Count our blessings, an act the eternally pessimistic American left usually shuns on the grounds that it might indicate we've made some headway in progress toward the good, the true and the beautiful.
In a post today under the above title, David McReynolds of the
Socialist Party writes that we should "continue the fight to close down
the Guantanamo Base entirely, including its return to Cuba". It reminded
me of the last time that was an...
Halliburton Corp., the oil field
services company once
headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, told the New York City Comptroller’s office Monday that it won’t scale back its business dealings in Iran, despite concerns from the City’s...
Like so many Americans, I do feel frustrated, angry, and disheartened with the current government. Many friends, colleagues, and acquaintances have shared their sense of betrayal by George W. Bush. For the first time, I decided to actually...
While Bush I had problems with the "vision thing," his son does not. The core vision driving Bush II foreign policy is American global domination through economic and military coercion.
In Washington, DC, it was a highly reenergized Anti-War Movement that rallied on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 25, 2003. Under a blue sky, with temperatures hovering in the mid-60s, they marched by the thousands. They demanded that all U.S....