Peace activist Medea Benjamin , author and co-founder of CODE PINK , gave a presentation last evening at the Coffee Underground . This was i...

Political prisoner and free-speech hero Bradley Manning has been held under inhumane conditions for over 1000 days , and I am hoping this no...

This is like something from one of us crazy conspiracy theorists. Seriously, you can't make this stuff up. From Chris Matthews at ...

At left: My father, who was not a fake veteran. I first started reading blogs in 1998, when the USA was still at relative 'pea...

Five of Wands: Conflict, competition, discord The Boy Scouts of America were selling some sugared-up substances outside my local g...

Scott Olsen, Oakland Occupier and member of the advocacy group for veterans Iraq Veterans Against the War , is now in critical condition. ...

Photo from Charleston City Paper . I went to Charleston Saturday with Green Party members, right after Hurricane Irene decided to spar...

I haven't been too sure about what I should write. Except for this: My apologies to the rest of the world for American interventionism...

As a veteran of the Watergate era, which I obsessively studied as a young pup, I am so deeply cynical and skeptical of our government, that ...

If you haven't read the Wikileaks Iraq war documents, at least read the NYT synopsis: According to the synopsis of the WikiLeaks documen...

Comrade Physioprof 's witty post titled Rejection of Reality in its entirety: Rational response to terrorism necessarily includes givin...

Lara Logan, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for CBS News, held forth at some length on the Charlie Rose show on Tuesday night. And in ...

New readers may enjoy my "campaign diary" from last year, when we attempted to send our fabulous Ted to congress. Did we? Nah....

Presenting one of my all-time favorite songs... I first heard it when I was 12 years old. It touched me in that deep, deep place you can...

Obviously, my highfalutin plans to blog more often have only haphazardly come into being. (sigh) Old habits die hard, and shorter posts ...

March 22, 2009 - Sunday evening, members of the Greenville Antiwar Society marked YEAR SIX of the Iraq war, with our annual commemorative...

I am attending our yearly commemorative candle-lighting tonight, for the thousands of American dead in Iraq. It is YEAR SIX of the Iraq Wa...