Day June 5, 2006

Mandatory military service?

A stealth bill to make military service mandatory has been slithering through Congress unnoticed and will be discussed tomorrow, June 6. Time to mobilize. H.R. 4752: Universal National Service Act of 2006 Introduced: Feb 14, 2006 Sponsor: Rep. Charles Rangel…

‘US risking another fiasco in Somalia’

The United States is now reportedly backing some of the same warlord factions that helped drive the US out of Somalia more than a decade ago. The warlord alliance said to be receiving US funding for weapons purchases is losing…

It’ll still be a war crime

Drat that pesky Geneva Convention. The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans “humiliating and degrading treatment,” according to knowledgeable military officials, a step that would mark a…

A microcosm of the Democratic Party

a) Dumb and dumber This Tuesday is the primary election for California. The two Democratic candidates for governor have, through spectacularly stupid tactics and by demonstrating almost total rudderlessness, botched things so badly that Schwarzenegger, who was once left for…

May 1 ‘Day without an Immigrant’ lessons

The civil rights movement did not tone itself down to accommodate the racists. On the contraryâ┚¬â€it grew in scope and militancy. The continued struggles of the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee, the Deacons for Defense, and the emerging Black liberation movement…