Evening Blues Preview 6-2-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 06/02/2015 - 1:18pmThis evening's music features San Francisco area one man band Jesse Fuller.
ISIS
Embracing the Dark Reality of Iraq
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 05/31/2015 - 3:17pmThe Fall of Ramadi is becoming a game-changer. Not for the defeat itself, but for the response. In particular, the military offensive to retake Ramadi.
The most obvious element of how things have changed is the composition of the Baghdad army.
So what is the GOP strategy for Iraq?
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 05/22/2015 - 1:38pmRepublican candidates have decided to use the recent setbacks against ISIS as a winning issue in the 2016 election, and it seems to be working.
Evening Blues Preview 5-21-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 05/21/2015 - 2:51pmThis evening's music features Chicago blues guitarist and singer Andrew Brown.
Evening Blues Preview 5-20-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 05/20/2015 - 1:19pmThis evening's music features New Orleans piano player, singer and songwriter Fats Domino.
Evening Blues Preview 5-18-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 05/18/2015 - 2:10pmThis evening's music features one man band, Elmon Mickle who recorded as T-Model Slim and Driftin' Slim.
Our Approaching Tet Moment
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 05/17/2015 - 1:04pmLeading up to the 1968 Tet Offensive, the Pentagon tried to convince the American public that it was winning the war.
General Bruce Palmer, Jr., one of Westmoreland's three Field Force commanders, claimed that "the Viet Cong has been defeated" and that "He can't get food and he can't recruit. He has been forced to change his strategy from trying to control the people on the coast to trying to survive in the mountains."
