Marines Urinate on Taliban They May Have Just Killed

Gee, why do these Afghans, Iraqis, etc. dislike us so much? Could it be our endless occupation of their countries? How about our rendition and torture of mostly innocent people who apparently have no right to ever be seen again? Or our covert wars and targeted assassination programs? Or how about the fact that we […]

Where is the Honest Debate on Afghanistan?

I know that the MSM can’t walk and chew gum at the same time despite having a 24/7 news cycle and I know that most Americans really don’t know or care all that much about foreign policy, but given that on Saturday the deadliest attack against U.S. forces in the history of the Afghan War […]

FoPo Link Dump: Or News the MSM is Ignoring

I’ve run across a few stories over the last few days that I’ve noticed have received very little coverage in the U.S. mainstream media. Here they are: ~Violence against Palestinians by Settlers is up 152% while violence against Israelis via terrorist attacks [by Palestinians] is down 96%. That number does NOT include the increasing violence […]

News Round-Up

On this day in history, July 10, 1509, theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation, was born France. Some news bits: ~Elizabeth Warren for Senate? ~The GOP has predictably rebuffed the President’s so-called Grand Bargain, which is really a Grand Capitulation to corporate interests on the backs of the middle class, so […]

U.S. Militarism and Women’s Rights

This is a subject that I’ve been interested in for a long time. I’ve always had a hard time rationalizing certain feminist principles with the United States’ hawkish foreign policy. How can we as a country proclaim our unyielding support for women around the world while at the same time advocating military solutions to almost […]

Obama’s Afghanistan Speech: Underwhelming

President Obama’s incessant need to try to please everybody is annoying. As usual, he has tried to split the baby and is bringing an insignificant number of troops home over a period of about two years. Given that his 2009 “surge” added 30,000 troops, he will only be bringing an extra 3,000 troops home to […]

What We Have Given Up to Fund the War in Afghanistan in 2011

The Iraq War was based on a lie and the war in Afghanistan has become a boondoggle of epic proportion and yet we are still in both countries (and a few new ones!), with no clear endgame in sight. The administration admits that there are around maybe around 50-100 Al Qaeda members in Afghanistan and […]