Author: cskendrick

This week our friends at Democracy For America are announcing another round of winners for their Netroots Nation scholarship contest. If you weren’t on the list of winners and you can’t find the money/time/energy to...

And you thought things were complicated in Iraq already Saudi King Condemns US Occupation of Iraq Yes, you read that right: RIYADH, March 28 — The king of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah, condemned the presence of American...

Promoted by Steven D. Two years ago, I started a short series of diaries on the apparent relationship between countries with rapidly-diminishing water resources and their likelihood in a given historical period to be either at...

Perhaps you’ve heard of the recent unpleasantness between The Russian Federation and the Republic of Georgia. A fine diary touched on this topic yesterday, and I invite all of you to check out allmost liberal...

Short form: This week, we saw a representative democracy launch a massive attack against another representative democracy, with no warning whatsoever. The justification, if I’ve got this right: Hizbollah attacks Israel...