Thursday, December 28, 2006
Five Years of Infamy: Close Guantanamo!
O n January 11, 2002, the first detainees from Afghanistan arrived at the prison in the US Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba. In the succeeding five years, Guantanamo has symbolized to the world the Bush administration's abandonment of international and domestic law, and the development of a policy of...
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Friday, December 8, 2006
Iraq Study Group or Saudi Protection League?
They're kidding, right? James Baker III and the seven dwarfs of the "Iraq Study Group" have come up with some simply brilliant recommendations. Not. Baker's Two Big Ideas are: 1. Stay half the course. Keeping 140,000 troops in Iraq is a disaster getting more disastrous. The Baker Boys' idea: cut the...
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Monday, December 4, 2006
Has He Started Talking to the Walls?
It turns out we’ve been reading the wrong Bob Woodward book to understand what’s going on with President Bush. The text we should be consulting instead is “The Final Days,” the Woodward-Bernstein account of Richard Nixon talking to the portraits on the White House walls while Watergate demolished...
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Friday, November 10, 2006
Finally!!!
I was absolutely delighted to wake up this morning to find that the Republicans have lost control of both Congress and the Senate. Congress was a good start - at least they can start launching some serious investigations into the bloody shambes of the past five years - but the Senate is where the...
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Tuesday, November 7, 2006
HOW THEY STOLE THE MID-TERM ELECTION
Here's how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen. Note the past tense. And I'm not kidding. And shoot me for saying this, but it won't be stolen by jerking with the touch-screen machines (though they'll do their nasty part). While progressives panic over the viral spread of suspect computer black...
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Friday, November 3, 2006
I WANT TO HURT SOMEBODY
It was pure war-nography. The front page of the New York Times today splashed a four-column-wide close-up of a blood-covered bullet in the blood-soaked hands of an army medic who'd retrieved it from the brain of Lance Cpl. Colin Smith. There was a 40 column-inch profile of the medic. There were...
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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
You Fools!!
Congratulations, People of America! You've just handed absolute power to the Shrub, and you haven't even noticed. Here's an extract from an article by Mike Whitney. You can read the full thing on my 'Making Free Marketeers Angry' blog. In the last few weeks the Bush administration has passed the...
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Monday, October 30, 2006
Corporate America and Iraqi Oil
Upon his return from Iraq on October 5, Senator John Warner, Republican of Virginia, remarked “There is progress being made in certain areas, but you just find that so many communities don’t even have drinking water. It seems to me that the situation is simply drifting sideways.” Many of us have...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Bush's Absolute Power Grab
On October 17, George W. Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006. This new law gives Bush power similar to that of Stalin or Hitler, and grants agencies within the executive branch powers similar to those of the KGB or Gestapo. Bush justifies this act by claiming he needs it to...
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Sunday, October 22, 2006
Make a Difference in November!
Nearly eighty US servicemen have been killed in Iraq so far this month. This is set to be the bloodiest month since the illegal invasion took place. White House advisors are saying that a withdrawal plan needs to be drawn up. (Actually, what we've been saying since this ill-advised adventure began...
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