You know, I’ve been doing this long enough to know better than to link to right leaning blogs. By doing so initially in this entry I broke the golden rule, which is to stay on topic and not invite negative attention. Thus, I have amended this entry to correct my own ignorant oversight. One can only [...]

Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba’s (Ret.) new report regarding human rights abuses in Iraq and elsewhere, initiated and published by Physicians For Human Rights, has lent credible gravity to the argument that officials within the administration are guilty of war crimes… “The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison accused [...]

Somalia, the overlooked US proxy war that has somehow remained under the radar. In truth, the humanitarian crisis in the country is considered to be second only to the one in Darfur, and even then, the warning signs are looking just as ominous. As Mike Whitney put it recently… “In 2006, the United States supported an [...]

The reaction by many US conservatives, including Republican Presidential hopeful John McCain, to the recent US Supreme Court decision to grant detainees held at Guantanamo the right of Habeas Corpus has been, dare I say, rather un-American. In fact, McCain has even gone so far as to call the decision the worst in the history [...]

First, McClatchy Newspapers has conducted an eight-month investigation of the US detention system created in the aftermath of 9/11. Guantanamo: Beyond the Law is an unprecedented examination of the detention system, one which every free thinking person should seriously examine. It is a five part series that will begin publication on the 15th of this [...]

What can you expect from American politicians when you’re addressing them as an individual that was held captive at Guantanamo for almost five years of your life despite the fact that you did nothing wrong and were eventually released without charge? Very little. First, you can expect less than half a dozen of those that sit [...]

New reports out of Burma have placed deaths caused by the cyclone that recently hit the country at upwards of 10,000 people, far greater than figures initially released. Some 24 million people live in the five regions of the country that were hit. There have also been reports that that 80% of Laputta has [...]

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Recently it was discovered that the Pentagon worked to place various retired military commanders at the disposal of various news networks as ‘analysts’. Internal Pentagon documents repeatedly refer to such individuals as “message force multipliers” or “surrogates”, their role being to reinforce administration policy. It should also noted that the majority of them represent in [...]

Senator Obama lost Pennsylvania by 9.2 points. Of course, he still leads Clinton by 135 Delegate votes and has significantly more financial resources at his disposal. Clinton, on the other hand, has 33 more Super Delegate votes than Obama but is financially struggling. While there is no arguing that the political process should be allowed to [...]