Author: Steven D

Courtesy of Raw Story comes this story: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Strategic Command announced yesterday it had achieved an operational capability for rapidly striking targets around the globe using nuclear or conventional weapons,...

Who was the speaker of those words? Some Air America host like Laura Flanders or Rachel Maddow? The ever present bogeyman of the Right, Michael Moore? No, it was a Republican, Rep. Jeff Flake (no, I’m not making that name...

Over the last few days evidence has come to light of the deliberate murder of Iraqi civilians by security contractors employed by the British firm Aegis Defense Services: A “trophy” video appearing to show security...

As some of you may know, I’m on the mailing list for Col. Bob Pappas, USMC (ret.), an ultraconservative fundamentalist Christian commentator on the ijnternet. Most of the time I don’t bother to pass on the articles...

Story is here: WASHINGTON – Ten Marines on foot patrol were killed and 11 wounded by a roadside bomb near Fallujah, Iraq, in one of the deadliest attack on American troops in recent months, the Marine Corps announced on...