On-screen: The tropical sound of Santana’s unrelenting guitar early in INCIDENT AT NESHABUR seems to portend the desperation of America’s Southesast Asian “domino theory” DRIVEN foreign policy as it was violently played out in tropical South Vietnam. Santana’s rapid drumbeat captures the martial rhy ...
Top Stories from World News on AlterNet July 4th, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/world/ ___________________________________________________________ From the editors: Aside from the military coup in Honduras, the big international news this week was Iraq's so-called National Sovereignty Day, upon which ...
Introduction – What we are going to do is politically discuss the issues related to gun control. Does Gun Control Reduce Crime? – Emphatically no. Never once did it ever do that. Below are several studies that can be researched on the Internet yourself that document the fact that gun control never r ...
Iraqi security forces wave their guns in the air and dance as celebrations sweep the country at the long-awaited withdrawal of American troops. The handover of power – six years after the US invasion – was declared a public holiday, National Security Day. In Baghdad there was a giant street party. B ...
Iraq celebrated the withdrawal of American troops from its cities with parades, fireworks and a national holiday on Tuesday as the prime minister trumpeted the country’s sovereignty from American occupation to a wary public. Even with a deadly car bombing and other mayhem marring the day — the deadl ...
Did you know that today marked the first day that the Iraqi people are essentially taking control and responsibility of their own country again? No, you say? Well, did you know that Michael Jackson is apparently not the biological father of his children, and neither is his ex-wife? OF COURSE YOU DID ...
Iraqi forces assumed formal control of Baghdad and other cities Tuesday after American troops handed over security in urban areas in a defining step toward ending the U.S. combat role in the country. A countdown clock broadcast on Iraqi TV ticked to zero as the midnight deadline passed for U.S. comb ...
After work on Saturday several of us (5) grabbed a bite to eat at Wendy's and then headed to the Cinemagic Theater in Hooksett to see " UP" in 3D. The movie was terrific... I highly recommend it and the 3D effects really made it stand out from a regular 2D movie. Yesterday I headed down to my parent ...
journeymanpictures asked: October 1993 A charge of monitoring the impact has had on the war in Somalia. American stomachs were turned by the paintings of mutilated American soldiers dragged through the streets. Asked the American troops home quickly. Tables not too widely considered an American atta ...