Who killed Ciara Durkin?
And why? A young lesbian joins the Army National Guard. She is sent to Afghanistan in a desk job working with financial information. While on home leave, she says to …
Merchants of War
We’re Number 1! In 2006, the United States agreed to sell $10.3 billion in weapons to the developing world, or 35.8 percent of these deals worldwide, according to the study. …
War on Terror: misnamed, misguided and mismanaged
There’s nothing like a bad metaphor to really sow misunderstanding and mayhem. When the thing being described is as serious and complicated as the threat from stateless terrorists, the consequences …
Resolution to honor soldiers serving honorably in the failed Republican War in Iraq
Ha ha. Let’s put this baby before the American people, shall we? SRES 325 IS 110th CONGRESS 1st Session S. RES. 325 To express the sense of the Senate that …
How do you have a war, especially The War, without politics?
This morning, Booman noted the otherwise un-noted irony (thanks to that famous liberal media!) of having war profiteer/Nazi collaborator General Motors sponsor Kens Burns’ documentary on PBS, The War. Whenever …
Good and Evil
I read about the famous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment in college just a few years after it took place. Even then (soooo many years ago!) it was understood to be …
On condition of anonymity…
an honest diplomatic response to Bush’s phony “climate summit”: A senior European diplomat attending the conference, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the meeting confirmed European suspicions that it had …
Move On wordplay
Tristero at Digby’s place looks today at “the problem of modern rhetoric” within the Right/Left political debate, prompted by the supposedly right-wing answer to MoveOn.org. MoveOn’s Eli Parisher makes the …
September 2007 US troops deaths in Iraq
From USA Today As of Sunday, Sept. 30, 2007, at least 3,803 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according …