Through an evening of discussion it emerged in my mind that I live a sublime life. I truly do ( Read more... )

1991: 50,000 Iraqi civilians murdered by aerial bombardment. Untold casualties when US military lifts ban on aerial flights of Iraqi helicopters, leading to crushing of popular nation-wide revolts ( Read more... )

Not that anyone cares that much, but I do! Here are my Fall classes ( Read more... )

If you want to find the blueprints for the US imperial grand strategy, you needn't look to a Republican or a Right-Wing Hawk ( Read more... )

The World Bank warns that the Palestinian Authority will collapse if Western financial aide is not funneled into the institution. Poverty and utter despair, even starvation--something very uncommon, despite media obfuscation--in the Middle East, endemic only to Iraq at the moment ( Read more... )

Currently, we have the largest prison population in the world. Larger than China--an authoritarian government with 1 billion plus people ( Read more... )

Here in the "land of the free" we were finally made aware of one of the most beautiful holidays in our world:May Day ( Read more... )

Peak Oil is a phrase which describes the conditions in which oil production in existing oil fields declines as resources decline simultaneously when oil demand accelerates due to economic growth ( Read more... )

The US stakes in the Persian Gulf are without precedent. Without "critical leverage" over the two rising economic challenges of Western Europe and Northeast Asia by way of controlling Middle Eastern oil, US global domination will go the way of the dodo ( Read more... )

Iran has benefited from the war on Iraq: its only regional threat besides Israel has been dismantled and driven into genocide by the divide-and-conquer tactics of the hypocritical colonizers; having enriched uranium, it has solved power issues and expenses from costly oil-based energy, a prospect for major economic growth; it has gained ( Read more... )