the possible link between pesticides and Mad Cow disease.</description><category>Activism</category><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2001 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=106</guid></item><item><title>Humanitarian Cancer and NATO's Murderous Legacy</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=103</link><description>Jonathan Carr on the history of Depleted Uranium and US sponsored cancer in the Balkans. Is anyone surprised?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2001 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=103</guid></item><item><title>Hemp Powered Car Tours US, Canada</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=100</link><description>The Hemp Car is the worst nightmare of more than one big industry. It's also our greatest hope. Get in.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=100</guid></item><item><title>Christmas Is Criminal</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=99</link><description>The anti-globalization grinch unpacks the messy reality behind every holiday Kodak moment. Smile!</description><category>Labor</category><pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=99</guid></item><item><title>Baha' Said: Profile of the Future Fedayeen</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=80</link><description>Toufic Haddad explores the Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza and sees the future. It's a bleak one.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=80</guid></item><item><title>What Election?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=68</link><description>The Dems lost the keys to Election 2000, and the GOP stole the car. Manville on the betrayal of the New Democrats and the struggles ahead.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=68</guid></item><item><title>In Defence of the Shrub</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=92</link><description>James Mackenzie is looking on the bright side of the &#34;election&#34; of Bush.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=92</guid></item><item><title>A River Runs Through It</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=85</link><description>It's big bad G.E. versus the E.P.A. in upstate New York. Dan Sherman explains why this one is more complicated than it seems.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=85</guid></item><item><title>No Justice, No Golf!</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=105</link><description>Sure conservatives dress funny, talk funny and think funny. Now we know they protest funny too. Freezerbox looks back at the Miami Golfers riot of 2000.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=105</guid></item><item><title>Once Again, America Stands Alone</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=102</link><description>America's responsibility for the collapse of the recent climate conference at The Hague taught the world an important lesson: neither to be beaten nor joined, the USA should just be ignored.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=102</guid></item><item><title>Rutherford B. Hayes Speaks Out</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=93</link><description>Our 19th President, who knew a thing or two about electoral controversy, offers his services as a talking head.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=93</guid></item><item><title>Alphabet Soup and the Asshole of Europe</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=90</link><description>Our Balkans correspondent reports on his afternoon with the KLA and Miss Albania 2000.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=90</guid></item><item><title>Ignorance is Bliss</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=89</link><description>The three debates held this year were a total sham. And it was all the fault of the Commission on Presidential Debates, their partisan membership, their corporate obsequiousness, a shameful affront to Democracy.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=89</guid></item><item><title>Industrial Revolution Day</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=67</link><description>Greed is good! Sing along with the Center for the Moral Defense of Capitalism.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=67</guid></item><item><title>Campaign Finance Reform</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=91</link><description>Now that another round of sham debates are over, we can get down to the business of making sure it doesn't happen again. Target #1: corporate television.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=91</guid></item><item><title>Ralph Nader Super-Rally at MSG</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=88</link><description>Our New York correspondents finally disentangle their notes from the Nader super-rally at MSG. If you couldn't make it, Adam and Molly provide the home movie version.</description><category>Activism</category><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=88</guid></item><item><title>The Taming of the Italian Stallion</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=74</link><description>Heather Hadden looks at car-free days in Europe, tourism, smog and what it feels like to see politicians ride bicycles to work.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=74</guid></item><item><title>Two Modest Proposals For the Upcoming Presidential Debates</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=83</link><description>Two &#60;I&#62;other&#60;/I&#62; candidates that should have been included in the debates. Etta Neeya introduces us to the fringe&#38;#151;and their toolsheds.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=83</guid></item><item><title>Reform the WTO! But Where Are The Ideas?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=232</link><description>Give me a program, a paradigm--anything!</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=232</guid></item><item><title>What Has the IMF Done For You Lately?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=73</link><description>As Prague girds itself for the biggest social protests in Central Europe since 1989, Chris Lord weighs up the two sides, and throws his weight behind one of them. With reservations, of course.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=73</guid></item><item><title>What Moves Us?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=54</link><description>As anti-capitalist summit hopping increases its popularity and profile, activists have to ask: Is this enough? What next?</description><category>Activism</category><pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=54</guid></item><item><title>I'm Still Voting for Nader</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=76</link><description>Only one man running for President deserves a single honest vote, and don't let anybody scare you into thinking otherwise. Jonah explains why it's actually quite easy being Green.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=76</guid></item><item><title>Banking on Disaster</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=71</link><description>As the World Bank gets ready for its upcoming summit meeting in Prague, Paul Kail goes behind the rhetoric to look at the recently approved WB oil project in Chad-Camaroon. The Bank has not changed a stripe, just its public relations melody. </description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=71</guid></item><item><title>If You Preach It, They Will Come: Reverend Billy and the Gospel of Anti-Consumerism</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=69</link><description>In the light of the recent IMF/WTO/R2k protests, activism appears to be on the rise in this country once again. Reverend Billy, spokesman against the franchised and multinational corporations mushrooming throughout New York City, unites this political spirit with a flagrant fatiousness and fundementialist ferver. You too will follow the fold to &#38;quot;stop Starbucks&#38;quot;.</description><category>Activism</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=69</guid></item><item><title>A Return to the Poll Tax?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=70</link><description>As political coverage moves into the internet age, Matthew Felling reminds us that not everyone is wired. Is this progress, or a new poll tax?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=70</guid></item><item><title>First Human Case of West Nile Virus</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=46</link><description>Robert Lederman takes a hard look at the West Nile Virus hysteria in New York City.</description><category>Activism</category><pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=46</guid></item><item><title>The FBI Comes to Prague</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=66</link><description>Anti-IMF protestors are already preparing for this September's meeting in  Prague, but they aren't alone. The FBI just came to town, and they are watching.</description><category>Activism</category><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=66</guid></item><item><title>Towards the Unification of the Movement</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=61</link><description>Should the IMF be reformed, or destroyed? What's at stake? And can a decentralized movement really do battle with such powerful institutions? Ben Day of the Direct Action Network is glad you asked.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=61</guid></item><item><title>Greed Versus Need</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=49</link><description>Indian activist and author Vandana Shiva on globalization, poverty in India and genetically modified foods.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=49</guid></item><item><title>Every Man a Soldier</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=35</link><description>Is the gun control debate even about the right to bear arms? One more look at the NRA's America.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=35</guid></item><item><title>Meet Super NAFTA</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=58</link><description>Following the momentum of Seattle &#38;amp; Washington, the next stand against elite driven globalization will take place June 4-6, in Windsor, Ontario. As the extension of NAFTA, the Free Trade Areas of the Americas (FTAA) will extend corporate rule over the entire Western Hemisphere.</description><category>Activism</category><pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=58</guid></item><item><title>Caspian Oil and New Energy Politics</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=55</link><description>Central Asia is a hornet's nest of ethnic hatred, poverty, and great power rivalry. And the USA is about to stick a big pink hand in the middle of it to safeguard its puddles of black gold.</description><category>Environment</category><pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=55</guid></item><item><title>The Sound and the Fury</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=51</link><description>You don't have to be a reactionary to doubt the effectiveness of one dimensional sloganeering. Mike Manville on why tactics matter in the fight for a just world economy.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=51</guid></item><item><title>Assaulting Solidarity -- Privatizing Education</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=48</link><description>Noam Chomsky on the meaning of solidarity and the corporate attack on public education.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=48</guid></item><item><title>Ken Livingston is a Badass</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=52</link><description>The Red Ken Barbie Doll is the toy gift of the season. The mayoral action figure comes with a faux gold chain of office, a multi-million pound budget, and real left wing politics. Freezerbox wants to know if London will take two Gulianis and a Jerry Brown in trade.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=52</guid></item><item><title>Missile Defense: What It Is</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=45</link><description>The missile defense debate is back with a vengeance, and it almost feels like the Cold War again. Don't get too nostalgic, but do reacquaint yourself with the issues. All those bombs aren't park benches yet. Jonah Weiss explains what the fuss is about.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=45</guid></item><item><title>The Last Left and The Anarchist Smear</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=44</link><description>Ever observant, the mainstream media picked up on the presence of anarchists in the recent Washington protests. Predictably, the &#34;new anarchism&#34; story offers a convenient cover for avoiding the larger issues&#38;#151;as well as the millions of non-anarchists who are pressing them.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=44</guid></item><item><title>Ralph Nader and the Greens 2000: Let's Get This Party Started</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=43</link><description>As fence sitters worry that Ralph Nader's Green campaign will hand the Presidency to the hard right, American democracy continues to rot. Jonas argues that the time has come to show Americans what real progressive politics look like. If recent polls are any indication, they are going to like what they see.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=43</guid></item><item><title>When Did the United States Become A Police State</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=33</link><description>The writing is on the wall.  The freedom of all Americans is at risk and most of us aren't even aware of it.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=33</guid></item><item><title>The 1990s as 1950s: Now What?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=42</link><description>As the world attempts to make sense of a historic week of protest in Washington, who can help but wonder: Are we entering another decade of social unrest and mass activism? And do we get to win this time?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=42</guid></item><item><title>Lest We Forget: Neo-conservatives and Republican Foreign Policy, 1976-2000</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=41</link><description>The neo-conservative camp of the Republican Party is calling for a massive arms build up and a more aggressive US role in world affairs, including &#34;rogue regime rollback.&#34; If the neo-cons regain power, GOP foreign policy under their influence could look a lot like it did in the early 1980's. Be afraid. Be very afraid.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2000 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=41</guid></item><item><title>Ralph Nader: Reformer With Results (And He Never Even Did Blow!)</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=1</link><description>Arguably the closest thing America has to a national hero, Ralph Nader has spent a lifetime designing and firing artillery at the heart of corporate/state corruption. He hasn't landed the silver bullet yet, but he's back in the Presidential fold with the Greens in 2000--and this time he's pissed. John Walston is excited, but wonders if Nader's vocabulary of &#34;reform&#34; can survive the rhetorical efforts of Gore/Bush to fill the McCain vacuum.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=1</guid></item><item><title>Are We Having Fun Yet? Kosovo Reconsidered</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=21</link><description>Months after the bombing, the Balkans remain an environmental nightmare and political tinderbox. By setting a precedent for non-defensive and arbitrary high-intensity military interventions, political scientist Chris Lord re-affirms the charge that NATO just plain overstepped. Bigtime.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=21</guid></item><item><title>One Bush Was Enough, But Thank You</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=20</link><description>George W. Bush has turned the state of Texas into a toxic dump. He knows virtually nothing about the world or the important issues of the day. He is not considered mentally equipped by the brains of his own Party. He is fully in the pocket of the most polluting industries on Earth. He defines 'arms control' as the ability to hit your target. And he just might be in the drivers seat at the dawn of the next American Century. Valium, anyone?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=20</guid></item><item><title>The Meaning of Haider</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=22</link><description>Jorg Haider is the tip of a potential extremist iceberg. To keep the rest underwater, Europe will have to strike a new balance between capitalism and democracy.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=22</guid></item><item><title>Why Missile-Defense is a Bad Idea (For Now)</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=53</link><description>GOP hawks are making the case for missile-defense and yelling treason at anyone who opposes the program. But when the technological problems, vast cost, and strategic consequences are considered, it is clear that missile-defense is one big very bad idea.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=53</guid></item><item><title>Dear Mr. Friedman</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=27</link><description>According to New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman, opponents of the WTO are ignorant, thrill-seeking, retro-oriented wannabe Weatherman wackos. Maxwell Ford opens up the Sixties analogy and asks how someone so smart can be so dumb.</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=27</guid></item><item><title>John McCain For Uncle in 2000; Al Gore For President</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=24</link><description>John McCain has a lot of independents charged up with his straight talking GOP insurgency. Talk of &#34;McCain Democrats&#34; has the Gore camp sweaty. Alex Zaitchik is afraid all the excitement has blurred our collective sanity.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=24</guid></item><item><title>Euroarmy: A Threat to Whom?</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=23</link><description>During the Cold War, NATO protected the European recovery and kept security simple: Washington runs the show. Ten Years after the Fall, the NATO consensus in Europe is breaking up; but what lies beyond NATO? Belgian Jacek Boboli makes the case for an independent Euroarmy.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=23</guid></item><item><title>See You in Kosovo</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=16</link><description>American expatriate Gwendolyn Albert housed a Gypsie refugee from Kosovo in Prague, here's her story...</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=16</guid></item><item><title>Letter From Assata Shakur, Political Exile</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=9</link><description>Black activist&#194;Assata Shakur was framed for murder over twenty-five years ago. She has lived in Cuba since 1983, but the New Jersey police department, egged on by Republican governor Christine Todd Whitman and hungry for blood, is recruiting mercenaries to bring her back to &#34;justice&#34; in the States. Here's her story, in her own words.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=9</guid></item><item><title>Minnesota's New Governor: Yawn</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=30</link><description>The convergence of Planet Hollywood with the levers of State power is nothing new in America.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=30</guid></item><item><title>Drifting Towards Catastrophe</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=19</link><description>Forget the Cold War--the next one will zoom past hot to thermonuclear.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=19</guid></item><item><title>Media Reform Bill Deserves Support</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=17</link><description>The media reform bill up for vote in the Czech Parliament this spring is a hornet's nest of issues, each of which promises to influence Czech society far beyond the bill's pragmatic role as just another EU requirement.</description><category>Media</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=17</guid></item><item><title>King of Exposure</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=18</link><description>Every pendulum turns. Maybe Clinton's appalling, planet-wide confession, besides shaming him and us, will ring the curtain down on the Age of Aquarius and the Age of Exposure. Wouldn't that be great?</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 1998 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=18</guid></item><item><title>Capital and the Earth</title><link>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=12</link><description>Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic? Or the The End of History and the Last Man! Frank Fukuyama makes brief mention of environmental collapse as a possible problem for the stability of the New World Order in the 21st century. The reality is that we need to build another ship more appropriate to the world which we inhabit. Otherwise its Iceberg City baby, and don't expect a sequel.</description><category>Politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 1998 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=12</guid></item></channel></rss>