Month: August 2013

. With US support, Arab fighters trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan to become “jihadists” in the war against the Soviets. The lessons learned have been duplicated hundreds of times in any country with a Muslim...

I haven’t heard people talk about it lately, but back when The Sopranos was a hit show on HBO, a lot of Italian-Americans spoke up about what they considered to be negative stereotyping. It was even an issue that was dealt...

Kudos to Eric Lipton of the New York Times for reporting on the scam that is the House Financial Services Committee. I remember Barney Frank’s incessant complaining about how large the committee had grown when he was...

. Cross-posted at the blue site – European Tribune – across the big pond. In Yemen lies the roots of Al Qaeda, the Base, and a long history of militancy and Saudi Arabia intervention. BBC reporter Yalda Hakim in an...

We are drone-blasting the ever-loving shit out of Yemen. I hope it works, because the alternative is that it doesn’t work, and a bunch of innocent Americans become the victims of a very dubious policy. I don’t know...