James Fallows to Dick Cheney: “Shut up.”
Who's the best person to lecture China on a recent test that suggests China's interest in militarizing outer space? According to James Fallows, it's not Dick Cheney.
How is the U.S. handling the psychological needs of returning Iraq vets?
Not very well, according to this article from Salon.com. Here's an excerpt: Perhaps most troubling, the Army seems bent on denying that the stress of war has caused the soldiers' mental trauma in the first place. (There is an economic reason for doing so: Mental problems from combat stress can require…
Bill Maher on John McCain, the “surge” and religion
If you want to know what Bill Maher is up to, check out this article at Salon.com. I found the interview to be equally thoughtful and frank--the antithesis of political talk. For instance, on McCain and Iraq Maher says: It's already a partitioned country. What are we fighting for over…
Who else is Iran arming in Iraq? What the media isn’t saying.
Salon's War Room presents Fox's coverage as a case of especially shoddy journalism regarding Iran's alleged provision of arms to forces hostile to the US in Iraq: Let's say for the sake of argument that the administration is right on two key points: that Iranian arms are indeed flowing into…
Noam Chomsky on the reason the U.S. won’t relinquish control of Iraq
Chomsky wrote that it all has to do with corporate power and oil. Here is an excerpt from The Independent, an article entitled "The US says it is fighting for democracy - but is deaf to the cries of the Iraqis" Sovereignty in Iraq might well lead to a loose Shia alliance controlling most…
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