MGx - Musings, Essays & Ballads

Today at 7:00 PM ET or 4:00 PM here on the left coast you can view a live feed of Town Hall in New York City. Panelists include four noted journalists, Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker, Jeremy Scahill, author of the bestselling Blackwater, and Laila Al-Arian and Chris Hedges, co-authors of Collateral […]

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Bush went begging again in the Middle East and came back red faced and empty handed. Neither the Saudi King or the Iranian Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari were moved by the plight of the American president when he asked OPEC to step up production.
The OPEC members are currently utilizing their full capacity and are […]

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Events are planned all over the globe - here - here - here to name but a few
For curmudgeons read here and here

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As always, Zinn weaves the threads of imperialism by noting the similarities to the Iraq occupation to Vietnam in this collection published at Asia Times.
When I read the hundreds of pages of the Pentagon Papers entrusted to me by Daniel Ellsberg, what jumped out at me were the secret memos from the National Security […]

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A fellow peace activist wrote this and gave me permission to post it here. It is moving and thoughtful and attends to the too little attention given by the mainstream media upon these gut wrenching testimonies of our wounded warriors, our true winter patriots.
Editor:
As noted in The World (March 17, 2008), Sunshine Week is […]

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One of our presidential candidates, whose name I shall not mention because it triggers google ads featuring him, asserts that the transcendent issue of our time is radical Islamic extremism. Somewhere in a cave connected to a dialysis machine is a tall thin Arab wringing his hands and avowing that the transcendent issue of […]

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Bush requested the largest one year Pentagon budget exclusive of Iraq and Afghanistan ever, $515.4B. On the ‘buy’ list are F-22 Raptors, a CVN-78 aircraft carrier and a Virginia class nuclear submarine. In order to pitch this to Congress and the American people guess who the ‘threat’ target is? As detailed by […]

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The recent visit by Iranian president Ahmadinejad to Iraq indicates that the real benefactors of the occupation by US forces is Iran. I wrote about this more than two years ago. Now we are getting a taste of just how our foreign policy blunders have gone.
The Bush administration had been promoting a Turkey-Israel […]

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It has taken me two days to read this article from Asia Times. Every time I start I have to walk away because burrowed in between the details of political alliances, clever machinations and pipeline strategies lies the root of our problem in Congress
Big Oil deals in Iraq form the core of Bush’s strategy […]

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The fight for energy, the need to provide for and control the increasing population and the lust for power are driving the planet toward a massive military showdown.
Since the dawn of the 21st century, five of the six countries involved in the six-party talks have increased their military spending by 50% or more. The sixth, […]

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Chalmers Johnson, noted political science scholar has described in great detail the full extent of the military industrial complex, its price on the American people and clearly lays out how our present course is unsustainable. Not only does our military spending exceed that of any other nation on the planet but so also does […]

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From the Existentialist Cowboy
Highly leveraged US expansion, growth and empire are about to be swept away like a bamboo hut. As China leads the world in dumping dollars, the US appears to have exhausted the means by which it can continue to leverage or finance expansion and imperialism.
Bush could not have picked a worse time […]

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Yet another reason to work toward local sustainability. US foreign policy failures loom large on our energy future.
The commitment of Turkmen gas to Russia has broader implications. For one thing, the fate of the US-supported proposals for a trans-Caspian pipeline and the Nabucco pipeline depended significantly on the availability of Turkmen and Kazakh […]

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US military forces, having been stretched thin protecting global oil resources, are also one of the largest oil consumers effectively fighting wars for oil to fuel wars. This disastrous course has led to a foreign policy that has so weakened our energy thirsty country that despite our military might has been unable to maintain […]

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