by P.S. Barber Bruegel painted the banal innocence of unawareness: Icarus plunges head-first into the Mediterranean’s watery womb, errant feathers flutter as two splayed legs kick near the frame’s edge, disappear into […]
AFRICA AGONISTES
Vietnam, Viet Nam
By Jim Smith We never even learned the way the Vietnamese write the name of their country (Việt Nam), before we lost the war. It was 40 years ago, April 30, that […]
We are a country of amnesiacs
By Jack Neworth America’s foremost humorist, Mark Twain, considered the Spanish-American War rather ironic. (Actually he considered it rather criminal.) Our forefathers had come to America to escape tyranny, and yet we […]
Questions Persist As To US Arms Treaty Compliance
By Janet Phelan Geneva, Switzerland — Questions concerning the compliance of the United States with the international treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention, came to a head recently during the Seventh Review Conference […]
Bioweapons Are US
By Janet C. Phelan The Center for Disease Control has declined to confirm or deny allegations that the United States government is stockpiling biological and/or chemical weapons at Sierra Army Depot, a […]
Depleted Uranium strikes friends and foes alike in Libya
By Karl Abrams High in the skies of Libya, NATO jets, equipped with uranium bullets and uranium-tipped missiles, are probably being used to assist Libyan rebels in toppling the regime of Muammar […]
A Tale of Two Wars: Vietnam/Afghanistan
By Clay Claiborne In the spirit of Mark Twain, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” I offer the following combined brief history of the Vietnam and Afghan Wars: Although the War […]
Dumping Sidebar: US Military Dumping of Carbon
In 2006 the Department of Defense was the largest consumer of energy in the world – using 1 quadrillion BTU. A standard military M-1 Abrams tank will only go 20 miles on […]
New “Pentagon Papers” Describe the Insanity of the Afghan War
EDITORIAL: Time To Pull Out About 75,000 documents describing a war without a purpose in Afghanistan have been “liberated” from military computers with another 15,000 to come. The documents describe, among other […]
Military-Industrial Complex Now Official
Forty-eight years after the term was coined by a retiring President Dwight Eisenhower, the military and industry have tied the knot in El Segundo. According to the Torrance Daily Breeze, The Aerospace […]
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