Surrendering the Empire

Pondering Surrender by Anthony Gregory LewRockwell.com Five years ago, Americans, all horrified by the terrorist attacks, tended to have two different ideas about the underlying cause and the appropriate response. One was to blame the attacks on terrorists who simply hated our freedom. "Freedom itself was attacked," said President George W. Bush. "And freedom will be defended." The president soon led the country into war and pushed through a series of new measures to consolidate the national...

DU not a popular topic at the Pentagon

As reported by Antiwar.com's Debbie Clark: Saturday morning, after a march around the Capital building, 30-35 people from Camp Democracy - mostly Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War members - went to the Pentagon to see the new 9/11 memorial. As they were nearing the end of the tour, Geoffrey Millard, a disabled Iraq war veteran, left a stack of pamphlets about the dangers of depleted uranium on a brochure stand as they were entering the chapel. At first, no one noticed and...

Buy my stickers!

Like this guy did: Go to LibertyStickers.com! There are more than 600 government hating slogans. See especially the Scott Horton section. (Those are the ones I still get royalties for. : ) ) Some guy bought 11 of these this morning.

Where’s the Terror?

September 11, 2006Post-9/11 prosecutions end with a whimper Brian Doherty Reason Many elements of post-9/11 law enforcement are supposed to be justified by a real, serious, ongoing threat of further domestic terror assaults. Without that threat, the ways 9/11 supposedly had to change law enforcement become meaningless

Say It Ain’t So Man.

My God man! What the hell has happened to this country? We at Stress do not make this stuff up: From the Boston Globe: "Maine National Guard members in Iraq and Afghanistan are never far from the thoughts of their loved ones. But now, thanks to a popular family-support program, they're even closer. Welcome to the ``Flat Daddy" and ``Flat Mommy" phenomenon, in which life-size cutouts of deployed service members are given by the Maine National Guard to spouses, children, and relatives back home....

America

Bush Aims to Kill War Crimes Act by Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith September 5, 2006 The US War Crimes Act of 1996 makes it a felony to commit grave violations of the Geneva Conventions. The Washington Post recently reported that the Bush administration is quietly circulating draft legislation to eliminate crucial parts of the War Crimes Act. Observers on The Hill say the Administration plans to slip it through Congress this fall while there still is a guaranteed Republican majority--perhaps...

Michael Medved: Leninist

Check out the pathetic barrel-bottom scraping communist "logic" the Republican party's pied pipers have led their rats to (as of September 6, 2006): "The way to judge the morality of a military effort isn

How We Bungled the Japanese Surrender

Look Magazine, June 6, 1950 By Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, USN (Ret.) The way was open to get Japan to surrender at least six months before VJ-Day. How we could have avoided the final agonies of the war in the Pacific is told here for the first time. Everybody remembers the outward signs of the Japanese collapse. After one of the costliest campaigns of the war, we had secured Okinawa on the very doorstep of Japan; then we had unleashed the awful might of the A-bomb; and finally Russia, on...

Charles Goyette Interviews Eric Garris

The great Charles Goyette, host of the morning show on KFNX 1100 AM in Phoenix, Arizona, interviewed 7 different guests - including Antiwar.com founder and managing editor Eric Garris - Thursday, on the subject of the possibility of military conscription in the United States. Check out the description of the three-hour show along with the guests. Listen to the mp3s here: First Hour - Second Hour - Third Hour 6:00 am-6:30 am Bill Galvin Center on Conscience 6:30 am-7:00 am Jon Soltz...