Posted on May 16, 2008 by Mike Booth
Last March 13-16 some 250 American veterans of the Iraq and Afghan occupations gathered at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, MD for the “Winter Soldier – Iraq and Afghanistan” conference, a replica of a similar event which took place in Detroit in 1971, during the Vietnam War. This recent weekend was devoted to [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2008 by Mike Booth
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2008 by Mike Booth
Right. This from today’s Guardian. These guys are so predictable. I’m constantly reminded of the old saw: “Military intelligence is to intelligence as military music is to music.”
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Posted on February 20, 2008 by Mike Booth
The Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell on Castro’s resignation and President George W. Bush’s reaction.
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