Will Right Wing Madness Totally Consume the Republican Party?

Awhile back, two years ago, I wrote The Politics of Fear. I noted in my article the trend of whipping up fear for fear's sake, illustrating fear that plays upon unknown, often illogically exaggerated...

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...

A Troubling View of Post Obama America, Spring 2010

The day after the historic election of Barack Hussein Obama as the first African American President of the United States, on Wednesday, November 5, 2008, two things occurred worthy of note, mainly due to a...

Left's achievements, Right's parasitism

American Left has been the true reason for America's greatest accomplishments. From winning the First and Second World War under Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, to achievements of American science, to universal education and civil rights, to the computer...

Gunslingers and Human Rights

The Second Amendment does not simply postulate people having guns. The Second Amendment postulates this: "A well-regulated militia necessary for the defense of the free state." It occurs to me that none of the people who have guns in America, except the military, come close...

Security slipping in Iraq

Jack Dolan: Broken deals and repression of Sunni militias may be at root of new violence in Iraq

IGLHRC & Human Rights Watch: Torture of Gay Iraqis by Militias

The International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) claims reports of horrific torture of gay Iraqis by militias "are consistent with patterns of human rights violations being reported from within...

Ten killed in Brazilian slum raid

In a raid conducted by about 300 police officers in the slums using armed vehicles and a helicopter in search of drugs, weapons and stolen cars, Police in Brazil have killed at least 10 suspected drug dealers in operations in four slums in the city of Rio de Janiero. " Ten...

Islamists Overrun Somalia City as Ethiopians Leave

.Somalia may be a lost cause for anyone. With Ethiopia withdrawing likely no one else will try." Islamist insurgents took over the city that houses Somalia’s Parliament on Monday, just hours after Ethiopian...

U.S. and Afghans Plan to Recruit Local Militias

This could work but it will take timeand need more American troops whileit is being implemented.  President Obama may have to send more than the 20,000troops he has planned. " Taking a page from the...

Brazil poll result mixed for Lula

" Brazil's local elections have brought mixed results for President Luiz Ignacio da Silva's Workers' Party. Almost 130 million Brazilian voters went to the polls on Sunday to elect mayors and councillors. ...

Cyberwar fears grow after Georgia websites attacked

"Attacks that hit Georgian government and news websites after Russian tanks rolled across the border into South Ossettia last month have US officials concerned that bands of independent "cyber militias" will increasingly wield power over international relations. ...

Obama Concedes That Surge Didn't Go As He Expected

Sen. Barack Obama said it was "fair" to notice that he did not anticipate that the surge of U.S. troops into Iraq would be coincident with the so-called Sunni Awakening and the decisions of Shia militias to reduce...

Plan to send Mideast refugees to Sudan draws protest

Is Sudan the only place to save those refugee?! Is that the right choice?! Do UNCHR fully aware about the safety for those refugee?!"Palestinian refugees along the Iraq-Syria border are so desperate, they may...

Leaders to admit E Timor abuses

Finally truth has prevailed upon the leaders of Indonesia. After many years of Independence of Est Timor Indonesian leaders have have formally accepted to support militias with weapon , funding and operation help to target pro-independence supporters. This startling...

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