This coming Tuesday, President Obama will address the nation to justify his strategy in Afghanistan for a war that can’t be won, and that the US, NATO and Canada can’t even afford to wage. General De Gaulle was known for his toughness, his sharp mind and quite often his sarcasms. De Gaulle once said: “You [...]
How could it be possible that anyone in his right mind even mentioned the name Dick Cheney as a potential candidate in 2012? Yet it is happening, not on Fox News, but in Newsweek. As the millenium fears have been transported from 2000 to 2012, the conspiracy theories are in abundance from the ones who [...]
The summit of political leaders who are to gather in Copenhagen have been given an extra incentive towards strong action in combating man made climate change recently from various sources. Despite the recent controversy from leaked emails in what some have termed Climategate, both developing countries, the Commonwealth of Nations, and the world’s scientific experts have given their endorsement of sweeping and binding accords.
For the second year in a row, in what is more a political statement than anything else, gun buyers in South Carolina will pay no sales tax this week-end. The so called “2ND Amendment sales tax holiday” is from Friday until midnight today. There will be no state sales tax on hand guns, rifles and [...]
In his new book, The Family, journalist Jeff Sharlet takes us inside Christian fundamentalism’s most elite, disturbing and secretive organization. The Family is fundamentalism’s avant-garde, on a mission to wage a spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the “new chosen”, Senators, Congressmen, Generals and foreign dictators [...]
