Chalmers Johnson, who is one of those people I consider interesting enough to have taken the trouble, now that I'm advanced enough chronologically to have developed a grudging and still mostly fleeting sense of mortality, to meet personally, is carving out for himself...
"Invitations to NATO are open to all countries that have democratic systems of government, market economy, civilian control over military, and where there is a sign that the democratic system is working." ~ U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright NATO and...
We're on the list of top 50 news websites – and, if we don't make a success of our quarterly fundraising drive, we're practically down to our last dime. It's really kind of funny, if you think about it. I mean, here we are – three guys and as many computers...
Terrorism of the 9/11-type tragedy is a serious and dangerous problem that people understand, and they take caution when the color alerts are issued. What's amazing is that the same people ignore a far greater terrorism that is on Red Alert everyday with millions of...
Broadcast on NPR from WBUR in Boston, January 30, 2004. A conservative radio talk jock who says he was demoted because he was against the war in Iraq. Listen (requires Real Player). Also, check out Charles Goyette's article in the latest American Conservative...
Objector.org I am currently serving my second term in the Marines and like so many I fell hook-line and sinker the lies told by the current "president," now I find myself doubting my decision to serve again. Thank you for being against this war, it is total...
"What does that rude term [chickensh*t] signify? It does not imply complaint about the inevitable inconveniences of military life: overcrowding and lack of privacy, tedious institutional cookery, deprivation of personality, general boredom. Nothing much can be done...
Turkish Daily News ANKARA - U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz made important gestures to Turkey on Thursday in an interview with private CNN- Turk TV channel, soothing Turkish fears over PKK existence and Iraqi Kurdish leader's ethnicity-based federation...
With the announcement by India's ruling coalition that it will ask for the dissolution of the Lower House of Parliament on Feb. 6, the country is all set for national elections to get underway probably five months before the term of the House ends. By all indications,...
A recent study by a Chinese Academy of Social Sciences claims the emerging Chinese middle class is a myth. All those interviewed who believe they are middle class, are actually deluding themselves or lying. Or are being lied to. A concurrent stream of research by the...
