*The People of Ireland have had enough.

Faced with hotels full of "asylum seekers", streets full of trash, huge barracks for adult, fighting-age men from Africa and the Middle East in their rural towns, and imprisonment for noticing and objecting to the foregoing, the people of Ireland are showing their displeasure at their government. Recently, they have been subjected to confiscatory fuel …

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What do Afghanistan and Haiti have in common?

This week, we have seen disaster in both Afghanistan and Haiti.  On the surface, they would seem to have very little in common, besides both being desperately poor countries.  Also, the US has been involved in both countries for a long time. If we look closely, however, we see similarities which may partially explain what …

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