Author: Arthur Gilroy

Blackwater, Inc. and the Privatization of the Bush War Machine. Our Mercenaries In Iraq by Jeremy Scahill in Counterpunch. Blackwater began in 1996 with a private military training camp “to fulfill the anticipated demand...

In her fine diary about the ongoing effort to depopulate and then Disnefy New Orleans, Bob Herbert nails it again regarding New Orleans, blksista asked this magic question about both Barack Obama and Ray Nagin. Just what are...

In a comment on her wonderful post In Dire Need of Creative Extremists (The text of which was mostly Martin Luther King’s “Letter From A Birmingham Jail”), Real History Lisa wrote “Salon today has an...

Amidst all of the seemingly futile lambasting of El Presidentcito (“Our little president” as Gore Vidal refers to him in the article referenced below.), there seems to be absolutely no understanding of how he and his...

Jeff Huber asked this question in title of his most his recent post: What Are We Doing In Somalia? Now Jeff appears to be one of millions of well-meaning servicemen and ex-servicemen who have worked for the military in the faith...