Author: pygalgia

On the issue of torture, Gov. Bill Richardson says exactly what all the candidates should be saying:     We learned this week that the CIA destroyed tapes of American officials committing torture. The American people...

When I read this story, I almost could not believe it. This is a total outrage:    WASHINGTON — In a nondescript conference room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 1st Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside listened last week...

One of the major environmental issues in this region is the contamination left from uranium mining. When the mines shut down in the late 80’s, there was no clean up of the radioactive tailing’s, and the result has...

The whole “will Gore run?” discussion got me thinking “why the hell should he?”. The level of our current political discourse is so demeaning that I can’t see how any reasonably sane person would...

I’ve been trying to write a post on Iran that would compare the rhetoric with the reality, but I haven’t been having much success in making it coherent. Now I see that Scott Ritter has written what I meant to say:...