Month: July 2005

Lawyers for detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, filed an ethics complaint with the medical licensing board of California asking that the commander of the Guantánamo detainee hospital be disciplined on the grounds that...

(Also posted at DailyKos.com) New York State’s Hudson River valley is a lush region, rich in history.  It is the setting for FDR’s family estate, West Point and Washington Irving’s Sleepy Hollow.  The...

Crossposted at Draft Zinni! | It’s Security, Stupid! and Daily Kos Col. T.X. Hammes, in his insightful book The Sling and the Stone, which looks the emergence and evolution modern insurgency (what Hammes and others call...

I know this isn’t a sexy topic like Karl Rove, but I feel (as progressives) we need to do all we can as a community to help bring an end to the genocide taking place in the Darfur region of the Sudan.  Some 400,000...

Joe Wilson gets smeared for exposing a lie–and then called a “peacenik” and enemy for criticizing an administration he had worked to support.  Whistleblowers are so reviled that laws (rarely enforced) have...