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Russ Wellen is the nuclear deproliferation editor for OpEdNews. He's also on the staffs of Freezerbox and Scholars & Rogues.
"It's hard to tell people not to smoke when you have a cigarette dangling from your mouth." -- Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 God Forbid a Peace Prize Winner Should Make Peace Life as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate -- especially if you're not resting on your laurels -- is not as awash in dignity and respect as you might think.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 Cheney's My Pet Goat Moment (2 comments)President Bush's reaction - or lack thereof - in that Florida classroom on 9/11 when he was informed of the second attack on the WTC (Flight 175) has been the most dissected expression since Mona Lisa's smile.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 James Dobson Killed God! (2 comments)No, not by his own hand. Nor was it that God (we'll explain).
Thursday, April 5, 2007 Hate Will Bring Us Together (1 comments)
The hard right, to whom Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi symbolize liberal beliefs, takes fiendish delight in bringing the wrath of God down on them.
Monday, March 5, 2007 A War That Will Hit Home (1 comments)Attack Iran and the "homeland" won't know what hit it.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Toothless in Tehran In the end, not only the US, but Russia and Iran each got the sanctions it wanted.
Friday, January 5, 2007 Nobody to Blame But Themselves (3 comments)Reduced to the same circumstances, Americans would never slaughter each other like the Iraqis. Would they?
Thursday, December 28, 2006 Culled and Distilled, Part One Excerpts from the best articles available on the Internet (in full accordance with fair use).
Friday, September 29, 2006 How to Lose Your Job in 800 Easy Air Strikes Chapter and verse for the front and back of a doomsayer's imaginary sandwich board: "If we attack Iran. . . we might lose our jobs. . . if we attack Iran. . . we might lose our jobs. . . if we attack Iran."
Monday, September 25, 2006 See a Spine Deteriorate Before Your Eyes Even harder to stomach than "Body Worlds" (that German exhibition of flayed human corpses that tours the world).
Monday, September 18, 2006 Meigs and Mr. Jones (9 comments)
In March 2005 Popular Mechanics magazine ran an article titled "9/11: Debunking The Myths." But it was too sketchy to be of much use in pulling the rug out from under the 9/11 Truth Movement.
Wednesday, September 6, 2006 What's the Opposite of "Homeland"? Many Americans can't quite put their finger on why the word "homeland" makes them queasy.
Friday, August 25, 2006 Good Old American Know-How Lives! Besides energy, no issue is as perplexing to Americans as security, especially of the fatherland, I mean homeland, variety. But there's finally been a breakthrough.
Thursday, August 24, 2006 Hoisted on Its Own Petard Except for a handful like John Kerry, John Edwards, and Russ Feingold, it's as if most Democratic senators don't believe the polls that lay bare public disaffection with our occupation of Iraq. They refuse to call for a timetable for withdrawal.
