A meditation on tactical agility and initiative for Martin Luther King Day The Powers That Be literally stand on their dignity. Nothing takes away their potency faster than deft lampooning. By refusing to be awed by their power, the powerless are emboldened to seize the initiative, even where structural change is not possible. This message, [...]

…the Iran-Iraq War… for Iran. So, it was Filipino Monkey, after all. The Pentagon has admitted that the footage of the famous incident of January 6 when five speedboats of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)”buzzed” three US Navy warships in the Strait of Hormuz could have been compromised. “I am coming at you. You [...]

With the dust-up between the Barack and Hillary camps over Clinton’s intensely stupid gaffe comparing war-monger Lyndon Baines Johnson with peacemaker Dr. Martin Luther King, it seems a good time to bring up several embarrassing facts about MLK, his life, and his actual legacy. I’ll start by pointing out what no-one who hangs her/his last [...]

Investigators on Saturday recovered the badly burned remains of a woman and her unborn baby, its tiny hand clasped in death, from a backyard grave and formally charged a Marine with killing them. Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown said the recovery answered the “bizarre” mystery of what happened to Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, 20, [...]

Could someone have messed with the vote in New Hampshire? That is what some people are wondering, after looking closely at the totals in the votes for surprise Democratic primary victor Hillary Clinton, and for Barack Obama, who placed instead of winning as all the polls had predicted he would. And thanks to candidate Dennis [...]

[Forwarded from Keith Shaljian, of Bountiful Backyards, Durham, NC] There was a great meeting last night about the drought in Durham, which you can check out the video of at this link: Some great questions, and truly preview fascist future responses; highlights included a woman asking what happens when the water is ten days from [...]

From our temporarily detained co-owner/moderator, De… a tale of two countries. Those who know me will be aware that for a couple of years I have been “on hold” waiting for the processing of my application for Permanent Residency in Canada. My visa was finally approved in mid 2007, and by end of December I [...]

Two years ago, a group of Marines killed 24 Iraqi civilians — including women and children cowering in their own homes — in a revenge rampage in Haditha. Once the story emerged from the usual layers of lies and cover-up, the atrocity flared briefly on the public stage, and eight of the Marines and their [...]

December 26 Before the NIE estimate the U.S. mainstream/corporate media was all out bent on war, uncritically accepting even torpid variations of the demonization campaign, such as “Iranian weapons” killing U.S. soldiers in Iraq. I could bet a case of sublime Bordeaux that post-NIE, the U.S. corporate media will accept any other excuse the neocons [...]

In my recent Ron Paul rant post, I cited a comment I received via email from a woman whom I will not name, because I do not have her permission. I have exchanged emails and comments with her in the past, and I tend to identify her more with the socialist grouping she belongs to [...]