Month: January 2007

photo courtesy olivia This is an Unhosted Cafe. More lovely flowers at Olivia’s Blog Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)

Sudarsan Raghavan has an excellent article in the Washington Post that looks into the Sunni/Shi’a divide in Iraq and how the Americans are perceived. It is written mostly from a Shi’a perspective, although not...

[cross-posted from Daily Kos] Now that we’ve broken a corrupt party’s stranglehold on political power, it’s time to put the corporate Goliaths of the media on notice. I was pleased to see a healthy debate two...

The great American mythmaking machine,in one of its multifaceted attempts to rewrite history,has maintained that the landing of US forces at Normandy was the event that tilted the balance in favor of the allies.Paul Craig...

Those CIA types are strange. Check out this obituary: Starting from the corn fields of Indiana, Samuel Smith set out on a mission around the world. His job with the CIA took him and his family to far-off destinations before...