Month: September 2006

Cross posted at the front page of My Left Wing. (Part I examined the underlying motives of the push for war with Iran.  Part II discusses how the run up to a possible Iranian confrontation parallels what we saw with Iraq...

The war in Lebanon has not ended. Every day, some of the million bomblets which were fired by Israeli artillery during the last three days of the conflict kill four people in southern Lebanon and wound many more. The casualty...

I would like to gloss MikeBaseball’s diary over on dKos with a “call to action”-related link. I urge readers to contact American Airlines and its spokesperson Tim Wagner to express concern over what the...

On the 11th of September, 2001, the destruction of the World Trade Center’s twin towers resulted in 2,819 deaths (or 2,973, depending on the source you use). Following the cleanup, nearly 70 percent of the rescue workers...

Oh, Excuse me Mr. President. Let me rephrase that. “Expert Advice on Alternative Interrogation Practices.” That better? From Sunday’s Washington Post, Section B, Page 5: In a recent statement to the Senate...