Month: August 2006

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb used in warfare. Three days later, President Truman began a pattern of lies that characterized the nuclear age. But another lie also emerged from World War II,...

Cripes: In his new book, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created A War Without End, Galbraith, the son of the late economist John Kenneth Galbraith, claims that American leadership knew very little about the nature of...

Nearly three out of four Americans think Iraqis are better off now than before the invasion, a survey shows. Iraqi blogger Riverbend might beg to differ. She describes how Baghdad’s middle class is being expelled by...

(cross-posted at Deny My Freedom and Daily Kos) When all else fails, break the law It’s a mere 2 days until the primary in Connecticut. Once again, I trekked up to the Norwalk offce to do volunteer work for Ned...

When Booman invited me to guest post here on BMT for one month I instantly knew what kind of project I wanted to try. I wanted to do an “open source” project that would build over a period of weeks. I wanted it to...