While the United States is celebrating its heroes, who are invading a foreign land and killing people, other heroes are working around the world to save people.
Dr. Carlo Urbani, an Italian doctor who spent much of his career tracking infectious diseases among children in Africa, and was among a group that won a Nobel prize [...]

While our troops are fighting in Iraq — and getting all the press — you might want to start reading pages 5-20 of your newspaper, lest you will miss what the Bush administration is up to while they have you captivated with their sanitized war. Their bullshit budget is one example, but it at [...]

You know, I grew up in the United States, and, I guess because it was the latest major killing spree, they drilled Nazi and World War II stuff into our heads incessantly when I was in school. At times, we joked that they should have just renamed history class “Hitler Class”.
These studies would inevitably [...]

I feel bad for the Iraqis.
I mean, really, come on….they’re governed by an asshole. (Yes, I’m only calling Saddam an asshole…the Hitler references are really a bit much.)
As if that wasn’t enough, they’ve lived under awful economic conditions partly caused by horrible sanctions from the West that the Clinton *and* Bush administrations (1 and [...]