9-12 I don’t know about you, but yesterday left me wondering if we are where we thought we would be or think we should be after ten years of an event that undeniably ended one way of life and began another? I hear echoes of an earlier time, strands of REM harmonizing “It’s the end of... Read more →
‘Al Qaeda Is CIA’
“I was kind of thinking of the 30s and 40s how radio hosts chanted Nazi Nazi Nazi Nazi Nazi Nazi Nazi or Commie Commie Commie Commie ad nauseam,” writes infowars.com in comment # 12. Read More →
It’s The Conspiracy, Stupid
“Remember the Christmas panty bomber?” Infowars.com opines in comment #5. “Never one to miss out on a conspiracy?… It was fake. it was a black flag OP.” Read More →
Atomic Anniversary
“Sixty-four years ago this week, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” Post blogger Cathleen Krahe reminds us. Read More →
Carbondale Counts
Regarding the Con Man’s observations on U.S. military deaths reaching the 5000 marker, Post blogger Sue Gray writes in comment #3, “Wake Up Now, an organization made up of mostly Carbondale residents, is counting. Every Monday for the last five years, they’ve been writing the number of soldiers... Read more →
CON GAMES: Five Thousand Dead And Counting
“Somehow both the deniers of the dead and the critics of the war managed to all but miss the most recent threshold of treasure spent,” blogs Michael Conniff, “the combined deaths of more than 5,000 United States soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Because much of the coverage was veiled beneath the... Read more →
No Deposit, No Return
Post blogger Cathleen Krahe writes in comment #11, “I have met with Palestinians and their descendants who fled to Jordan and Syria in 1948. All told of Arab villages being destroyed and the occupants killed by Jewish soldiers. Some told of being told by British soldiers to flee to neighboring countries... Read more →
The Muslims Are Coming!
In comment # 12 Michael Conniff warns, “Also, it’s important not to dismiss the [Islam’s] ‘take over the world’ scenario as unlikely because the danger is clearly on a case by case, country by country business.” Read More →
Sex Or Starvation
Local human rights activist Cathleen Krahe posits the question, “Is this what we are fighting for in Afghanistan?” She writes, “Afghan President Karzai has signed legislation that allows men to deny food if the wife refuses sex.” Read More →
Forgone Eulogy
Of the death of Robert McNamara, Frosty Wooldridge blogs, “The world won’t blink, but I winced in my distress for a man who caused so much death and misery.” Read More →