For some reason this story has not yet made the news in the U.S.: On Monday, March 3, the U.S. Navy fired a Tomahawk missile at a house in Somalia where they claimed an al Qaeda member, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, wanted for questioning by the FBI for involvement in the...
Today Congress passed a resolution (HR 951) condemning Palestinian rocket attacks that include a strident defense of recent Israeli tactics in the Gaza Strip. The resolution also condemned Iran and Syria for "sponsoring terror attacks," and demanded that Saudi Arabia...
Dennis Kucinich is far ahead in his bid to win re-nomination to his Congressional seat in Cleveland. He is currently getting 53% in a five-way race, with his nearest opponent getting 31%. Kucinich will have a Republican opponent, but he has not received less than 60%...
Associated Press has declared Ron Paul the winner for reelection to Congress from his Houston-area district. The votes are still being counted, but Ron Paul is currently winning with 70% of the vote. Paul faces no Democratic opponent in November, so he will be...
I'm writing this in response to an article in last week's Haaretz entitled 'Palestinians' doomsday weapon, non-violence, fails test'. It's a better article than the title might lead one to believe and accepts an important underlying premise: that non-violence from the...
Via Daniel Larison, the latest telling of what must be the biggest whopper of the 21st century: Well, we were not involved in the world before 9/11, and look what happened. That's Karl Rove, on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. Of course, there's no reason to pick...
The independent National Security Archive has just published recently declassified documents regarding the birth and evolution of the infamous Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) that was leaked to the New York Times and the Washington Post in early 1992 and that later...
Mother Night We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. ~ Kurt Vonnegut   "The Nukes of October": Codenamed Giant Lance, Nixon's plan was the culmination of a strategy of premeditated madness he had developed with national security...
