Category: Politics

Will Durst is looking on the bright side of things with the Iraq War. A guy I used to know told me when this thing started that it would be great for other reasons. He said that war widows usually have lots of cash from insurance policies and are easy to pick up because they…

Now you have a rare chance to profit from the corruption of one of America’s politicians if you can make it to the auction where his ill gotten gains will be sold…is it any ownder that the U.S. is such a screwed up place? I read an essay by Howard Zinn today at Smirking Chimp.com…

You gotta love Chavez who has balls enough to openly insult the President of the United States and seems to be doing a great job governing his own country at the same time without US support….Nice work Hugo…. Some of my favorite Chavez remarks below… cd Chavez is one of Bush’s fiercest critics and has…

Here’s something to make Andrew Dice Clay seem puritanical….Watch the movie Lord of War… Get Angry…. cd WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 16 (OneWorld) – International arms makers and traders have violated every UN arms embargo of the past decade with almost total impunity, watchdogs said Thursday in a dossier submitted to the Security Council. The world…

She did it! Liberia finally requested formally that Charles Taylor be extradited for trial. Liberia has formally asked Nigeria to extradite former Liberian President Charles Taylor. A spokeswoman for Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said he would put the request to other African leaders. A UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone wants to put Mr…

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has had a far warmer reception in Washington than he did on his last St Patrick’s Day visit, when the doors of the White House were slammed in his face amid mounting criticism of the IRA. A year ago, America’s growing doubts about armed republicanism were crystallised by the response…

I love the French. I would move there but I don’t think anyplace cool allows Americans to emigrate anymore… cd Stone-throwing protesters clashed with police at the end of a march by several thousand university and high school students in Paris and later outside the Sorbonne university. A kiosk and a car were set ablaze…

As much as I would love to see this come to fruition, I can’t help but feel that it would be too late – the damage is done. William Goodman is the author of Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush. He recently appeared in Republican territory… on Joe Scarborough’s television show. It actually sounds…

I am curious to see if the US will be willing to take a stand on the extradition of Charles Taylor from Nigeria to stand trial for war crimes. Taylor was no friend to the US, but he still has plenty of money and power and no one seems willing to put pressure on Nigeria…

The best part of this story is Condi playing the coke guitar in front of the cameras… The rest of the story is simply a ploy by U.S. militarists and their arms manufacturing lobbyists to bring more death, destruction, and carnage to an increasingly peaceful South America. As the peace increases, so does resistance to…