When it comes to accountability, you’d probably hope that the US military would be rather exacting, right? Sorry. The answer to the seemingly simple
Author: Gloria Shur Bilchik
$42 billion war-spending cut? It’s a start.
President Obama’s proposed budget for 2012 calls for a 26 percent decrease in military spending. According to Bloomberg News, the $117 billion in military
Rearranging the deck chairs in downtown St. Louis
Ballpark Village, we’re told, is on the rise…again. Well, maybe. But the latest incarnation calls for financial-services powerhouse Stifel-Nicolaus to be the primary tenant
Roots Action launches anti-war campaign
They had me at Daniel Ellsberg. Ten minutes ago, a call to action landed in my email inbox. It took me less than a
Presidential signing statements, revisited
Forced by the need to keep the Defense Department running, on Jan. 7, President Obama signed into law a spending bill with what the
Obama’s accomplishments: Lifting the media blackout at Dover
At the outset of the first Gulf War, then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney imposed a ban on photographs and broadcast coverage of the arrival
My Boy Jack, my boy George & political parables
My Boy Jack is a PBS historical drama that I stumbled upon [three years late!] over the New Year’s weekend. Based on a play
10 most-read Occasional Planet posts of 2010
2010 has been the first calendar year for Occasional Planet’s eclectic, under-the-news-radar, occasionally-humorous-and-often-opinionated potpourri of mostly positive posts on progressive people, programs and ideas.
Interview: St. Louis activist Adam Shriver shares his philosophy
Adam Shriver is a next-generation leader among St. Louis-area progressive activists. His blog, St. Louis Activist Hub, plays a major role in alerting activists
A gift to the President from the north “poll”
[A CNN poll, released on Dec. 23, 2010, offers some encouraging news–and perhaps a word of caution– for President Obama.] Two nights before Christmas,