It is not hard for me to remember Pearl Harbor Day. Seventy years ago my Dad’s brother, my Uncle Frank, near the end of his 6th year on the USS Arizona, lost his life aboard the ship. I’m old enough to have “met” him, in Long Beach CA, five months before he died.MORE »
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Caucus resolution on war budget
It's caucus time. Progressives and libertarians will likely once again propose resolutions about the U.S. war budget. They'll argue, "Let's spend that money on our true collective needs," or "Let's return that money to our pockets." And these resolutions will likely once again have no effect.MORE »
hirty Years of War: Warfare in the Plain of the Po 1189-1220 - A talk by John France, Swansea University
1210 Heller Hall, Sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies and the Department of French and Italian
Landfill ghosts
It's too simple-minded to call it what it is: Military waste. What else are we to make of the belated revelation that the remains of "at least" 274 American soldiers and more than 2700 unidentified miscellaneous body parts have been dumped in the King County landfill just south of Washington, D.C. And it would be crass to call it a cover-up.MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Will It Matter Who Is Elected In 2012?
As one of a handful of energized people laboring to draft Obama back in 2006, I write this with profound sadness and pained anger. Do we have reason to reelect Barack Obama?MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | This war is nuts! What am I missing?
OK, it has now been 10 years that we have been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why? It makes no sense at all. It is, frankly, nuts. What am I missing? What goal. What strategy. What objective. What end? Can someone kindly explain? Our leaders sure can't. What we have gotten from them is vague promises. Obscure goals.MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Navigating the Aftermath
In a recent Oval Office address, President Obama marked the "end" of combat operations in Iraq: "We have met our responsibility. Now, it is time to turn the page."MORE »
From the North Woods to the West Bank: After Lengthy Deportation Battle, Ryan Olander Returns Home from Palestine
01/02/2010 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Sunday, January 2
Walker Church: 3104 16th Ave. S., Minneapolis MN 55407
Palestinian food served at 3pm; Talk begins at 3:30
Sliding scale donation $5-15 requested (no one turned away)
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Wikileaks, Julian Assange and Corporate Media
For weeks now, we here in Minnesota and the broader United States
have been exposed to the corporate media and it's take on WikiLeaks
and founder Julian Assange.
Their position could have been taken from the Pentagon playbook. It
very well may have. From MPR to Fox News, CNN, NBC, Minneapolis StarMORE »
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