It's amazing to see the roundabout justifications in the media regarding the Obama administration's increasingly close relationship with Uzbekistan and its monstrous dictator Islam Karimov. As I've written previously, the Uzbek government is one of the worst human...
The Portland school board is set to adopt a rule to give "counter-recruiters" skeptical about the value of joining the military the same access to high school students that military recruiters enjoy under federal law. Instead of standing out on the school sidewalk...
The US government is supporting whatever kind of tyranny it can get its hands on in Honduras, the state and its corporate colluders. The coup government, police, and military are all benefiting from lavish US support and the corporatist feudal drug lords and their...
I finally got around to reading the Michael Hastings piece in Rolling Stone on Obama's decision to go into Libya. Regrettably, I think Hastings is far too forgiving and simply not critical enough of the administration and perhaps of his sources. I won't respond to the...
As the Iraqis find the back-door to getting U.S. troops out of their country, is Afghan President Hamid Karzai trying a different tack - - - "God forbid, if a war breaks between Pakistan and America, we will side (with) Pakistan," Karzai said, according to a...
It is truly startling at how many self-styled ‘progressives’ are still intent on apologizing for Barack Obama’s Bushian foreign policy. Perhaps the most disturbing article that I have read by apologists for Bush-lite was Robert Creamer’s “A Great Day: Obama Ends the...
I'm currently reading Harvard psychologist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker's new book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. To read, it is at once a delight and an aggravation. But I'll spare you the book review. For now, I just wanted to...
On Friday, October 21, 2011, Mr. Obama, invoking one of his campaign promises, announced the complete withdrawal of all U.S. Troops from Iraq by "the [Christian] holidays." Over the weekend, he and his media arm further spun the story, claiming the deadline...
When Gadhafi was killed, Libya's new leaders in the National Transitional Council made official statements that he had been killed in the crossfire of an ongoing gun fight. That was a lie, and when videos of Gadhafi's capture came out, showing him being severely...
Robert Burns of the Associated Press today suggested that the "limited military intervention" style of the Libya War is going to replace the massive occupation style of Iraq, where the US has spent eight and a half years and conservatively $800 billion. Which of...
