By Mickey Walker-October 13, 2013
Isn’t it a bit queer that you don’t hear much more about the 29-year old government contractor who stole U.S. government secrets and made some of them public? The biggest news coverage was about how he had lost his country and had nowhere to call home until the Russians gave him sanctuary at the Moscow Airport. Snowden was his name, and he became...
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By Conn Hallinan - 08.27.13
For almost a century, the Kurds—one of the world’s largest ethnic groups without its own state—have been deceived and double-crossed, their language and culture suppressed, their villages burned and bombed, and their people scattered. But because of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Syrian civil war, and Turkish politics, they have been suddenly transformed from pawn to major player in a pivotal part of the Middle East. ...
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By Donald B. Ardell – 10.06.13
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) has filed a friend of the court brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to declare town council prayers unconstitutional. At issue is a long-standing practice by Greece, N.Y. to entertain Christian prayers to a Christian god by Christian ministers at the start of all town council meetings. In nearly all cases, a supernatural force is asked to somehow makes good things happen for...
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By Loren Adams, 6 October 2013
Student Council elections at Grandview High School are typical of those around the country. Billy is running against Suzy for president while both candidates retain a slate of contenders for respective lower offices.
Billy is running a bully campaign while Suzy takes the more “civil” approach by pledging compromise with adversaries after being elected. (“There are not two Grandviews, but one.” Sound familiar?)
By Michael Faulkner - 10.06.13
We are inundated with significant anniversaries of distant “world-shaking” events. The government has promised that the whole of next year will be dedicated to commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. No doubt there will be room between the soul-searching and solemnity of these reflections to remember a key date in the Second World War - D Day, June 6. 1944 – the seventieth anniversary of which also falls next year. We may expect poignant recollections and celebration of the ‘liberation of Europe’ by Anglo-American forces.
Read MoreBy Mickey Walker - 09.29.13
Arrogantly Bush told us once that he was the “Decider” and that (by George) the rest of us Americans did not get a say. He knew what was best for us. Narcissistic? You decide. In his 2003 State of the Union address, Bush said Saddam had attempted to buy yellow cake uranium from “Africa.” When that baloney got...
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