Militias and Despotism: Who is fooling whom?

Although I have never owned a gun, I am not against private gun ownership. There are however attitudes held by many gun owners that are completely ridiculous, and it is time that these be addressed.A gun owner in rural Virginia once responded to Washington Post that "guns...

Eight annas

Bangladeshis with western degrees are the local army of the American empire: they legitimise American imperialism in their own country, in order to safeguard their academic connections with the "mother country": anything that threatens their career "over there", such as a...

you and the atomic bomb

 What would George Orwell have made of 9/11; or American military power and Iran's desire for a nuclear bomb?

Independence Day: The American way

George Bush might celebrate Independence Day like most Americans, with a back yard barbeque and fireworks, but he is working diligently to erase the borders that once secured America as a free independent nation.

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