Friday, May 9:
Lebanon: Another Violent Takeover In The Middle East Undermines Bush's Freedom Agenda
Coming in advance of President Bush's trip to the Middle East next week, the instability in Lebanon is a reminder of the dangers that can emerge from neglect and inattention and an approach to the Middle East too heavily focused on Iraq. Less than a year after the violent takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas, another Middle Eastern civil war in bubbling over...
Dysfunctional Constitutional Provisions
Any departure from constitutional precept, no matter how insignificant, establishes the precedent that all provisions of a constitution may be violated and government can pick and choose which provisions it wishes to obey or ignore.
David Swanson:
Steve Harrison for Congress
Here's why.
David Swanson:
The Last Sane Republican
Who do you think it was?
Stephen Pizzo:
You want MORE B.S?
(1 comments) Can it be that this presidential campaign will be B.S.-Free? Can it be that Americans have finally wised up and will reject the politics of distraction and utter nonsense? We'll see.
Joel S. Hirschhorn:
After Hillary, Voting With Conscience and Pride
(3 comments) This general election more than most will test the courage of voters to avoid lesser-evil strategic voting that has propped up our two-party plutocracy. People with intelligence and conscience must resist peer pressure and the temptation to vote against John McCain by voting for Barack Obama. if you feel compelled to vote, then vote for Ralph Nader. He has a distinguished record of working solely in the public interest.
The Pentagon, the CIA, and Secret Iran Meetings
Why was Langley cut out of clandestine meetings with Iranian informants?
Come Carpentier de Gourdon:
THE GREAT GAME REVIVED AND THE GEOPOLITICAL WAR OF CIVILIZATIONS
This article argues that a new cold war is pitting the USA, as a declining hegemon, and its allies against the SCI powers (China and Russia) for the control of Asia and the global economy, with Tibet as one of the theaters of strategic confrontation.
Bruce Allen Morris:
On (Not) Being Taken For Granted
The only way Democrats could take the nomination from Obama and give it to Clinton would be to take the real Democratic base for granted. Let's make sure they know they cannot.
Robert McElroy:
The Next Bubble.
The Mortgage crisis is calming down but the mechanism that let it happen are still in place. What's next?-Some satire from TheWeekInCongress.com
Jamilah Hoffman:
We Don't Need a Weatherman to Tell us Which Way the Missiles Blow
(1 comments) What do nuclear weapons have to do with the morning weather report? I don't know, ask Al Roker, who has no problem being used as part of this government's push to attack Iran.
Jalil Bahar:
Iranians and Americans Fooled For 30 Years
Private Amity, Public Enmity: The secret relationship between US and IRI governments. You have been fooled for 30 years. Yes you!!
The US: Your masters of the universe
Flying and fighting so far above it all has proven deceptive indeed. It leaves us with little idea of the new realities we are creating down below, and blind to the disturbing inequities and resentments generated by our global/galactic/cyber power.
It turns out that the higher you soar - the more "above all" you perceive yourself to be - the less likely it is that you'll understand the little people beneath you...
Susan Allen:
*Longshoremen "Antiwar" Rally: Bait and Switch
(1 comments) Seems the Longshoremen are being led, like sheep to the slaughter, to support the New World Order.
The case for invading Myanmar
A unilateral - and potentially United Nations-approved - US military intervention in the name of humanitarianism could easily turn the tide against the impoverished country's unpopular military leaders, and simultaneously rehabilitate the legacy of lame-duck US President George W Bush's controversial pre-emptive military policies.
TheSeeker:
Political Humpty Dumpty of 2008
Will the Democratic party break apart permanently during the 2008 election season?
Muhammad Khurshid:
Another War On Terror On The Card
Rulers may be living in the United States or Pakistan have planned another war on terror as they want to use this name for keeping them in power. Troops in the tribal areas situated on Pak-Afghan border enjoying the full backing from the US forces from across the border have planned another war on terror. The tribal elders and maliks, who according to the law must be informed have knowledge.
Nezua:
Oregon is Voting, Even as We Speak
SHHH. Can you hear it? Oregon is voting. And even though the Democratic nomination may end up being decided in great part by our votes here in the Beaver State, it remains a rather subtle event by all appearances. The latest from Nezua, Oregon's representative for MTV Choose or Lose Street Team '08.
Mumia Abu-Jamal:
The Politics of Denunciation
When I saw his latest dis' of the Rev. Dr. Wright, I thought of a question posed in the Bible, in the words of Jesus of Nazareth speaking to his disciples (in Matthew 16:26): "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?..."
What would you do to get a job?
Beyond Unity - What Obama Needs Now
(1 comments) Remarkably good analysis that Obama has failed to make the case he could actually be a good president and run the government effectively. He has said that he is not an operating officer and running the bureaucracy is not his job.
John Martin:
Obama supporters to Clinton supporters: IT'S YOUR HOUSE, TOO!
With the competitive part of the Democratic campaign now over, it's time for the Obama supporters to welcome the Clinton supporters into the fold.
David Michael Green:
It's So Over
Give it up, already, Hillary.
Eric Yamamoto:
Strike to Impeach 9/11/08
(2 comments) Why it is up to the people to force impeachment.
chris rice:
General Strike USA: 9/11/08
When the president has broken international law & conduct of war treaties, and the judicial & legislative branches fail to act, it falls to the people to set things right.
Bob Ryley:
Dear Hillary: Now I Really Am Bitter...... At You
Commentary on Hillary Clinton's comments regarding her alleged support among white no-college graduates and lower income white voters.
Gabby Hayes:
Agonistic Breathing
Abdus Sattar Ghazali:
Mock attack on the fake mosque in Illinois sends a wrong message
Six years and eight months after the 9/11 tragic attacks, Muslims in America remain at the receiving end with the reconfiguration of American laws, policies and priorities to target them. The latest assault on the Muslim community comes in the form of a simulated attack on a fake "mosque" by the law enforcement authorities in Illinois.
Thursday, May 8:
Helen Thomas: A Picture Worth A Thousand Words
(2 comments) Too often in this war, the news media seem to have tried to shield the public from the suffering this war has brought to Americans and Iraqis. It’s not the job of the media to protect the nation from the reality of war. Rather, it is up to the media to tell the people the truth. They can handle it.
Jayne Lyn Stahl:
Rocky Times Out
(9 comments) Knowing when to leave the ring is half the battle.
chris rice:
Big Oil Wants to Attack Iran
(9 comments) How Big Oil runs America's foriegn policy.
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed:
Peak Food: Blaming the Victims
(1 comments) As food prices rise, the blame game begins. Consumers, Third World breeding, the unrestrained CO2 emissions of irresponsible individuals, among other miscreants, are frequently pinpointed -- almost everyone except the real culprits: the global corporate food industry. Welcome to a dangerous, escalatingly expensive new era of food scarcity --from which even us Westerners have no escape.
Andrew Bard Schmookler:
I, Too, Have Been Damaged by the Evil Bushite Forces
(21 comments) A person's traumatic confrontation with evil tends to leave on that person an imprint of evil's pattern. A few days ago I suggested that was true of Hillary Clinton, who has emulated some of the fascists' tricks. I observe myself also becoming --albeit in a different sense-- more like the forces I detest.
William Fisher:
More Abuse by Pentagon, Contractors
Questions our presidential candidates are not asking -- and aren't being asked.
Brad Friedman:
*Keeping Vets from Voting
(8 comments) GOP Photo-ID Requirement is vote suppression.
Ed Tubbs:
The low-down on McCain's low-down voting record
(3 comments) "You don't have to steal votes if you can prevent them from ever being cast. And so far, the Republicans have eliminated six million registered Democrats from the lists of those eligible and previously registered to vote in November's election."
Mark Sashine:
Human Coprophagia 3 ½. Russian Immigrants Love Bush!
I wrote this as a diary in the Y2005. Now it seems more relevant than ever. Similar to Andy Bard Schmookler I want to explain what I have to endure. Those are my people. I belong to them. BUT!
Dave Lindorff:
The Democratic Presidential Race: A View from Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was hard, Hillary was dirty. Maybe Obama needed that.
Debunking the Nader Nastiness
A terrific article with great data that should finally set the record straight.
Pat Smith:
Veterans vs Amnesty
(2 comments) Our government is proposing amnesty for 20 million illegals, when they can not even help just a few hundred thousand new Veterans. We have an exact number of veterans with a tangible cost to help them. The cost of Amnesty is infinite...
Walter Uhler:
Is the United States of America Addicted to War?
(2 comments) Based upon both the number of wars involving America, as well as the number of its unnecessary wars, one must ask whether America is addicted to war.
Baldwin Park Democrat: McCain's Medical Records and His Health
(1 comments) What do we need to know about the health of a potential President of the United States?
The Re-Education of Jay Leno: A Mother's Day Reminder to Respect Black Women (and all Women) - Between the Lines
(5 comments) It was a moment that both he and the audience knew was totally inappropriate. If you've never seen 500 women's face freeze at one moment, it really not a good thing.
Obama's got his groove back
Using the Tarheel basketball team as a metaphor, article tells about the year they were ahead in crucial contest, dominated the four corners and and kept the ball in their court. The key requirement is to remain ahead.
The Challenge Of Modern Slavery
Almost every product we consume has a hidden dark history, from slave labor to piracy, from counterfeit to fraud, from theft to money laundering. We know very little about these economic secrets because modern consumers live inside the market matrix.
Georgianne Nienaber:
Mr. Bill (Oh No!) Takes on Big Shell Oil at Jazz Fest
Free speech challenges Big Shell Oil in the skies over New Orleans' Jazz Fest
David Swanson:
*We Can Stop the Iraq Funding - Here's How
(1 comments) Congress Members have received thousands of phone calls, and some of them are committing to voting no on Iraq funding. The vote won't happen until next week, so keep the calls coming: Call your Congress Member now at 202-224-3121 and tell them to vote No on the war funding.
Bob Koehler:
Apology Denied
In Iraq, Blackwater rules. If we admit the humanity of those they've killed, we've lost.
Sandy Sand:
Numbers Rule, But It's Still Too Soon For Hillary To Drop Out
Numbers rule, and sometimes we have to take someone's word that they add up or hire a math expert.
Bob Burnett:
Clinton's Last Stand
(2 comments) Tuesday, May 6th, was the decisive night in the struggle for the Democratic nomination. It provided new insight into the character of the two competitors.
Crippled Election Commission
(1 comments) The White House is removing a member of the Federal Election Commission for standing up for clean elections, while trying to install another member whose specialty is keeping eligible voters from casting ballots. The Senate, which must confirm nominees, should insist that President Bush appoint commissioners with a proven record of supporting voting rights and fair elections.
Stephen Lendman:
Ramzy Baroud's "The Second Palestinian Intifada"
(1 comments) Courageous Palestinian resistance against continued Israeli repression. Baroud's book is personal, moving and superb. Highly recommended.
McCain embraces Bush's radical views of executive power
According to John McCain, executive power in the US now is exactly what it should be, perfectly in line with what the Founders envisioned -- except that it is too constrained by a judiciary which "show[s] little regard for the authority of the president." To McCain, the only real problem with our system of checks and balances is that the judiciary has too much power, and the President not enough.
Things that don't exist in Harry Reid's world
The claim that Lieberman votes with Democrats "on everything but the war" -- made repeatedly by Reid [and two weeks ago in the NYT by "a member of the Senate Democratic leadership" too scared to be quoted (if it's not Reid)] -- is a total falsehood, but nonetheless quite revealing about how the Senate Democratic leadership thinks.
Jalil Bahar:
Americans and Iranians Fooled For 30 Years
(5 comments) Private Amity, Public Enmity, the secret relationship between US and IRI governments
Allen L Roland:
*HILLARY WON'T FACE REALITY / JUST LIKE BUSH
Hillary Clinton won't face the hard reality that she was not coronated on Super Tuesday, that she will not win the Democratic nomination and that the Clinton's are part of an inglorious past and not the hopeful future of a newly energized and inclusive Democratic party: Allen L Roland
Uzi Silber:
Going 55, Approaching 60
(2 comments) On the occasion of Israel's 60th anniversary, an American relives events from a seventies childhood in Israel during the morning drive to his cubicle.
amazin:
'Leaders', and what to do about them
(5 comments) Do we need leaders like these? How much do you relish your destruction?
Clinton Callahan:
BEWARE THE PSYCHOPATH, MY SON...
(3 comments) Since psychopaths have no limitations on what they can or will do to get to the top, all hierarchies inevitably become top-heavy with psychopaths. Behind the apparent insanity of contemporary history is the actual insanity of psychopaths, fighting to preserve their disproportionate power while we behave like sheep. Psychopaths lack a genetic sense of remorse or empathy with others, and this deficit shows up in brain scans!
Wednesday, May 7:
Soltz: Pentagon's Spin On GI Bill Is 'Offensive Nonsense' That 'Insults The Intelligence' Of Soldiers
The latest spin by the Pentagon isn't just nonsense – it's offensive nonsense, because it insults the intelligence of the service members who recognize that the administration has never been serious about retention. Otherwise, they would have done something about contractors a long, long time ago who target and aggressively pirate US soldiers.
Martha Rose Crow:
*Are Vampire Capitalists About to Descend on Crisis Wrought Myanmar?
(3 comments) The day Cyclone Nargis slammed into Myanmar, Bush ordered a new round of sanctions on Burmese state companies to pressure the military leadership there over human rights abuses and to push for political change. There appears to be a hidden agenda...
steve young:
No Child Left Behind Leaving 70% Of Our Children Behind
(5 comments) War has nothing on our failing education system when it comes to extinguishing the futures of our young.
Ann Kramer:
Go all the way upstream.....
(6 comments) A crisis driven world needs to examine why, despite all our intelligence, we have half the world hungry, millions homeless etc. In this article, the 'domination value system' is explored as the root cause for all of today's crisis.
E Nelson:
Has the Reverend Wright Story Run its Course Thanks to the Gas Tax Controversy?
Barack Obama's denunciation of Reverend Wright on April 29th along with increased national discussions of the gas tax holiday has helped Barack Obama politically by shifting the public's discussions away from Reverend Wright and back to the economy and rising gas prices.
Rob Kall:
Will SuperDuper Delegates Change The Race?
(7 comments) There have been a few superduper delegates so far. Will more of them announce themselves and when they do, will they totally change the primary race?
The delusion of markets
(2 comments) US market leadership has become the world's most celebrated laggardship. Since late March 2008, we have seen an unbroken series of worsening economic data. February, March and April saw net losses in US employment, stagnant to negative income growth, near zero gross domestic product growth and rising inflation. The most recent 1Q 2008 GDP Advance Estimate from the Bureau of Economic Analysis makes clear just how bad things are
Ernest Partridge:
Pity the Poor Mainstream Media!
(1 comments) It is very difficult for an old liberal like me to be sympathetic about the plight of the corporate media, given the way they have behaved of late. Here's a plan whereby an independent, internet-based, mass media might be financed, and eventually supplant the (so-called) "mainstream media."
Tom Hayden:
Turning Point for Obama, Limbaugh Winning Indiana for Hillary
(1 comments) Barack got his game back. Hillary needs a reality check. Barack had the voters at his back against all the forces trying to bring him down. He held his lead in NC, and only the Rush Limbaugh Republican vote stands between Barack and victory in Indiana.
Hillary needed two wins. She failed utterly. But she will not stop, not on her own.
The superdelegates should intervene tomorrow to send Hillary a message. Out now!
Mike Ghouse:
With friends like Clinton, Israel don't need enemies.
(2 comments) With friends like Clinton, Jews don't need enemies. Her words fuel the anti-Semitic repressed sentiments among average Americans and certainly evoke anger in the Middle East; where as McCain's Islamophobic attitude fuels terrorist outfits like Al-Qaeda. Do we need these two to run our nation down?
earl ofari hutchinson:
McCain Didn't Need to Rap Obama to Relax Evangelicals
(1 comments) Republican presidential candidate John McCain feigned fury at Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama for voting against the confirmation of Supreme Court justice John Roberts. This was not simply a cheap political shot at Obama, since Hillary Clinton, and 20 other Democrats also opposed Robert's confirmation.
Executive or Imperial Branch?
More memos recently have surfaced that were written early in the Bush administration by John C. Yoo from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel -- the man who gave us the administration's horrifyingly narrow definition of torture. As difficult as it is to believe, the recently released memos are even scarier than the original torture memo.
J. Edward Tremlett:
The BNP - As Bad as You Think They Are
(10 comments) Now that the British National Party has actually gotten somewhere in its drive to win respectability, and elections, it's time to pull the curtain away from the propaganda and reveal them for what they were, and still are -- White Separatists with a racist agenda.
Mission Impossible
The Times asked nine military “experts” to each write a blurb on the “significant challenges facing the US and Iraqi leadership and propose one specific step to help overcome that challenge. Three currently hold positions with the deliriously hawkish AEI. Seven supported or participated in the war from its infancy. Four currently support the US occupation of Iraq without any mention of a troop reduction.
Stephen Fox:
Dalai Lama's Translator Lhalungpa's widow forgives Driver; Dalai Lama expresses condolences; New NM DWI Legislation
(2 comments) In Memorial Service honoring Lhalungpa, his wife Gisela Minke stated she had no anger, only sorrow, towards Santo Domingo Pueblo DWI driver; Drepung monks chant farewells with family's speeches; serious legislation proposed for New Mexico.
All Americans have been touched by the ghastly tragedies resultant from DWI fatalities; when will we get smart like Norway and take away all driving permanently after first DWI offensE?
Melina Brown:
Sam Seder and Marc Maron; Air America's Wrestlemania Meets American Idol. What if You Threw a Contest and No-One Came?
(2 comments) Air America Radio is holding a competition of sorts to choose the new host for their 3-6PM drive time slot. In doing this they are asking for input from listeners as to who will be another voice for the left. I urge all readers to contact Air America and to let them know who you feel represents you best: smart, insightful, liberal veterans or the likes of Roseanne Barr or Joy Behar. Sign in to AAR and let them know your choice
George Washington:
No Brain Cell Left Behind
(3 comments) "No Child Left Behind" leaves no brain cells behind for kids to learn how to think for themselves
Saleem Khan:
Russia After May 8
The future of Russia after the election may be dependent upon its history--and a lot of factors that are not commonly understood in the West.
Idea of the Day: Eliminate the Employer Social Security Payroll Tax Cap
(1 comments) Eliminate the payroll tax cap on the employer side to make businesses pay Social Security taxes on all of the income of the highest paid employers, just like they do for those earning less than $97,500. This is the fairest way to help shore up the finances of Social Security.
Jump-Starting Local Economies
As Congress brings to the floor two crucial bills to address the crisis in U.S. housing markets, the Center for American Progress has found that the positive effect of the legislation will spread far beyond the estimated 500,000 at-risk borrowers to be helped through refinancing opportunities.
The End of the Clinton Era
(2 comments) With her defeat in North Carolina and a narrow lead in Indiana, the race is over for Clinton. Barring a miracle, Barack Obama will become the Democratic Party's nominee. His lead may be narrow, but it's a gap that can no longer be closed.
Iraq's 'Special Groups': A 'Useful Fiction' for Bush Admin
In a story on the continuing fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, the LA Times reports that "the U.S. military has tied itself into a verbal knot as it tries to avoid further inflaming tensions with Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr while confronting members of his Mahdi Army militia."
Ed Komarek:
Shadow Government, Precursor to Global Holocaust?
(3 comments) The greatest threat to American and global security is shadow government. This shadow government is a cancer on democratic society and must be exposed and brought under ligitimate constitutional control.
Deborah Emin:
It Really Does Matter How Politicians Behave
Using the case of Rep. Vito Fossella's drunk driving charges as a case for holding all politicians to the law and its consequences when broken.
Paul Donovan:
Will the Olympic Torch Pass Through Iraq? Pass the Hypocrites Bean Dip
China, the Olympics, Bush and the Dalai Lama, Nancy Pelosi, lies
Mark Sashine:
May 9. Glory and Sorrow.
(3 comments) This is my traditional article and I am in a hurry. On May 9 there will be a Victory Parade in Moscow but I will not have an access to a computer. Traditions, though, must be preserved. On this day of Glory and Sorrow I, a US citizen of the Russian/Jewish origin do my duty and express my everlasting gratitude to those who won the WWII- to the Russian soldiers.
David Swanson:
Clinton Must Now Win 90 to 10 or Quit
(2 comments) It's reached a point that everyone has known for months it had to reach, the point at which even people paid to do so cannot keep it going with a straight face.
Ann Weaver Hart:
Bush to Block Foreclosure Relief
(1 comments) Bush sides with big business again, calls help for homeowners in trouble a "bailout."
George Washington:
WANTED: Dead or Alive . . . REWARD!
(1 comments) WANTED: Confirmation of whether or not the Constitution is DEAD or ALIVE.
Stewart Nusbaumer:
Missing The Clinton Party
Again, the Clinton Black List sends me to a seedy bar.
Stuart Nachbar:
A Student Government Election Made for TV-The Sequel
A high school student election is declared a do-over, and the do-over will be done over again.
Steven Leser:
Barack Obama is the new Comeback Kid
History will record May 6, 2008 as the day when Senator Barack Obama sealed the Democratic nomination for President.
Deb Della Piana:
Move over, Nancy. You may have taken impeachment off the table, but Shirley Golub is determined to put it back on!
Meet Shirley Golub, a grassroots activist challenging the powerful Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco's 8th district this June. In a wide-ranging interview, Shirley lays her cards on the table about her uphill, but winnable battle.
Dean Powers:
Worldwide: Headlines Change As Night Wears On, NYTimes Steady
The headlines at the Los Angeles Times, Yahoo.com and elsewhere changed ominously over the course of the night like the barometer on a fishing vessel on calm dark waters: the eerie readout indicating something big on the way.
Dwayne Hunn:
*Winning strategy for Scott Ritter, Sun Tzu, and our Constitutional goal of promoting the general welfare
Americans are capable of building and leading a strategy to change the character of America's public policy to one that successfully wages peace via pushing People's Lobby's citizen-initiated American World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposals. For a nation founded on "We the people..." having citizen-initiated legislation change the world should not be considered too far "out of the box."
TheSeeker:
McCain's Genie in the Bottle.
McCain may be long in the tooth but with this mastermind steering his campaign, there may be some surprises in store for the Democrats.
David Glenn Cox:
My Last Day of Work
(1 comments) How could this happen to me? My sector, my department, had always been the best in our employee evaluations. In every category we scored in the highest possible percentile; efficiency, timeliness, loyalty, patriotism, and yes, even in dogma, we were number one. So how could this happen? It must be a mistake, that's it! A mistake,
Bruce K. Gagnon:
REPORT ON TRIP TO BRAZIL FOR GLOBAL GREENS CONGRESS
My task was to speak about the impacts of militarism on climate change at Global Greens conference.
Mike Ghouse:
With friends like Clinton, Israelis don't need enemies.
(1 comments) With friends like Clinton, Jews don't need enemies. Her words fuel the anti-Semitic repressed sentiments among average Americans and certainly evoke anger in the Middle East; where as McCain fuels Islamophobia. Do we need these two to run our nation down? Absolutely not!
Dennis Diehl:
Is We Better Off Now Than We Was Twenty Minutes Ago?
Sometime you have to ask ourselves, "is we learning?"
Heather Moore:
A vegetarian perspective on in-vitro meat
(1 comments) Why in-vitro meat has ethical, environmental, health, and humanitarian benefits.
Tuesday, May 6:
The Republicans simply have no ideas left
(9 comments) Gingrich is freaking out over the fact that the Republicans have now lost two special elections for congressional seats. First, watch him freak, then see what he prescribes
John Kerry:
Investigate the Pentagon Pundit Program
(11 comments) we can't let this story slide. We need to push hard to get a full accounting of this program.
The Pentagon now says that it has suspended this program, but we still don't know what really happened. What was the extent of the program? Did the Pentagon leverage the financial interests of the analysts? And what steps are being taken to make sure, now that it's cancelled, that it will never happen again.
Barbara Peterson:
The Trilateral Commission, John, Hillary, Obama, and the NWO of Feudalism
(12 comments) Our Presidential elections are an emotional parade in which charlatans called candidates create a false reality for a nation of Stockholm Syndrome victims who desperately need to believe that someone in a high place actually cares about what happens to them.
Brasch:
People. People Who Don't Need People
(10 comments) From seven billion people in the world, People magazine's New York college-educated editors could find only 100 of the world's most beautiful people. And, here's the surprise--get ready for it--they;re rich American celebrities,
steve young:
WARNING BARACK! O'REILLY INTERVIEWS HILLARY THEN USES MILLER TO TRASH HER
(3 comments)
Well, I'm guessing the Clinton campaign feels pretty swell getting the Bill O'Reilly fair and balanced treatment during her interview last week. Wonder if Bill happened to mention to her staff that on the same show they would bring on Dennis Miller to eviscerate her. What, wasn't Dick Morris available?
Elizabeth Ferrari:
Happy Trails, Robin.
(5 comments) A response to Robin Morgan's 2nd Goodbye-- It's not enough to assert that because a woman is running for the highest office in the land that women should accept the toxic viciousness that emanates from the campaign that Clinton is waging.
Pentagon Targeted Iran for Regime Change after 9/11
Three weeks after the 9/11 attacks, former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld established an official objective of not only removing the Saddam Hussein regime by force but overturning the regime in Iran, as well as in Syria and four other countries in the Middle East, according to a document quoted extensively in then Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Douglas Feith's recently published account of the Iraq war decisions.
Daniel Pearl's Last Words, Uncensored
(1 comments) Daniel Pearl was a victim. He was helpless in front of his captors. He didn't die a hero, he died a martyr.
BUT WHY can't we accept that? Why does the Jewish world, the Jewish establishment, the caretakers of the image of the Jewish people, have to airbrush out the part where Pearl calls down America and Israel - even though Jews, like everyone else, know that he said what he said under orders from armed terrorists?
Under U.S. Law Torture is Always Illegal
What does torture have in common with genocide, slavery, and wars of aggression? They are all jus cogens. Jus cogens is Latin for "higher law" or "compelling law." This means that no country can ever pass a law that allows torture. There can be no immunity from criminal liability for violation of a jus cogens prohibition.
Insurrection Of The Famished
Over the past few months in multiple places in the world we have been seeing riots caused by food shortages – the revolt of the famished. Every day 100,000 people die from silent hunger, until very recently seen as a normal phenomenon by the people in the North. According to Jean Ziegler there are today 854 million permanently undernourished people in the world.
Daniel Pearl's last words, uncensored
(5 comments) I was surfing YouTube one day and decided, just out of curiosity, to listen to Daniel Pearl's last words. I heard the famous part, "My name is Daniel Pearl... My father is Jewish. My mother is Jewish. I am a Jew." Then he went on to mention his father's Zionism, his family's trips to Israel -All this was in line with the heroic story of Daniel Pearl as it has come to be known. But then I heard Pearl go on to say
William Astore: Coming Down to Earth
Consider the Air Force's new slogan: "Air Force -- Above All." I admit it's catchy, even cute, if, that is, you can get past the "high ground" conceit and ignore the Germanic über alles overtones. Its literal meaning is obvious enough and it does fit with the Air Force's most basic precept, that mastery of the air means mastery of the ground. It's yet another manifestation of our military's quest for "full spectrum dominance"
Bob Herbert: Doing the Troops Wrong
Who wouldn’t support an effort to pay for college for G.I.’s who have willingly suited up and put their lives on the line, who in many cases have served multiple tours in combat zones and in some cases have been wounded? We did it for those who served in World War II. Why not now?
Well, you might be surprised at who is not supporting this effort. The Bush administration opposes it, and so does Senator John McCain.
Shame of the Media: It's About Nothing
Reporters busied themselves with personal tasks-rubbing eyes, cleaning eyeglasses, reading the newspaper, fiddling with BlackBerrys or studying the blank pages of notebooks. One deputy press secretary, Gordon Johndroe, rested his chin in his hand. There was nothing left to be said--which was the cue for Kinsolving, who demanded to know Bush's view on the disparity in pro-football eligibility for players from military academies
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