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The Pentagon’s Imperial Overstretch and Victory Culture (Engelhardt)
Tom Engelhardt, author of the scintillating classic, The End of Victory Culture writes at Tomdispatch.com : Overwrought Empire: The Discrediting of U.S. Military Power By […]
Col. Wilkerson on Romney’s Chickenhawk Advisors: They “make me sick”
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to then Secretary of State Colin Powell, tells Ed Schultz what he really thinks of the Neocon sharks […]
Romney’s Five Wars
Mitt Romney’s speech at VMI on foreign policy has been widely condemned as vague and lacking in substance, sort of like the man who gave […]
Omar Khayyam (383) “it is a shame for anyone to be well-known for righteousness”
It is a shame for anyone to be well-known for righteousness. It is a great disgrace to feel distress at the injustice of the turning of the […]
Acting Like a Democracy, Libyan National Congress dismisses Prime Minister
On Sunday, the elected Libyan National Congress acted decisively to hold a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagur. The same body had […]
Top Ten Things Mitt Romney’s Insults to Spain tell us About Him
Mitt Romney has caused a tiff with Spain by saying that its economic crisis was caused by government over-spending and saying he doesn’t want the […]
Sunday Afternoon Reading on the Exciting Middle East
California gasoline crisis shows Desirability of Hybrid, Electric Cars
The Big Oil lobby is always talking about how unreliable wind and solar energy are. They say the wind doesn’t blow all the time, and […]
Global Facebook Network Connections on the Eve of the Arab Spring (Image)
At first I thought that this late 2010 map of Facebook network connections left the Arab world blank. But I zeroed in, and Tunis, Alexandria […]
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