EcuProphets

Troops in Afghanistan. Negotiations with Iran. Barack Obama gets to see how his foreign policy ideas might work, since the Republicans are busy adopting them. Of course, the people putting these ideas in play are the same people who accidentally leaked this to everybody in the USA: (more…)

There’s an old story about three umpires.
Umpire 1: “There’s balls and strikes, and I call them as I see them.”
Umpire 2: “There’s balls and strikes, and I call them as they are.”
Umpire 3: “There’s balls and strikes, but they ain’t nothing til I call ‘em.”

There’s national sovereignty and there’s colonial tutelage, and they ain’t nothing until we call ‘em too. (more…)

The boy wonder is facing the judge:

Efraim E. Diveroli, the president of AEY Incorporated, who is now 22 — was expected to enter a plea today in federal court in Miami, The Associated Press reports. He faces charges of fraud and making false statements to the United States Army in the course of procuring munitions for the government.  (more…)

Half the people are below average. Including the children.

TomDispatch went on vacation but left us an article by the author of Just How Stupid Are We?  by Rick Shenkman: (more…)

Iraq — a democracy made in its conqueror’s image? According to a New York Times expose, in some respects, perhaps: 

A number of the half-dozen badly wounded Iraqis interviewed for this article said they had been effectively drummed out of the Iraqi security forces without pensions, or were receiving partial pay and in danger of losing even that… (more…)

Better late than never.

The US Senate has approved a bill to remove former South African president Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress from the US terror watch list…  (more…)

Every baby boomer has to remember this:

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Here’s why Boumediene v. Bush is so important:

An eight-month McClatchy investigation in 11 countries on three continents has found that… dozens of men — and, according to several officials, perhaps hundreds — whom the U.S. has wrongfully imprisoned in Afghanistan, Cuba and elsewhere on the basis of flimsy or fabricated evidence, old personal scores or bounty payments. (more…)

He insists that change comes from the bottom up (specifically, 1:25 into the clip).

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Instead of hope for turning the direction of our war-torn nation continuing to build momentum, the Nixon era started, in a sense, forty years ago today. It comes back to me as if it were recent. I was delivering food throughout the Adirondacks that summer, stopping to catch a glimpse of the tv at every stop I could.

I’m praying for this nation, for the health of Senator Ted Kennedy, who delivered this eulogy for his last surviving brother, and for all whose hearts conceive of this earth as a shared planet.