Month: October 2007

[also at Lutton Square] Because we’ve been so successful up to this point… The US intends to supply Mexico with a $1bn aid package to help combat an increasingly costly and violent war against drugs, according to a...

As the United States tries to persuade Afghan president Hamid Zarzai to use herbicides on the opium crop, I have a question. Where are the pharmaceutical companies currently buying their raw opium that they need to make codeine...

Three weeks into the latest incident, the Blackwater story is still on America’s front page, and despite heavy pressure from the State Department, the Iraqis aren’t letting Blackwater go. BAGHDAD (Reuters) –...

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing click to enlargeSeriously, there is probably a group of individuals, hunkered down in the bowels of the Pentagon or White House, coming up with a catchy phrase...

In fourteen hundred ninety two Columbus sailed the ocean blue… He sailed and sailed and sailed and sailed To find this land for me and you… I remember singing that in the first grade as our teacher told us why we...