America’s Nuremberg Trials

Those who violate their oaths, take note There is no greater need in America today than the need to get the Federal government out of our lives. That is the opinion expressed by individuals across the political spectrum. America’s Constitution laid out a limited role for the Federal government. That role was clearly defined; nearly all of the functions for government staying either with the states or the people; instead of respecting the limited scope of the duties assigned Federal government has ignored every barrier... Read article

Bush chooses war and tobacco company profits over children’s health care

As promised, George W. Bush has vetoed a highly popular bipartisan bill that would provide health care for uninsured low-income American children. These children happen to have parents who aren’t lucky enough to have jobs that provide health care benefits for their families. That is not an unusual situation to be in these days. But Bush has no empathy for these children. He has always enjoyed the best medical care when he’s needed it. And, as he once told one of his professors at Harvard Business School, Bush... Read article

Loaded Language and Loaded Guns

The Meaning of Opposites One can no longer understand US governmental policy on the basis of conventional language or traditional wisdom. Language itself and its long-established meanings were long ago twisted and distorted in order to deceive the people. Now war is peace and terror and occupation is liberation. In order to make sense of what is happening, it is important to understand everything within the context of a specific economic philosophy, and the distorted capitalist system that spawned it. That ideology was crafted... Read article

Video: Rageh Inside Iran

Rageh Omaar embarks on a unique journey inside what he describes as one of the most misunderstood countries in the world, looking at the country through the eyes of people rarely heard – ordinary Iranians. It took a year of wrangling to get permission to film inside Iran but the result is an amazing portrayal of an energetic and vibrant country that is completely different to the usual images seen in the media. Loading...  Read More →

A Very Expensive Quagmire

Last week, the White House sent Defense Secretary Robert Gates to Capitol Hill to lobby for increased funding[1] to keep the killing going on in Iraq for another year. The updated price tag: over $190 billion. For one year. And for what? The situation in Iraq has been called a quagmire. I like to keep my facts straight. So, looking up the word “quagmire” at Dictionary.com, I find that the official meaning, per the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, is “a situation from which extrication is very difficult.” Yes,... Read article

Farewell to Africa, good morning Iraq!

It was time for me to come home from Africa. I didn’t want to leave but sometimes fate intervenes in strange ways and the next thing I knew I was at the Jo’burg airport, suitcase in hand. But as one door closes, another door opens. At least that’s what they say. The first thing I did when I walked in the door once I got home — besides hugging the kids and sorting through the mail — was to apply to go back to embed in Iraq. And I just got an e-mail from Baghdad saying that my request... Read article

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