Conn Hallinan, of Foreign Policy in Focus, reports that the militant neoconservative wing of the Bush administration is pushing an extremely aggressive policy toward China. Despite the fact that; ... while China is modernizing its military, it is 20 years behind the...
Military Recruiters Have Unrivaled Access to Schools
Michael Berg reports: Today, military recruiters have unprecedented access to public schools. The little-known Section 9528 of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 grants the Pentagon access to directories of all public high schools (supplying them with...
Pentagon Starts Space War Training
According to a report from the Pentagon's testing and evaluation office, the Defense Department wants to "target an adversary's space capability by using a variety of permanent and/or reversible means to achieve five possible effects: deception, disruption, denial,...
Hunter S. Thompson, 1937-2005
I'm mad at Hunter S. Thompson. I'm mad at the way he lived his life, whacked out of his gourd, so to speak, on any chemical you can think of, and how he met his death, apparently a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Either way, it was a waste. After becoming a...
Hillary Joins Neocon War in Iraq
Bruce Gagnon is reporting, on his blog "Organizing Notes", that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has come out in favour of a long-term occupation of Iraq; Hillary Clinton, who hopes to become president, is on the Sunday morning talk shows saying that our troops might be in...
Horton interviews Horton
Saturday, between 4 and 6 pm EST, Scott Horton will interview the tastefully named Scott Horton (they're not the same person ... at least I don't think they are.) about the rotten apples who run the "Special Access Program", a black ops torture and humiliation scheme...
More on Maher
Bill Maher sure is popular. I have never gotten so much mail about anything as I got about this. The typical message went along these lines; A) I don't have a sense of humour, so B) I am unable to appreciate the subtle irony of Maher's remarks, therefore C) I should...
Maher: attacking Iraq not a bad idea
On Larry King's mostly unwatchable show, I just caught the thoroughly disgusting Bill Maher say something pretty close to this; "You know, attacking Iraq wasn't such a bad idea; we attacked them because we could. They had no weapons and we could do it. You know, it...
Back to Iraq? ‘Over my dead body’
"Sgt. Curtis Greene loved the military; the structure, the stability. But eight months in Iraq changed him. And the thought of returning led him to a stark proclamation."
Iraq War on trial in Ireland
On 3rd February 2003, as part of ongoing resistance at Shannon Airport, the Pitstop Ploughshares disarmed a US warplane. Within the month, three of the four companies contracted to ferry US troops and weapons had left Ireland. The Pitstop Ploughshares are currently...
