Category Archives: Politics

Ah, Election Day in Massachusetts, a holiday for all true fans of Democracy and a day at the races for political junkies, both of which groups we admit to belonging to. Of course, it is just a primary election, and … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON – Attacks and civilian deaths in Iraq have risen sharply in recent months, with casualties increasing by 1,000 a month, and sectarian violence has engulfed larger areas of the country, the Pentagon said Friday in a strikingly dismal report … Continue reading →

DUBAI, Sept. 2 (Reuters) Al Qaeda, in a video posted Saturday on the Internet, called for President Bush and non-Muslims, especially those in the United States, to convert to Islam and abandon their "misguided" ways, or else suffer the consequences. … Continue reading →

Thought wacky, nuke-hyping, Israel-threatening Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wasn[t annoying enough? Well, now he has a blog. State-run TV announced the blog’s launch Sunday, but www.ahmadinejad.ir – which is written in Persian, but translated into English, French and Arabic – … Continue reading →

While the Bush Administration calls for the immediate disbanding of what it has labeled “private” and “illegal” militias in Lebanon and Iraq, it is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into its own global private mercenary army tasked with protecting … Continue reading →

As we careen closer to the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and the election day that lurks a few weeks behind, expect to hear more and more crowing over the fact that we haven’t been hit again during that time, and … Continue reading →

On Tuesday morning, a retired Catholic priest and two veterans put on clown suits, busted into a nuclear missile launch facility, and began beating the silo cover with hammers, in an attempt to take the Minuteman III missile off-line. Seriously. … Continue reading →

ONCE again, an online news outlet has published details about secret rooms in AT&T buildings where government spies are said to be gaining access to millions of private e-mail messages and other Internet traffic. This time, it’s Salon, which on … Continue reading →

Here in Boston, the majority of the local political attention is going to the burgeoning Governors race to replace "Catchers" Mitt Romney, who has come as close to declaring his candidacy for President in ’08 as one can without being … Continue reading →

EL PASO, June 8 (AP) – Gov. Rick Perry has announced a $5 million plan to install hundreds of night-vision cameras along the Mexican border and to put the live video on the Internet, so that anyone with a computer … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) – Personal data on more than 2.2 million active-duty military personnel – not just 50,000 as initially believed – were among those stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee last month, the government said Tuesday. VA Secretary Jim Nicholson … Continue reading →

Although we recognize the centrality of Economics in any understanding of the modern world we live in, and have in fact taken several courses in the material,many of the economic phenomena we observe first hand remain absolute mysteries until explained … Continue reading →