Bernie Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years in prison. Much (some) stolen wealth has been recovered from his family. But Bernie took far m...

Is speculation true of active news suppression over the Chiasso bearer bond case? I'd like to taste good fortune! This post evaporates f...

Big capital has pushed and prodded the USA into a corner. The American people have been largely abandoned by our government (notwithstanding...

The Obama administration today rudely twisted arms to pass a huge war funding bill. The Democratic leadership has forgotten promises to end ...

Japan is a great place! It's world-leading in some ways. Could it be better?... certainly! I've lived in Japan for 13+ years, and no...

I formerly subscribed to Zagat Survey , an excellent review of restaurants, hotels, nightspots, etc., around the world. I also submitted man...

Haiku by Genki Distraction left me knowing "Something Was Just Lost" Then refreshing smell ------------------ Our world ain't ...

Having spent some years in South Korea, with three trips to the DMZ and once across, I'm often asked by friends in Europe & the USA ...

(poetry by Genki) I expend My lonely energies Building barriers Against Others Wrong race Bad nation Ugly Can't be trusted What threat B...

Media reports about Lee Seung-Eun (리승은 Euna Lee) & Laura Ling have been unfairly inflammatory. These two 'journalists' were arre...

I've lived in assorted countries as a student & teacher; over 28 years as a foreigner! (About 14 years in Japan & Korea as a rac...

Torture continues at Gitmo. Kidnapped people held by the USA at Guantanamo Bay are still held in bad conditions. These so-called "detai...

Bailing-out banks in the USA with public funds is a clear case of the average schmuck having to pay for his (her) own chains. What a racket!...

The Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting announced this week went to David Barstow of The New York Times for articles revealing Penta...

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney is today claiming that his government's tortures led to "success" -- he demands "wh...

The Bush government's effort to prosecute foreign detainees with secret military tribunals makes little sense in terms of vital operatio...

"We who have a voice must speak for the voiceless" - Óscar Romero, Roman Catholic Archbishop; later murdered by right-wing death ...

Some specifics of U.S. Government-sponsored torture have recently been released by the Obama administration. The fact that cruel & horri...

What's a Commie? Answering such a question was previously easy. They were enemies of America; we patriotically tried to to roll 'em ...

I hate to see government waste. I also dislike populist bullies, and those who build reputation by deceiving people. What of the folk who pu...

US President Barack Obama has thus far excused the illegal activities of the prior administration. He's doubtless busy with assorted cha...

(No - this isn't a political essay on Afghanistan / Iraq) We've just returned from a driving trip in Sardinia, where we came across ...

Here's an easy-to-read indictment of failure: Quotes & facts of the (now past) U.S. administration from the office of U.S. Rep. Sten...

Back in September 2008, under the laissez-faire "free market" regime of George W. Bush (Dick Cheney presiding), we were suddenly i...

"What the Obama administration is doing is far worse than nationalization: it is ersatz capitalism, the privatizing of gains and the so...

Our world has too many examples where ignorance results in rape (actual or metaphorical). Consider here the despoiling of peoples, nations a...

Administrators team with media in maintaining orthodox thought among the inhabitants of a command region. The US Government under President ...

US President Obama's pro-choice support is being attacked by the Roman Catholic Church and ultra-Right activists. These 'womb wrangl...

The British government is in the news as discussing an end to the ban on the heir to the British throne marrying a Roman Catholic (the monar...

Major General Geoffrey D. Miller now retired. Celebrated in the US Pentagon's Hall of Heroes. Maj. Gen. Miller’s awards include seven L...