Speaking of Nazis...
Call me Voldemort. Note: That my name for that clown who gets way too much mention for anyone with his talents and capacities. Though it's not the first time in this country that one of the great...
View Article"That Thief, Obama"
Another day. Another tea bagger.If Dubya, the Voldemorts, Michelle Malkins and Dinesh D'Souzas of the world have done nothing else, they've introduced many to the world of the written word. I've seen...
View ArticleNotebook, 1 December 2010: My Kind of Pragmatist...
First of all, I want to give a shout out to LarsThorwald for his fine diary, I am a pragmatist, but there is a limit to compromise. I thought that eventually this would happen. Democrats would reach...
View ArticleSo How Was Your Sunday on Dkos?
Just got home from work, and as I promised mallyroyal that I'd get a diary in today about this, and as it's now 10:50 PM I can just keep that promise. So. How was everyone's Sunday? Mine was busily...
View ArticleSenator Reid, Time For More All-Nighters...
I trust you're hearing us this past week. If you want to know exactly when the ground fell out of your world, it was December 3, 2010. I went to bed feeling pissed and angry about the prospective...
View ArticleNotebook, 9 December 2010: Vindictiveness and the fight I look for. . .
Big questions today, and one which we haven't discussed much (I'm serious about this), even in these days under the shadow of The Compromise. Well we should. I'm not an economist, though I have some...
View ArticleNotebook 10 December 2010: Miscellaneous thoughts...
Be careful what you ask for . . .It's a little late in the game now for filibuster reform, and were I a democrat in the Senate right now, with the House takeover by rethugs imminent, I'd like to keep...
View ArticleNotebook, 11 December 2010: It's Official. We've Gone Kafka . . .
As I noted yesterday, it's a strange world where democrats try to sell the central republican goal of tax cuts as a good thing.From last night's Hardball:Chris Matthews: Who filled Santa's sack with...
View ArticleNotebook, 1-2 January, 2011: Looking Back into the Enemy's Heart . . .
In a few days, the GOP takes formal control of the House, and it seems I'm not alone in taking stock of the situation. As usual, I take the broad view, not into finding the way forward for the...
View ArticleNotebook, 9 January 2010: Tucson Shootings and False Equivalence . . .
A lot has already been said about yesterday's shootings in Tuscon, Arizona, about mentally imbalanced individuals bearing arms, the Virginia Tech shootings, about the culpability of Daily Kos, and lots...
View ArticleNotebook, 18 January 2011: My Moment of Silence is Over, and well, Breaking!
Apart from one post regarding the false equivalence evident in the commentary of the Tucson shootings, I've thought hard about the political climate, and my (hopefully) minuscule contribution to its...
View ArticleLiveblogging the Health Care "Debate"
I've a day off, and because I think untruths uttered by the right lie at the heart of what happened in Tucson, I intend to do my best to keep them honest.That's my mission today, so here goes. From the...
View ArticleNotebook, 23 January 2011: My Response to Howard Dean and bobswern . . .
Well.I was flattered to be asked by Howard Dean for my thoughts on the way forward for progressives. Thank you, Governor Dean, that was gracious of you, and my thoughts follow.I deleted my extended...
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Notebook, 2 February 2011: Storms . . .
"Before getting in your car, ask yourself if getting to your destination is worth risking your life."In case you’re wondering, that’s the entire continental United States under those storm cloudsAfter...
View ArticleNotebook, 8 February 2011: Apologies . . .
A report released by the UK government yesterday states that HMG "did everything it could" to secure the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi:Come to find out, it is widely reported that...
View ArticleNotebook, 9 February 2011: The World's Newest Nation . . .
The World's Newest NationIn case you've missed it, the news from Africa isn't all bad, Egypt notwithstanding. The world's newest nation, South Sudan, was born after years of dogged diplomacy helped end...
View ArticleBefore DK3 Vanishes, I Just Gotta Say . . .
The Arabic speaking world has become politically articulate, and it is exhilarating to behold.First of all, let me offer my congratulations to the protesters, my thanks to the Egyptian Army for the way...
View ArticleNotebook, 12-13 February 2011: Milestones . . .
The Arabic speaking world has again become politically articulate, and it is exhilarating to behold. First of all, let me offer my congratulations to the protesters, my thanks to the Egyptian Army for...
View ArticleWelcome to the Foreign Relations Group
It's clear that, even in the daily lives of ordinary people, what happens overseas has a direct effect. From knowing someone who has fought in either of the two current wars we are engaged in to the...
View ArticleDK FRG: 14 February 2011: Contenders and Open Thread.
BBC World News reports that China has surpassed Japan as the world's second largest economy.This ought to send shivers up the spines of those on the right, as well as free market jihadis like Lawrence...
View ArticleWelcome to the Foreign Relations Group
Note: This is a repost of a diary I meant to be queued to the Foreign Relations Group (DK FRG) but failed to actually get in the group queue.It's clear that, even in the daily lives of ordinary people,...
View ArticleDK FRG, 17 February 2011: Authoritarian Regimes, Egypt and the Pentagon . . .
Welcome to DK FRG, the Daily Kos Foreign Relations Group.Should be lively in the next two years, as the President doesn't even get one full term to address his domestic policy agenda. If you want to...
View ArticleDK FRG, 20 February 2011: Crisis Watch #90 and Open Thread
The Daily Kos Foreign Relations Group (DK FRG) is a small and growing group of members from diverse parts of the world reporting on developments kossacks should be aware of. The management is informal....
View ArticleDK FRG: Sovereignty vs. Intervention
For the record (hold onto your hat, MB, I'll return to this), I'm not in favor of a no-fly zone over Libya. Not only is it a slap in the face to international norms, it's needlessly dangerous.One can...
View ArticleWelcome back. You write better than most zombies I've read.
But I feel your pain, I haven't been feeling all that well myself for almost a week now.I'm papicek and the group I founded was the Foreign Relations Group.Foreign Relations is a personal interest of...
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UNSC Approves "all necessary measures" Resolution On Libya UPDATED with text...
A very, very quick diary. In a vote just taken minutes ago, the UN Security Council approved a resolution approving a military invention against Moamay al-Gaddafi's regime in Libya:Voting, Aye - 10,...
View ArticleMore Reaction to UNSC Res. 1973 w/ Update
Joshua Keating and David Bosco at Passport report:"The fissure in the UN between a Western-led interventionist group and a "sovereignty bloc" led by Moscow and Beijing, but with real appeal to key...
View ArticleLiveblog: News From The Fronts
LibyaDespite an ultimatum from Western powers demanding that Mr. Qaddafi keep a cease-fire, reports of heavy bombardment and fighting came from the main rebel-held city in eastern Libya, Benghazi....
View ArticleNotebook 23 March 2011: News From The Front(s)
I was planning on taking a break from writing for awhile, I'm getting stale, there are books I've long wanted to read but haven't gotten to (Stavrianos and Glenny), and generally speaking, people here...
View ArticleCongressman Dennis Kucinich, Me, and The War Powers Resolution of 1973...
I've heard lots of conflicting claims made here about what the president did or didn't do concerning Congress' and the President's prerogatives and responsibilities when it comes to sending US military...
View ArticleRegime Change is the Official Coalition Goal, UPDATED x2
Reported in the NYT: C.I.A. in Libya Aiding Rebels, U.S. Officials Say:The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and...
View ArticleMy Buddy, the Dictator . . .
Sometimes, it gets baroque.As reports come out of Abidjan, Ivory Coast of heavy fighting as the militia supporting Alassane Ouattara has entered the city and if fighting its way toward the palace where...
View ArticleNotebook, 1 April 2011: Ironies . . .
No, this is not an April Fool's diary, unless you want to call the people of France and of the US fools. Perhaps we deserve it.Those who have gone back and forth with me on DK know that I like to cite...
View ArticleHow Soccer Determines the Choices We Should Make in Libya and Explains the...
Pastor Terry Jones' desecration of a holy text and the violent reaction it spawned are but some of the long series of acts of violence and hatred which have been acted out worldwide. The recent history...
View ArticleOur Laws Regarding Free Speech Don't Apply to Afghani Culture
Julie Water's point about the terms we use to describe what Terry Jones did provides me with a wonderful opportunity to illustrate why we need to be crystal clear about which context we're talking...
View ArticleCrisis Watch Report #92, 1 April 2011
One thing I can depend on is the ICG Crisis Watch Report dropping in my inbox on a timely basis. A thumbnail guide to world conflict, it is designed to reach policy makers and journalists so that...
View ArticleNotebook 6 April 2011: Developments in Africa . . .
Former Pennsylvania congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA) leads a small, private delegation to meet with Moammar Gadhafi. Politico reports that congressman Weldon will urge Gadhafi to step down:“We must...
View ArticleProgress in Egypt is Slow While China Regresses.
One step forward, one step back. It seems that reports that the Supreme Military Council in Egypt was as eager to crush the peaceful protests in Tahrir Square could very well been true, that the thugs...
View ArticleRemember Me? . . . Updated
No, not me. I'm well posted today.I'm talking about 1,100 missing children from the Second World War. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum has posted 1,100 photos of children taken by relief workers after...
View ArticleIslamophobic or Standing Up for Women's Rights? You Decide.
Ici, on lit beaucoup du loi francais contre "la dissimulation du visage dans l’espace public" aujourd'hui.Oops.I'm not going to bother translating the whole law for you, but present the translation...
View ArticleNotebook, 15 April 2011: Bitter . . .
Well, if you didn't believe me when I posted Regime Change is the Official Coalition Goal, here you go. The road we started down when we first decided to intervene has now reached it's logical...
View ArticleNotebook, 27 April 2011: Let's Just Break Everyone Out...
Now that we can publish as many diaries as we like, I've noticed more and more diaries like this one. Really just extended comments. This one extends a thought which I first expressed in a comment a...
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Notebook, 29 April 2011: A Disturbing Mirror . . .
Crossposted from my own blog. Partly to archive this, partly to share it (some people I know personally really need to look in this particular mirror), and partly to have it where I could find it...
View ArticleNotebook, 30 April 2011: Nuggets . . .
Sometimes I just like to play with the html. Sometimes, things are just too good to keep to myself. Sometimes, I just like to share.It's an odd world out there. Enjoy.
View ArticleNotebook, 10 May 2011: Political Currents . . .
(h/t to Laura Rozen aka The Cable, blogging at Foreign Policy)This one makes my bullshit antennae twitch, or is our first salvo in a post-bin Laden world of our efforts to eradicate Islamic terror and...
View ArticleNotebook, 11 May 2011: Diplomatic Dingleberries . . .
Pardon my alliterative mood. It may be an off day for me, but the world still continues to spin, burn, fold, spindle and mutilate itself, and yours truly is here to report.
View ArticleNotebook, 13 May 2011: Washington Whitewash. . .
Somethings are hard to do, but I cannot let this one go unremarked.Let me first of all commend (yes, commend, you read that right) the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, a body I've frequently held in...
View ArticleNotebook, 23 May 2011: Consequences . . .
Cross posted from Antemedius.Well. I hate love to say I told you so, but yes, this is what I predicted over a month ago.Today, Colum Lynch reports on the UN Security Council's attitude toward Syria,...
View ArticleNotebook, 28 May 2011: Great Power Politics In A Multipolar World
Crossposted from Antemedius.One of Solzhenitsyn's most chilling stories concerned a birthday party for Comrade Stalin, held in a small, out-of-the-way town. Stalin was, of course, no where in sight,...
View ArticleOvertaken By Events (Updated)
I haven’t been a Democrat since 2011. I haven’t been here, I haven’t read anything here and I have never felt the loss since then either. But events have overtaken my personal course and there are some...
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