My insistence on laying the blame equally at the door of the two political parties and the singular class they represent is not to provoke yet another senseless debate about Coke vs Pepsi elections in the US. It’s to remind folks that the game is rigged, rigged, rigged. You don’t try to break into a [...]

“I remember one woman walking by,” said Jason Washburn, a corporal in the US Marines who served three tours in Iraq. “She was carrying a huge bag, and she looked like she was heading toward us, so we lit her up with the Mark 19, which is an automatic grenade launcher, and when the dust [...]

Another way station on our plunge into darkness was passed last week with the publication of Bob Woodward’s new book, The War Within. Along with the usual backstairs gossip dished out by self-serving insiders eager to plant their spin on events, Woodward revealed — or, rather, confirmed — the existence of what he called the [...]

According to this research, merely thinking about another person experiencing harm triggers the same reaction in our brain as when a mother sees distress in her baby’s face. Conversely, the act of helping another triggers the brain’s pleasure center and benefits our health by boosting our immune system, reducing our heart rate, and preparing us [...]

Obama and McCain are both recipients of vast Wall Street generosity, and firm believers in the economic orthodoxy that overthrew the Glass-Steagall Act — leading directly to today. Welcome to the Titanic, an unsinkable pleasure ship. Bank of America is buying Merrill Lynch for $45 billion, AIG needs an emergency $40 billion bail-out from Uncle [...]

Who and Whose are you? BY Stan Goff Confession of faith and renunciation of evil On February 1, 1996, I retired from the United States Army. I had served in the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam as an infantryman, the 82nd Airborne Division, the 4th Infantry Division, 2nd Ranger Battalion, the Jungle Operations Training Center, [...]

Please send along any links on the subject of the Peasant’s War. It was a remarkable time, a remarkable event, and there is much there to help us understand the dynamics of our own dangerous age. I’m basically opening a file drawer, so anyone who might want to come back to this topic (full disclosure, [...]

by Kim Sky 09/07/2008 Okay. Here’s a story that is getting minor attention in the US. UNBELIEVABLE STORY. Dr Aafia Siddiqui was arrested in Pakistan in March 2003, taken to Bagram Prison, Afghanistan, her three young children (US citizens) disappeared. From Wiki (this is verifiable according to about any news source out there), “The US-government [...]

“Come to the table,” Slow Food Nation invited. And come to San Francisco over Labor Day weekend they did—around 50,000 people, making it perhaps the largest food celebration in American history. Tables and straw bales appeared in the heart of the city’s Civic Center around a victory garden on about a quarter of an acre [...]