Unemployment Insurance in a War Bill
Sometimes it's relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina, sometimes it's hate crimes legislation, sometimes it's education funding for veterans. One day soon it will be free kittens for children with...
View ArticleOn Movements and Obama's Agenda (a response)
If teacherken writes it, I'll usually read it. This morning he has a thoughtful (as usual) diary on the rec list (as usual). The subject is the apparent dearth of mass movements in American politics...
View ArticleGalactic ecological and anti-corporate message of Avatar, reaching one...
I think the last flick I've seen more than three times in theaters was Star Wars in 1977 when I was a sprite 11 years old. Yesterday, I saw James Cameron's "Avatar" for the third time eagerly sharing...
View ArticleUS Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight (video)
This episode of Freedom is a Constant Struggle features Michael Wong and Jeff Patterson, who are two war resisters.
View ArticlePretty Well Dicked
[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.] One of the most sacred and previously upheld unwritten rules of Presidential politics is that former Presidents, without question and with 100% adherence, always...
View ArticleBlessed Are the Warriors
An accusation frequently hurled at the Terrorists is that they use the religion of Islam to justify their violent, thoroughly anti-Islamic actions. The right wing militarists suggest that this is no...
View ArticleA holocaust? Yes; "The Holocaust"? No, not yet; hopefully never.
Identifying with anti-terrorUSt$ reflects my personal politics. While I am not, have never been or likely ever shall be a militant, I abhor the past and current history of terrorUSts in general,...
View ArticleVIDEO--The Zionist Occupation of Palestine
This episode of Freedom is a Constant Struggle has just been uploaded. Enjoy, and please help spread the word! The guest is Jeffrey Blankfort, who was raised in a Jewish non-Zionist family. He produces...
View ArticleUnrecognizable
[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.] A Supreme Court justice vacancy must be filled this summer, the SEC actually acted like a regulatory agency, alleged financial reform bubbles away in Congress, the...
View ArticleMike Wong: Resistance to U.S. Wars
This is a newly uploaded episode of Kiilu Nyasha's TV show Freedom is a Constant Struggle. For more archived episodes, check out: http://kiilunyasha.blogspot.com
View ArticleThe Albatross: Wealth, War, and Lies
Kossacks, you know the tale of the Ancient Mariner, the one who shot the innocent albatross and who brought down a curse on ship and crew because he offended the spirit who bideth by himself in the...
View ArticleThe two faces of COIN in Afghanistan's "last offensive"
As the Obama Administration tripled the number of combat troops in Afghanistan, their mission has been repeatedly redefined. The latest version calls for a major offensive to be launched in Kandahar...
View ArticleAmerican militarism makes us poor
Our founders warned us about the dangers of militarism in no uncertain terms. John Quincy Adams admonished us not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. Thomas Paine told us that the author of a...
View ArticleIGTNT's attempt to declare itself holy ground
Before the advent of militant monotheism cut down all the holy groves of Hellas and the dark fire caverns of Persia, the world was dotted with sanctified ground upon which no combat could take place...
View ArticleJohn McCain vs the POW/MIA Advocates
Senator John McCain’s primary opponent, J.D. Hayworth, is talking the 2008 Republican nominees’ many efforts to cover up the fact that the United States left hundreds of POWs behind in North...
View ArticleA Youtube kind of war
Living so deep within the imperial web, behind so many layers of propaganda and paranoia, it is difficult to comprehend that there is somewhere still opposition to the power structure. The tendency on...
View ArticleThe Clausewitz-O'Neill Principle
The Atlantic's cover story for August is The Point of No Return by Jeffrey Goldberg, about Iran's nuclear weapons program and whether (or when) Israel will attack it -- and what the U.S. might do about...
View ArticleIran, Israel, and The Atlantic: Day 3 Report
Here are summaries and my comments from The Atlantic's discussion about Iran, Israel, and the Bomb, Wednesday's installment. Monday and Tuesday's report is here. Wednesday saw posts from Gary Milhollin...
View ArticleIran, Israel, and The Atlantic, Day 4
Here are summaries and my comments from The Atlantic's discussion about Iran, Israel, and the Bomb, Thursday's installment. Previous installments: • Monday and Tuesday. • Wednesday. Thursday saw a post...
View ArticleIran, Israel, and The Atlantic: Day 5 Report
Here are summaries and my comments from The Atlantic's discussion about Iran, Israel, and the Bomb, on Friday, August 20. Previous installments: • Monday and Tuesday, August 16 &17. • Wednesday,...
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