British are going to a build training camp for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan
Britain planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in southern Afghanistan, as part of a top-secret deal to make them swap sides, intelligence sources in Kabul have revealed. The plans were discovered on a memory stick seized by Afghan secret […]

Here’s an interesting side note to the presidential race. Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater’s role in the 2008 campaign, in The Nation:
Blackwater is deep in the camp of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Cofer Black is Romney’s senior adviser on counterterrorism. At the recent CNN/YouTube debate, when Romney refused to call waterboarding torture, he said, […]

Caught this in the back parking lot at the Cafe/Front last month.

There is a light… 1/20/09
If everything goes accordingly, I’ll be on top a mountain somewhere blasting “First Breath After Coma” by Explosions in the Sky.
Or, we can all just meet up and have a beer.

National Intelligence Estimate

Ouch.

A notable new book in the seemingly endless stream of socio-political-foreign-policy fair is Susan Faludi’s “The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America”. She offers up a unique (some calling feminist) perspective which casts the roles of gender and myth into our current national climate of fear and paranoia.
From Truthdig:
“The enemy that […]

“Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.”
-Milton Friedman
Every now and then, we have the honor of reading a book, or watching a live event, which turns the normal, conventional-wisdom thoughts of our elites on it’s head.
Last week we had the honor to see how a hard-hitting ad by Moveon.org would shake […]

With this disturbing quote “it has been very peaceful here (for 6 years) since we were attacked” rattling around in my brain today, I’d thought post an article in came across a couple of weeks back.
The headline says it all:
U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States […]

six years and counting

“Magnificent Seven”
Via: Sidrel

Sidral Mundet on The Clash’s Sandinista!