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25 August 2011
How the budget cutting Is going to go down
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David Swanson
If Snoopy had ever pointed out to Charlie Brown that Lucy was just going to yank the football away again at the last second, Charlie would have only heard barking.
I hope all the good people chattering away about how cutting Social...
25 August 2011
Islamist guerrillas want southern Thailand
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Each morning, Buddhist monks wrap themselves in saffron-colored robes and silently stroll, collecting alms in Thailand's three southern provinces while a phalanx of troops armed with assault rifles walk alongside,...
14 August 2011
Red Shirts sidelined by Thailand's new government
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's first female prime minister did not give any cabinet positions to her Red Shirt parliamentary allies, despite their role in bringing her to power through their anti-coup insurrection last year which left 91...
11 August 2011
Thailand's female Prime Minister faces hostile U.S.-trained military
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Parliament elected Yingluck Shinawatra as Thailand's first female prime minister on Friday (August 5), but she faces a hostile U.S.-trained military which toppled her brother from power in a 2006 putsch and crushed...
11 August 2011
Republicans ban minor parties in Ohio: Battle on to repeal law
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Bob Fitrakis
Ohio Secretary of State John Husted has banned all minor political parties in Ohio from the ballot. In an August 5, 2011 letter written to the Libertarian Party of Ohio, Husted made it clear that his interpretation of the draconian Ohio...
06 August 2011
Obama on the Backs of the Poor
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Ray McGovern
What are we to make of the Obama-brokered deal on debt and spending? It was certainly what the Germans call eine schwere Geburt (a difficult birth); it was one of the few times I would have favored abortion.

I am reminded of...

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