Addressing a recent post on Small Wars Journal:
The massacre at Fort Hood is a reminder that the War on Terror is not fought just in south Afghanistan or Mosul. It is a global war also fought in an office building inside a military base in Texas. Many counter-terror analysts focus on the Pakistan connection and [...]
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Domestic Security, Terrorism, and Hasan
November 20, 2009 – 10:31 am
“It’s like looking into a mirror after you’ve done a ton of coke off of it”
October 9, 2009 – 11:06 pm
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U.N. General Assembly: Resources
September 23, 2009 – 7:16 pm
Highlights:
NY Times summary.
President Barack Obama vowed increased cooperation with the U.N. and spoke of four pillars necessary for a successful global future: nuclear disarmament, promotion of peace and security, environmental protection and a global economy that offers universal opportunity. Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi spoke for [...]
Americans don’t care about income gaps because we’re racist?
August 3, 2007 – 6:33 pm
I write about it all the time. Most Americans are feeling the squeeze. We’re dealing with rising costs for fuel, education, health care and food, while our wages are falling. Yet our country is still considered the richest most powerful on the planet. It’s not hard to see where those riches [...]
545 days left
July 24, 2007 – 9:39 pm
I was in the middle of my daily perusing of blogs, when a tidbit on Glenn Greenwald’s site caught my attention. John Yoo, one of Bush’s key legal advisors, argued that the President has the legal right to torture children by crushing their testicles.
From a 2005 debate with professor and international human rights scholar [...]
Why can’t we afford it?
July 18, 2007 – 2:58 pm
Michael Moore’s recent film “Sicko” has once again put the spotlight on universal healthcare. An issue that otherwise gets far too little coverage despite the wishes of over 60% of the country.
Along with healthcare we’re told that programs like welfare and social security are just too expensive.
Then we’re told by neocons that Bush is great [...]
Our idiots in Congress
July 16, 2007 – 4:34 pm
The Republicans have been threatening to filibuster a lot of Democratic legislation these days. The threat (not an actual filibuster) has kept the following legislation off the table: (Courtesy of Open Left)
January 17, Reid Amendment to Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007: a bill to provide greater transparency in the legislative process.
January 24, [...]
Firefighters group doesn’t like Giuliani
July 12, 2007 – 10:33 pm
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani rise was meteoric after 9/11. The media proclaimed him America’s Mayor, thanks to his inspired leadership in the wake of the terrorist attacks.
Or was it inspired? Groups like the International Association of Firefighters are coming out against Giuliani:
Yesterday, Harold Schaitberger of the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) [...]
We don’t need allies anyways
June 27, 2007 – 4:37 pm
Who would you trust more?
This guy?
…or this guy?
A new Pew Research poll shows that U.S. allies (and yes, even Britain!) put more trust in Russian President Vladimir Putin than they do in George W. Bush.
Sure, Putin is suspected of poisoning politcal opponents, jailing others and killing journalists (and then there was the really weird time [...]