Month: October 2007

The simple answer: because the military cannot be trusted to serve me and my family. It’s not just because the top general is willing to commit more of his soldiers for blatant IED fodder, the commonplace and accepted fact...

Peter Daou, Hillary Clinton’s Netroots Liaison, just sent an email linking to Taylor Marsh’s piece. In March, James Webb introduced legislation demanding that the President seek congressional approval before striking...

Still no White House response on the Blackwater issue, but plenty of news to report in the last 24 hours on the PMC on everyone’s front page.  All of it’s bad news for Blackwater. First, a new Pentagon contract...

The title, Why a nuclear Iran is necessary, is my own summary conclusion of the article, Why did Israel attack Syria?, by Jonathan Cook, which was published in the Electronic Lebanon on September 28, 2007 Jonathan Cook is a...

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.–Margaret Atwood In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there...