This announcement rom an email announcement I received — the topic of this talk looks like one a fair number of activists and folks who want to stay informed might want to attend and it is free and open to the public: Tucson Community Forum on Domestic Surveillance How is the Government spying on us […]
Rice Is A War Criminal
The campaign to get the Presidential Candidates to call for Rice’s resignation is one of best moves I’ve seen made on the public stage in quite some time. Rice chaired the meetings that explicitly designed and outlined torture procedures to be used on terrorism suspects. I am personally outraged that individuals committed war crimes without […]
Are any of your views extreme? Then you are the enemy.
Robert Gates and Nancy Pelosi spout differing, but equally dangerous, falsehoods on Face the Nation this morning. Robert Gates used a very dangerous new phrase as to who the U.S. military and mercenary troops are fighting in Iraq and elsewhere (such as in the U.S.?) this morning on Face the Nation. We apparently are no […]
Mountain near Phoenix is renamed Piestewa Peak.
Mountain renamed for fallen Arizonan soldier is so much more than a name change. Mountains change on a geological time scale that is invisible to us as short-lived humans. Changing the name of a mountain near Phoenix, Arizona seemed for a while to be moving almost that slowly, but finally after years of controversy, the […]
Hitchens Blasts Clinton on Tim Russert Show
Just listened to Tim Russert (that was my first mistake) this a.m. with Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair & Slate and Andrew Sullivan (Atlantic and Daily Dish). Hitchens as always was controversial for our society in his Atheism and rabidly secularist viewpoints, but his facts are usually right on and easily verified. If what Hitchens discussed […]
Sexual Assault Awareness Month…
The SAAM Day of Action, observed this year on Thursday, April 3, 2008, is recognized nationally as a specific day to focus awarness on sexual violence prevention, and to do my part, I’m highlighting the intolerable acceptance of rape by U.S. mercenaries and the military and governmental institutions that shield them. KBR, yet again, appears […]