Landed Series Wandering

First, I would like to thank those who have written in with praise for LSW. Not sure how you all bumped into LSW but it is nice hearing from you. Praise is nice but critical comments regarding what is written here are welcome. Discussions would be super.
Realistically, I will have little time before [...]

Excellent concise informative post by Juan Cole on Israel, the blockade of Gaza, the Palestinians, the state of Gazan children’s health, and the need for Palestinians citizenship in a soveregin state.

Perspectives on the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Thoughts on Israel’s future after the latest outrageous behaviour.

Judicially speaking, O = W.

Sounds like a Star Trek episode, something along the lines of Trouble with Tribbles or the Next Generation where Wesley inadvertently gets involved with a society of mites but two bits of news came out lately regarding new life forms.

Rogue private military firms employed by the Pentagon outside of any form for normal control.

One wonders sometimes if regime change in Washington is just an illusion. The BP Gulf of Mexico catastrophe is a case in point. As Obama was making ready to be ‘mad’ at BP it is revealed that the White House colluded with BP to keep the full extent of the disaster from the public by [...]

Juan Cole on Obama Karzai tensions, the military operations in Marjah and Kandahar, and the current state of events in Afghanistan.

BP was exempted by MMS (of sex, drugs and incompetence fame) from the need to conduct environmental reviews of its proposed oil drilling projects in the Gulf.