Month: August 2006

…We are living in a reactionary period and the U.S. government has invoked and provoked more fear into the hearts of their citizens more so than any act of terror from foreign hostiles have. Humans have this wonderful...

Right now, both Democrats and the progressive movement are flying high. Our fifty-state strategy has yielded record candidate recruitment. With a 43% Democratic turnout in Connecticut, evidence continues to mount that Democrats...

Somalia: Security vacuum compounding effects of drought The Context     * Several years of successive rainfall failures have particularly affected pastoral and agro-pastoral communities that are being forced to travel...

Here is a repost of a January 2005 >k9disc Invisible Man Special: Truman’s National Security Act of 1947 gave us a new cabinet level official: The Secretary of Defense. Given the fact that the Administration keeps...

By now, plenty of voices in the info-sphere have picked up on the remarkable timing of yesterday’s announcement of the foiled terrorist plot originating in Britain.  It gave Dick Cheney, Tony Snow and other Bush echo...