Beautiful Homecoming Greeting for U.S. Soldier Back From Afghanistan
Get out your hankies:
From Welcome Home Blog: “Alexis had no idea her daddy would be home from Afganistan when she went to school on June 1, 2011. After lunch her daddy showed up for the surprise of her lifetime!!!”
America and Oil Declining Together?
Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch.com
by Michael Klare
America and Oil. It’s like bacon and eggs, Batman and Robin. As the old song lyric went, you can’t have one without the other. Once upon a time, it was also a surefire formula for national greatness and global preeminence. Now, it’s a guarantee of a trip to hell in [...]
Obama Continues Bush Practice of Shredding the Constitution
From Chris Hedges, former New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief:
“Stopping Gadhafi forces from entering Benghazi six months ago, which I supported, was one thing. Embroiling ourselves in a civil war was another. And to do it Obama blithely shredded the Constitution and bypassed Congress in violation of the War Powers Resolution. Not that the [...]
In Praise of Warriors, Not War
By Don Pelton
On this Memorial Day, I’d like to speak a few words in support of warriors, and in opposition to war.
Despite reaching my formative young adulthood during the anti-war 1960s, and despite my minor experience with something remotely similar to combat – in the National Guard at the Watts riots in August of 1965, and [...]
In Praise of Warriors, Not War
Reprinted from sierravoices.blogspot.com May 25, 2009
On this Memorial Day, I’d like to speak a few words in support of warriors, and in opposition to war.
Despite reaching my formative young adulthood during the anti-war 1960s, and despite my minor experience with something remotely similar to combat – in the National Guard at the Watts riots in August [...]
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