(Washington, DC) – The US government should transfer Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) command of aerial drone strikes to the armed forces and c… Read more: President Obama, Human Rights, Cia, Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, President Bush, Drones, World News
After their product Agent Orange has crippled millions of lives in Vietnam from the Vietnam War and onward, the US producers have continued to avoid taking responsibility and blame it on the US government instead.
Many critics argue that there is insufficient control over private military and security contracting. While it is true that there is still a way to go in that regard it is also true that some significant steps have been taken. But even improvements can have their own problems. Sometimes it seems like a case of [...]
I’m all for exclusive relationships. Except for today. Today, I’d like you to ask your man to commit to every woman in the world. Guys, If you made it to sentence #2, this is your chance. Committing yourself to women’s rights is HOT! And while roses and tubs of those Trader Joe’s cookies are awesome, [...]
I’m all for exclusive relationships. Except for today. Today, I’d like you to ask your man to commit to every woman in the world. Guys, If you made it to sentence #2, this is your chance. Committing yourself to women’s rights is HOT! And while roses and tubs of those Trader Joe’s cookies are awesome, [...]
In early 20th century Berlin, an ex-convict shoemaker — caught in a legal no-man’s land where he can neither obtain work without a residence permit, nor earn a permit without work — purchases pieces of a Prussian Captain’s uniform to expedite his needs. Dressed as a Prussian Guards Captain, the shoemaker commandeers a group of [...]
Review of Known and Unknown: A Memoir. By Donald Rumsfeld. Sentinel. 815 pp. $36. Donald Rumsfeld begins his smart, serious, slashing, and self-serving memoir with an epigraph, according it pride of place with a page of its own: “What one needs in life are the pessimism of intelligence and the optimism of the will.” -Former [...]
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — “Take a look at this,” Tom Symalla says, reaching down to yank at a piece of gravel poking out from the surface of Morghan Road. It tears loose easily, exposing bare dirt beneath the engineer’s boots. He speculates with some U.S. soldiers and another engineer on what this means about how well [...]
While the numbers of Americans killed in service in Afghanistan are often reported, the numbers of the wounded are under-reported. The number of wounded service members per month is approximately six hundred. That’s twenty a day or nearly one every hour. Many people find that surprising, as reports of those wounded in action rarely gain [...]
Bio-terrorism – anthrax attacks following September 11. By Dimitri Khalezov STAFF WRITER (An excerpt from the book: “V for Vendetta and R for Reality. The “third” truth about 9/11, or Defending the US Government, which has only the first two…” by Dimitri A. Khalezov) The anthrax attacks following 9/11 seem to be almost completely forgotten [...]
