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Reply to Uprising in Iraq in Current Events JoeUser Forums

What an incredible service Juan Cole is performing! Things so complicated they seem unfathomable can become clear if someone with knowledge is willing to explain. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! I wonder if, in the context of civil war which seems nearly inevitable given the accuracy of Cole's evidence and the incisiveness of his analysis, there exist in Iraq forces that are struggling to find a way to bring democracy or social peace against the he

Reply to Uprising in Iraq in Current Events JoeUser Forums

What an incredible service Juan Cole is performing! Things so complicated they seem unfathomable can become clear if someone with knowledge is willing to explain. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! I wonder if, in the context of civil war which seems nearly inevitable given the accuracy of Cole's evidence and the incisiveness of his analysis, there exist in Iraq forces that are struggling to find a way to bring democracy or social peace against the he

A Citizen Science Democracy Network Starts in the South in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

Vannevar Bush was a cousin of two of the past three Presidents. He was also a gung-ho supporter of all that is establishment in America. He was also, however, a proponent of science, and he recognized that science without democracy inevitably creates a contradiction in terms. He said, when he was in the midst of chairing the first Presidential commission to examine

Jane Fonda on Dirt Bikes, and Misremembered FireFights in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Jane is one of the friends who finds tales for me. She is a ‘Plain-Jane’, wholesome hyper-fox who lets my hungry eyes linger, flirts with me occasionally, and generally plays along as a foil to my foolishness, in exchange for my willingness to ‘interview’ friends of hers who have sagas to relate that no other journalist is willing to countenance as a story. What she

Reply to NCO's, NGO's, and the USA's Funny-Money-in-Bagdhad Express in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Have you ever thought about the fact that we're all cousins. It's bad enough that we butcher each other with slightly less concern that most people have for roadkill, but when I factor in that every person alive is my cousin, that everyone deceased is my ancestor, it is beyond grotesque the pass we are entering. It is as if we have decided to line our children up against some random wall, and then pretend they deserve to be shot to rags for not measu

NCO's, NGO's, and the USA's Funny-Money-in-Bagdhad Express in Current Events JoeUser Forums

A friend of mine has five sons and two daughters. One of the daughters returned from Iraq in October; she still won't talk about what went on there. Now one of the sons, a real "Joe Soldier" boy, "Soldier of the Month" and runner-up for "Soldier of the Course" at basic training at Fort Benning, who is an E-6 I think, something like the position of Staff Sergeant tha