Pat Tillman’s life had Hollywood written all over it. An NFL star, with the square -jawed good looks of a Marvel Comics superhero, Tillman exchanged the lure of fame and fortune following 9/11 for a dangerous stint in the Army Rangers and lost his life on the battlefield in Afghanistan. The military claimed he died [...]
The reality of the situation is that there will be approximately 3000 less American combat/counterinsurgency troops in Iraq by the end of the month while 50,000 troops, and thousands of private mercenaries, remain. Everything else is just smoke and mirrors.
Giving up is not an option for Sensible Washington, the all-volunteer group that sponsored a marijuana legalization bill that didn’t make it to the Washington ballot this year. The 2011 legalization campaign kicks off at this weekend’s Seattle Hempfest, the largest annual pro-marijuana rally in the world.
A growing number of peace activists are speaking out and demonstrating against the arrest of Private Bradley Manning, who is accused of giving classified documents to whistle-blowing web site WikiLeaks. Some politicians and commentators have gone as far as calling Manning a “traitor” while anti-war activists are embracing his allege role in the documents disclosure [...]
Pakistan has become a slow hell on earth under water: An estimated 20 million- 12 percent of the country’s population- people is affected by the three weeks of floods, which means more prosaically that they are homeless. About 20 percent of the country is under water, the crops and grain reserves have being wiped out [...]
