Anthrax and credibility
Swallowing anthrax.Posted on August 4, 2008 7:49 AM • 27 Comments •
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Anti-war:
KBR and DoD expose workers and soldiers to a carcinogen but it's not a big deal
Profiteering and cancer in Iraq. What a nice couple!Posted on July 15, 2008 7:28 AM • 13 Comments •
The shame of clusterbombs
How to be powerful but uncivilized.Posted on July 13, 2008 3:30 PM • 27 Comments •
They have a pill for that
Military medical malpractice. And unethical.Posted on June 15, 2008 3:51 PM • 52 Comments •
Memorial Day, 2008
Doing it all over again.Posted on May 26, 2008 6:34 AM • 11 Comments •
Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: Bring 'em home
Bring 'em Home. Bring 'em Home. Bring 'em Home. Bring 'em Home. Bring 'em Home.Posted on May 25, 2008 6:02 AM • 6 Comments •
Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: Onward Christian Soldiers
There are no atheists in foxholes because the military won't allow it.Posted on April 27, 2008 7:27 AM • 18 Comments •
The Bush administration: keeping us safe (from subversive art)
Charges of bioterrorism dismissed against an art professor who used a common bacterium to protest biological warfare.Posted on April 24, 2008 3:56 PM • 50 Comments •
4000
The bitter fruit of the first five years of a needless war.Posted on March 25, 2008 4:05 PM • 28 Comments •
Why do they hate us?
Let the BBC World Service count the waysPosted on March 24, 2008 3:47 PM • 56 Comments •
Water and reckless irresponsibility in Iraq
Cheney's company again. When will this nightmare end?Posted on March 10, 2008 7:01 AM • 22 Comments •
Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: Divine preference
God takes sides. All sides.Posted on February 24, 2008 7:41 AM • 29 Comments •
An expensive day in Iraq and America
This was an expensive day. So was yesterday. And tomorrow?Posted on February 8, 2008 4:03 PM • 13 Comments •
Afghanistan: back where it started
Our Taliban are still Taliban. Should we care?Posted on February 4, 2008 4:57 PM • 55 Comments •
Explosives on a chip
Making the world safer, one bomb at a time.Posted on December 24, 2007 4:16 PM • 19 Comments •
Carnegie-Mellon's Dr. Strangeloves
Dr Mengeles in training.Posted on December 3, 2007 4:12 PM • 34 Comments •
Cholera set to ravage Baghdad
Let them drink feces.Posted on December 2, 2007 4:03 PM • 5 Comments •
So what's the Big Deal about torture? (***sarcasm warning added)
The big deal is truly a Big Deal.Posted on November 26, 2007 4:01 PM • 23 Comments •
US sponsored Afghan hospital a hell hole
Abandoning the unborn in AfghanistanPosted on November 23, 2007 4:14 PM • 9 Comments •
The hollowness of Veterans Day (NB: outrage warning)
Homeless veterans.Posted on November 12, 2007 5:19 PM • 14 Comments •
Forgetting Remembrance Day
Giving Death his due and no more.Posted on November 12, 2007 7:18 AM • 3 Comments •
Medical education and the military
Medical school may be torture but torture isn't part of medical educationPosted on November 2, 2007 3:56 PM • 30 Comments •
America up close and from a distance
On Monday President Bush asked for another $46 billion dollars to send down the rat hole of his Iraq and Afghanistan debacles. That makes just about $200 billion dollars for this fiscal year. Two hundred billion dollars. Congress has already...Posted on October 26, 2007 4:30 PM • 26 Comments •
The gift of cholera
Spreading cholera, one country at a time, the old fashioned way: through war.Posted on October 8, 2007 7:59 AM • 6 Comments •
Cholera in Iraq. Heck of a job, George!
Whom else should we blame?Posted on September 23, 2007 4:17 PM • 6 Comments •
Bloody, stupid, criminal, insane. And indefensible.
Cholera in Iraq.Posted on September 17, 2007 7:29 AM • 35 Comments •
The MoveOn ad
We should all Move On. With them.Posted on September 16, 2007 4:16 PM • 21 Comments •
I Hear America Singing
They're singing, Bring Them HomePosted on September 14, 2007 3:49 PM • 28 Comments •
American Psychological Association flunks ethical litmus test
Torture? No. Enhanced interrogation? No problem.Posted on August 22, 2007 3:43 PM • 18 Comments •
Iraqis claim their Second Amendment rights
Guns don't kill Americans, insurgents with guns kill Americans.Posted on August 9, 2007 4:10 PM • 21 Comments •
Bioweapons proliferation policy: stupid is as stupid does
How dumb can you get? Pretty dumb.Posted on August 4, 2007 7:53 AM • 6 Comments •
Slave labor building US Embassy in Iraq?
Shame piled upon shame.Posted on July 30, 2007 7:09 AM • 5 Comments •
Uncle Sam wants You
Chickenhawk convention.Posted on July 24, 2007 4:14 PM • 5 Comments •
Responsible investing
How to help prepare for a pandemic.Posted on July 8, 2007 3:34 PM • 34 Comments •
Afghanistan was wrong, II
We reiterate our position from 2005Posted on June 27, 2007 4:06 PM • 33 Comments •
Bush comes out against war
It's a surprise. But his words are very clear.Posted on June 24, 2007 9:39 PM • 18 Comments •
Small victories
Two steps forward, another step to come. Which direction we don't know as yet.Posted on June 7, 2007 3:37 PM • 5 Comments •
6000 miles of dollar bills for Iraq
Accross country and back again to kill. Nothing to save lives.Posted on May 29, 2007 7:25 AM • 6 Comments •
The Lancet's terrible dilemma
A journal sides with its critics.Posted on April 2, 2007 7:13 AM • 73 Comments •
Both ends of the rifle
Destroyers of civilization.Posted on March 19, 2007 7:29 AM • 14 Comments •
World in terms of military spending and war deaths
America big and small.Posted on March 14, 2007 4:37 PM • 56 Comments •
How we support the troops
Jonathan Schulze survived combat but he didn't survive neglect.Posted on February 12, 2007 5:08 PM • 28 Comments •
No Comment Necessary Department
The cost of war is more than dollars. It is lives lost and ruined and things undone. Like these.Posted on January 19, 2007 5:01 PM • 31 Comments •
To George W. Bush: We Shall Overcome
Someday.Posted on January 10, 2007 5:19 PM • 38 Comments •
George W.: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
The Big Fool said to push on.Posted on January 9, 2007 5:26 PM • 47 Comments •
WMDs located
We're on a new schedule to destroy our chemical weapons. 2023.Posted on November 25, 2006 7:10 AM • 4 Comments •
Why Rangel's proposal to reinstitute the draft is a bad idea
The military draft. Hell, no. Again.Posted on November 22, 2006 7:43 AM • 33 Comments •
I am not on Death's payroll
I shall die, but that is all I shall do for DeathPosted on November 11, 2006 7:38 AM • 10 Comments •
War is a public health problem
If war were anything else but war it would be identified as a public health emergency. So why is it different?Posted on October 14, 2006 7:42 AM • 17 Comments •
The Lancet paper on the Iraq War toll
A new scientific paper tells a terrible story of death and destruction in Iraq.Posted on October 12, 2006 7:48 AM • 8 Comments •
Nuclear threat in North Korea and US response
North Korea is threatening to test a nuclear device. And the US Senate still has not ratified the Comprehensive nuclear Test Ban Treaty, signed by the US in 1996.Posted on October 6, 2006 7:15 AM • 11 Comments •
What ee cummings said: "There is some shit I will not eat" (with Update)
The poet says it best.Posted on September 28, 2006 7:05 AM • 55 Comments •
The Iraqi briar patch
bin Laden as Brer Rabbit.Posted on September 25, 2006 7:34 AM • 2 Comments •
How Bush supports the troops
Department of Veterans Affairs. Worst agency in the world.Posted on September 22, 2006 7:06 AM • 1 Comments •
Sustainable killing
Now I know what "ironic" means.Posted on September 18, 2006 7:03 AM • 13 Comments •
Psychologists' tortured logic
Psychologists who don't care enough and doctors who do.Posted on September 8, 2006 7:26 AM • 8 Comments •
War crimes in Lebanon and Israel
War crimes, both sides. Let's end this.Posted on August 12, 2006 7:12 AM • 32 Comments •
Doomed to repeat it
The Guns of August. Again.Posted on August 7, 2006 7:43 AM • 20 Comments •
Bombs, bullets and drinking water
Dirty water also kills.Posted on July 31, 2006 6:57 AM • 20 Comments •
Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: Frost and firepower
Robert Frost nails the Middle East crisis.Posted on July 23, 2006 7:34 AM • 5 Comments •
Soft-core magazine porno to seduce pre-teens
Teach a child to Be a Man. Awesome.Posted on July 7, 2006 7:38 AM • 54 Comments •
Wound infections in Iraq and here
The festering wound infections of Iraq and what isn't being done about them.Posted on June 24, 2006 7:15 AM • 4 Comments •