what-ails-you
   
July 2008
   "He is the voice of the voiceless."
   No more innocent until proven guilty? No more 4th Amendment?
   DHS v. U.S. border residents...
   diplomacy: empire style...
   conflict of interest...
   Homeland Security...?

   
June 2008
   Bush adm., with Iran burnt into its eyeballs, is ignoring the Constitution, Congress, and the chain-of-command, too...
   Some views from the investing community...
   no limits, ever, to Bush administration's attack on the environment?
   American gulag...
   "See, we're not stealing that oil. We've paid for it, with 4,000 lives."
   Homeland Security v. the southern border communities...
   McClatchy exposure of torture...
   one general, one law school, and a few Congresspersons...how about 100 million U.S. citizens?
   Cultures of Resistance.org...
   Murder? Torture? Yes, here's your pass...
   empire 101 (3)
   Empire101(2)...
   empire 101...(1)
   another view of Guantanamo...
   "making the unthinkable thinkable"...
   "liberalism's last fling"...
   WAY series: issues and events on the edge of the radar screen (11)
   The President and Congress do not have "the power to switch the Constitution on or off at will."
   indigenous people fighting back with allies...
   35 Articles of Impeachment...
   Cheney v. Pentagon...
   Joe Bageant talks about class...
   Download our consciousness? What consciousness?
   any guts to the Senate report?
   did you hear about this on TV? Thought not...
   US at pre-revolutionary stage?
   bad for (the munitions) business?
   a logical consequence of McClellan's book...
   Revolution? Something worse than collapse?
   Several book reviews of "Reinventing Collapse"...for your Sunday pleasure...

   
May 2008
   "complicit enablers"...
   supporting the troops....
   war crime jurisdiction is world-wide...
   Somehow, gotta find a way to piss on Iran...
   feeling safe in America...
   WAY series: issues and events on the edge of the radar screen (10)...
   empire, responses to...
   Making the connection between war, inflation, and high gas prices...
   ICEd
   do you wonder how prisons serve empire?
   very subtle, no?
   Do you know what's happening to your pension fund? How about your wages?
   "These pancakes are great."
   From Austin, TX to (Palestine) to Santa Monica, CA...
   Class action suit against Chertoff and a soldier's refusal...
   WAY series: issues and events on the edge of the radar screen (9)
   Conyers' letter to G.W. Bush
   Why don't these stories match?
   plentiful deception...
   Quick look at a few other countries...
   Isn't it about time for McCain to denounce "Pastor" Hagee?
   For Bageant's quote, if nothing else...
   Latin American proxy wars...
   WAY series: issues and events on the edge of the radar screen (8)...
   L-3, your basic militarized "high tech Home Depot"...
   Bush's "Iran problem" intensifying...
   Lest we forget the Pope...
   deep sorrow...
    'covert propaganda' ?
   who benefits from this spending?
   OK, beginning to look just a little like May Day...
   Where we are on May Day, 2008...

   
April 2008
   Iran Update...
   Clive Maund, a stocks chart technician, surveys the world...
   Chris Floyd...
   Spring poem...
   passing the shocks-the-conscience test...
   reframing "success" in Iraq...
   media crimes against humanity...
   neo-liberalism v. the power of peasants...
   need an ad hoc Constitutional exemption? call Michael Chertoff...
   WAY series: issues and events on the edge of the radar screen(8)...
   time to talk about class, anyone?
    new players in the geopolitcal game?
   why is ample global food production leaving people hungry?
   Commodity Price increases just begun...
   Starving people can be ignored but not food riots...
   Political elite take notice of hunger and unrest...
   WAY series: issues and events on the edge of the radar screen (7)...
   Tibet and olympics as political football...
   taking America back...
   "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" i.e., torture...
   Muqtada al-Sadr...not quite what the Mainstream Media has portrayed...
   General Petraeus Goes to Congress...
   is this the price of "freedom"?
   Baghdad on the brink and alerts to war pimping...
   Just a story...
   black swans...
   that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish...
   Why did Congress give Chertoff so much power?
   ways of empire...
   Is April Fool's Day all year now?

   
March 2008
   surge towards what?
   You just never know...
   the surge...
   shovel orders...
   Non-violent imperialism...
   War and rumors of war...
   4000...
   NO al muro...
   What lies ahead...from an astro point of view?
   militarization of the US borders...
   Who Cheney and Bush want to bomb...
   Can you believe we've been struggling against this war so long?
   Bush globalization trumps sovereignty...
   Somebody's got to do it...
    4th Amendment v. police state yielding a clear winner...
   Taxi to the Dark Side...
   threat of financial melt-down...
   Why nuclear hypocrisy?
   Anti-war actions on the homefront...
   Who are the beneficiaries of inflation ?
   Was the Esquire story too much or just the pretext?
   Victor Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning) would be in despair...
   NAFTA driving Mexican emigration...
   Texas Border v. Chertoff
   Gaza...
   WAY series: issues and events on the edge of the radar screen (6)
   war on terror continuing to expand...
   a matter of logic...
   Syria, Iran, Venezuela as targets...Lebanon and Colombia as proxies...
   First advisors, then trainers, than accompaniment on combat missions...sound familiar?...
   Collapse might not happen but...
   what's wrong with this picture?

   
February 2008
   "world" view of terrorism...
   should the border be different than a military operation?
   No friends except the mountains...
   Palestinians taking control...
   WAY series: issues and events on the edge of the radar screen (5)
   "there can be no acquittals..."
   Eight or nine points--out of 10--just for the title...
   Pakistan back in play...in a big way...
   without shame or explanation....
   Sibel Edmonds and the fight to be heard...
   "all that alpha-male shit..."
   the imperial presidency is not going away...
   Redeeming self and others..."Long Shadows: Veterans' Paths to Peace"
   WAY series: issues and events on the edge of the radar sceen (4)
   WAY series: issues and events on the edge of the radar screen (3)
   WAY series: issues and events on the edge of the radar screen (2)
   WAY series: issues and events on the edge of the radar screen (1)
   Cost of war...
   "another brick in the wall..."
   It's sane to be afraid...
   Global empire is not for the squeamish...
   Cut internet cables, what's going on?
   "permanent" v. "enduring" military bases in Iraq...
   Obama is the answer to what?
   playing the fear card...
   "Homeland Security is out of control...."
   How to do it...
   Government uses Real ID Act to militarize the border...
   reveling in "profitable anonymity"...

   
January 2008
   Blowback in the financial world...
   Pakistani chess board...
   militarization comes to the Rio Grande River valley...
   a trillion is a million millions...
   "Lies are weapons of mass destruction..."
   "things that can't go on forever, don't..."
   separation of church and state - must have been a reason for that?
   Something there is that doesn't love a wall...
   REAL ID ACT: designed to solve what real problems?
   Why Would Press Suppress National Security Breach?
   a time to break silence...
   "Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity."
   First Amendment denied...
   impeachment moving toward the table...
   whom do the walls serve?
   Lesser of the Two Evils incantation...
   a stain upon honor...
   "Gestapo tactics" make our border safe for whom?
   Yellow Rose Peace Bus Burns
   The American people don’t know what is happening...
   psychological kevlar...
   "when anything goes, anything can come home to haunt us..."
   "Ya Basta! Enough is enough!"
   real cover-ups...
   Peace Bus
   enough...
   Will the real anti-war candidate please stand up?
   Yellow Rose Peace Bus: New Hampshire Primary - Keeping the war visible
   Why don't the candidates talk about the war?
   habeas...
   Preparation for biowarfare?
    Bird-Dogs gathering in New Hampshire...

   
December 2007
   silence enabling fascism?
   blueprint for closing down a democracy...
   Why did mainstream press not notice this movement before?
   "I have in my hand a list..."
   How does censorship work in the US?
   hope...
   Poets Against the War
   Why would the military community support Ron Paul?
   "Once we find courage we find freedom..."
   No family belongs behind bars...
   Lakota Nation secedes from the US...
   Why would the government destroy evidence?
   these colors don't torture...
   "just muddling through is not an option any more..."
   Invisible wounds...
   socialism for the rich...
   Some views on Ron Paul...
   Drought, it even threatens Jack Daniels whiskey...
   What do we want to call it?
   Why are so many of us sheeple?
   "don't look, don't find" policy...
   Pravda v. NY Times...
   Iran intelligence, what to make of it?
   revisionism v. lies...
   "predatory lenders" ...that's bankers...
   "A revolutionary is someone who won't tolerate injustice" - Nelson Peery
   What does imperial aspiration look like?
   Why dldn't the U.S. have a referendum before OUR Constitution was changed?
   In case you're wondering where we're at...
   Being special as in American exceptionalism but does it excuse crimes against humanity?
   re-assessing assumptions...

   
November 2007
   tactics in fascist expansion...
   working class v. ruling class...
   Several interesting legal developments...
   Showtime in Annapolis!
   everybody look what's goin' down...
   Question of wealth...
   and it's the generals who are stopping attacks on more countries?
   lawfare...
   Thanksgiving's Dark Side...
   Why IS the administration defending torture?
   it's a free country, isn't it?...
   conscience endures...
   Dispatches from America's class war...
   Stories that we don't want to overlook...
   eyes wide open...
   attacking Palestinian apartheid with non-violence...
   replacing the dollar...
   Taking the message to the candidates...
   Action Alert
   Resistance in Olympia and other ports...
   secular version of The End Times?
   Veterans Day in the Big Bend...
   not an accidental WWIII...
   Would US lawyers "rise up and restore the Constitution"?
   impeachment...who's listening to the people?
   "unconscionable acts of cowardice, ambivalence and betrayal..."
   Burma: democracy v. capitalism...
   ACTION ALERT
   "weaponizing" anthropology...
   Time for our own news...
   2008 elections: wonder why no strong Republican candidates ?
   Demonization of Iran...
   voting against US imperialism...

   
October 2007
   Chris Floyd guest-blogging at Salon.com...
   Why there should be a war, a war on the Democrats...
   SOA Watch Vigil: November 16-18, 2007
   Taking a Stand
   The Bolivarian Project
   Empire...per libertynewstv.com
   uncounted victims of empire...
   Women, children and old people as insurgents...
   the business of killing and being killed...
   invitation to passive complicity...
   Who will be blamed for ruining the economy?
   Lesser of two evils?
   Fascism, like a recipe...
   the Israel Lobby...
   Globalization - separating people from their governments...
   What's ahead?
   War as betrayal...
   What's in a peace prize?
   "ATTENTION: Joint Chiefs of Staff and all U.S. Military Personnel: Do not attack Iran."
   distortions which keep us in a state of war...
   Factor CUFI into the Iran equation...
   How wide could the splits within the military be?
   lost causes...
   The new war...
    Imagine Peace
   On the border...
   New Mexico and Texas, be careful with roasting those chilis...
   Liars for a long time...
   Rise of the US Brown Shirts?
   Does the Constitution protect us against Presidents?
   have you heard any denials?
   call it "terrorist" and then you can kill it...
   9/11s for ten years?

   
September 2007
   Democracy? Yes. Fascism? No.
   Spinning Us to Death...
   Seeing is believing, such as Michigan, war mongering and war crimes...
   living below sea level: gender, race, and class...
   Ten Questions for Bollinger...
   more conservatives without conscience...
   Ahmadinejad...
   More assaults on free speech...
   1st Amendment and capitalism...
   Fascism 101...
   fully, volitionally complicit...
   Dead Certain...
   time to reframe war funding...
   Ripples and waves in the financial pond...
   Quote of the week...
   A window of one month...
   Build-up to war with Iran...
   The courage to speak prophetically...
   To the Streets...from Black Agenda Report
    Is this what democracy looks like?
   Free-market fundamentalism...
   How do we stop a juggernaut?
   What is the mission?...
   Self-defense is...
   Conservatives without conscience...
   "Misplaced" nuclear bombs: playing a threat card or actual maneuver?
   People's Tribune...
   military war resisters ...
   Architecture is not justice...
   Battle over or just beginning?
   Funding the war means killing the troops...
   the river does not divide us...
   If you live in fear, you don't want to read this...
   Opening the floodgates of war...

   
August 2007
   We Will Not Be Silent
   Thou shalt not kill...
   It would make Bush and Gonzales proud...
   war is not a game...
    Displacement: in the tradition of empire...
   supporting our troops, Mr. President ?
   with God on our side....
   Another look at Peak Oil...
   Capitalism unleashed...
   Nonviolent resistance on death row...
   cleansing dissent from public places...
   On to another war...
   a non-violent peaceforce...
   the road less travelled...
   Stan Goff on Pat Tillman's death...
   Padilla, who's the terrorist?
   Torture challenged...
   How to frame the discussion...
   What does transfer of wealth look like? This is what it looks like...
   Is hibakusha in your future, too?
   Criminals running amuck...
   civil disobedience...
   John Pilger...
   Journey for Humanity and Accountability, Day 20
   Executive orders...
   Ministry of Truth...
   When you abandon Gaza...
   Democrats 101...
   The Great Game...
   Striking the stone...
   No bridge over troubled waters...
   Militarization from sea to shining sea...
   Impeachment v. War With Iran...
   "news" reframed...

   
July 2007
   Impeachment only off Pelosi's table...
   Journey for Humanity - New York City - final day of tour
   Journey for Humanity and Accountability, media links vi
   Conyers, Sheehan, racism, impeachment...
   the courage to resist...
   politics as unusual...
   Thou shall not kill....
   Journey for Humanity, Montgomery pics
   Journey for Humanity, Atlanta
   Executive Order of July 17, 2007
   Journey for Humanity and Accountability - at the end of Day 14
   Journey for Humanity and Accountability...media links v
   Journey for Humanity and Accountability - Day 14
   Journey for Humanity and Accountability - Day 11
   Journey for Humanity - Day 10 plus media links iv
   Thou shall not bear false witness...
   Journey for Humanity and Accountability - media links iii
   'jihadist terrorists" - the newest ultimate fear...
   Journey for Humanity and Accountability - Day 9
   "outrage fatigue"...
   Journey for Humanity - media links II
   Was this photo in YOUR morning paper?...mine, neither...
   Journey for Humanity - Day 7
   Journey for Humanity and Accountability, Charlotte, NC...
   It's not just the "left" that can see the danger...
   Journey for Humanity: Day 5
   Journey for Humanity...media links
   To Democrats and Republicans: analyze this... Journey for Humanity and Accountability
   Impeachment is ON the table...
   Journey for Humanity: Montgomery Alabama
   Journey for Humanity: Ft. Benning and Atlanta
   "Collateral damage"...
   the oil in Iraq...
   Day 2, Journey for Humanity
   ACTION ALERT
   Camp Casey III
   Numbers speak...
   living with occupation forces...
   waterboarding as baptism...
   Globalistan...
   November Coalition
   Constitution v. Executive branch...
   ACTION ALERT
   Corruption? 5th Amendment manuever? buying silence? criminal coverup?
   People's Accountability Movement Walk to Washington, D.C.: July 10 - July 23
   4th of July
   First Amendment right denied Iraq war veterans...
   Backbone Campaign...
   "People all over the world are rising"...

   
June 2007
   a moral compass...
   assessing the surge...
   Cheney's very public confrontation with Congress - neocon power being challenged?
   US Social Forum
   above the law...
   Veterans for Peace create Arlingtons nationwide...
   A close look at the role of The Nation
   Iran-U.S. tensions racheting up, again...
   Who's supposed to be in charge?
   Free Gaza...part two
   Who pays?
   the public, she knows it all...
   Pentagon v. Peak Oil...
   the Shia Crescent reframed...
   Iran stays on radar screen...
   Free Gaza...part one
   Smoke on CENTCOM's horizons...
   Follow the money made easy...
   Human rights in U.S. federal courts...
   Neo-Cons closing in on Iran, Venezuela, Syria.....more....
   "How Long Must We Support a Mistake?"
   permanent U.S. bases in Iraq...
   Iran update...
   ACTION ALERT
   Latinos go missing from PBS version of history...again...
   Rethinking Palestinian independence...
   Bringing the war home...
   Tracking impeachment...
   Darfur: war on terror follows new oil production...
   Good-bye, America...
   Being bushwacked from right and left...
   torturing prisoners of war as U.S. plan and policy...
   health care need not be solely about money...

   
May 2007
   "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" still equal Torture
   Globalization...
   Time to push the Democrats out of the way...
   Can we remember what it was like before war?
   Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace...
   80-14 for eternal war...
   How they voted...
   Neo-cons creating nightmares...
   So, all Americans, read this...
   Administration plans for summer escalation...
   Gonzales - starting impeachments with unanimity?
   Should local governments take on national issues, like impeaching Bush...
   More than just high gasoline prices...
   burdens of neoliberalism...
   What's behind the color revolutions...
   Time for accountability....
   Interesting, to say the least...
   meshing government and multinationals...
   counting on free elections?
   Faces of empire...
   Speaking truth to power...
   the original view of a day for mothers...
   Trying to make it...
   Lovelock is not optimistic...
   GWOT (Global War on Terrorism)...
   a surge that will never cease?
   Action Alert to MoveOn...
   The power of one.....
   Down in Taylor, TX
   Democrats need to be exposed, not supported...
   power v. powerlessness....
   Some things to think about...like maybe Peak Oil has already hit...
   Hope and courage combine in non-violent action...
    the biggest coyote of them all...
   Tenet trying to defend his tenets...
   Veterans For Peace speak out...
   Where we are, May Day, 2007...

   
April 2007
   Bush uses our troops for what?
   Economic Armegeddon?
   You cease to know right from wrong...
   Thinking about the future...
   impeachment reinvigorated...
   Tracking impeachment of Cheney...
   What constitutes "supporting the troops" ?
   confronting Zionism...
   Lawsuit on depleted uranium...
   activism...
   More society collapse thoughts... or not...
   Citizens' revolution...
   Meeting the Resistance in Iraq...and Willie...
   From Israel to Australia to Venezuela, and back to the US...
   notes on empire...
   families mourn ... killing continues...
   Beyond ideology: cash
   Energy descent...
   Some stories this week that I found noteworthy...
   terrorism by any other name...
   non-violent protests of Iraq war...
   If you're not with Bush, are you against democracy?
   Free Speech and culture are dangerous, it seems...
    outsourcing and privatizing - is it the American or British way?
   checking into the health of our Constitution......
   Send "The Secret" to someone poor, right?
   "A time comes when silence is betrayal."
   Do you see a pattern here?
   Imperialism, how do you answer?
   Hear! Hear!
   Does torture deliver the truth?
   a "free" economy....
    democratic process v. neoliberalism...
   The joke's on us?

   
March 2007
   oil-based democracy edging toward dictatorship...
   "What did the President know and when did he know it?"
   You factor it in...
   Things like Peak Oil...
   Is it too optimistic to think, "make the popcorn and pull up the easy chair" ?
   What Democrats and MoveOn have to offer: not much...
   Economic Hit Men, Some Shady Characters, and a few Good People...
   all-encompassing complicity...
   Do you think it's time?
   power v. profits...
   one Nation, under Neocon control...
   People Speak Out...
   "War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished." (A. Einstein)
   "No, I'm not preaching to the choir; I'm crying out to the congregation..."
   Patriot Act: how much will the Congress condone before acting?
   Seymour Hersh ignored...
   A Stunning Contrast...
   emergent Bolivarian socialism...
   What's this society collapse business?
   Action Alert!
   another illusory "free market"...
   Unusual and dire warning from Bob Moriarty, 321gold.com....
   And the real enemy is ....."Islamic fascism"?
   Will energy depletion and fascism go hand in hand?
   impeachment moving back toward the table...
   Rebellion by the generals?
   NY Times Must-Do List...
   Joshua Frank and Gary Leupp, we agree...
   non-violent actions continue...
   Pragmatics of power...
   Need for a deeper and greener Marxism?
   If any U.S. citizen can be held for 3 years before being charged, what about the rest of us?
   Some views from the marketplace regarding war, survival and other peripheral concerns...
   Just when you think you've seen it all...

   
February 2007
   hard times on their way...
   Plague of Frogs...
   Reasons to nuke the US...
   Nuclear primacy...
   Women empowering themselves...
   no class turns against itself...
   Sydney welcome to Cheney...
   So why is it that U.S. troops are not coming home?
   Will the real terrorists please stand up...
   Tit for tat...
   Don't Do It, Mr. President
   "Somewhere Mr. Orwell is smiling".......Sabin Willett
   Our government has never supported our troops in Iraq...
   The Great White Hope? Or Great Black Hope? Or Neither?
   What if Bush/Cheney had to have bake sales to fund the war?
   Heads Up!
   Can the anti-war movement be more than a Democratic movement?
   Riding with the bad boys...
   Iran as bull's eye...
   Republican insiders finally trying to shut down the neo-cons?
   realities of capitalism...
   Some news that's missing in the mass media...
   Why does the U.S. government need mercenaries?
   Have you sacrificed for the war?
   Contradictions regarding Israel are becoming more obvious, or
   Gonzales: keeping the President above the law?
   Take your pick, lots of possible action...
   Impeachment re-invigorated by Libby trial?
   Jewish anti-Zionists speak out...
   Gunning for MidEast chaos...
   You knew it would come to this, didn't you?

   
January 2007
   "The more likely check on presidential power...."
   Who wants to claim the prize?
   Upping the ante...
   Telling our own stories...
   Mass anti-war protest in D.C....
   track both Chavismos...
   What's on the radar?
   Peak Oil and Climate Change: where do the two meet?
   Economic expansion and the military slowed down, or stopped by Peak Oil?
   Apartheid and terrorism in Israel...
   Congress, afraid of their own power...or, perhaps, ours...
   Some thoughts for Sunday morn...
   What other people are thinking...
   In Search of Peace with Cindy Sheehan
   Does Congress have the courage to stop the President? They have the power...
   Missing Martin Luther King...
   Non-violence v. oppression...
   peak oil connects a lot of dots...including regime change(s)...
   Bush and Cheney have thrown the gauntlet down...
   Continuing Middle East series...
   Essential hope...v. the kind in speeches and prayers...
   US Troops exit Iraq via Iran and Syria?
   The bottom line...
   Annotate this...exposing the lies of Bush's speech, paragraph at a time...
   Does Congress have the right to regulate war or not?
   Support our troops...they now need it more than ever...
   Face Off with our Representatives and Senators...
   Action Alert! Withdrawal, not escalation...
   last chance for the full neocon program...
   Persian Gulf Buildup...
   Escalation...and to hell with the American public...
   Political plutocracy helps create its opposition...
   Bush as serial murderer...
   Stay tuned...war abroad, oppression at home...
   Consequences of not electing the 'right' government...
   Middle East Series...
   Empire orchestrates multinationals and U.S. military...
   A new beginning but let's end this one...
   What do Democrats gain from the Iraqi war? They aren't stopping it...

   
December 2006
   History rewritten in front of our eyes...
   2006, a time capsule...
   Neo-liberalism only sustainable for the ruling class...
   The Ford that few remember...
   Generals went public in opposition but neocons win again...
   Only 11 percent of Americans support the idea of escalation...
   Tell someone I'm here...
   Gates: replacement neocon ...
   Inflation: the somewhat invisible theft...
   Carne Ross spills the beans...
   Harbinger of things to come...
   Whatever the option on Iraq, it's not that of the American voter...
   Founders' cure for royalism...
   habeas: shrunken, eviserated, and barely breathing...
   Middle East Series...
   heart of the Oaxacan struggle...
   "Surge", or "big push", as in more brutal occupation...
   Without monsoons, what is sustainable?
   "Occupation Project"...
   For the record...
   "excess deaths"...
   Lebanon...
   Middle East Series...
   Spokes of wheel always return to center...
   Bring the troops home NOW...
   A book review of "The Power of Israel in the United States"...
   When it's dangerous to think...
   Days of Resistance: Dec. 8-10
   Skinny on the Iraq Study Group...
   When someone says "we have to stay"...here's some answers...
   How's the Empire doing?
   What questions would you like to ask Gates?
   Climate change wreaks havoc on poor; poor can now buy insurance...?
   Petras' open letter...
   Confronting the death penalty...
   Middle East series...
   How to handle total collapse, like in "societal collapse"...
   outsider witnesses...
    ..."socialism means freedom for the poor"...
   HRW needs some perspective...
   Ortega... is he able to break with neoliberalism?
   Sandinismo...dead end?

   
November 2006
   A word from Jimmy Carter on Israel and Palestine...
   Open letter from Iranian President Ahmadinejad...
   Taking a deep look at Zionism...
   Action Alert!
   "indiscriminate merciless killing of a number of human beings"...
    Who's in charge?
   MoveOn...you need to move on...
   Chess playing with very high stakes...
   Geneva Conventions: Bush administration dividing the posse?
   Voting machines yielding implausible results...again...
   In case you're putting all your trust in government...
   How to get the oil and get out but leave military bases?
   Ft. Benning, Georgia, Nov.17-19, 2006
   Impeachment, now that would be something to give thanks for...
   Putting Impeachment On The Table...
   The only optimism is the realization of false optimism...
   A New Middle East?
   Democrats in charge: limited optimism warranted?
   Rachel Corrie would have been proud...
   "there is some shit I shall not eat"
   How the US election affects other countries...
   Heads Up...
   Trickle up theory re-confirmed...
   Put it all together and what do you have?
   Veterans for Peace not blinking...
   A well written letter...thank you, Ray McGovern
   the election is over; the war is not...
   Perspectives from a different arena...and a Sheehan open letter...
   Hard times ahead?
   urban sustainability...
   Unarmed except with courage...
   This about sums up our postion...
   Round 2 on habeas ...
   Gates...same old song and dance...
   Back to reality...
   Post-election thoughts...
   Elections and when elections fail...
   Notions of Justice...
   Imperialism by any other name...
   An offer of redemption...
   Patriotism can be so profitable...
   Getting perspective on Latin America...
   Who owns the voting machines?
   Oaxaca...more than tourism these days...

   
October 2006
   War pimp alerts...
   Role of racism and militarism...
    "clashing civilizations"... a sustainable foreign policy?
   Pursuing, for a moment, the Hitler theme...
   Redress: reparation for a wrong...
   Sentiment analysis...no, not for investing...
   Will the Court back Bush or citizens?
   Charles Maxwell on Oil...
   Must read...Ellsberg...
   The final insult: "actually, you never did live, or die..."
   Who will defend the defenders?
   Didn't Christ say something about hypocrites?
   Who is culpable?
   Heads I win, tails you lose...
   War and rumors of war...
   Workers persist: before, during and after wars...
   Deer hunting with Jesus...
   After the lies...the truth...how Hezbollah defeated Israel
   Ride 'em, cowboy...
   enemy combatants...
   replacement of Bush/Cheney would remedy which evils?
   Who's the target?
   Not long ago Mike Ruppert moved to Oregon to be safe...
   an awakening of hope and reason as well?
   Obrador: is refusal to privatize oil his key to Mexico?
   1215 - 2006: right to writ of habeas corpus... And now?
   They've lined up the dominoes...
   Declaration of Peace...
   GI Resistance...
   Air Strike on Iran: consequences "monumental"...
   Rumsfeld v. the generals...
   Observations by a Resource Analyst and Paul Craig Roberts...

   
September 2006
   habeas repealed, torture legalized and, just in case, a pardon for Bush...
   Meanwhile, in Gaza...
   Iran: arms merchants v. neocons...
   Courage to cry out...
   Doing what totalitarian governments do...
   Mexico: after the 16th of Sept...
   SOAW
   U.S. troops operating in Iran now
   domestic enemies...
   Speaking of the Devil...
   globalization...
   microwaving human beings: so glad there is no residual pain...
   Bush v. Geneva Conventions...
   Mexico: division by race and class...
   Class war...
   Identity Correction and the Yes Men...
   no soft landing...
   immigration v. immigrants...
   seize the truth...
   hearts and minds...
   Theoretical underpinnings for neo-cons...
   more power of one...
   Taking stock...
   voto por voto, continued
   Yes, we definitely need more divining parrots...
   War on the agenda...
   Cindy Sheehan perseveres...
   perpetual fear...
   Mexican revolution continued Sept. 16th?
   The propaganda increases...

   
August 2006
   a Reichstag fire here?
   time to come home...
   Camp Casey at Ft. Hood...
   Some more things to think about...
   not JonBenet...
   More things to think about...
   Things to think about...
   Once more, it's time to "just say no"...
   Obrador using non-violent power to engage Mexico...
   Direct Energy Weapons: a new way to kill people...
   Iran: Neo-Cons' last chance to get it right?
   Not just oil, but water, too...
   Water issues...from Texas to China...
   What can we hope for?
   Lebanon only a stage...
   Sustainable relationships...
   When they cry "wolf" too often...
   American exceptionalism a la neo-cons...
   STOP LOSS: draft by fiat...
   Maybe their proxy war in Lebanon will make them think twice...
   no doubt about the neocon goal...
   Fourth Generation Warfare..
   Immigration, simply push/pull?
   A different take on "An Inconvenient Truth"...
   What went wrong...
   Are We All Watching the Same War?
   War off the battlefields...
   Anti-war activists in the Middle East, war crimes of Tony Blair, and the US...
   Things Israel..
   militarization of border intensifying pressures on citizens...
   The War Tapes
   When the vote doesn't count...
   Running amok...
   JTF6 mission on the border...

   
July 2006
   WHO will be detained?
   Nasrallah - not Condi - births the "New Middle East"...
   Which side are you on?
    Oil is certainly not involved....
   in the formulation of human rights, "if men don't need it, women don't get it"
   US railroads any ceasefire....
   Molly Ivins...
   Nasrallah promised surprises...
   Iraq War and Bush go on trial with Watada...
   Voter Referenda - beyond Berkeley II
   the power of one...
   History eclipsed...
   Voter Referenda - beyond Berkeley I
   Neo-liberalism
   The spoils of war...
   Read and weep...
   The difference in 'news'...
   Cold War, Round III?
   SDS is back...
   sustainability of Earth itself...
   tropical IMF...
   veterans for peace...
   Court draws a line...
   Mexican election: three snapshots...
   Global Class War...
   Sustainability... a people's version as well as a capitalist version?
   ethnicity matters...
   Immigration, Mexico, Oil
   Action Alert...
   Self-evident?
   How federal is the "Fed"?
   Fourth of July
   Be patriotic, resist the War...
   Class Warfare...
   speaking truth...
   More to the South than Bubbas...
   war on children...
   No electricity, no food, no water...

   
June 2006
   how to impeach a president...
   Free press?
   Jon Stewart looks at the "Miami Seven"...
   Non-Violent Action: Training
   Update on "Divine Strake"...
   Are the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan changing tactics?
   What warmongers say but actually do...
   Book review of Endgame
    Non-Violence As Spiritual Engagement
   Non-Violence: A Secular Strategy
   Global Temp Workers?
   blue revolution coming...
   Critical time for Palestinians...
   betrayal myths...
   other faces of immigration...
   Water...The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century?
   Local Big Bend interest...Boquillas...
   Militarizing the Border...
   Hard look at the Israel Lobby...
   Unreasonable Women of Texas (and beyond)...
   juggling accounts?
    "war" reframed...
   Women in Black...
   It's hard to make this stuff up...
   Realignment in the Middle East?
    the windmills were giants...
   Gathering forces on Iran?
   A Father's Day Message...from Michael Berg
   Some words about the South, Texas, Christianity and goobers...
   Anti-war bill or the real deal?
   Strong Support for Watada...
   Bereaved Families for Peace...
   men with convictions....
   Heads Up...
   First Amendment v. Espionage Act...
   Lt. Watada: War is illegal...
   Hard to categorize: Ha Ha Ha America and the Other...
   Back to geopolitics 101...
   Free trade dialectic...
   Congress willing to protect some rights...
   ways of empire...
   Border Alert...
   Who are the real illegal combatants?
   Is it an aberration to kill hajis?
   Just one massacre?
   Drifting Down the Road to Perdition...

   
May 2006
    Halliburton...no Midas touch here...
   Sanctuary Movement...
   Conscientious Objectors to Iraq War...
   Utter uselessness of the Democratic Party...
   Inconvenient truth(s)...
   Not just National Guard troops on the border...
   Save the Internet...
   Protecting global empire...
   working class v. immigrant labor...
   Spying to keep us safe?
   war abroad, war at home...
   The geopolitical shift...
   In our name...
   Supporting troops...
   "And all the dead air is alive. With the smell of America's God." - Harold Pinter.
   Innocence surviving Guantanamo....
   The other Freedom Road...
   Consequences of an attack on Iran...
   A World without Borders...
   "We are Atenco..." - Subcomandante Marcos
   Reporting War and Empire...
   Communication, when one partner is deaf...
   Open Season...
   Crossing the line...
   If not now, when?
   Some of my best friends are liberals. What to do?
   GI resistance...
   Red Alert from the Zapatista National Liberation Army...
   Why is the Israeli interest in Iran a U.S. interest?
   Truth coming home to roost...
   The Other Campaigns...the Good and the Ugly
   In Support of Mutiny
   May Day, once dead in the US...

   
April 2006
   May Day 2006
   The State of the Peak Oil Movement at the Cusp of Collapse...
   Peak Oil Means....
   How is Maliki better than al-Jaafari?
   Let us make a loud and fearsome noise...
   Robert W. Jensen: