How did 5 alleged Al Qaeda members come together to form this statement, given that they are being held each in isolation at Gitmo? Are they allowed to meet and discuss various topics, including... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]...

This is an excellent article in CommonDreams.org reprinted here: Published on Thursday, February 26, 2009 by Foreign Policy In Focus Too Many Overseas Bases by David Vine In the midst of an economic crisis that's getting scarier by the day, it's time to ask whether the nation can really affo...

The Hague - In 2002, Congress passed a law enabling United States forces to unilaterally storm into peaceful Holland to liberate American soldiers held for war crimes. Coming in the early days of the war on terrorists, and as the International Criminal Court was being formed here, the measure provok...

With the close to one trillion dollar stimulus package inching its way through Congress, no one has even bothered to suggest a way to pay for it without adding it to the already humungus national debt. Politicians can only hope that other countries (mainly, China, Japan and Saudi Arabia) will consid...

He must be kidding! This is what the distinguished economist Martin Feldstein writes: The Department of Defense is preparing budget cuts in response to the decline in national income. The DOD budgeteers and their counterparts in the White House Office of Management and Budget apparently reason that ...

NBC's on-the-record response to the New York Times' David Barstow regarding his front-page story on their war-profiteering hack retired general Barry McCaffrey is pretty choice, as it's both filled with obvious factual inaccuracies and obtuse point-missing diversions. This is a letter from one major...

Above book is free to interested readers at: larsoke3@hotmail.com 5 Questions for the American Voter 1. How well does the candidate you are considering understand the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) that now consumes 60 cents of every tax dollar you pay? 2. How subject to influence by the MIC Lobb...

Neocon pundits and politicians may be traitors who have sold out their country to the oil and arms industries, but they're not stupid or short-sighted: Sure, their plan to bomb Iran will have disastrous consequences for America, but they don't care about that. The neocons are promoting the agenda th...

Pork, as in earmarks, not as in pig, is again in vogue this political season only a year after a 2007 congressional promise to curb what some call wasteful spending in politicians’ home districts. At the top of the earmarking ladder is the defense authorization bill (read military-industrial c...

Go ahead, call me a traitor — that is, if your definition of a traitor is someone who doesn’t go along with whatever our politicians tell us. If that's the case, you can go fuck yourself anyway. Otherwise hear me out. If, at the end of this post, you still think I’m a traitor, then you can sti...