Author: Captain Future

Asked by a reporter on Tuesday if he would take the nuclear option off the table in what action he might take against Iran, President Bush said he would not. Within hours, the price of oil shot up to more than $72 a barrel, as a...

Steven D’s frontpage article analyzes the astounding Sy Hersh story which says that Bush is planning the extensive and sustained bombing of Iran, including nuclear bombs. This diary adds a little emphasis, a bit more...

Using a variation on a line from a science fiction movie (“Be Worried. Be Very Worried”) TIME Magazine’s cover story is about the reality of the Climate Crisis. The story is currently on pay-per-view, but maybe...

There are really two questions here: what good is protesting the war, and how can protest be effective?  My answer to the second question is likely to upset some people.  So I’ll start with the first. My first...

Before I go off to my fourth annual march protesting the madness of the Iraqmire, I picked out some quotes from an article by Norman Solomon you might not have seen.   The quotes are from Fearless Chickenhawk Pundits who,...