Month: June 2007

In looking back at Israel’s 1967 war, Uri Avnery, founder of Gush Shalom, an Israeli peace activist group, summarizes its effects on the present state of Israel as follows: IN RETROSPECT, it looked as if the whole scenario...

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane & My Left Wing click to enlargeThere is a whole groundswell of people who lean into the TV when Al Gore is on. Endless blog entries are made over the tiniest nuance of Gore’s expression,...

In my own cynical opinion Dick Cheney had three goals when he came into office. He wanted to pump oil in Iraq, Iran, and Libya and he didn’t want no fussy human rights activists telling him why he couldn’t. He got...

Today’s release of the “Family Jewels”–a record of CIA misdeeds in the fifties, sixties, and seventies–provided a further reminder that most of the media, especially the electronic variety, are...