Quotation for Today: E Pluribus Unum - Still Working Toward That Ideal

The quotation for today, across the jump, highlights the continued struggle for equality and voting rights in the United States and against illiberalism; a narrow-mindedness that still can be found in the halls of Congress. 

Quotation for Today: Pulled by the Nose

Is the United States drifting into another unnecessary war in the Middle East or is it being pulled by the nose into such a war? The quotation for today highlights an article that describes the views of foreign affairs experts on the possibility of another war in the Middle East.

Quotation for Today: America's Electronic Roundup

"The government has been swooping up millions and millions of communications by ordinary people, then sorting through them to figure out what they really want." 

Cindy Cohn

Channeling Thomas Jefferson to Understand Modern Class Warfare

 This post will take us onto historical and contemporary economic ground.

Quotation for Today

"Much more difficult – the main beneficiary of the Iraq war was the Iranian government. Iraq traditionally was a sort of buffer but that has now disappeared because of the stupid policy of the US and Tony Blair's government."

Sir Malcolm Rifkind KCMG QC MP (UK) (Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1995-1997)

Rustin, Susanna. "Is war with Iran inevitable?" The Guardian 9 December, 2011: online edition UK 

Le Figaro.fr - Iran Shoots Down U.S. Drone

Iran claims it shot down an RQ-170 Sentinel - an unmanned aerial vehicle (drone).