The U.S Department of Defense announced this week that 9000 US Marines currently stationed in Okinawa, Japan, will be redeployed to Guam, Ha...

  The Korean people suppress inconvenient & embarrassing facts, "forgetting" conditions or events seemingly in the blink of...

This week the Dalai Lama draws attention in military-occupied Hawaii to peoples still colonized. Tibetans & Hawaiians face heartbreakin...

Ann & Mitt Romney with his parents in 1969. George was then a U.S. Cabinet Secretary in the Nixon administration. Mitt Romney is ...

Where are the ghoulies when we need them? It's time skinflint Republicans got flogged with Christmas chains and made to see the error of...

The history of Jeju 4.3 is still now being uncovered. Bitter ideological infighting in Korea between 1948 and 1954 killed 30,000 people on t...

The U.S. Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement is a sham. In fact, a proud noble people will be denigrated to servile raghead status. Ameri...

From cases such as Enron, Bernie Madoff & Co., WorldCom, etc., few of us gullible guppies believe in corporate nobility. Rich folk fle...

Many nations now seek to monitor communications of their entire populations ( UK plans are reported here - link ). The State can access our ...

Teenager Trayvon Martin was reportedly stalked & shot dead in Florida. His attacker misread the situation, acted hastily (perhaps he was...

Went to a seminar this evening about Migration & Identity (thank you Michelle Mann). A key consideration is determining what is successf...

A healthy society is impossible without health care for all. The US system is horrible. Obama's reforms preserve the medical professio...

Dick Cheney take heart. Cheney's new heart is sure to get tongue's wagging. Did the old heart wither through misuse? Was love of ...

Occupy has been beaten-down, gassed & subdued. But the war isn't over. What's next may be more dangerous . Violence...

I'd never heard of Jason Russell before he was reported to have run naked in daytime San Diego, yelling incoherently about the devil and...

Prison assignments for The Pirate Bay convicts have been finalized by the Swedish government. The four founders of the guide, which lists b...

The recent slaughter of 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar is notable as a lesson in misplaced sympathy and lack of contrition. Sure, US govern...

Why could Catherine Greig, girlfriend of mobster Whitey Bulger, avoid giving evidence in open court? Corruption continues between the US ...

Dick "Chickenhawk" Cheney cancelled a planned speaking engagement in Toronto next month, evading possible apprehension for human r...

The BBC reports today that "more than 8000 people" have died in Syria over the past year, including many women & children. In...

The limited liability corporation is a way capitalists exploit good times while abandoning responsibility when gambling incorrectly. Can we ...

On 11 March 2011, a severe earthquake shook Japan's Tohoku region. The quakes & subsequent tsunami killed 20,000 people and damaged ...

I grew up in a loving home. We discussed politics, often heatedly. My family's wide ranging policy suggestions reflect deep-rooted diffe...

Here's an image of northeast Ohio's new Congressional redistricting. The red letters & colors show the nutty gerrymandered distr...

Attorney General Eric Holder, head of the US Department of Justice, tried to justify assassinating America's enemies (link) . But the ki...

  Andrew Breitbart (link) is dead. Should Breitbart be eulogized as pitiful, or troubled, or heroic? Dead at 43, he leaves behind a war...

I've just left the beautiful island of Maui, a place made ugly by electric & telephone cables strung willy-nilly over dramatic lands...

Too many people wait for political leaders to improve their community. The wait is long & largely fruitless. Politics in the USA is th...

"More Jobs" are promised Americans by political candidates. But it's bullshit. Who will hire in substantial numbers? Nobody...

Look carefully at scum selling services to USA's wealthy boss class. Newt Gingrich is one cheap butt-boy, Mr. Mitt another. Senator Joe ...