Month April 2004

Falluja and Najaf. Much worse is yet to come. It’s a given the US military will attack Falluja and Najaf, and no doubt will do so in a mind-numbingly brutal and self-defeating way. Self-defeating? Yes. The attacks will fail, the…

Over one million march in DC for women’s rights! This was the biggest march ever in the United States. That’s right, the biggest ever.They were pro-choice, anti-Bush, and made sure the country (and politicians) heard their message, which was –…

SHUs. A living tomb. California, quite possibly, has the most brutal prisons in the nation. This is deliberate, and part of the massive prison industrial complex in the California gulags, er, penal system. The worst are the Orwellian-named Special Housing…

June 5. March on the Pentagon Lately I’ve been feeling uneasy about what the next few months will bring here in the States and abroad. Iraq is about to explode. The economy is wobbling. The presidential campaign will no doubt…

The lunatics have taken over the asylum War will take “decades”, says chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Friday that the war in Iraq is going “reasonably well” but acknowledged…