Month: November 2005

by Patrick Lang (bio below) Senator Joe Biden has “stepped up to the plate” to give us an outline of what American plans in Iraq should be over the next year and a half. As a leading contender for the Democratic...

this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing. 3 images and poem below the fold A man pulls his shirt as he mourns the...

Originally posted at New International Times Some three weeks after Katrina made landfall, I referenced (at the NIT)the complete collapse of the judicial system in Orleans and the surrounding parishes.  There were some...

Last week, I listened to PBS’s Charlie Rose get a rundown on the “top hits” in current world news — from Al Qaeda roots and terrorism to North Korea to Condi Rice’s Middle East initiatives to the...

Crawford, TX (Rotters) – President George W. Bush this morning was attempting to address a crowd of supporters at his ranch and very nearly wound up addressing Cindy Sheehan’s Camp Casey antiwar activist movement....