Thursday, February 9, 2006
The Terror of President Bush
Following accelerating criticism that the Bush Administration's domestic spying program violated every possible U.S. law and Constitutional amendment, the Bush Administration has now renamed its blatantly illegal domestic spying program the "terrorist surveillance program." Fox News has already...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2006
A DIFFERENT VIEW OF THE CARTOON MADNESS
Let me ask you a question. Why do you think the worldwide bru-ha-ha about the cartoons, offensive to Muslims, is only erupting now, when they first appeared in a right-wing Danish newspaper way back in September? Let's think about this for a moment. The cartoons appeared in September - six month...
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Sunday, February 5, 2006
MORE ON IMPEACHMENT
Congresswoman Maxine Waters Says Bush Guilty of Impeachable Offenses Rep. Maxine Waters said of Bush, prior to the State of the Union: "His message tonight will not deal honestly with the mistakes that he's made. And I believe that the latest revelations about him and his spying on American citizens...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006
YES - WE DO HAVE TO TALK TO 'TERRORISTS'
Israel continue to make it clear that they will not deal with any Palestinian government that includes Hamas. The original raison d'etre for Hamas was to resist a beligerent occupation of Palestinian lands by Israel. That doesn't strike me as a terrorist agenda. They may have used terrorist tactics...
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Sunday, January 29, 2006
Polls Show Many Americans are Simply Dumber Than Bush
Two recent polls, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll and a New York Times/CBS News poll, indicate why Bush is getting away with impeachable offenses. Half of the US population is incapable of acquiring, processing and understanding information. Much of the problem is the media itself, which serves...
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Friday, January 27, 2006
HAMAS WINS
Twenty-four hours is clearly a long time in Middle East politics! Yesterday, there was a question mark over who had won the Palestinian democratic elections, and the exit polls suggested it was close - perhaps only five seats in it. Today, we now know Hamas has won, and initial results suggest Hamas...
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Thursday, January 26, 2006
HAMAS, IRAN AND INDIA
The Palestinians went to the polls for the first time this week. It could be a few more days until the official results are announced, but it already seems pretty clear that Hamas have made significant gains from the long-time ruling party, Fatah. Hamas have never fielded candidates in a democratic...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
THE US OUTSOURCES KIDNAPPING & TORTURE
The head of a European investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons in Europe said Tuesday that evidence pointed to the existence of a system of "outsourcing" of torture by the United States, and that it was highly likely European governments were aware of it. Allegations that the CIA hid and...
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Friday, January 13, 2006
AS IMPEACHMENT DRAWS EVER CLOSER...
...the act that every Bushite fears is now being talked about in the open, in newspapers, on the Internet, and in Congress. Impeachment is a tortuous process but, as anyone old enough to remember Nixon and Watergate will know, the huge sense of relief that results from kicking a crook out of the...
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Monday, January 9, 2006
Ariel Sharon - War Criminal
Israel's Prime Minister was a ruthless military commander responsible for one of the most shocking war crimes of the 20th century, argues Robert Fisk. President George Bush acclaims Ariel Sharon as 'a man of peace', yet the blood that was shed at Sabra and Chatila remains a stain on the conscience...
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