The United States' favorite "rogue nation" just exploded another atomic bomb and I say it's our fault—well, not yours and mine, directly—but the government of the good, old US of A.

Why? you may ask. Easy. Without a credible bomb, the US would have invaded N. Korea, as it did… Read full post »

Chris Floyd volnteers to defend Bush, et al, at war crimes trials. 

The whole article is here.

II. In Defense of George W. Bush
Faced with prosecution for their admitted deeds, the principals of the Bush Administration would have only one defense: precedent. They would have to show that thei… Read full post »

The Dallas Principles are as follows

In order to achieve full civil rights now, we avow:

1. Full civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and 
transgender individuals must be enacted now.  
Delay and excuses are no longer acceptable. 

2. We will not leave any part of our community behind.

3.… Read full post »

Letter I sent to Harry "I knew I had a spine when I entered the Senate" Reid 

I am appalled that you and your colleagues are blocking the closing of Guantanamo because you are afraid of imprisoning suspects in US prisons. We have numbers of convicted terrorists in our prisons already… Read full post »

Glen Greenwald points to a TNR article by Jack Goldsmith (professor at Harvard Law School, member of the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law, former Assistant Attorney General in Bush administration) that—from the right—makes a cogent case for the continuation of th… Read full post »

This article is by Abdul Malik Mujahid, a Pakistani-American. He is an Imam in Chicago, President of Sound Vision, and serves as the vice chair for a Council for a Parliament of World Religions.

The complete article is here. 

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According to the CIA World Factbook, an Afghan's li… Read full post »

The entire article is  here.

 First graf:

The embrace by any society of permanent war is a parasite that devours the heart and soul of a nation. Permanent war extinguishes liberal, democratic movements. It turns culture into nationalist cant. It degrades and corrupts education and the media… Read full post »

Read David Sirota's article on Obama's "stand" on health care legislation:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/16/sirota/print.html  Read full post »

President Obama:

You are now, unequivocally, complicit in war crimes. You are hiding evidence by going back on your commitment to the ACLU to release torture photos. You have just placed Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who was complicit in the "No blood, no foul" regime at Camp Nama, in charge of the expandi… Read full post »

I have been inspired by RickyB to post the letters I have written to Obama with the hope that, as with RickyB's, you will write to Obama to express your disasagreement with what he is doing in too many areas of policy.

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 At your Tuesday press conference, you… Read full post »