By Leslie on Jan 22, 2008 in Current Affairs | View Comments
According to the Guardian five former armed forces chiefs from the US, Britain, Germany, France and the Netherlands — including Gen. John Shalikashvili, a former NATO commander — have authored a manifesto insisting that a preemptive nuclear strike should be a key NATO option: A “first strike” nuclear option remains an “indispensable instrument” since there [...]
By Leslie on Jan 21, 2008 in Current Affairs | View Comments
During the last few years of his life, Martin Luther King, Jr., began to see the relationship between war and civil rights and poverty. Although he realized that denouncing the Vietnam War risked alienating President Johnson, his ally on civil rights legislation, and the civil rights movement. Nevertheless Martin Luther King, Jr., followed his conscience [...]
By Leslie on Jan 20, 2008 in Bush/Cheney, FBI, Intelligence, Nuclear weapons, Turkey, Valerie Plame Wilson | View Comments
[To click on the countries in the BBC map, go here.] Following up on Larry’s post two weeks ago about how Sibel Edmonds is finally getting her story out, the Times of London reports today that: THE FBI has been accused of covering up a key case file detailing evidence against corrupt government officials and [...]
By Leslie on Jan 19, 2008 in Bush/Cheney, Current Affairs, Economy | View Comments
Remember when Bush talked about the “ownership society”? Own your own home, own your own retirement assets, own your own health insurance…. What ever happened to that?
By Leslie on Jan 14, 2008 in Uncategorized | View Comments
• A Federal Appeals court rules that former Guantanamo inmates aren’t persons. [If you torture a non-person is it still torture?] • National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a “walk in the park,” according to an interview published in the [...]
By Leslie on Jan 2, 2008 in Current Affairs | View Comments
The NY Times’s Michael Gordon conducted a lengthy interview with John Edwards in Iowa, during a campaign stop. Here’s an excerpt of the transcript: Q. How did you go from a plan that emphasized the gradual reduction of forces and training of Iraqi forces to a plan that calls for removing all of the forces [...]
By Leslie on Dec 26, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Cass Dillon and Billy Joel perform, “Christmas in Fallujah.” The Guernica of our time may not have ever happened if the Bush administration had remained focused on al Qaeda and bin Laden instead. How many Iraqis have been slaughtered: We don’t keep count. But perhaps one million have died according to estimates. How many millions [...]
By Leslie on Dec 18, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Earlier this month, Huckabee claimed God had him surging ahead in the polls. Watch the video above. Now Huckabee is again invoking God with a strategically placed cross in his latest TV ad, which even has the Catholic League criticizing him for “injecting God into politics.” If God is going to choose the next president, [...]
By Leslie on Dec 5, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Susan created a great ad for my recently launched online jewelry store, thank you! [See below: My ad is right above Keith Olbermann's—so it's in really good company!] Please stop by and visit here and let me know what you think? I’ll continue adding content…. Meanwhile, what’s the latest Bushie news?
By Leslie on Dec 2, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Via Truthout, the Metro Times interviews Scott Ritter about the Bush administration’s plans for Iran: Metro Times: Is your conclusion that an attack is imminent based on the administration’s statements and actions, like labeling Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group, or do you also have sources within the intelligence community and the military and [...]
By Leslie on Dec 1, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
From Corpwatch: A new U.S. intelligence institution will allow government spy agencies to conduct broad surveillance and reconnaissance inside the country for the first time. Contractors like Boeing, BAE Systems, Harris Corporation, L-3 Communications and Science Applications International Corporation are already lining up for possible work.
By Leslie on Nov 27, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
From the NYT: Mr. Bush made no comment when the Nobel was announced, and today, the two stood silently, and a bit awkwardly, during the photo opportunity. But the president did personally telephone Mr. Gore to extend the invitation, and the White House changed the date of the event so Mr. Gore could attend. Mr. [...]
By Leslie on Nov 23, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Privacy is such an old-fashioned idea! So what’s on your mind? Did everyone enjoy their Thanksgiving?
By Leslie on Nov 23, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
From the Tribune India: A view of a hall in Kabul Serena Hotel, the first five-star hotel opened in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Afghan President Hamid Karzai attended the opening of the hotel on Tuesday [November 8, 2005], leaving his sick bed to mark the occasion. The hotel has been built at a cost of $36.50 [...]
By Leslie on Nov 20, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
The New York Times has compiled an easy-to-read guide on the positions of all the presidential candidates on Iran. Here’s a list of reasons why attacking Iran would be a bad idea, from the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation:
Larry Johnson (Bio)
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
, the basis for the Best Motion Picture Nominee (Golden Globes) starring Brad Pitt.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
, the novel by John Le Carre, a new motion picture starring Gary Oldman and Colin Firth.
A Best Motion Picture Nominee (Golden Globes) starring George Clooney, from the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings - The Descendants: A Novel (Random House Movie Tie-In Books) 
A Best Motion Picture Nominee (Golden Globes) based on the novel War Horse
by Michael Morpurgo.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
* (Included in the 4 For 3 Books) * More novels by Stieg Larsson: The Girl Who Played with Fire
* The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President by Ron Suskind
Don't miss Larry Johnson's review in "Understanding the Economic Collapse."
The Interrogator: An Education by Glenn A. Carle
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Steve Jobs
.by David Fredosso who wrote 2008's The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate
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