Month: January 2010

. US Ambassador Glaspie’s cable on her meeting with Saddam reports that President George H.W. Bush “had instructed her to broaden and deepen our relations with Iraq.” Saddam, in turn, offered “warm...

“We had a 10-year plan to take all this down,” he said in an interview. “And if we do it right, I think we can pretty well dismantle the entire regulatory regime that is called campaign finance law.”...

It seems to me that the progressive blogosphere is useful to the Democratic Party and liberal interest groups because it is a free source of media counterinformation to the crap the corporate media spews out on a 24-hour basis....

This is the first of a two-part series to Africa Harvest, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet. In our Nourishing the Planet project we’re looking at how farmers and researchers all over...

I see they finally got around to hanging Chemical Ali. Ali Hassan al-Majid was the Iraqi official in charge of the gas attacks on the Kurds in 1987-88. These were a series of gruesome atrocities that only began to disturb the...