Afghanistan | Afghanistan
May.09.2009
Barack Obama holds a mirror in his hannds. The mirror is all dirty of fresh blood. The face of Barack is surprised, perhaps a little disgusted. Someone might spot a little grim. He is not smiling. The mirror reflects the face of a white man with a very dumb look and a smile in his face....
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May.05.2009
When congressional Democrats convened, on Monday, to authorize another $94.2 billion for war in Iraq, and Afghanistan, they rejected the president's request for $50 million to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. In what may be the first of many signs that the honeymoon between Congress...
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May.03.2009
Afghanistan is rich in history and culture, unfortunately the war continues.
Seven years have passed; the U.S.A. still has troops and contractors in Afghanistan.
What should the Obama administration do next?
I returned to sources I had studied in 2001 in order to get a feeling for the progress or...
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Apr.30.2009
While the mainstream media remains squarely focused on what the World Health Organization considers a growing threat of universal outbreak of swine flu, even in Mexico, the nucleus of the disease, confirmed cases number somewhere around one-tenth of one percent. Still, there is no reprieve in sight...
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Apr.30.2009
While the mainstream media remains squarely focused on what the World Health Organization considers a growing threat of universal outbreak of swine flu, even in Mexico, the nucleus of the disease, confirmed cases number somewhere around one-tenth of one percent. Still, there is no reprieve in sight...
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Apr.23.2009
These ideas are from The Nation's monthly feature (10 things you can do . . ) The war in Afghanistan is a quagmire bordering on a catastrophe. With a current price tag of $2 billion a month, this drawn-out conflict took the lives of 155 American soldiers and 2,118 Afghan civilians last year--the...
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Apr.11.2009
There was an ugly admission yesterday by the U.S. that forces in the Khost Province killed "four combatants," and that one of those killed was a woman.
And on Good Friday, too, the Defense Department confessed that the four Afghans slain were not soldiers, but "a mother and three...
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Apr.09.2009
What better way to celebrate the second night of Passover, and the eve of Good Friday, than with Leon Panetta, director of the Central Intelligence Agency's, news that his agency is "no longer" in the black site business, and that all remaining clandestine detention centers will be shut...
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Apr.03.2009
In a speech he gave at the Waldorf Astoria nearly 48 years ago to the day, on April 27, 1961, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy said: "A wise man once said, an error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."
One can't help but think that, if given the chance, he would...
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Apr.03.2009
When they arrived in Strasbourg, the president and first lady Michelle Obama were welcomed by Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. Image Credit: Jason Reed of Reuters
Obama Uses Guilt And Poor Reading In France
Barack Obama refers to the Marshall Plan and slams the idea of the pursuit of...
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