One of the problems I have is a lack of brevity - I tend to overcomplicate and overanalyze. Howard Zinn, on the other hand, does not.
Q: What should the world know about the United States?
HZ: What I find many people in the rest of the world don’t know is that there is an opposition in [...]

Since I lived for a year in Baghdad’s Green Zone, I felt it was necessary for me to read what happened before I got there, under L. Paul Bremer, bureaucrat extraordinaire. That is why I recently found myself reading Imperial Life in the Emerald City, by Rajiv Chandrasekaran.
To say that the Bush Administration and its [...]

Michael’s voice is one I give some authority to, since he has spent more time than most on the ground, among the troops actually doing the fighting and policing and rebuilding.
One of the biggest problems with the Iraq War is that politics has frequently triumphed over truth. For instance, we went into Iraq with [...]

A Marietta, Georgia man is stirring up controversy because he has printed up some t-shirts that say Obama in ‘08 with a monkey picture above the text.
I find it funny that none of the media furies are comparing this instance to the many images I’ve seen in past years of George W. Bush depicted as [...]