Folks like Noam Chomsky, Paul Street and others have been pointing this out and it is worth repeating: Americans are progressive socially,…
I was thinking about something William Blum wrote recently. It is a lengthy quote but I feel it is important to provide…
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them…
Someone made the observation that a recent statement released by the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU) resembled our own Declaration of…
Simon Bolivar would be pleased. The 12 South American countries are putting his ideas to the test by integrating into an intergovernmental…
When one company reports this much as profit for one year you ought to know something is wrong. Keep in mind that…
Lady Justice is not blind. Rest assured, she is not blind. Well, maybe in one eye but not the other. My hypothesis…
"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy." Thus spoke Henry Kissinger. Some soldiers -…
President Bush has a way with words that some fail to truly appreciate. In late 2000 Mr. Bush told his $800-a-plate crowd…
In a previous essay I wrote about the high numbers of Iraqi’s (99% are Iraqi with only 1% being foreigners) held in…
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