Cool air seeps in through the barely open kitchen door while I wait for water to trickle through the filter; the light from the hallway outside the door shows me its progress.  The headache should have been gone an hour ago; perhaps its just a shadow of these long years of shame and guilt that press on my mind.  The coming winter evokes thoughts of ( Read more... )

Off to France.  Au revoir mes amis!

Hi, everyone, I've made another post on my other blog, Adventures in Absurdity.  Check it out, if you will.  I suggest you take a look at all of John Pilger's documentaries on Google video.  That is all.

Of the slaughter of children in Iraq due to U.N. sanctions during the '90s, thanks to Clinton and Blair.

This is vitally important information that you won't find in the major newspapers, on network news, or CNN, mainly because the U.S. government is taking huge steps to keep it from being widely publicized and is sabotaging the publishing of scientific studies proving the toxicity of dust produced by depleted uranium (DU) weapons:

" Dr. ( Read more... )

I was too disgusted by this article not to share it with you all.  While hundreds of thousands of people are still displaced by the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, several, often unqualified, private corporations are scoring hundreds of millions of dollars in no-bid contracts, which will be paid for with moneys that were supposed to be ( Read more... )

Good job voting, everyone!  The Dems have won the House and the Senate is currently neck-and-neck.  That's not to say that the Democratic Party, many members of whom are just as much Neo-Con, warmonger, corporate pets as their Republican counterparts (indeed, the Democrats were some of the loudest voices in the call for a suicidal attack on Iran ( Read more... )

I just wanted to remind everyone to vote today.  I already have, and I'm in Japan, so you have no excuses!   Demand your voice be heard!

And here's a good list of anti-war candidates in the country taken from whatreallyhappened.com

"THE ANTI-WAR PRO-PEACE CANDIDATES  Here is a list of some of the many candidates running this fall who are opposed to ( Read more... )

In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The ( Read more... )

He did it; George W. Bush signed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 two days ago, first thing in the morning on October 17, 2006, a piece of legislation that abolishes habeas corpus permanently and allows the President personally to choose who is considered an "unlawful enemy combatant."  Meanwhile, the American public offered up a great, ( Read more... )