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Afghan `Buzkashi Boys` Makes It To Hollywood

Donations allowed the Afghan actors to attend the Academy Awards.

(LOS ANGELES) - An Internet campaign paid for Afghan actors Fawad Mohammadi and Jawanmard Paiz to visit the Oscars.

The teenage stars of the Oscar-nominated short film "Buzkashi Boys" are here to attend the 85th annual Academy Awards.

Want to Bash A Dead, White Male? Try Karl Marx!

Most miss the fact that Marx was an adamant racist.

(WASHINGTON DC) - One dead white male who remains in vogue among campus radicals----is Karl Marx.

What has been widely overlooked by those who are keeping the Marxist flame alive is the man's blatant racism.

Flanders Fields and the Forgotten Lessons of War

And the young people ask why they are marching for, and I ask myself the same question...

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Alright war fans... those who think the military is a good thing and that wars of attrition, which World War One purely was, are somehow justified.

Here is a story that tells the real story of war, that is death, destruction, sadness, suffering, and more death.

Vernon Parish, LA officials: Extension of deadline a win for Fort Polk

Vernon officials: Extension of deadline a win for Fort Polk.

(LEESVILLE) - The Department of the Army will extend the commenting period for the Programmatic Environmental Assessment at Fort Polk.

It is viewed as a win for Vernon Parish, according to officials, who just yesterday beseeched lawmakers, congressional leaders and state residents to make their voices heard...

Heeding the Hateful

Sometimes even a bigot is worth listening to, for he may speak truths that others dare not utter.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Many years ago, as a college student, I struggled with the issue of who was worth quoting in an article or speech.

Years after, I wrote an article in which I quoted David Duke, a former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan--a position as bigoted as one can get.

Agron Belica Interviews Jay R. Crook PhD About Afghanistan

A visual exploration of Afghanistan in decades past.

(BOSTON) - Recently one of our associate journalists, Agron Belica, conducted an interview with Dr. Jay R. Crook via Skype.

The subject was Afghanistan which Dr. Crook had visited several times while living and working in Iran from 1964 to 1980.

Infantry Deaths: Pres. Truman`s Atomic Bombs and Pres. Obama`s Drones

The bomb and drones both save infantry lives.

(PORTLAND, OR) - After barely surviving General Patton's Army in WWII, I and my infantry division was scheduled to attack Japan where infantry deaths were predicted to be about one million as the Japanese were going to attack troop transports with kamikaze suicide pilots.

We infantry couldn't possibly survive that. President Truman probably saved a million infantry lives.

GOP Descends Into Its Winter of Discontent

“Why, I in this weak piping time of peace
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity.” - William Shakespeare: Richard III

(CHICAGO) - A major archaeological discovery was announced in Leicester, England this week. Experts have confirmed that skeletal remains found during the excavation of a Leicester parking lot are those of Britain’s King Richard III, the last of the Plantagenet kings.

Richard, portrayed by Kevin Spacey, was killed in 1485 by Tudor enemies during the Battle of Bosworth Field.
British officials authenticated the remains through the thoroughly modern method of DNA “fingerprinting” connecting King Richard to a 21st century male descendant of Richard’s sister, Anne.

Getting to Know Us: A Memo to U.S. Adversaries

Our recent history involves a lot of the tail wagging the dog.

(PORTLAND, OR) - One of the first things you need to know about the U.S. is how difficult it is for us to tolerate ambiguity—especially when untangling our own motives.

Harnessing the Imagination

The imagination is the source of creativity, problem-solving, planning, and of setting our course in this world if we use it correctly.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - One of the most dismal futuristic images I've seen was recently painted by Chris Hedges in the opening of an article he entitled A Time for "Sublime Madness". Here it is:

"The planet we have assaulted will convulse with fury. The senseless greed of limitless capitalist expansion will implode the global economy..."