IraqCritical Voices from Mid-AmericaJoining a cause launched months earlier in ‘military’ cities like Norfolk, the Santa Fe New Mexican expresses dismay at the Pentagon’s choice of budget restraint over troop … [Keep reading >>]
The EconomyCritical Voices from Mid-AmericaThe Norfolk Virginian-Pilot challenges the no-tax-fits-all policy of Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform: “It?s a lot harder to keep up the anti-tax chorus when … [Keep reading >>]
Iraq | CasualtiesSometimes no one can say it like a fired up soldier:”Our first New Year’s resolution should be to find out if the stated reasons for our pre-emptive strike … [Keep reading >>]
Neo Cons | More Adventurism”President George W Bush was sent a public manifesto yesterday by Washington’s hawks, demanding regime change in Syria and Iran and a Cuba-style military blockade of … [Keep reading >>]
Israel | Palestine”JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel approved a plan to spend at least $56 million to expand settlements on the occupied Golan Heights, prompting accusations from Syria on Wednesday that … [Keep reading >>]
Saddam Hussein & The US”December 30, 2003 – Sometimes democracy works. Though the wheels of accountability often grind slowly, they also can grind fine, if lubricated by the hard work … [Keep reading >>]
Genocide12-30) 16:14 PST PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — “A former Khmer Rouge leader expected to face a U.N. tribunal acknowledged Tuesday there is “no more doubt left” that his regime … [Keep reading >>]
The Environment”The Environmental Protection Agency-sponsored working group had a well- regarded mix of utility industry representatives, state air quality officials and environmentalists. Without settling on specific emission reductions, the panel … [Keep reading >>]
Candidate WatchThough a few of the poll statistics are dated, this piece by Renana Brooks in the Nation is a fine presentation of some of the Straussian psychological ‘massaging’ that … [Keep reading >>]
Iraqi JusticeCritical Voices from Mid-AmericaWriting in the Orlando Sentinel (Reg. Required), Robert L. Moore explains why Iraq might not yet be ready to conduct a trial of Saddam cleansed of … [Keep reading >>]
Casualties of WarWriting in Newday, Jimmy Breslin commends the Army Times for being forthright about the costs of war: “And the dead are brought back here almost furtively. There are … [Keep reading >>]
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Tom Paine
---"Dissertations on First Principles of Government," 1795
Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, by Max Blumenthal.
