Evening Blues Preview 6-5-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 06/05/2015 - 2:22pmThis evening's music features New Orleans r&b singer, "Mr. Personality," Lloyd Price.
Syria
DIA Docs: West Wants a “Salafist Principality in Eastern Syria”
Submitted by jim p on Sat, 05/23/2015 - 10:16pmJust thought people might be interested to see this; especially those of us trying to puzzle out the "why are we allied with, and benefitting al-qaeda types again?" question.
The link: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/05/dia-docs-west-wants-a-salafist-pr...
(The All-Caps is copied and pasted; and not me yelling)
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.
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."
Why Syria needs an earthquake
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 04/30/2015 - 11:15pmAl-Qaeda now stronger than ever thanks to our allies
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 04/28/2015 - 12:44amRemember al-Qaeda? With all the hype about ISIS it's easy to forget that it was al-Qaeda that attacked us, while Daesh never did.
If you've forgotten that, you wouldn't be alone. It seems that Washington has forgotten it as well, because over the last six months we've been at war with the enemies of al-Qaeda.
Tide of war turning against Assad's Syria
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 04/22/2015 - 4:32pmThe long 4-year civil war has had many ebbs and flows, but that can only go on for so long before one side collapses from exhaustion.
President Assad's time in power may be coming to an end.
Evening Blues Preview 4-17-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 04/17/2015 - 12:58pmThis evening's music features Detroit blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and harmonica player, Eddie "Guitar" Burns.
