Can it happen here?

Part two. Part one outlined Dallaire's narrative. Here I share particularly lucid and horrible details. When I posted on Lt. General Ro...

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to work inside a weak, rigid, and highly political bureaucracy, this book will convey more...

The trouble with books by Mike Davis is that he so thoroughly and insightfully describes the agony of our condition that this reader feels ...

A lot of themes that I blog about come together in this story. A scholar from London, Ontario was flying from Quebec City to Milwaukee last ...

Mostly I'm not paying attention to the Republican candidates for President. Why should I? But if what TPM Election Central says is corr...

In April 2006, Prof. Martin Scheinin gave a public lecture on the topic “Human rights in the fight against terrorism” at the University of P...

Today the United States, mostly, ignores the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Six Day War in which Israeli seized what are now, in the United Na...

I was going to write a serious political post tonight -- and maybe I'll get to work on it later. But this afternoon the nesting Great Bl...

From The News Blog: Steve Gilliard, editor and publisher of The News Blog, passed away early Saturday morning, June 2nd. He was 41. If...

Yesterday I had the chance to listen to politicians here or feed my soul by helping out on National Trails Day by joining a work crew out ...

Art by Deepal Shah, University of Hertsfordshire The other day Barbara Crafton wrote: Most of our lamps and fixtures now sport those...

Agh! The USS GW Bush, last of the old dreadnoughts, has bumped into a minnow, its rotted hull has ruptured and it is going down fast ...

I haven't seen her in two and a half years. I wonder if she is still the compact, demure but friendly, presence she was then. That's...

121. Iraq. 120. Sudan. 119. Israel. 118. Russia. 117. Nigeria. 116. Colombia. 115. Pakistan. 114. Lebanon. 113. Cote d' Ivoire. 112. Ang...

Some people understand that responding to fanatical violence with violence only makes for more violence. Back in March, 2001 Taliban rule in...

The Philip Burton Federal Building is imposing -- a bit imperial I think. This afternoon I joined a constituent delegation organized by Peac...

Probably not like this, however heartfelt the sentiment. Celinda Lake, a national Democratic pollster, shared some thoughts (and poll findin...

I just don't have it in me to believe that dead people of "my kind" are any more valuable or missed than dead people of someon...