A US-Iranian Deal?

By George Friedman
The United States apparently has reached the point where it must either accept that Iran will develop nuclear weapons at some point if it wishes, or take military action to prevent this. There is a third strategy, however: Washington can seek to redefine the Iranian question.
As we have no idea [...]

The Meaning of Marjah

By Kamran Bokhari, Peter Zeihan and Nathan Hughes
On Feb. 13, some 6,000 U.S. Marines, soldiers and Afghan National Army (ANA) troops launched a sustained assault on the town of Marjah in Helmand province. Until this latest offensive, the U.S. and NATO effort in Afghanistan had been constrained by other considerations, most [...]

Draft of the Constitution Found

Early draft of the Constitution found in Phila.
By Edward Colimore
Inquirer Staff Writer
Researcher Lorianne Updike Toler was intrigued by the centuries-old document at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
On the back of a treasured draft of the U.S. Constitution was a truncated version of the same document, starting with the familiar words: “We The People. . . [...]

Howard Zinn (1922-2010)

Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87

By Mark Feeney and Bryan Marquard, Globe Staff
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as “A People’s History of the United States,” inspired young and old to rethink the way [...]

History by Beck – ‘Not Taught in Classrooms’

Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31882.html
By: Michael Calderone
January 22, 2010 09:43 PM EST
Viewers tuning into MSNBC at 5 p.m. on Friday would have seen Chris Matthews riffing on President Barack Obama’s speech in Ohio, while CNN’s “The Situation Room” led with the earthquake in Haiti.
But Fox News wasn’t focusing on the day’s news. Instead, host Glenn Beck ran through [...]

Texas Fights over Social Studies Lessons

By APRIL CASTRO, Associated Press Writer

AUSTIN, Texas – Parents, teachers and activists lined up Wednesday for the chance to help shape the way history — topics from the Roman Empire to Texas cosmetics queen Mary Kay Ash — will be taught to millions of Texas children for the next decade.
The State Board of [...]

The Khost Attack & the Intelligence War Challenge

In an effort to share intelligence and discuss current events, here is another post from Stratfor.  This one details the double agent suicide bombing that killed 7 CIA operatives (some very high ranking) in Afghanistan.  In an age beyond the Cold War “James Bond” kind of CIA mystique, there are real dangers to intelligence operatives [...]

The Christmas Attack: Intelligence Report

Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting) is one of the largest non-governmental intelligence organizations in the world.  Analysts there sift through extremely current information in order to make analytical judgments and forecasts about events and issues to come.  Here’s a recent report (Jan. 4th, 2010) on the Christmas Day Attack and the Intelligence Process.  Tell me what you [...]

A Darker Side of Columbus

Because of my use of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States and information from James Loewen’s Lies My History Teacher Told Me, I thought this would be an interesting article on Columbus Day 2009.

A darker side of Columbus emerges in US classrooms
By CHRISTINE ARMARIO, Associated Press Writer [...]

A Vaccine Increases Prevention of HIV/AIDS

A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE and MICHAEL CASEY, Associated Press Writers Marilynn Marchione And Michael Casey, Associated Press Writers 48 mins ago

BANGKOK – For the first time, an experimental vaccine has [...]

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