As the UN is set to declare Somalia in famine, we are treated to grim descriptions in wire stories of children on the verge of death as their families rot in hot, dry refugee camps both on Mogadishu's outskirts and at the borders of Kenya and Ethiopia. The suffering...
Those kooky Afghans, with their crazy Eastern views. Look at them say silly things like: "The Americans will never leave Afghanistan," said Mohammad Ali, a 36-year-old shopkeeper in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, one of seven areas due to move to Afghan security...
I won't go into too much detail as to exactly where I read The Economist, but a few minutes after my first coffee this morning, I was staring incredulously at a quote in a column about Afghanistan. I re-read it four times to make sure I hadn't missed something. No,...
Obama spent several minutes this afternoon droning on and stuttering about the economy, injecting words like "folks" and "busted" into his typically boring speech as recommended by his handlers to get the plebes to relate more to His Harvardness. Among the many things...
During the Bush years, we constantly heard how escalating violence was just Ba'athist or al-Qaeda "dead-enders" mounting their last desperate attempt to crush Democracy. This was proof America's initial occupation or the "surge" was working, Rumsfeld et al said, so we...
Former director of both the NSA and CIA Michael Hayden has been out of public "service" for over two years now. Sadly, though, his mouth hasn't, and for quite the worse. Hayden ran the NSA, and after 9/11 followed many Americans into the fever swamps of terror...
Most of the world wanted Obama and Clinton and especially Biden to just shut up as Egypt's popular revolution played out. The revolution, having succeeded in forcing out the main figure in just 18 days of peaceful protest, goes on, and will likely be carried into the...
Several Egyptians shown on various networks have said they reject the treaty with Israel. It's also been cited in articles I have been reading for days. I just want to make the point that the peace treaty fosters Egyptian collaboration with Israel in its oppression of...
Just now on MSNBC, neocon Dan Senor, former Iraq occupation spokesman, raised the possibility of intervention in Egypt. Host Chris Jansing asked Senor, more or less, why Americans should care about what's going on in Egypt. What are the implications for our country...
A few bits on the Assange "smear" leak: 1) Getting into even more (quite boring) alleged details of the incidents does not negate the accepted fact that these women continued to gushingly pal around with Assange quite a bit after the "rapes." As pointed out by...
