It is pretty hard to listen to some of this without your head exploding.
General Wesley Clark simply states the obvious: being a prisoner of war does not mean you … [Keep reading >>]
“F-15E Strike Eagles dropped a GBU-31 and GBU-38s onto anti-Afghan fighting positions in the vicinity of Asadabad. A JTAC declared the mission successful.
An F-15E conducted a show of force in … [Keep reading >>]
“Shabtai Shavit, an influential adviser to the Israeli parliament’s defence and foreign affairs committee, told The Sunday Telegraph that time was running out to prevent Iran’s leaders getting the bomb.
Mr … [Keep reading >>]
“As mortgage foreclosures continue rising month on month, growing numbers of middle-class professionals are losing their homes and downsizing from four bedrooms to four wheels.
With numbers rising, New Beginnings, a … [Keep reading >>]
So, how does one follow the money here? South Koreans have amply demonstrated that they don’t want US beef imports. Irrational or not, they don’t want it. … [Keep reading >>]
An unlikely crew is agitating against the Buschenian madness:
…a who’s who of the national security establishment — George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, William Perry and Sam Nunn — is calling on … [Keep reading >>]
The Henry Miller Library in the town of Big Sur is one of my touch stones whenever I go down that way. I always buy a book, sit on … [Keep reading >>]
Wow! There have been sporadic reports of protests and riots all over China in the last year, not usually making the front pages but happening in surprisingly large numbers. … [Keep reading >>]
Quite aside from the Olympics, this cannot be good news about China’s environment. It might be good for C02 draw-down, though the critters underneath will not fare well.
“Water quality … [Keep reading >>]
Writing in the Guardian, Michael Tomasky examines what would appear to be a counter-intuitive political tendency for McCain to cling to repudiated republican policies: “On the liberal side, the comfort … [Keep reading >>]
“A group of American advisers led by a small State Department team played an integral part in drawing up contracts between the Iraqi government and five major Western oil companies … [Keep reading >>]
