That the world is "a carnival of buncombe," as H. L. Mencken put it, is an idea that is proved every day – nay, every hour – as the news of our leaders' cluelessness unfolds, but this past week must have had the old iconoclast shaking the earth over his...
"You know, Josh Burkeen is our rep down here in the southeast area. He lives in Colgate and travels out of Atoka. He was telling me lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think...
Anti-pullout protesters blocked a major highway near Tel Aviv, disrupted an Israeli army graduation ceremony for new officers, and tried to march on a highly sensitive religious site in Jerusalem this week. The three protest actions were launched in just three days by...
The Teetering EmpireGood article, but yet again, not mentioning the WHOLE truth. The truth is simple: a military industrial complex has taken over the U.S. government and is waging wars for the pure and simple reason that wars make money. Not to change countries or to...
According to Ambassador Jackie Sanders, the United States proposes to "strengthen" the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the NPT Review Conference being held next month at United Nations headquarters in New York. If Sanders is not...
It would pay us all to remember that the war in Iraq was both unjust and illegal. We launched a war of aggression against a country that was not attacking us, did not have the means to attack us, and had never expressed any intention of attacking us. Thus, America's...
I've known of Kassim Kafarneh for many years. His thick, wild beard is now neatly trimmed and his once unruly black hair is combed in an orderly fashion. His spirit, however, is as free as the day I saw him filming in our refugee camp one Friday afternoon, 17 years...
CARACAS - Venezuela has begun to train popular defense units to help defend the country in the event of war, although not all of the volunteers will receive weapons training. "Not all of the members of the reserves will be armed," said General Melvin...
Many have asked how it could be that a comparatively small group of intelligence analysts in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) was able to get it right on several key Iraq-related issues, while larger agencies like CIA and the Defense...
Don't worry, say the hegemonists, be happy. Forget that we're spending far too much on maintaining the biggest military machine the world has ever seen, and throwing multi-billions more into manipulating and managing "spontaneous" movements for "regime change" around...
