Author: Steven D

Bad News Blackwater

Bad news is putting it mildly. The military has investigated the two notorious September 16th shooting incidents by Blackwater “security guards” in Baghdad, and they are placing all the blame squarely on...

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Winning the War?

Someone posted a comment in my earlier story today calling for a general strike claiming that the only way we can end the war in Iraq is to win it. But which war in Iraq can we win? Against which enemy? There are too many sides,...

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On October 17th Take the Day Off

Just a reminder: Please join a General Strike on October 17, 2007 (anniversary of the original Solidarity strike in Poland) to protest the war and the inaction of Congress to rein in the Bush administration. If you can, stay...

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Contempt Citations in USA Scandal are DOA

DOA is an acronym which stands for Dead on Arrival. And apparently that is the current status of the Congressional contempt citations for which we’ve been waiting against former White House counsel, Harriet Miers, and...

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Don’t Breathe

Sometimes, in the rush of current events, important stories, stories significant to each and everyone of us in our daily lives, are ignored. The war, GOP corruption and sex scandals, death by Blackwater, Moveon’s...

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