“Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. were the reigning champions of finance in 2006 as home prices peaked, leading the 10 biggest U.S. banks and brokerage firms to their best year […]
American Taliban and spiritual warfare
Paul Rosenberg, ALJAZEERA, America’s Own Taliban Prior to 9/11, the Taliban government in Afghanistan did not register very much on American radar screens, with one notable exception: when it blew up two […]
Worth Remembering
From Ralph Deline’s blog Read My Mind: “On 4 May a rally drew approximately two thousand students, many merely curious onlookers. National Guard officers ordered the protesters to disburse, shooting tear gas […]
A Gathering Storm
From Tomgram, July 26: China’s economy soars on one side of the planet (though with a multitude of half-hidden problems). . . On the other side of the same planet, from Greece […]
Will the final loser be the G.O.P. or the U.S.A.?
Regular readers will know there is one mainstream writer for whom I have particular admiration, as a skilled wordsmith and a thoughtful humanist. Roger Ebert’s Journal is one of the finest opinion […]
Alex Pareene, next time say what you mean . . .
I have written occasional criticism of mainstream media masters but never quite like this one. I have had the opinion that, as a political analyst, George Will makes a good baseball writer. […]
"It’s like the damn planet of the apes!"
My father was born in Oregon and his father and grandfather in Arkansas, although the working class family fought for the Union side in the Civil War. For years, in work and […]
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God luck in the election. Your platform resonates with me, and we are thinking of returning to PR for our…