Tag: war
member name: Shava Nerad
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July 23, 2006 02:27 AM EDT --
Shava looks into her crystal ball and says, Israel will establish a buffer zone in southern Lebanon which it will effectively annex, and that buffer zone will include the Litani River.
For over . . .
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June 15, 2006 01:06 PM EDT --
Last month, I commented on how rarely we hear about the reality on the ground in Iraq, nature, the land, the beauty of the place. Today Here and Now featured the blog Birding Babylon. How wonderful! . . .
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April 12, 2006 08:33 AM EDT --
Cheney to Bush: Yes, sir, don't you remember telling me to give
those documents out?
Bush: No, I don't really...
Cheney: I was feeling restless, you were impatient, . . .
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April 16, 2006 12:19 AM EDT --
Remember the Pentagon Papers? Some senator from Alaska had the balls to read a classified document, word for word, into the Congressional Record, and all hell broke loose . Remember some guy . . .
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August 11, 2006 11:09 AM EDT --
A Zogby poll of US registered Democrats shows that 79% of us are happy Lieberman was knocked of the ballot by Lamont.
71% are displeased with Joe's choice to challenge Ned as an independent, . . .
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August 11, 2006 05:42 PM EDT --
I just heard on NPR that, after the Israelis sanctioned a 100 vehicle civilian evacuation convoy from southern Lebanon, an Israeli drone aircraft fired rockets on the civilian convoy, killing a half dozen . . .
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January 29, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
Popular movements have changed significantly since earlier decades -- and I'm not talking about the 60's. In the 30's and 40's and before, the labor movement was a significant power . . .
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February 14, 2007 11:52 PM EST --
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that . . .
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March 24, 2006 12:28 PM EST --
In this Miami Herald op/ed, Walter Cronkite urges Americans to go see Why We Fight:
In my February 1968 broadcast, I called the position of Vietnam a stalemate.
I'm not sure ''stalemate'' . . .
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December 18, 2005 12:10 PM EST --
To me, the basic irony of the War on Christmas flap has been nearly painful on a personal basis. I both enjoy the pagan aspects of the holiday, and despise the commercialization of it.
But . . .
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February 22, 2006 11:58 AM EST --
In a controversial essay in this week's Sunday New York Times Magazine, neoconservative historian and architech Frances Fukuyama apologizes for neoconservatism as a failed experiment:
Radical Islamism . . .
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February 25, 2006 12:05 PM EST --
In a pithy piece titled It Didn't Work in the National Review, Bill Buckley mourns Iraq's lack of self-reliance, staunch old-time conservative that he is:
Our mission has failed because . . .
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March 23, 2006 11:47 AM EST --
When questioned by Helen Thomas, George Bush justifies going to war on video, extemporaneously.
Bush notes that he didn't want to go to war; that presidents never want to go to . . .
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August 12, 2006 11:16 AM EDT --
It is an article of faith to me that the people at the grassroots who engage in warfare (or persistent violence, such as we see in some poor urban areas) are not "evil" but are caught in some . . .
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September 05, 2006 07:34 PM EDT --
Another online community I participate in is Second Life, a free online "game" where people can meet, chat, socialize, build and design.
I was introduce to this virtual world by omidyar.net, . . .
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December 16, 2005 09:11 AM EST --
This week, some have been comparing Bush's low approval ratings to Richard Nixon's, shortly before that beleaguered president resigned. Lubbock, Texas calls him the worst president of this . . .
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February 18, 2006 11:56 AM EST --
MUST READ!!! A columnist today took the Bush administration to task:
Why would future presidents ask [for authorization to go to war, or war powers], if the present administration successfully . . .
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March 21, 2006 12:47 AM EST --
In an understated but staggering article, Reuters reports that the US military has promised to moderate their policy of arresting and imprisoning journalists.
This policy left three Reuters reporters . . .
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February 14, 2006 04:38 AM EST --
Last Friday, Homeland Security staged a real-time Internet war game called "Cyber Storm." The AP described it:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government concluded its ''Cyber Storm'' . . .
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May 29, 2007 02:37 AM EDT --
A new article in the Spring 2007 edition of Parameters, the US War College quarterly, identifies Qtubism as the root of islamo-fascist terrorism. I've written about this before but it bears . . .
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