There are a few other interesting things that I’ve been following. One of them being the recent actions of US military contractors in Iraq who, in two separate instances last week, opened fire in Baghdad leading to standoffs between Iraqi Security forces and the contractors themselves (which were from Blackwater Security). Chris Hedges of the [...]

Sitting up last night reading the morning editions of the European Daily’s, I cam across the trailer for Michael Moore’s new film ‘Sicko’ which has, of course, already caused controversy in the US and it’s not even slated for release in theatres until June 29th. The best clip in the trailer is when Moore shows [...]

Yesterday, the House passed a $646 billion dollar defense bill for the budget year beginning October 1st – yes, you read that correctly. There are a few arguments going on about the bill, but none over its sum. Do you have any idea what an infusion of one third of that money into a healthcare [...]

I have never been fond of the term ‘The War On Terror’. The reason? It probably has to do with the fact that those who coined the phrase are the world’s foremost militarists, have aided in the survival or emplacement of a variety of despotic regimes over the last sixty some odd years, have played [...]