Congress Ignoring Critical Report on Pentagon Spending

CRS 2006 Report

The Congressional Research Service published a couple of reports this year on the runaway costs of the So-Called War On Terror.Congress seems to be ignoring the findings and related testimony by the Comptroller General of the GAO, David Walker.The facts suggest Pentagon accounting is inaccurate and wasteful, in urgent need of oversight.

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Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers

If anybody was holding onto the hope that Democrats would stand up to the Administration, the media, and the terrorists in defense of our civil rights and Constitution, it looks like that hope was misplaced.

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New revelations in attack on American spy ship [USS Liberty]

Ray McGovern sheds even more light on the incident at Consortium News.

[Written by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Crewdson] "Veterans, documents suggest U.S., Israel didn't tell full story of deadly '67 incident"... That's an understatement. Veterans, documents PROVE Israeli misconduct and intentional attacking of the US craft. Again. This just piles onto previous evidence.

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Billie J. Kramer & The Dakotas in 1965

I've been trying to post this for a week.



Maybe this will work.

How the Democrats blew it

"if you strike the king, you must kill him"

The Iraq debacle handed Democrats a golden opportunity to deal the GOP a mortal blow and change America's flawed Mideast policies.

They played it safe. They didn't have the conviction to really change American policy regarding defense and foreign affairs. Yes, it was risky, but above all, it would have been messy. And, to quote the Decider, "It's hard work!"


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Local Solutions: Challenge Corporate Power, Embrace True Democracy

Vandana Shiva, writing in Alternet, has another insightful piece on the danger of so-called solutions to the problems of globalization: pollution, monopoly, disenfranchisement.

So here you have globalization adding to emissions and it needs to be a continued part of our work. And you've got false solutions that were laid out by Jerry [Mander]. But the false solution that I think we need to pay particular attention to is the dominant solution in terms of carbon trading. Because at the philosophical level, at the world-view level, it's the second privatization of the atmospheric commons. The first privatization was putting the pollution into the atmosphere beyond the earth's recycling capacity. Now with carbon trading, the rights to the earth's carbon cycling capacity are gravitating exactly into the arms of the polluters. The environmental principal used to be the polluter must pay. Carbon trading is transforming that into the polluter gets paid.

She rightfully zeros in on carbon-trading and corporate-controlled governments as the enemies of our future generations in the battle for survival of life as we know it on our planet.

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U.S. Pays Steep Price for Private Security in Iraq

Shady accounting practices have helped Halliburton and KBR conceal their charges to the American people for security and other services in the so-called, "War On Terror." But you don't have to be a CPA to understand that the real war BushCo is fighting in Iraq is against the American taxpayer.

It costs the U.S. government a lot more to hire contract employees as security guards in Iraq than to use American troops.

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