Author: populist

…What is it that makes our republic so unique in the annals of history? It is the three documents bequeathed to us by the founders of our nation, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and...

…Isn’t it ironic that just this week the commanders in charge of forces in Iraq, after having suffered the painful blowback, the natural consequences, of having so punctiliously trained our children to kill, having...

…While the mainstream media system is certainly awash in the blood of over 40,000 Iraqi civilians, 2500 US military personnel, and the hapless victims of Haditha, Fallujah and scores of other My Lai-like atrocities...

…A major lesson from recent-past wars (Afghanistan, Bosnia. Rwanda) has told us that stability cannot take place without the airing of crime and human rights violations, and accountability for missing persons. After four...

…I can hardly improve on Harold Pinter’s eloquence so I’ll just add to it by calling the Bush-Cheney administration an unchallengeable practioner of reckless and outrageous policies at home and abroad and being...