Month: July 2007

The public relations campaign to prove that the surge is succeeding is already in high gear, as a recent report by long time Iraq war supporters Ken Pollack and Michael O’Hanlon demonstrates. And apparently it has scared...

Patent Office smacks Monsanto down: The Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected four key Monsanto patents related to genetically modified crops that...

I’ll preface by reiterating what I have said for many months now – that I wish nothing more for our troops to be safe while in Iraq and return home quickly and safely. They are in an impossible situation – put there by the...

Uri Avnery of Gush Shalom, an Israeli peace activist group. published this article a few days ago, A Warning to Tony. Tony is Tony Blair, of course, the next Bushite puppy to enter the no-man’s land of Israeli-Palestinian...

Imagine being on the brink of adolescence in the year 2000, – only minimally aware of the world around you, and really not into the foibles of politics or politicians.  Life was what it was, and you took it pretty...