Weekend Attacks Kill at Least 70 in Iraq.  Gunmen ambushed a bus carrying unarmed Iraqis to work at a U.S. ammo dump near Tikrit on Sunday, killing 17 and raising the toll from three days of intensified and bloody insurgent…

I’m listening to KPFK now with respected local activist Blase Bonpane interviewing Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange on his World Focus program. While they’ve both done, and continue to do, many extraordinary things, I do have to wonder what planet…

Abuse photos will become propaganda tools: U.S.

This Pora poster shows a jackboot about to crush a cockroach, odd symbolism indeed for a political party that claims to be pro-democracy. Dig a little deeper, and one finds the jackboot may well be quite intentional. Pora continues to be…

Some federally financed sex education programs that teach an abstinence-only approach have factual errors and are ineffective, a Congressional report says. The report says some of programs erroneously teach, among other points, that condoms fail to prevent H.I.V. in heterosexual…

So I’m sitting having the morning coffee a few days ago, reading the newspaper. One of the cats, Joey, is on the table, with his paws on a windowsill when something outside startled him. Up he leaps, landing squarely on the…

As mentioned, I’m bringing back the Water blog here. I’m also bringing back the Green Party blog. These both are what the software for this blog calls a category, and they function as blogs on their own – although I can post…