Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

What follows is perhaps the best essay on the current state of affairs in the US that I have read in quite a long while. I whole heartily agree with what this author has to say. Unlike my usual procedure of quoting only a portion and giving you a link to the resy I have [...]

If the US goes to war in Iraq it is not the ruling elite of Iraq that will suffer the most, it is the ordinary individual citizen and the children of Iraq that will suffer from now until the end of time. No, that’s not hyperbole. The US will once more use munitions that make [...]

No shit - I’d be concerned too!
America’s European allies are reacting with alarm at a plan being prepared in Washington to install a United States general to govern a newly liberated Iraq.
The proposal is an implicit acknowledgement that America’s long-running effort to identify an immediate and credible successor to Saddam among the ranks of the [...]

The latest plan out of the Pentagon is to put a US General in charge of Iraq after deposing Saddam, a la Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Japan after WWII. These guys are totally insane, but at least the US State Department has grave misgivings. Too bad they won’t be listened to, they haven’t been up [...]

Frontline has an excellent report on what went wrong in the world of business accountability that allowed Enron and other corporations to steal billions of dollars from the market.
While lots of other corporate criminals have been arrested in the aftermath of this mess we are now at 314 days and only 2 Enron executives have [...]