Pleasant Myths, Unpleasant Realities 6 Aug 2012 | 01:06 am

From John Glaser this morning… “The US is engaged in extensive planning and preparations for a post-Assad Syria, largely without telling the American people, in the hopes that they can secure a smoot...

The Hype And The Reality 5 Aug 2012 | 12:24 am

Philadelphia-based journalist Dave Lindorff noted something in an article today… “We Americans are taught it in school. The propaganda put out by Voice of America repeats the idea ad nauseum around t...

Ricochet 4 Aug 2012 | 03:49 am

When a group conducts an insurgency from within the sphere of a populace they are called cowards by those that would obviously prefer they come out into the open and fight conventionally. For the las...

Fallujah Plus Eight 3 Aug 2012 | 12:53 am

Before watching the video posted below, and dismissing it because it’s a report by Al Jazeera, here’s a little primer on the subject from Kelly Vlahos, which appeared in The American Conservative in A...

Around The Horn 31 Jul 2012 | 12:34 am

“U.S. is the driving force behind the fighting in Somalia.” – LA Times File that under headlines that are six years too late. “The controversial trial is beginning in Moscow of members of the Russia...

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Update 23 Jul 2012 | 06:31 am

Goats are frustrating. That’s all I’ve got.

Refuge 20 Jul 2012 | 12:17 pm

I used to live quite close to Gachet. This is from the Tyee... “With this video, we wanted to show what it was like to live and work in one of the fastest changing neighbourhoods in Vancouver. Gastow...

Freedom Fighting 20 Jul 2012 | 01:12 am

What is a terrorist act and what defines it? To most, including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and many others - suicide bombings are viewed as acts of terrorism. That raises a rather unco...

Predispositionism 17 Jul 2012 | 02:15 am

I think Justin Raimondo’s wrangled it the best this morning… “For what seems like months we have been inundated with reports of “massacres” carried out by Syrian government troops against defenseless...