AMERICAN RAJ: LIBERATION OR DOMINATION
FINALIST IN 2009 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR NON FICTION
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One of history’s most important lessons is that politicians should never be given a free hand to borrow money to cover the costs of wars, overseas adventures, or military spending.
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Is it finally light at the end of the Afghan tunnel, or an oncoming express train? Total confusion erupted last week as the US, NATO, the UN and the Kabul government all issued differing views on new plans to end the nine year Afghan war by bombarding Taliban with tens of millions in cash instead of precision bombs.
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Here in normally arid southern California, we’ve just endured a week of torrential rains, tornados, flash floods, and mud slides. Some roads have even turned to rivers in the great western monsoon.
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Is there any way to peace between Israel and Palestine?
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What will happen if U.S. control of other cultures is perceived as authoritarian ruler havens?
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The silly semantics about whether the surge was a "tactic" or a "strategy" were an absurd ruse; a pointless distraction from the broader point. These wars were wrongly decided, and wrongly prosecuted.
Chatman
What's most disconcerting is that, in all of the talk about this crisis in the U.S. media, there's not one single, solitary word about slashing defence spending.
Stormcrow