Following the posts of the other day regarding Texas droughts, Iranian heat records and South Korean flooding we have today extreme weather in the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand as tropical … [Keep reading >>]
The incredible, beautiful green of trees, grasses and rice against the blue rivers, blue skies and white clouds at the beginning of Buffalo Boy, seem like postcards of paradise. Bucolic … [Keep reading >>]
The Google e-bookstore is finally open.
Now, instead of going only to Amazon, or only to Barnes and Noble you can go to http://books.google.com/ebooks and find several million books, in e-format.
Many of … [Keep reading >>]
Benin, West Africa has taken it in the chops with greater than usual heavy rains. 44+ dead
Some 1.5 million affected in all of Africa.
Typhoon Megi is heading northwest towards the … [Keep reading >>]
The tropical depression that dropped 20 inches of rain over Manila in 12 hours, flooding 80% of the city for a while is heading to Vietnam, and picking up … [Keep reading >>]
Osha Gray Davidson, on his blog True/Slant got hold of a very moving story from a Vietnam veteran named only Jim. Jim has been haunted by his time in-country … [Keep reading >>]
It was not the most horrific slaughter of innocents in the Vietnam war, but it became the most widely known, and condemned in November of 1969 when Seymour Hersh revealed … [Keep reading >>]
“Construction workers in Hanoi have found a huge unexploded bomb that is believed to have been dropped by the United States during the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975, the … [Keep reading >>]
Perhaps, in his retirement, as John McCain has hoped in his “Worth The Fighting For,” there will be time to contemplate and understand how he has succeeded and failed in … [Keep reading >>]
Writing in Madison’s Capital Times, John Nichols explains why the ‘Vietnam Speech’ had to have been produced by an un-Bush-like figure: “Something tells me that President Bush did not write … [Keep reading >>]
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette thinks that Bush is playing to the wrong audience: “But it’s easy to present a black-and-white version of history to a red-white-and-blue crowd who cannot bring themselves … [Keep reading >>]
What’s on tap when we withdraw–”partially” of course–from Iraq? Tom Engelhardt doesn’t mince words: what’s to come is domination through air power, which entails the continuing slaughter of civilians. The … [Keep reading >>]
