At dawn, much of what was left of the Occupy Wall Street movement was convened at Foley Square in New York City, after being completely -- and forcibly -- cleared from Zuccotti Park in a 3 a.m. raid on the camp. Reuters has a great live video and Twitter feed here....
Latest Update: When WDAV insisted on keeping Lisa Simeone as a host of "World of Opera," NPR dropped "World of Opera" Friday from the list of shows it distributes nationally. WDAV says it will now distribute the show itself, and that Simeone isn't going anywhere....
Washington is a strange place. It presents one of those rare intense dichotomies in the country where you can occupy the same space with the most powerful people in the world and the most powerless at the very same time. The super rich and the super poor. Those with...
I originally posted this today at The American Conservative blog, @TAC Buried in an amazing poll released by the Pew Research Center today that says 1 in 3 post-9/11 veterans believe the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were ‘not worth fighting,’ is an assertion that 6 in 10...
The Net is abuzz today with the irony, that Peter Van Buren, a 23-year foreign service officer with the U.S Department of State, may be the only department personnel to be fired over the WikiLeaks' scandal. Van Buren, who just published the book, We Meant Well: How I...
The National Football League, which almost went dark this season because the front office and NFLPA couldn't agree on the terms of their players' gazillion-dollar contracts, is launching its 2011 season on Sunday, the 10-year mark of the 9/11 attacks. If the very idea...
Amid the release of 35,000 new cables by WikiLeaks this week comes new and tragic, but perhaps not so surprising news about the five deaths of Iraqi civilians, reportedly at the hands of U.S forces in the early to mid-2000's. In each case the military investigated,...
Spc. Charles Graner, the sick low-level bully and ringleader in the scandal that rocked the already shaky U.S war effort to its deepest, darkest core in 2004, has been released from jail, three and a half years ahead of schedule. Recall with revulsion the many now...
So what could really go wrong with an Air Force class that says nuclear war is moral and righteous -- because the bible tells us so? Well for 20 years no one had said a peep. But after a number of complaints by Air Force officers and a Truthout article last week by...
Found this over at CopBlock.org, one of the most fearless law enforcement watchdog sites I've ever come across. This "standoff" was staged recently by the South Suburban Emergency Response Team (SSERT) in Oak Forest, Illinois in response to a call from a "concerned...
