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Arch Conservative George Will Villifies His Own Careless People In Power

Patriot Act: The Sequel Molly Ivins 9/11 Congressional report demonstrates that restricting liberties doesn’t stop terrorism

The Nation's Capital Hunter S. Thompson I could be a lot happier about the collapse of Bush and his people and his whole house of cards and everything he stands for, if it didn't also mean the certain collapse of the U.S. economy, and the vital infrastructure, and, indeed, the whole "American way of life." ESPN

Treasury Sec John Snow; Just Wait. I'm Sure You'll Find a Job; a recently unemployed worker follows the Bush economic PR Campaign in his Van

Did They Really Kill Uday and Qusay?

Uday and Qusay Hussein Buried

Iraq could become US' greatest blunder By Ramzy Baroud aljazeerainfo.com
Joe Conason Interview He Talks About His New Book, Republican Hypocrisy and the Sins of the Mainstream Media buzzflash.com
Turning The Trade Tables Lori Wallach tompaine.com
Frank Rich: The gospel according to Gibson NYT Friday, August 1, 2003

Information Sharing: Why Did Bush Coordinate All National Security Through Himself Via Condi Rice? Margie Burns

Often-Wrong Cheney

Cheney's 'Irresponsible' Speech Ray McGovern, With the administration taking the heat on 9/11, the vice president is once again making wildly unsubstantiated claims about Iraqi WMD. AlterNet

Double Standard: Robert Kuttner on why big business welcomes globalization -- but only when big business benefits

Let Iraqis rebuild their own country
Ghazi Sabir-Ali: After the 1991 war, we had Iraq's oil industry back on its feet within weeks. Now, the Americans are having to import petrol.

California Dreaming: Republicans hope to reclaim California permanently through a recall vote, but they're dreaming. Harold Meyerson reports from Los Angeles.

This is a fight the Vatican can't win
Clifford Longley: Don't expect the faithful to obey this edict on homosexuality.

Lying -- a Bush Family Value By Robert Parry

Defeat the Right in 3 Minutes guerilla news network

Still in the Running By E.J. Dionne Jr.

Looking for WMDs? Look in the US. Deceit, danger mark U.S. pursuit of new WMDs Heather Wokusch

All the President's Lies Steve Perry The Bush Administration's Top 40 Lies About War and Terrorism bushwarsblog.com

Dying in Iraq, by Bob Herbert

Voting and Democracy: The Challenges Ahead Don Hazen, AlterNet Voting security irregularities have put the populace on edge. The solution? Push hard on reform opportunities now, and don't stay home on Election Day.

Blair's lack of courage Clare Short: If Britain had held out for UN control of Iraq, we wouldn't be bogged down in a bloody occupation.

The 9/11 Report Raises More Serious Questions About The White House Statements On Intelligence John Dean -- drawing on statements made by Condoleezza Rice -- the report supports one of two disturbing conclusions. One is that the White House, despite its denials, knew terrorists might fly airplanes into skyscrapers. The other is that the CIA possessed this information, but failed to give it to the White House. Dean suggests the fault is more likely to lie with the White House, than the CIA.

More Conservatives for the Courts
Senators should examine the Bush administration's nominees for appellate judgeships carefully to see if their views are outside the legal mainstream. NY Times

'He Died An American Hero' by Jimmy Breslin

Why We Rage at the WTO by Yves Engler

Diebold Rebuttals Don't Stand Up Bev Harris The Computerized Voting company's reply to harris' criticism doesn't cut it.

Ayatollah Ashcroft's law Haroon Siddiqui

President Bush's Secret Service Buffoons by Michelle Malkin

Bush, Rumsfeld Vow To Say "Whatever it Takes" satire from: thespeciousreport.com

America is a religion US leaders now see themselves as priests of a divine mission to rid the world of its demons George Monbiot July 29, 2003 The Guardian

Uday and Qusay: The Men Who Knew Too Much Buzzflash "Of course, Uday and Qusay weren't taken alive because -- like the captured Iraqi scientists that the Bush Cartel will not make available to the media -- Uday and Qusay knew too much. If the Bush claims about Iraq's alleged immediate threat to the security of the United States were true, Uday and Qusay would have been witnesses number one and two, trotted out before the media to redeem the Bush's administration's soiled credibility, thus allowing Bush to slam dunk his critics.

West Wing Pipe Dream Beyond yellowcake: Dissecting the over-hyped threat of those aluminum tubes. By Tim Dickinson July 28, 2003 Mother Jones

Terrorizing Americans; "Downright Reckless" Homeland Defense Warnings; raise the question: "Is it possible for a government to keep its citizens braced for attack without incapacitating them with fear?" Philip Zimbardo, Past American Psychological Association President

A pattern of deception by Walter Williams Outright lying is not the administration's modus operandi; willful deception is.

Sidestepping Sanctions While the Bush administration looks the other way, U.S. companies are dodging laws that bar them from doing business with nations accused of sponsoring terrorism.
By Michael Scherer July/August 2003 Mother Jones

New Rules, Old Rhetoric By Michael Powell (FCC head) "Much of the pressure to restrict media ownership, the author fears, is motivated not by worries about concentration, but by a desire to affect content."

The Cannibal In our Midst; Talking about Tobacco like we Never See in the US By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye Lagos State Nigeria Vanguard

Bush, Republicans Losing Support of Retired Veterans by Steven Thomma

A tale of two leaders Gary Younge: They fought the same war and both lied about why, yet Bush marches on while Blair has been fatally wounded. UK Guardian

THE URGE TO MERGE Prime Numbers: What Science and Crime Have in Common By Nicholas Wade

Global warming is now a WMD John Houghton: It kills more people than terrorism, yet Blair and Bush do nothing.

Spinmeisters in need of fodder Antonia Zerbisias

Out of Their Cages By Maureen Dowd It was probably inevitable that California money guys would try to recast the state's unimpressive top executive while his show was running.

Bush boys blow it again in post-war Iraq Haroon Siddiqui

ill Thomas, Rep. With a Rep the congressman who called the cops on the Dem congressmen last week

Bush can't afford to go it alone Carol Goar On the one hand, there's pride.It would be humiliating for U.S. President George Bush, who dismissed the United Nations as ineffectual and irrelevant just four months ago, to turn to the international body for help now.

Leave No Millionaire Behind Arthur I. Blaustein Driven by hollow political priorities, the Bush administration's disastrous economic policies are undermining our national ideals.

AIDS' devastating economic impact Two new studies, one global and one focusing on Asia, have found that the economic impact of AIDS is far more damaging than economists previously thought.- John Berthelsen asia times

A country in search of a vision The death of the widely despised sons of Saddam Hussein notwithstanding, parts of Iraq are still convulsed with instability, and with no viable political blueprint in sight, things can hardly get better, and even the calm of the north could be shattered, writes Syed Saleem Shahzad asia times

A Questionable Kind Of Conservatism George Will discusses a summer of discontent for conservatives. "George W. Bush may be the most conservative person to serve as president since Calvin Coolidge. Yet his presidency is coinciding with, and is in some instances initiating or ratifying, developments disconcerting to four factions within conservatism."

No Clothes: Robert Kuttner on George W. Bush, the emperor who won't lead.

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The Roadmap to Empire; The Project for a New American Century Michel Chossudovsky and Ian Woods Global Outlook

Foolish Calculators and Griping GIs Andrew Tobias The reader who suggested this link wrote 'I'm going to print it out and carry it with me, and politely show it to anyone who thinks Bush gives a damn about our troops. Poppy George said, "Read my lips." Bushduh says, "Read my lip service."'

Noble Act or Political Assassination? by Derrick Z. Jackson boston Globe

The 9-11 Investigation by David Corn 9-11 Leaks Lied; No Smoking GunsBush Admin and Saudis Were Guilty Because They Were Edited Out The Nation

Criminal Mastermind: Donald Rumsfeld
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Getting the Blues by Peter Schrag "In the past year, as the nation's deficit-ridden states were pleading for federal help, Washington was telling them all to drop dead--reserving harshest treatment for the "blues," meaning the liberal states that voted for Democrats." The Nation

Why does Bush feel he now has to resort to head-on-a-stick politics? Mark Lawson Guardian

Environmentalists = Terrorists
The New Math Karen Charman right wingers are trying to make Eco-protest equal ecoterrorism

Can Kobe Bryant Be Convicted on "He Said, She Said" Evidence Alone? Michael C. Dorf

'Watching BushCo crumble' Ratings slipping, economy tanking, lies spiraling, credibility shot. Try not to cheer Mark Morford, San Fancisco Chronicle's acerbic wit

Iraqi Resistance has its roots in the present Jonathan Steele: The Iraqis opposing occupation are not remnants of the old regime

The oldest profession Ana Lopes and Callum Macrae: Sex workers need a trade union and a decriminalised industry, not feminist pity. Ana Lopes is a Sex Worker. Guardian.

Islamists a Heartbeat Away from Jihadi Nukes... and Bush isn't talking about it. South Asia Tribune

Conservative Safire: Bush Veto of Congressional Rollback of FCC Anti-Diversity rules a Bad Idea

The Integrity and Dignity of the White House Become a Scum Pond of Betrayals and Gutter Smears Under Bush BUZZFLASH
Bush's Nose is Growing; Nobody Cares Antonia Zerbisias
Camp Cropper By Robert Fisk Now here's a story to shame us all. It's about America's shameful prison camps in Iraq. It's about the beating of prisoners during interrogation.
Won't get fooled again Simon Tisdall: The war bill soars, while public confidence sinks - now Bush needs the UN more than ever. Guardian
House Republicans call police on Democratic congressmen By Patrick Martin An excellent follow-up on what happened last week.
Going un-postal: A fantasy Maralyn Lois Polak
GOP's double standard on presidential lies
An Extremist Judicial Nominee If the nomination of Alabama attorney general William Pryor is confirmed, his rulings would probably do substantial harm to the rights of all Americans. NY Times
Weapons of Mass Redaction A correspondence from the Office of the Vice President to the Saudi Arabia ambassador as imagined by Maureen Dowd.
Who's Unpatriotic Now? By PAUL KRUGMAN
By cooking intelligence to promote a war that wasn't urgent, the administration has squandered our military strength.

Some Dare Call It Treason Kudos to Buzzflash for scooping the NY Times and Paul Krugman on this one.
Why A Special Prosecutor's Investigation Is Needed To Sort Out the Niger Uranium And Related WMDs Mess By John Dean
Kerry comes out fighting If Democrats make the mistake of nominating a 2004 presidential candidate who dances to the Bush administration's beat, that candidate - and in all likelihood, much of the rest of the Democratic ticket - will go down in a far worse defeat than the party suffered in 2002. Madison WI Capital Times
The Great Catfish War The fate of Vietnam's catfish offers a warning to poorer nations that try to play by the big boys' rules in the world trading system. NY Times
Ten Questions For Cheney by Reps. Kucinich, Maloney and Sanders Not much is known about the Vice President's role in building the case for war. Members of a key congressional subcommittee want more information.
Bush Deserves to be Impeached Eric Margolis
Why Liberals Are No Fun Despite their domination of the entertainment industry, liberals barely have a foothold in talk TV and radio Frank Rich NY Times
Beware of the white man Filmmaker Michael Moore is certain that most of the world's problems are caused by whites: 'Every time I see a white man coming towards me, I get nervous.' ODE
Inconvenient Facts: Harold Meyerson on why the Bush administration will not be cowed by the truth.
Houston's School Dropout Debacle Rod Paige, the former Houston school superintendent and current education secretary, has declined to comment on the scandal. He can remain silent no longer. NY Times editorial
The Double Standards, Dubious Morality and Duplicity of this Fight Against Terror ROBERT FISK
Squandering Capital Madeleine K. Albright Three years ago, America had vast diplomatic capital based on the goodwill we enjoyed around the world, and vast financial capital based on our international economic leadership and a record budget surplus. Now our capital of all kinds has been dissipated and we are left with more intractable dilemmas than resources or friends.
Patriotism or party? GOP has to choose Madison Capital Times The American people do not take kindly to presidents who engage in cover-ups, nor to members of Congress who aid and abet them.
Lying -- a Bush Family Value By Robert Parry consortium news
Pat Robertson, God's Simp; In which the Divine announces plans for a major karmic enema for all of organized religion, ASAP by Mark Morford SFGATE.com
Bush's Conscienceless Spending is Making his Father Appear Wiser Phila. Inquirer The shocking mix of fiscal madness and duplicity President Bush unveiled with his updated budget Tuesday is more than depressing. It shows this Bush to be a thousand times less responsible a national steward than his father.
Moral blackmail will not do Failure to find WMD damages Blair - and the doctrine of pre-emption Malcolm Rifkind Guardian 7/19 Sir Malcolm Rifkind was defence secretary from 1992-95 and foreign secretary from 1995-97
Budget Empire: You can't Do Cut Rate Nation Building
Greed is our common enemy, not our faiths Javed Akbar, Janet Somerville, Gerald Vandezande
The Next Debate: Al Qaeda Link By DANIEL BENJAMIN and STEVEN SIMON The Iraq-Al Qaeda connection the administration asserted seems more uncertain than ever. NY Times
Dumbing ourselves down Haroon Siddiqui
Risking everything for truth Antonia Zerbisias "too many reporters die in the hope that freedom can live. Something to think about the next time you see junk news on CNN"
Nothing Left To Lie About; With BushCo reaming the nation on just about every possible front, is implosion imminent? by Mark Morford SFGATE.com
An Agnew Nixon Solution consortium news
Is The US Lying About Al-Qaida Captures Too?
War Is A Racket - Major General Smedley Butler Major General - United States Marine Corps [Retired] Born July 30, 1881, Awarded two congressional medals of honor, for capture of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1914, and for capture of Ft. Riviere, Haiti, 1917, Distinguished service medal, 1919, Retired Oct. 1, 1931, Republican Candidate for Senate, 1932, Died June 21, 1940
If His Words Are His Bond, We're in a Bind By Arianna Huffington
YOUTH FIND MORE TRUTH IN EMINEM THAN BUSH, Trust WS Journal Most, POLL SHOWS Gary Younge Guardian
A White House Smear David Corn The Nation
Key Officials Used 9/11 As Pretext for Iraq War Jim Lobe IPS
Black Thursday For Bush David Broder
Who's Who on the 9/11 "conflict of interest marred" "Independent" Commission by Michel Chossudovsky globalresearch.ca
AnimatedBush Words Not To Live By Mark Fiore: Minimize those pesky WMD statements with Damage Control Inc. (Flash)
Passing It Along Paul Krugman a government that has a reputation for sound finance and honest budgets can get away with running temporary deficits; if it lacks such a reputation, it can't. Right now the U.S. government is running deficits bigger, as a share of G.D.P., than those that plunged Argentina into crisis.
Dick Cheney - The “Ground Zero of Corruption” in the Bush/PNAC administration.
"Shallow Throat" Advises Democrats to Bring It On Big-Time By Bernard Weiner OpEdNews.com
'Lyndon B. Bush'? Eric Alterman

The Banality of Lying Buzzflash Emphasizing the forged uranium document alone is a bit like arresting the head of a drug cartel for smoking a joint. Sure, you got him, but what about all the other crimes? If they were all put under oath -- and documents were surrendered -- there would be impeachment proceedings on far too many counts to list, and, in a perfect world, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft would serve jail time.

FEAR FACTORY Jim McDermott, The American Prospect The Bush administration's dangerous manufacturing of post-9/11 dread.

Beating around the Bush Guardian

Selective data How the Bush administration hides bad economic news

9/11 Report Ups Heat On Saudis, Washington By Marc Perelman, Forward.com

Public Doubt Growing Quickly as Bush's War Stories Unravel by Bill Gallagher Americans are realizing how intelligence information was shaped and warped to support the case for an attack on Iraq to protect us f

rom the "imminent threat" of Saddam's phantom weapons

We must Regain Our Voting Rights by Norman D. Livergood


The Press Gives Bush A Free Ride On His Lies Robert Kuttner

Bush's Mis-State-Ment Of The Union Fiasco by Arianna Huffington Cherry-picking convenient lies about nuclear war is bad enough, but the administration's attempts to spin the aftershocks have been even worse.

20 Lies About the War: Falsehoods ranging from exaggeration to plain untruth were used to make the case for war. More lies are being used in the aftermath. Did Bush's Dog eat the WMD?
On the Advisability of Holding One's Nose When Voting Bernard Weiner
The Dubious Suicide of George Tenet
By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t
Analysis: Anatomy of a Quack-Mire by Jim Lobe
Gay marriage - the next just step Rondi Adamson Christian Science Monitor
A nation of Victims by Renana Brooks The Nation ""President Bush, like many dominant personality types, uses dependency-creating language. He employs language of contempt and intimidation to shame others into submission and desperate admiration."
Give Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz the Boot by H.D.S. Greenway Boston Globe
Political death of a usurper George Galloway: An unwinnable war in Iraq and the deceit that led to it have destroyed the credibility of the prime minister. Guardian
Pundit Pap: A little defensive?
Team Smirk gets hammered. Plus -- Steve Young wonders if they weren't prepped by Jon Lovitz.
The Cult of Rajavi The People's Mujahedeen is a militant Iranian opposition group run mostly by women. Should they be our allies? "the Rajavis, given the chance, would have been the Pol Pot of Iran. The Pentagon has seen the fatal flaw of hitching itself to volatile groups like the Islamists who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan and, more recently, the Iraqi exile groups who had no popular base at home. It seems dangerously myopic that the U.S. is even considering resurrecting the Rajavis and their army of Stepford wives."

Parsing Lethal Words, This Administration Must Go. Now! buzzflash
National House of Waffles By MAUREEN DOWD "More and more, with Bush administration pronouncements about the Iraq war, it depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is. It smells of mendacity." NY Times
Had Enough of the Flag Yet? By FRANK RICH NY Times
Liberalize The Media by Joe Bevilacqua New politics is media politics... mediaocracy has replaced democracy. Tompaine.com
End The Liberal Voluntary Extinction Movement
The Uranium Fiction NY Times The American people need to know how the accusation got into the speech in the first place, and whether it was put there with an intent to deceive the nation. The White House has a lot of explaining to do.

A Former Special Forces Soldier Responds to Bush's Invitation for Iraqis to Attack US Troops "Bring 'Em On?" By STAN GOFF
The Bright Stuff By DANIEL C. DENNETT The time has come for us brights to come out of the closet. A bright is a person with a naturalist as opposed to a supernaturalist world view. We brights don't believe in ghosts or elves or the Easter Bunny — or God.
Is Race Real? Nichlas D. Kristof Genetics will increasingly show that most humans are mongrels, and it will make a mockery of racism.
Trading on fear In America, everyone from car firms to politicians used the terrorist threat for their own ends. Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber The Guardian
Leadership and Logistical Failures Hurt Troops A Concerned Soldiers for the truth
A BOTTOMLESS VOID By James Carroll When the president speaks, unscripted, from his own moral center, what shows itself is a bottomless void tompaine.com
No Mistakes Were Made Eleanor Clift, Haunted by his father's defeat and the accidental nature of his own presidency, Bush won't ever concede missteps on Iraq Newsweek
The Anti-information Administration Richard Blow AUDIO: Click here to listen "the Bush administration's hostility towards the free flow of information has to do with four things. One, a pervasive hostility towards the press. Two, a contempt for the democratic process. Three, fear of how information would expose the shaky ideological foundations of their policies on terrorism, Iraq, energy and the environment, among others. And four, an infatuation with power" tompaine.com
George W. on the Defensive E.J. Dionne Jr.
Mr. Bush, You Are A Liar By William Rivers Pitt truthout
A Nation of Victims Renana Brooks
The Reunion Upon a Hill By LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV After five years of family reunions, relations between the two sides of Jefferson's extended family have gone from bad to worse. NY Times
Bush is IMPEACHABLE because He's UNDER OATH. He LIED while full-filling his Constitutional DUTY to CONGRESS and under OATH. TakeBackthemedia
Democrat Left Back in Vogue Progressives upend Clinton's efforts to move party to the center. Wash Post
Can Bush Get Reelected? Count This President Increasingly Vulnerable by Robert Kuttner boston Globe
Shhh! Don't Say the "W" Word buzzflash.com
The icy ideological grip If progressive politics is to have any meaning, it must start from the reality that you can't overcome global poverty through reliance on the market Thabo Mbeki Guardian
The Avenger Sy Hersh, (the New Yorker's intrepid Investigative Reporter) Then and Now by Scott Sherman Columbia Journalism Review
Inspirational Sisters People the world over were captivated by Ladan and Laleh Bijani, the Iranian twins born joined at the head who died within hours of each other during surgery to separate them Toronto Star
DLC Division by Robert L. Borosage Democrats need a candidate to take on Bush and present a clear alternative to Americans -- a leader not likely to come from the centrist DLC. tompaine.com
Selective Service by Michael Flynn and Jim Lobe Why have the neocons stayed mum on intervention in Liberia? tompaine.com
How the Land of the Free Became the Dinosaur in the Tar Pit by Maureen Farrell Buzzflash.com
Our Fake patriots George Monbiot. Britain is fast becoming Bush's doormat - so why isn't the British right saying a word? Guardian 7/8
Canada gets interesting Naomi Klein: After months of making the news only with our various diseases, Canadians are now getting world famous for our laws on gay marriage and legalised drugs. Guardian 7/8
Modernise or die Gerhard Schröder: The future has more rights than the past, and with an ageing population and new forms of employment it is time to rethink the welfare state. Guardian 7/8
Bring 'Em On Editorial Cartoon
Left should take a page from Wilde By John Nichols Madison Capital Times
TAKING IT FROM THE TOP In Iraq, the game is over for the Bush administration. KENNETH NEILL
Corporate greed endangers our sacred spaces, spiritual sites By Patrisia Gonzales and Roberto Rodriguez Madison WI Capital Times, July 7, 2003

Cut Taxes at Any Expense; THE EXTERMINATOR animated cartoon by Mark Fiore
Politics have become particularly ugly
William Raspberry

Nasty Vs. Nice: Temperament Wars By JAMES TRAUB Democrats believe in process and compromise. Republicans believe in absolutes and ends. Guess who's running the country? NY Times, 7/6
Youth Hostile To win over young voters, Democrats need to stop trashing popular culture.By Danny Goldberg American Prospect
Ritalin for America By Maureen Dowd The country has always had a pinball attention span, even before the Internet and cable TV accelerated it
Countercultural Canada Questions for Naomi Klein, Canadian political columnist
What I Didn't Find in Africa By Joseph C. WIlson 4th NY Times, 7/6 The US Diplomat who debunked the Nigeria-Saddam Connection tells why Bush and Cheney Should have known.
Macho U.S. runs into Arab male pride Richard Gwyn Toronto Star, 7/6/93
America: Love It but Don't Leave It Zack Exley, AlterNet Patriotism is love of country. But love comes in many forms: deep, permanent and unconditional, as well as superficial, fleeting and with strings attached.
I Never Promised You a Ruse Garden -- A Letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush
Sorry, Fresh Out of Weapons... Would You Like Another Vietnam Instead? · The bait and switch method has been used and abused by retailers for years. The idea is to get people through the door - once there you can then use pure salesmanship and personality to "up-sell" to an item with higher profit margins. George W. Bush has taken this to new level. By Brad Odland Democratic Underground July 5, 2003
It's Miller time for Bush Bill Berkowitz
Dennis Miller's liberal-bashing 'rants' help Bush campaign raise more than $5 million in California
Give them a reality check These are sad and difficult times for those of us who believe that government, and the political process, should serve all Americans equally Richard Davis, Brattleboro Reformer
The Italian poisoner Comment: Berlusconi is not just another rightwinger; he is a threat to democracy, is - and has been ever since his political emergence in 1994 - the most dangerous political figure in Europe.writes Martin Jacques. Guardian 7/5 And Bush is his American Counterpart

Happy birthday, America! Molly Ivins 7.4.03
Celebrating 227 years of weirdness
Grass-roots opposition rising to challenge media consolidation "It's your airwaves." By Bill Clinton
Throwing hissy fits over sound court decisions Molly Ivins, on Scalia's Tantrum
Let America be America Again by Langston Hughes
Post-9/11 Immigrant Roundup Backfired - Jim Lobe Measures taken by the U.S. administration against Arab and Muslim immigrants after the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York and the Pentagon have not only failed to protect U.S. security, but may have made it more vulnerable
Anger Management: Michael Tomasky says liberal anger is justified, but it won't win the election. The American Prospect
And Human Rights For All?By Arianna Huffington
Bush's Look to Big Pharma for AIDS Czar Evokes Concern Jim Lobe Bush's surprise pick of a former top executive of a major U.S. pharmaceutical company and major Republican contributor as his global AIDS co-ordinator has drawn expressions of concern and even outrage among Africa and AIDS activists here.
Phobe Home: Harold Meyerson says the Republican Party is still a haven for bigots. The American Prospect
The tyranny of George II John O'Farrell: There is a certain irony that today the American empire is celebrating an essentially anti-imperialist event. UK Guardian
Washington's "compromise" on Medicare; What a fraud! Lee Sustar
Frederick Douglass on U.S. "democracy" and "freedom" What to the slave is the Fourth of July?
Satire: Bush Finds Iraq’s Nuclear Weapons Program by Osama bin Hiding buzzflash.com
ARMY TIMES: Nothing But Lip Service talk is cheap — and getting cheaper by the day, judging from the nickel-and-dime treatment the troops are getting lately.
The Bush formula for policy-making (By Robert Kuttner) WHEN PUSH comes to shove, President Bush postures moderate, but delivers for his right-wing base. Consider two epic legislative struggles still playing out - whether to add a stripped-down drug benefit to Medicare and whether to extend tax relief to lower-income working families. Boston Globe, 7/2
Lives of the patriots: Declaring his independence Maralyn Lois Polak ( friend of opednews.com and token liberal columnist and in worldnetdaily
NO EXIT? An American soldier in Iraq asks: 'Why are we still here?' Justin Raimondo antiwar.com 7/2
Vive the Liberal Media Eric Alterman surveys the media landscape for liberal signs of life The Nation
Feminism: outmoded and unpopular UK: Feminism and fight for sex equality are seen as outmoded concepts, according to new research. Guardian
Does Anything Matter? by Sister Joan Chittister "This is what I don't understand: All of a sudden nothing seems to matter tompaine.com
After The MoveOn Primary by Doug Ireland Why does the MoveOn "primary" have so many inside-the-Beltway types fretting?tompaine.com
Straight Talk on Families E. J. Dionne Wash Post, 7/1

Shadow of extinction Only six degrees separate our world from the cataclysmic end of an ancient era, writes George Monbiot
America's Shame is that we are not going through this kind of media struggle. The BBC is standing up for a special British principle Hugo Young: The corporation is not run by politicians. We need to keep it that way.
Cuba has been left out for too long Colin Moynihan: Britain and Europe must break with 40 years of failed US policy.
What women want Zoe Williams: Equal pay for equal work is a noble demand, so why does feminism seem so embarrassing these days?
The World According to Halliburton
Will Tacy Editor, MotherJones.com
The Bedroom Door I used to fret about same-sex marriage. Maybe competition from responsible gays would revive opposite-sex marriage. William Safire is a real conservative who sees the Supreme court's decision on Texas' sodomy laws as a good thing-- a far cry from the new right.

Britain Stirs, America Sleeps William Pfaff

Presidential lies to Congress, strictly speaking, are constitutional ground for impeachment. They really are something more serious. They rupture the relationship of responsibility that is supposed to exist between president and public.

The Scalia Model By David S. Broder "Not a model Bush should seek to clone.

Nino's Opéra Bouffe By MAUREEN DOWD Antonin Scalia is Archie Bunker in a high-backed chair. Like Archie, Nino is the last one to realize that his intolerance is risibly out-of-date.

Toward One-Party Rule A forthcoming article in The Washington Monthly tracks the emergence of a national political machine that is on its way to establishing Republican one-party rule.

U.S. Healthcare: The Free Choice to Suck Christian Parenti, Not only are Americans paying more for worse medical care than those in other modern countries, our miracle drugs are almost entirely developed using tax dollars. Why? AlterNet
The Imperial Presidency Redux Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The Washington Post Truth
From Justice Ginsberg Colbert I. King The Washington Post
The BBC row has been got up to obscure the ugly truth Richard Norton-Taylor: Intelligence can't hide the fact we went to war on a false pretext.
10 APPALLING LIES WE WERE TOLD ABOUT IRAQ It was a systematic campaign to frighten the hell out of us about the threat of Hussein, and almost none of it was true. Christopher Scheer, AlterNet
Toward One-Party Rule Paul Krugman, NYTimes
League of Conservation Voters Presidential Report Card; Bush Failed the Environment
Seriously Now Howard Dean's transformation from protest candidate to populist By David Kusnet The American Prospect 6/24
Could Thomas Be Right? Maureen Dowd, NY Times 6/24
The Art of War By Curt Holman, Creative Loafing (Charlotte) June 25, 2003
The Road to Oceania; William Gibson, on the 100th Birthday of "1984 Author George Orwell NY Times 6/24
Ten Reasons to Abolish Nuclear Weapons By David Krieger President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation TFF June 26, 2003

This half a loaf will be moldy by 2006. Medicare Prescription for Disaster By Molly Ivins Alternet Jun 24, 2003 OpEdNews disagrees with Ivins on this one. If it were to start soon, then we'd agree that half a loaf is better than none. But this is a a shill that doesn't go into effect until 2006-- a lousy promise not worth supporting or waiting to see how bad it really is. This half a loaf will be moldy by 2006.

Losing The Peace In Afghanistan by Jim Lobe tompaine.com 6/24

PROTESTORS ARE NOT TERRORISTS Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange.com

Free speech, at some cost A Georgia schoolteacher takes on her principal and a number of angry parents over her decision to discuss all views on the war in Iraq. By Elaine A. Kotler The Advocate

Denial and Deception By Paul Krugman There is no longer any doubt that we were deceived into war. The key question now is why so many influential people are unwilling to admit the obvious. NY Times, 6/24

Post-war Iraq: Quagmire or Master Plan? By Jim Lobe alternet Jun 24, 2003

O'Connor Saves Affirmative Action Matthew Rothschild The Progressive, 6/24

Giving Revisionists a Bad Name (By Alexander Keyssar) Wash Post, 6/24

Tuning Out Dissent; Russia's Putin has shut down the last nationwide broadcaster that criticized his leadership. Wash Post. 6/24

I was wrong about trade George Monbiot: Our aim should not be to abolish the World Trade Organisation, but to transform it. Guardian 6/24

Bringing Down a Tyrant by Norman D. Livergood Superb historical perspective article. The endorsement at the conclusion is the writer's and not opednews's opinion.

Canadians Cracking Down on Corporate Killers Jenniffer Wells, Toronto Star

Sex, lies and American presidents Linda McQuaig Toronto Star

Bring On Deano by Fred Barnes The Weekly Standard 6/24 This right wing diatribe, in the right's "official media organ" takes weak pot-shots at Howard Dean, and complains that the media have been too easy on Dean. I guess they've become so accustomed to not taking on Pres. Bush, they've forgotten how. If this is the right's best criticism, then the Dems will be in for an easy ride. Not that this is likely.

Beyond the Pale Alabama Attorney General William Pryor's views on abortion, women's rights, gay rights and civil rights might make him suitable as a lawyer for a far-right legal group, but not a federal judge. NY Times 6/23

The Money Magnet Life in George Bush's America is pretty good for the man who elbowed his way into the White House with a minority of the popular vote. Too bad it's not such a great moment for America. Bob Herbert, NY Times 6/23

Now Bush wants to buy the complicity of aid workers Relief groups have been told they must be an "arm of the US government", says Naomi Klein. Guardian, 6/23

What YOU Can Do About Bush Harley Sorenson, SFGate, 6/23

Whoppers of Mass Destruction Will Tacy
MotherJones.com

How Best to Rid the World of Monsters (By Fred Hiatt) Wash Post, 6/23

WHOM WOULD JESUS TAX? A biblical mandate to fiscally protect the poor By Susan Pace Hamill Star-Telegram Ft. Worth, TX

Even Right Wing WIlliam Safire Thinks The FCC Rule Change Stinks Regulate the F.C.C. By WILLIAM SAFIRE The effect of the media's march to amalgamation is too worrisome to be left to three unelected commissioners. NY Times
Orwell and me Margaret Atwood cried her eyes out when she first read Animal Farm at the age of nine. Later, its author became a major influence on her writing. As the centenary of George Orwell's birth approaches, she says he would have plenty to say about the post-9/11 world The Guardian Monday June 16, 2003
Bob Herbert's Series Frees Wrongly Imprisoned Partway to Freedom By BOB HERBERT At least 12 of the people sent to prison on the word of a lying, bigoted lawman in Tulia, Tex., will be released on Monday. But they have not yet been exonerated. Bush not waging war on corruption The single-mindedness that the president exhibited in the war on Iraq doesn't appear evident in the war on corporate scandals Charles Murdock, Chicago Tribune 6/15
Gay is the new black Gary Younge: The gay rights issue has been a ticking timebomb for the Bush government. And now it looks about to explode. Guardian 6/16
An Audio Father's Day Story From NPR by Joe Bevilacqua
Know Your Dad Before He's Gone. Sally Johnston, Edomonton Sun, June 15, 2003
Truth Is Strongest Weapon in War Jimmy Breslin Newsday "I was around when Watergate was being called a third-rate burglary. Brilliant minds in Washington said congressional hearings would be ludicrous, cheap and unpatriotic. Then, Sen. Sam Ervin of North Carolina arrived with a lance to start cross-examining White House people, and we were off into history. I don't think he went three days when the first murmurs of impeachment were heard."
Americans losing the war on their freedoms Haroon Siddiqui Toronto Star 6/15 "...the Bush administration's war on freedom is as real as its war on terrorism"
Your Vegan Holistic President; Sure an odd, spiritual guy like Dennis Kucinich doesn't have a chance in hell. But it sure is nice to dream By Mark Morford SF Gate 6/15 Dems Have Shot In '04 -- If They Don't Go Wobbly Doubts About Bush's Postwar Credibility Could Lift Left Helen Thomas boston channel Pryor Unrestraint Killer Bill Pryor's Mad Quest for the Federal Bench By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR counterpunch.org 6/15 Twisted Tax Logic By Molly Ivins U.S. media caved in to the Bush agenda Eric Margolis "I scanned the major U.S. networks for voices challenging the distortions and bunkum coming from the White House and neo-cons. There was virtually none." Toronto Sun, 6/15

Give me totalitarian comfort and convenience at all costs......Even war? By Holly Berkowitz opednews.com

“AN HONEST MISTAKE” – A One Act Play by Dick and Bush by Jesse Lee Based on actual fictional events. June 13, OpEdNews.com

The Minimum Requirements for ‘Just’ Warfare by Allen Snyder June 13, OpEdNews.com

You've Been Drafted written by Rob Kall, editor, OpEdNews.com Whatever your age........

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Bush Lied, People Died: All Hat and No Cattle Jim Caddell, opednews.com

Bill Moyers; Perhaps The Best Speech Of the Year. This is Your Story - The Progressive Story of America. Pass It On

Dems and Liberals: Don’t Get Fooled Again Jesse Lee opednews.com

The Rash Lieboy Show Kayla Michaels opednews.com

Relative Human Worth & "Compassionate" Conservatism Dr. Gerry Lower opednews.com

Merge Left

by Joe Bevilacqua What progressives can learn from the right wing's rise. tomPaine.com

Bush's Brain by Mark Karlin
A Tough Liberal Stance on National Security by Bob Petrusak 6/9 opednews.com
Report from the Conference to Take Back America, sponsored by the Campaign for America’s Future, June 4-6, 2003, Wash., DC Patrick Abegg opednews.com
Bush, Martha, The Blairs, Zora and WMD'S By Allan P. Duncan
Patriot Act Related Stories Claudia Slate
The Isaiah Crowd; How Their Neo-Christianity is Killing Us By Lisa Walsh Thomas OpEdNews.com 6/9/03
Do You Feel Safer Now? WMD Fraud Weakens America, Cuts our Ability to Build Strong Coalitions. May be an Impeachable Offense for Bush, Cheney, DeLay Rob Kall
Midnight Ride of the Rabble Thom Hartmann
Patriot Act Related Stories by Claudia Slate
The Nerve of the Federal Reserve A. Scott Piraino OpEdNews

The Democrats Need A Tough Liberal Candidate by Rob Kall, OpEdNews.com
Kucinich draws crowd, but not media By John Nichols OpEdNews.Com June 3, 2003

Memes to Beat Bush With: BushConomics and Bush Victories By Rob Kall OpEdNews.Com

Calling for a Media Crimes Tribunal by Danny Schecter OpEdNews.Com
The Doors Of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything by Dr. Tim O'Shea
Compassionate" Conservatives use the Christian concept of compassion as a justification for a conservative political philosophy that bears no relationship whatsoever to Christianity. By Dr. Gerry Lower OpEdNews
Bush is a Genius Rob Kall

BUSH: The Stench of Corruption Jim Caddell

The Clinton Years Complacency and the Neocons Jesse Lee OpEdNews.Com
The Third Depression By A. Scott Piraino OpEdNews.com
Guts, Action, Standing Up to Tom DeLay, Saying NO...... Texas Democrats Set a Standard for the Whole Party By Robert Jensen

One false lead after another: Banned weapons remain unseen foe Bob Drogin, LA Times 6/15

A Champion of Life (By Mark Shields) Wash Post 6/14

Miracles, mops and Morgan Freeman Joan Ryan SFChronicle 6/15

Used Car Statesmanship By Ron Ruggiero progressive populist "Think about it. Used car salesmen will lie, cheat and steal to make a sale, right? So does George W."

Enough DeLay Investigate the Westar scandal -- it's not the only shady deal DeLay's done. by Micah L. Sifry tompaine.com

We no longer seek a cause for war Leonard Pitts Jr. Miami Herald 6/13

Fall Guy?The White House is blaming George Tenet for faulty WMD intelligence. But forcing out the CIA director will not repair the damage to America’s credibility abroad Eleanor Clift, Newsweek 6/13

Bill Moyers; This is Your Story - The Progressive Story of America. Pass It On

Neo-conservatism and the politics of paranoia
US neo-cons are exploiting fear at home to launch attacks on foreign nationals, writes Max Fraad Wolff. June Issue Red Pepper

Early Signs of Fascism Are we sliding toward fascism? As politics increasingly fail to represent the people, watch for more extreme political tactics... and a further crackdown from the state, says Richard Falk in an interview. adbusters

America's imperial delusion The US drive for world domination has no historical precedent Eric Hobsbawm The Guardian 6/13

Has the American Enterprise Institute Lost Contact with Reality? Ralph Nader: comondreams.org, 6/13

Congressman Henry Waxman's Letter to Condoleeza Rice: Why did President Bush cite forged evidence about Iraq's nuclear capabilities in his State of the Union address? tompaine.com

The Dog Ate My WMDs William Rivers Pitt

White House in Denial By Nicholas D. Kristof

Pentagon Dreams of Playing 'GloboCop' Jim Lobe, The emerging U.S. military strategy envisions an archipelago of military bases stretching from the Carribean to North Korea.Inter Press Service June 13, 2003.

How the greedy far right wingnuts view taxes and democrats Jon Dougherty from right wingnut Worldnet Daily (remember pink background means right wing source.)

How to Stop America George Monbiot

Salt Lake Tribune: On Hatch's Watch A watchdog that does not bark at intruders and sniff around a bit isn't worth much. Hatch is supposed to be Justice Dept. Watchdog

Interview with Al Franken. Bill O'Reilly Gag on this One! Buzzflash

Video of Al Franken Calling Bill O'Reilly on His Lies. Plus A Talk by Molly Ivins This is sweet. Watch Bill stew.

Using the IMF as A Weapon To Depose Dictators; Suharto Take-down was Neocon Inspired

Reaping the World's Disfavor By Harold Meyerson Washington Post 6/11 when it comes to our soft power -- our ability to persuade nations to work with us, to inspire their people to admire us and our social arrangements and ideals -- we have all but unilaterally disarmed. At least so long as George W. Bush is president.

Hip Hop Activism Buds Beautifully Opio Lumumba Sokoni, J.D., AlterNet The drug war, with all its deadly moving parts, is a perfect issue for rap artists and their fans to take on. Posted in DrugReporter on June 10, 2003.

In God's own city - misery, madness, anxiety and anguish Daniel Ben-Simon Haaretz, 6/12

The Bush Way: Lie... Bush's Political Science By Stephen S. Hall The Bush administration has treated the weapons of mass destruction issue the same way it treated stem cell research: in order to make policy, it has to stretch the truth. NY Times 6/12

Saddam on the Loose: The Bush Cartel Propaganda is So Cheesy, Transparent, and Opportunistic, any Legitimate Press Would Laugh It off in a Minute Buzzflash 6/11

We must not be blinded by science Nanotechnology will revolutionise our lives - it should be regulated, writes, Caroline Lucas. Guardian 6/12

What The Left Can Learn From Bush Jesse Jackson Chicago Sun Times 6/10

All hail to the pods AL Kennedy Guardian June 10 2003

What Would Jesus Do? Sock It to Alabama's Corporate Landowners Alabama's Republican governor thinks he can convince the voters that Christian theology calls for a tax system that is fairer to the poor Adam Cohen, NY Times 6/10

Millenium Challenge Account: WTO and US Official Rape-a-3rd-World-Nation-Program by Colin Powell? Bush Propaganda is More Like it, using Powell as the Messenger. Do they really think Lyin' Colin did any more than read and sign off on this?

Declaring Independence by Jim Jeffords The promises of candidate Bush, who pledged to bring a new tone to Washington and packaged himself as a compassionate conservative, are unmet. On issue after issue the Bush administration is not what it claims to be. Tompaine.com

Bush's Faith-Based Talk -- Where's the Action? (By E. J. Dionne Jr.) Wash. Post 6/10

Who's Accountable? By Paul Krugman NY Times 6/10

On the Rushwire: Libs Need Yet Another Think Tank Like a Fish Rush Limbaugh on the new, American Majority ThinkTank, also has links to conservative think tanks. He must be getting nervous. he attacks people and organizations that scare him.

Credibility Gap, Anyone? by Jim Lobe "If it's shown we went to war because of intelligence that was 'cooked' by the administration, heads will have to roll -- and not just little heads, big ones." tompaine.com

Ashcroft's Attitude Problem Richard Cohen Wash. Post 6/10 Ashcroft is carrying out BushCo policy-- Fascist, unAmerican, anti-democratic policy

Drowning, First-Class Style by James K. Galbraith The titanic American economy has hit an iceberg, and, if the wealthy don't want to drown in their luxury cabins, we all need to start bailing out the ship. presented at the Take Back America Conference

Media drop the ball on FCC rules changes Dante Chinni Media companies that lobbied for change offered little coverage. Christian Science Monitor 6/10

Bill Moyers' presidential address He's not a candidate, but Bill Moyers has set the standard for 2004 campaign speeches John Nichols, The Nation 6/9

Molly Ivins Interview RealAudio file (14mb)

The Ignoble Savage Kari Lydersen, Right-wing shock jock Michael Savage goes after the little guy. AlterNet June 9, 2003

Weapons of Mass Deception Ruth Rosen, Congress must now hold the kind of public hearings that unmasked the secrets in the Watergate scandal. San Francisco Chronicle June 9, 2003.

Struck Dumb? (By William Raspberry) Wash Post 6/2 He's talking about Democrats

Spooks Outraged "policy and intelligence fiasco of monumental proportions." By Nicholas D. Kristof, NYTimes 5/30

Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense? John Dean (of Watergate Infamy) Findlaw.com 6/6

Single superpower Former UK Cabinet Minister Clare Short assesses American might and the UN's new role BBC 6/8

Death by work By IGNACIO RAMONET Le Monde Diplomatique

"Unwise Use: Gale Norton's New Environmentalism" David Helvarg New? Sounds like the Good 'ol Bush Policy of Lying, Fraud and Fudging Data The Progressive June Issue

If an American Company Assists In and Benefits from Gross Human Rights Abuses, Should It Be Held Liable and Accountable? Ka Hsaw Wa La Times

United States: an unfree press by Serge Halimi, Le Monde Diplomatique

Kucinich reloaded Why the former boy mayor of Cleveland wants America's top job Sacramento News and Review 06/05

Eric Rudolph: In Context The Pubic Eye

Where is the Outrage? It's Time for Bush to Level with the People By Senator Robert Byrd

Like Bridge Over Troubled Water Molly Ivins 6/5

Just Get Married! Bells will be ringing as a new pro-marriage, anti-poverty plan takes root in Texas BY MARK DONALD

Like We Said, Bush Has sent in the Privatization Troops; Downsizing in Disguise Naomi Klein, The Nation, 6/5

Bush's War on Endangered Species Going Critical By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Counterpunch 6/7

Enacting Corporate Manslaughter Legislation Ruaridh Nicoll Guardian 6/8

Let's help rebuild Iraq's labour movement Trade unionists around the world must help Iraqis create one of the vital building blocks of a free society, say Harry Barnes, Kevin Curran and Tony Lloyd.Guardian 6/8

The icons of America are taking a battering Cristina Odone's Diary: From newspapers to apple pies, institutions once regarded as the essence of Americana are crumbling or mutating. Guardian 6/8

Nadine Gordimer Giant steps along the road to freedom Independent UK 6/8

Dems Must Listen To the Quiet Man By Eleanor Clift When it comes to candlepower and charisma, there's no competing with the Clintons. But Democrats looking for a messenger to challenge George W. Bush ought to listen to soft-spoken former Republican Jim Jeffords Newsweek 6/7

The Real Leo Strauss By Jenny Strauss Clay Recent articles have portrayed my father, Leo Strauss, as the mastermind behind the neoconservative ideologues who control U.S. foreign policy. I do not recognize the Leo Strauss in these articles. NY Times 6/7

Constitutional Crises By LLOYD CUTLER and ALAN K. SIMPSON On September 11, members of Congress might have been killed and the result would have been its inability to function. We need work on filling a constitutional gap in order to protect Congress. NY Times 6/7

Duped and Betrayed Paul Krugman NY Times, 6/6

Cloaks and Daggers It's Day 78 and still no weapons of mass destruction. But the spooks are beginning to talk, and that can't be a bad thing. Nicholas Kristof NY Times 6/7

The Lies We Bought The Unchallenged "Evidence" for War by John MaArthur, Columbia Journalism Review

Health-care manifesto The reason this country may never have a health-care system based on the principles of universal access is because we worship at the temple of capitalism. Richard Davis, Brattleboro Reformer, 6/6

An era of plunder from above Trickle-up economics? They were talking about that almost 200 years ago. By Matt Miller / Tribune Media Services 6/6

FCC Vetoes Public Interest Madison WI Capital Times

Real Live Democrats (By Harold Meyerson) on the Take Back America Conference and the Democratic "right" Wash. Post 6/4

Bomb and Switch By MAUREEN DOWD For the first time in history, America is searching for the reason we went to war after the war is over. NY Times 6/4

Baghdad Blogger His irreverent web diary became an internet sensation during the war. Now, Salam Pax reports on life in the Iraqi capital. Guardian Unlimited 6/4

A Costly Freebie (By Robert J. Samuelson) a sweet plum for the pharmaceutical companies Wash. Post 6/4

Because We Could By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
The "real reason" for the war in Iraq was that after 9/11 America needed to hit someone in the Arab-Muslim world. NY Times 6/4

The 51st state By Trudy Rubin Philadelphia Inquirer 6/4

Enough peacekeeping; it's time for war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, it's left an estimated 2.5 million dead in the past five years Rosie Dimanno Toronto Star, 6/4

Rudolph Is No Lone Nut Earl Ofari Hutchinson, The notion that terrorism only comes in the form of Al-Quaida attacks presumes that gender and racially motivated violence are isolated acts committed by a handful of quacks and unreconstructed bigots. AlterNet 6/3\

The Pirates of Fiscal Irresponsibility by Lee Drutman and Charlie Cray commondreams 6/3

How Their Big Lie Came to Be Robert Scheer LA Times Jun 3, 2003

'Distorting the facts: Standard operating procedure' Paul Krugman NY Times, 6/3

The price of policing the world Madison WI Capital Times

U.S. Iran strategy makes for strange bedfellows; `Great Satan' supplying clergy's fodder "accusations, coming from an administration that lied its way into Iraq, are seen as nothing more than bullying by Sheriff Bush." Haroon Siddiqui Toronto Star

9/11 movie paints Bush as hero Linda McQuaig Toronto Star

FCC Commissioner Michael Copps: I Dissent Because Today the FCC Empowers America's New Media Elite with Unacceptable Levels of Influence Commondreams.org 6/2
The Reverse Robin Hood By Bob Herbert NY Times, 6/2
Monopoly or Democracy? by Ted Turner
Rotten, Old-Fashioned Corruption at the FCC By Molly Ivins, AlterNet 5/29

Waggy Dog Stories By PAUL KRUGMAN "You want to win this election, you better change the subject. You wanna change this subject, you better have a war," Robert DeNiro in WAG THE DOG NY Times 5/30
Rhenquist Suprise; He supports Women Michael Kinsley, Wash Post 5/30 Maybe Nixon Appointee Rehnquist is getting old and seeing the error of his despicable ways.
Your Rights: Use 'Em or Lose 'Em Rachel Neumann, AlterNet 5/30
Chrétien was right to challenge Bush on budget before the G8 meeting Toronto Star 5/30
Democrats: Profiles In Spinelessness Arianna Huffington The "opposition party" is so paralyzed by the fear of saying something attackable, they have become impotent when it comes to challenging Bush on tax cuts and Iraq TomPaine.org
Mr Blair may survive this failure to find weapons. But what about his credibility? Tony Blair staked his personal credibility and his political survival on the justness of the war with Iraq. He will survive, but his credibility with voters will never be the same again independent UK 5/29
WHAT WILL THEY THINK OF US? Richard Reeves, "At the time, did the people involved in the slave trade see slavery as an evil -- as we do now?" Yahoo, 5/28
In-a-Gadda Da-Vida We Trust MAUREEN DOWD NY Times, 5/28
OPERATION IRAQI ERADICATION Ted Rall - Wed May 28, Yahoo
The Right's Take on the FCC Handout to Big Media ; Rush Limbaugh
Caught in the Squeeze On Tuesday President Bush signed a bill that will increase the federal debt by nearly a trillion dollars. And the working class is the big loser.By Bob Herbert NY Times, 5/28
Big Media is losing credibility fight Antonia Zerbisias Toronto Star, 5/28
Artful lies for the sake of peace Richard Gwynn Toronto Star 5/28
Inevitably, The Politics Of Terror Fear Has Become Part Of Washington's Power Struggle E.J. Dionne, Wash Post. 5/25
For Partisan Gain, Republicans Decide Rules Were Meant to Be Broken By ADAM COHEN NY Times, 5/27 Crooked republicans are going beyond nasty to unethical, illegal and unconstitutional
Image Makers Obscure President’s Policy Failures Michael Katz Berkeley Daily Planet, 5/27
The Intoxication of the "Neo-Con" Intellectuals By Jean Daniel jdaniel@nouvelobs.com Le Nouvel Observateur
Lionized in Winter At 85, Robert Byrd has become an overnight Internet sensation and the Senate's unlikeliest liberal Matthew Cooper Time, 6/2
The Fictional War On Terrorism Ted Rall, AlterNet 5/27
The lunatics are now in charge of the asylum." Paul Krugman, NY Times "the people now running America aren't conservatives: they're radicals who want to do away with the social and economic system we have, and the fiscal crisis they are concocting may give them the excuse they need."
What is Your Government Not Telling you? Joe Klein, Time 6/2
Was war justified? Bianca Jagger says Blair was "deluded" BBC
Back in Political Forefront, Iran-Contra Figure ELliot Abrams Plays Key Role on Mideast Michael Dobbs Wash. Post 5/27
The power of one Weak nations will succumb to American ambition unless we insist on respecting sovereignty, writes Martin Jacques. Guardian 5/26
Frightening! The Young Hipublicans College conservatives have learned that by acting like everybody else, they can sway their peers and become the most influential political act on campus. NY Times Magazine 5/25 The Right wing think tanks are investing millions in building this base. The left needs a similar plan. Failure to do so will cede leadership of the US to the right wing.
Who Do You Trust? by Catharine Cooper What if everything you read in the newspapers was a fabrication? LA Times
Bush unchallenged by media Linda McQuaig, Toronto Star, 5/25 "media docility has allowed the Bush administration to go largely unchallenged as it adopts the mantle of an imperial presidency."
Stand Up For Iraqi Women Elizabeth Goitein Washington Post, 5/24
Moyers on Journalism, Candor and Memorial Day Now With BillMoyers, May 23
My LifeLog, and Yours The military is about to build the most aggressive, complete database on your life ever created. Charles Paul Freund Reason, 5/23
•Abortion politics — Bush-style Arthur Caplan MSNBC 5/23
Warning to Bush from contrite cold war veteran Fiachra Gibbons, arts correspondent, in Cannes Robert McNamara, the US defence secretary during the Cuban missile crisis and the first phases of the Vietnam war, has warned of the folly of American involvement in Iraq. Guardian, 5/23
Theological Science Fiction Why The Matrix matters Gregory Benford Reason, 5/23
Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death” Broadcast for the First Time Ever in the US: Eyewitnesses Testify that US Troops Were Complicit in the Massacre of up to 3,000 Taliban Prisoners During the Afghan War democracynow.org
• Operation: Fantasy America Stephen Blackburn, The television series "24" paralleled and refracted the Bush administration's own drive to war. The difference was, it gave liberals a president they could adore. AlterNet May 23
• The Great Media Gulp By William Safire "The overwhelming amount of news and entertainment comes via broadcast and print. Putting those outlets in fewer and bigger hands profits the few at the cost of the many." "Does that sound un-conservative? Not to me. The concentration of power — political, corporate, media, cultural — should be anathema to conservatives. The diffusion of power through local control, thereby encouraging individual participation, is the essence of federalism and the greatest expression of democracy." NY Times, 5/23

archived before May 22, 2003

• Bush Law Lowers the Quality of Education As States Cut Test Standards to Avoid Sanctions By Sam Dillon NY TImes, 5/22

• THE ROVING EYE The masters of the universe By Pepe Escobar The Bilderberg Club Asia Times 5/22

• The United Nations Backs Down Ian Williams, The same members of the Security Council who opposed the war rolled over to support the U.N. resolution that legalizes the occupation of Iraq. Alternet.org 5/22

• Iraq's Silenced Majority Building democracy is a long-term process, but enabling women to lead and participate in all aspects of Iraqi society can begin immediately. Zainab Al-Suwaij NY Times, 5/23

•Dancing With the Devil Why are the hapless Dixie Chicks facing more criticism than Halliburton, the slithery multinational that has made zillions doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism Bob Herbert NY Times, 5/22

•Um, Folks, This Doesn't Look Like Victory Molly Ivins, Good thing we won the war, because the peace sure looks like a quagmire.AlterNet 5/22

Congress Watches its Power Ebb Gail Russell Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor, 5/21

The Silencing of Dissent on Graduation Day Amy Goodman, Chris Hedges, Democracy Now! alternet, 5/22

Leaving the EPA - Don't Cry for Christie Laura Flanders San Fran. Chronicle 5/22
Nuclear War on the Hill Wash Post 5/21
The United Nations Backs Down Ian Williams, Alternet, 5/22

archived before May 22, 2003

Challenges facing the U.S. in Iraq "the Bush administration did not even begin to understand the scale of what it was going to have to do after the invasion."

The Debate to End All Debate Norman Ornstein "For a short-term victory now, Republicans would reap the whirlwind."

ChickenHawk Republican GI Record; Hypocrite is spelled with an R

Bush's Brain Rove in the Limelight David S. Broder "Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make famous."

Globalization's Evil Offspring Jim Hoagland

Corporate Call to Inaction By Fred Hiatt

Bush's short-term dollars make no long-term sense Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Keep strict rules for megafarms Atlanta Journal- Constitution Federal Environmental Protection Agency is cooking up a plan that could let some of the nation's biggest corporate farmers out of complying with the Clean Air Act.

Tulia Travesty: Misconduct may go deeper than rogue cop It is bad enough that dozens of black Texans were convicted on the uncorroborated word of a now discredited white undercover officer. But a court filing now suggests the Swisher County prosecutor, also white, knew his key witness couldn't be trusted.

The End of the Internationalist Experiment of the Twentieth Century By Corine Lesnes

Dems On The Lam Jim Caddell

The Salience of Kashmir; The World's Other Nuclear Hot Spot Ahmad Faruqui

Understanding the Hawks: Part II The Real Threats by Jesse Lee

Bush and Saddam: Star-crossed enemies, secret allies? Maralyn Lois Polak

Not Finding Weapons of Mass Destruction a Crucial Detail Molly Ivins

From pots to politics Naomi Klein: Argentina was eager for change, yet is about to elect a discredited has-been as president.

US Media Helped Bush Sell the War

U.S. overreacting to Shiites' Iraq-Iran nexus Haroon Siddiqui

Yanks go home The UN should resist the US steamroller and press for an early end to the occupation of Iraq Jonathan Steele

From Cold War to Holy War By Henry C K Liu

Battling for the soul of the American republic By Ahmad Faruqui

Season of the Witch Hunts; One on One with Joe McCarthy by WILLIAM MANDEL

War and Intelligence Seymour M. Hersh looks at a small circle of analysts and advisers at the Pentagon who came to rival the C.I.A. as the President's primary source of intelligence about Iraq; Hersh reports that questions have been raised about the integrity of the intelligence the group relied on.

A Nation Of Cowards by Sidney Hall Jr.

Why Empires Strike Out Michael Elliot, on problems with Imperialism

How to Build a Better Democrat: Fire the consultants, find some core values and speak from the heart, and then maybe one of the candidates will have a chance against Bush Joe Klein

The GOP attack machine All who are not Bushies are evil BY DAN KENNEDY

The Reality of the Judicial 'Crisis' NY Times President Bush got it wrong last week when he blamed Senate Democrats for the impasse over his judicial nominees.

What Happens When People Give up on Democracy? "Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear." Elections vs. Democracy in Argentina Naomi Klein

archived before May 20, 2003

Canada: Why help U.S. create a system that will eventually lead to the unthinkable: A nuclear attack on a `rogue' country Linda McQuaig

Dissent is a Great American Tradition Helen Thomas:

The Jerry Bruckheimer White House Frank Rich

The New Newsspeak, Russell Smith

Enemy Within; Democratic candidates need to stop attacking one another, and start attacking Bush. Robert Kuttner

White House press secretary shows little regard for truth Houston Chronicle

Q&A: Anita Roddick's Kind of Revolution Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet

Look Good, Act Cool By MAUREEN DOWD

Senator Santorum's Dept of Sexual Security; Mark Fiore Animation

A Clash of Personal Freedom and Common Good Ronald Brownstein,

Looking for Hope in an Apartheid Monster's Eyes Rachel L. Swarns

Korea's New Wave Suki Kim Young Koreans believe that the Korean War was never truly a civil war, but rather a proxy conflict for the cold war enemies, and they blame the United States for standing in the way of re-unification.

Canadian Broadcaster: U.S. government's "official" version of 9/11 is the greatest deception ever launched." By Joyce Lynn

Yale's Succession of Presidents

Karl Rove's Campaign Strategy: It's the Terror, Stupid Francis X. Clines

The two faces of Rumsfeld

Where, oh where, are the WMDs? Molly Ivins

The Moral Imperative George Lakoff says that conservatives know how to influence voters, and Democrats haven't a clue. It's all in their language

Another first for the Bush regime?
Combining biological and economic warfare By Wayne Madsen

War and Intelligence Seymour M. Hersh looks at a small circle of analysts and advisers at the Pentagon who came to rival the C.I.A. as the President's primary source of intelligence about Iraq; Questions have been raised about the integrity of the intelligence the group relied on.

Many Americans Follow War on BBC John Nichols

The Enemy Within Gore Vidal

archived before May 18, 2003

Mothers doing what? Ruth Rosen

Understanding the Hawks: Part I of 3 Philosophical and Geopolitical Roots by Jesse Lee

Jet-Boy Bush Went AWOL When It Mattered, Media Paid No Mind Bill Gallagher "The cable news networks have become essentially the government news service, the American Pravda."

Intelligence Fiasco: Not Worth the Paper It's Written On? By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

Those who built up Hussein will profit from his demise Margie Burns

Faith & Freedom Karen Armstrong With a tradition of justice and secularism, there is no reason to fear Iraq's Shia resurgence.

Trouble in Bush's America Bob Herbert

Jim Crow revived/sp/in cyberspace By Martin Luther King III and Greg Palast

Bush Regime Playing Card Deck

The Invisible Bush Cabinet Timothy Noah and Avi Zenilman

America Stumbling Along in Iraq Harroon Siddiqui "Petty and vindictive, George W. Bush is also freezing out France, Russia and Germany at a time when Iraq can use all the international assistance it can get."

A shift in China's leadership style? JOSHUA EISENMAN CHINA'S initial Sars cover-up, resulting in the dismissal of key officials and the outbreak of riots, has brought to light two primary truths.

How The War On Terrorism Has Gone Way Too Far Carol Marin

Unpatriotic moments Forrest Carr, News Director of WFLA TV, Tampa, Anyone who has spent more than five minutes in a television newsroom knows that viewer feedback is a major fact of life for broadcast journalists. Most of us have come to accept, even appreciate, the constant coverage criticism, but recently a new and

Bush's War on Jesus John Stanton Bush's vengeful persona and his penchant for the spectacle in public office have been in contradistinction to all the teachings and actions of the Son of Man.

Bechtel's Nuclear Nightmares By: Pratap Chatterjee

Bush's Top Gun Speech Matthew Rothschild

Strong Must Rule the Weak, said Neo-Cons' Muse Jim Lobe

Why Dean is still the Democrat to watch Howard Fineman

Karl Rove; Counting Votes While the Bombs Drop James C. Moore

Here's a Model for How to Shape a Muslim State Bill Keller

Dennis Miller; Comedian and Right Wing Zealot, Bush Lover

Bah, Wilderness! Reopening a Frontier to Development Timothy Egan

Joe McCarthy Smiles from his Grave by Allen Snyder

Is Bush a War Criminal?
By Dave Chandler

The virus that has infected the American mind Ken Hillman

Ex-weapons inspector and former Marine Scott Ritter is calling for regime change in Washington. By Jan Barry

Fortunate Son Bush's game of dress-up is a prelude to the smearing of some Democrat's military record. By Michael Tomasky

EU and Whose Army? By Harold Meyerson "In their commitment both to multilateralism and a mixed economy, the Europeans often seem a good deal closer than the current administration does to the America that emerged from World War II. Let them have their army. Without the Old Europe, where could we still see the Old America?"

Our military forces deserve to be treated with respect and dignity, and not used as stage props to embellish a presidential speech. Sen Robert Byrd

archived before May 15, 2003

A License for Power: Paul Starr on the FCC's plans to make the media behemoths more dominant than ever.

Real American agenda now becoming clear Haroon Siddiqui

The TowerGate Cover-up Jim Caddell

all's well that ends well obey without question; Patrick Farley great slide show

Auditioning for Senator McCarthy NY Times Congress's release this week of some of the more odious McCarthy archives is a welcome renewal of cautionary history.

Is You Wicked? Maureen Dowd A British comedian in hip-hop disguise is dressing down the likes of James Baker and Donald Hilarious

FBI Takes Up Heavy Load of Corporate Fraud Probes

Taking it off the streets John Leo "Increasingly, protesters are being banished to faraway sites."

The newest war hawks Gloria Borger "Today, women view national security as a domestic issue."

Inverted Totalitarianism Sheldon Wolin The Bush regime is effecting a transformation to a fascist-like state.

Top Gun at Job Destruction by Katrina vanden Heuvel

How the World Bank is cooking the books George Monbiot

How Not to Count the Poor Sanjay G Reddy and Thomas W Pogge

Man on Horseback Paul Krugman There was a time when patriotic Americans would have denounced any president who tried to take political advantage of his role as commander in chief.

Missing in Action: Truth Nicholas D. Kristof There are indications that the U.S. government manipulated intelligence, exaggerating the Iraqi threat to win support for the war.

Where Do the Neocons Go from Here?After Iraq, their influence at the White House may be ebbing Richard Dunham

The Pentagon's one-size-fits-all 'liberation' is a disaster in Iraq Jonathan Steele in Baghdad

Stop The FCC From Making Local Radio Extinct

A pocketknife, and life's big questions Joan Ryan

Time to unlock American values

George W. Christ? William Rivers Pitt

Lessons in Death, Born in the USA Michael Schwalbe

What Europe has to do to avoid becoming a US vassal Simon Tisdall

Get off the Phone drivers chatting on cell phones suffered slower reaction times, took longer to stop and missed more roadside warning signs than drivers who were legally drunk.

The world won't forgive or forget Peter Preston

A Different Approach for the 2004 Campaign Fair

Getting Shot on the Oakland Docks Scott Fleming

Tax Cut is Blatant Flimflam.William Raspberry:

The Carolina Nine WILLIAM SAFIRE Safire's a right winger, but his observations are useful.

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The Brawl Over Judges NY Times

The Faces of Budget Cuts Bob Herbert
Thousands of Oregon residents are in serious need of medical care but they have been cut from essential programs because of the state's budget meltdown.

Up Against Wal-Mart Mother Jones

The Falluja Syndrome Matthew Rothschild

Bah, Wilderness! Reopening a Frontier to Development

Campaign Documents Show Depth of Bush Fund-Raising

Rescue's Just Not Part of the Plan Michael Powell) "maybe the cautionary lesson is that cities and states can drop nearly dead"

Remorse? It's Business As usual for Corporate America

A Mean-Spirited America Today, I fear my own government more than I do terrorists Jill Nelson

At The Turning Of The Tide William Rivers Pitt

The Iceman Cometh By Maureen Dowd

It's Emerson's Anniversary and He's Nailed 21st-Century America Adam Cohen

Leo-Cons: A Classicist's Legacy: New Empire Builders, James Atlas, about the the NeoCon's inspiration, Leo Strauss

How Tom DeLay Became Unbalanced Michael Kinsley

Up Against Wal-Mart By Karen Olsson

Inverted Totalitarianism The Bush regime is effecting a transformation to a fascist-like state. Sheldon Wolin

'A kind, really nice boy' Nick Cohen: What drives Western Muslim adolescents into the arms of fundamentalism and deliberate death?

Bush's Top Gun Photo-Op David Corn,

Listen Up, Democrats: Why 2004 Isn't 1992

Rolling Back May Day Matt Harwood, Even the eight-hour workday is in danger from a White House bent on destroying the hard-won gains of American workers.

Female Fedayeen Chris Johnson, As men furiously debate Iraq's future behind closed doors, these young women in Baghdad say they are ready to attack U.S. troops.

Envisioning the Anatomy of A Tough Liberal Candidate by Rob Kall

Humor: Animals All Around Us, By Jack Handey

Misguided Cuts in Washington NY Times "Bush Plays Fiscal Nero"

The Acid Test By PAUL KRUGMAN losing the war against corporate insiders & malefactors.

Media Monopolies Have Muzzled Dissent Ian Masters

Humpty Dumpty in Baghdad. Robert Dreyfuss How the Pentagon plans to dominate postwar Iraq

Take Back the Air Waves! A May Day Message to the FCC: "We are Many; They are Few" Ian Boal

Trickle Down Means Trickle On Patrick Fish

A Confederacy of Amnesiacs.Jon Carroll

Teaching Kids a Lesson :"Something Ugly is happening in Oregon" Bob Herbert

The Crime Of The Century: A Never-Ending "War Against Terrorism" Thom Hartmann

Battling for the Soul of the American Republic; Strategic Myopia About the Middle East Ahmad Faruqui

Meet The Mullah Omar of Pennsylvania Santorum: That's Latin for Asshole By Jeffrey St. Clair

Vilified weapons inspectors may have got it right Marian Wilkinson

One more Middle East Peace Plan Haroon Siddiqui Toronto Star

IAN BRIGHTHOPE
Rx Addicts Loath to Admit Natural Medicine is Effective Dr Ian Brighthope, pres. of the Complementary Healthcare Council of Australia

"Everybody stay tuned. You're going to see a lot of good things happening. The cavalry is coming." Sheldon Drobny, founder of Anshel progressive radio network, on the Thom Hartmann radio talk show.

Why has The West Wing stopped dodging bullets? Scott Feschuk

Post - Iraq era cause for optimism National Business Review The Cassandras of the Left are vociferously propagating the view that the Bush administration will further the re-ordering of its foreign policy with major changes in global economic policy

President GORE; A Look Back Ted Rall

The hunter who lost his way Anne Karpf: His pursuit of Nazis was vital, but Simon Wiesenthal ended up promoting a mystifying view of the Holocaust.

Rupert Murdoch a threat to UK TV "this corrupter of politicians" Polly Toynbee

To tell the truth is not George W. Bush's game Ed Garvey

archived before May 8, 2003

A Judicial Witch Hunt NY Times
Hypocrisy & Apple Pie By Maureen Dowd
Jay Leno: "President Bush is Worried that Religious Fundamentalists will Over-run Iraq. Hey, if it's good enough for the Republican party..."
We went to war just to boost the white male ego Norman Mailer
Fleecing The Family by Molly Ivins Bush is proposing new rules that would erode the 40-hour workweek and affect more than 80 million workers.
Just Don't Do It by Jeffrey Kaplan and Jeff Milchen If the Court rules for Nike, kiss corporate accountability goodbye.
SPOOKED: Fredric Allen Maxwell It could happen to you!
'Good American' revisionism David Kirby Remembering he Kent State Student Murders
Matters of Emphasis Paul Krugman When the Gov Lies SEX, LIES AND DUCT TAPE Jennifer Block
Beware Long Occupations Christopher Dickey
Santorum and Family Values by Rob Kall
Corporations 'License to Kill' Should Be Revoked Robert C. Hinkley
Snapshot of a nation How Argentina's new president deals with the occupied factories will be hugely significant Naomi Klein
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ToppleGate Matthew Van Deusen
"And Now: 'Operation Iraqi Looting" Frank Rich It's hard to know the extent of the looting of Iraq's art and antiquities, but it's easy to see how little America's leaders cared.
Bill Moyers Intvw; Wealth and Plutocracy
Hawking Syria; Neo-cons Have Long Had Damascus In Their Sites. Jim Lobe, who's probably written more on neocons than anyone.
President Bush’s War at Home Howard Fineman
When Freedom Leads to Anarchy David K. Shipler
Rejecting the World; Neocons oppppose Intergovernmental Cooperation on Global Warming Paul Krugman
Certain Words Can Trip Up AIDS Grants, Scientists Say Erica Goode
You Remember the Democrats, Don't You? Joe Klein
The Sounds of Silence Anna Quindlen:
Threats Against Syria Have a Familiar Ring Sheila McCarthy A new kind of literacy Susan Greefield
Redefining 'Democracy' as Disorder Robert Kuttner
In black press, war skepticism runs high
Rough road ahead for U.S. Haroon Siddiqui
Liberation is really a state of mind E.R.Shipp
Why The Anti-War Movement Was Right Arianna Huffington A Job for Unesco William J. Vaneden Heuvel
Filibustering Priscilla Owen's Judgeship NY Times
The Neocons' Next Wish Provides The Democrats With an Important Next Step R. Kall
The War Against Humanity; Targeting the Real Axis of Evil Rob Kall
Cultural identity of Iraq goes up in flames Robert FIsk
Ultimate Insiders Bob Herbert
Saddam is Gone... So What's the Peace Movement's Problem? Patrick Carkin
The Iraq Money Tree NY Times
Behind Our Backs War Works for Domestic Republican Agenda Paul Krugman
A Senseless Salute John Lukacs
The Real War - On American Democracy Thom Hartmann TRUTH IN EXILE intvw Greg Palast
White House Hubris Will End With Domino Effect of Iraq War Gwynne Dyer
War: Who was it good for?
The Thrill of battle War for many Americans has become something fascinating, glorious, satisfying, charmingly distant and thus quasi-fictional, writes Matthew Engel.
Baathist Redux
Iran: Baathist criminals must be tried to fullest letter of law; But not by US Gulf News: Baathist Dictatorship NEver Really Supported Palestinians, Rather, Divided Them Abdul Hamid Ahmad
And the Washington Post Interprets Ahmad; Fear, Rethinking in Mideast
Is Bush Reagan Redux? Eleanor Clift Bush wants to starve social programs to pay for massive tax cuts. At least the Gipper was candid about it Marina Hyde: Of all the tedious people one runs into these days, those who shriek triumphantly "what have the anti-war lot got to say now?" are perhaps the most deserving of being permanently black-listed by amusing society.
Rejoice? Pride just might precede a fall Adele Horin
The Left are the Big Losers, The Right Says, As Baghdad Falls; What The Left Needs to Do Next Rob Kall
Chaos, or just a little vase they're going through? Antonia Zerbisias
Aftermath: The Bush Doctrine NY Times
Seduced by victory's jig Mike Carlton
Don't look for a reason David Hare: All the explanations for this war are bogus - Bush only invaded Iraq to prove that he could.
Peace Movement Crossroad - Activists Debate Next Step Rene P. Ciria-Cruz,
Are tyrants shocked, awed or stocking up on nukes? Jonathan Freedland:
The Iraqi gravy train Terry Jones
Unfit to Judge; Another Bush Total Loser
Flames engulf the symbols of power Robert Fisk
The Baseball Hall Of Fame Tolerates No Dissent Ira Berkow
Where's the Outrage? Racism Is OK For House Republicans
War a tragedy for some, boon for others Gwynne Dyer
Spoils of War Bob Herbert
Lest We Forget (nazis) Laurie Manis
Progressive Bows and Arrows against Neocon Cruise Missiles; Time for Friends of Democracy to Help Rob Kall
Spewing Faith in the Public Sphere NY Times
Conquest And Neglect Paul Krugman
CNN's Secret Saddam Horror Stories
Dark Day for Consumers, Environment as House Approves Energy Package
National Insanity Epidemic Jim Caddell
Ominous Signs Arab News
No New Tax Cuts By Bob Kerry, Sam Nunn,, Peter G. Peterson, Robert E. Rubin, Warren B. Rudmann and Paul A. Volcker
Beyond Iraq: Looking Ahead to Deja-Vu Pierre Tristam
It Can't Happen Here -- Or Can It? Richard L. Clinton
The Images they Chose-- and Chose to Ignore Robert Jensen
American & Anti-American Values-- Left compared to Right Hanno T. Beck
The Reconstruction of Iraq Must Be Led By the United Nations, Not the United States Laurie Manis
After Iraq: Perpetual War and a Nuclear World Ian Williams
Dances With Wolfowitz; Blackhawk Up Maureen Dowd
Chemical hypocrites George Monbiot
Eqyptian Intellectual Speaks of the Arab World's Despair Susan Sachs
The Last Refuge Santimonious Right Wingers Use war to restrict Free Speech Paul Krugman
India:The Emperor's new clothes- and lies, a failures. Praful Bidwai
One Woman enrages war rally with her heartfelt message: 'I love my country but . . .' Roy MacGregor
The U.S. Betrays Its Core Values Gunter Grass

archived before april 30, 2003
Peace activism: a matter of language - Anti-war patriots find they need to reclaim words, symbols, even U.S. flag from conservatives Robert Salladay
The Saddest Thing Of All Anton Antonowicz
I will not be gagged- George Galloway: Stripped of Spiritual Comfort Frank Schaeffer
Saving Private Lynch Melani McAllister
Why Justice O'Connor Could Be Affirmative Action's Savior Adam Cohen
IRAQ: Pentagon mafia to run post-Saddam regime Doug Lorimer
The Reason Why George McGovern
The Contingency Plan Jesse Lee
What Future for Humanitarian Agencies in a Bush-Ruled World? Rasna Warah
Save Our Democracy: A Call to Action Steven Hill/Rob Richie
Bush C ronies set to make a killing Oliver Morgan,Ed Vulliamy
Media Hypocrisy on Geneva Conventions. Fox Right Wing Propaganda Network Advocates Bombing of Civilian TV Station
Poverty, military service seem to go hand-in-hand Roy MacGregor
SARS Doc: Death of a Hero Straits Times
US prepares to Fake evidence Rohan Pierce
The Press and the Myth of War Chris Hedges
What We (the Peace Movement) Do Now? The Nation
The shape of World War IV, by number Vinay Menon
After the war, a lingering legacy of hate, tempered by anti-war protesters
Ed O'Loughlin
Did Anyone Sign Up For All of This? Molly Ivins How China Failed the World; SARS: They Knew in Nov., 2002, kept it Secret Jan Wong
Affirmative Action; Don't assume a black child isn't smart Leonard Pitts Jr.
The US dragged us into this unjust war. It must not dictate the peace The Independent of UK
Umm Qasr is not under control. It's like the Wild West Patrick Nicholson
A Letter to America Margaret Atwood
You don't need to believe in God to learn from religion Jonathan Freedland
Betraying the World's Poor NY Times
The World's Other Tyrants, Still at Work Aryeh Neier
The War that May End the age of Superpower? Henry C.K. Liu
Detecting Iraq War disinformation, without radar Gregory Sinaisky To the Anti-War Movement. Marty Jezer Divvying up the war booty in Iraq Haroon Siddiqui
Words and meanings Gwynne Dyer
Puzzling Questions Arise from Bush's Campaign of Fear Ralph Nader
Freedom under attack Sally T. Grant
Pinocchios of a G-rated war veil scars of X-rated battlefield Pierre Tristam
The Best Way Into Baghdad-- minimizing lost lives the Israeli Way Yagil Henkin Envisioning a Progessive Counterpart to NeoConservative Think Tanks like Project for a New American Century Rob Kall
Mugging the Needy Bob Herbert
Beneath The Surface; Saddam as Arab Street Hero, Bush as Occupier Terrorist. Terry M. Neal
Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates Arundhati Roy "Bush's tactless imprudence and his brazen belief that he can run the world with his riot squad, has.... achieved what writers, activists and scholars have striven to achieve for decades. He has exposed the ducts. He has placed on full public view the working parts, the nuts and bolts of the apocalyptic apparatus of the American empire.
Bush’s Iraq war: Icarus on crack Pierre Tristam
A 12 Year Old Girl Discusses The War in Iraq Charlotte Aldebron
Come the Revolution Thomas L. Friedman
Easy to be resolute from Camp David Robin Cook, British Foreign Sec. who Resigned
Support Our Protesters Bill C. Davis
A Sea of Lies Saleh Al-Shehy/Al-Watan, Arab News
Time Is Now to Fight for Future of TV Jeff Chester
Embeddeds; 500 Hacks supported by the US Military; John MacArthur
Friends of Affirmative Action NY Times
Oppression falls to compassion
Democracy Delayed Richard Cohen
Partisan Casualties E. J. Dionne Jr.
Clash of Civilizations In the battle between America and Europe, we better hope that they prevail. Harold Meyerson
Bring Our lads Home: Let's Send Rumsfield and his Hawks to War Instead. Robin Cook
It's clear we've been lied to by Bush. Bring Our Troops Home Margo Kingston
Calling Bush a Cowboy Insults the Idea of Cowboy An American Myth Rides Into the Sunset Susan Faludi
Another American diplomat quits over Iraq Mary A. Wright's resignation letter to Colin Powell
Why beleaguered U.N. is more relevant than ever Jane Holl Lute
The Moron Majority Ted Rall
Americanisation of Pax Africana; Threat to democracies? Ali A Mazrui
Bombs and Biscuits Madeleine Bunting: "Every Iraqi child is now an unwitting participant in this obscene war. And every one of us is morally implicated."
A Humanitarian war? Abdul Basit Haqqani
Those who talk crude, think crude Roy Hattersley: "A good politican has grace. Bush and Rumsfeld have none at all."
Bush Starves 911 Inquiry. Is he Trying to Hide the Truth? NY Times
Why Al Jazeera Matters
US Military Outmaneuvering Media
Starting a Ruckus Was The Right Thing to Do Michael Moore
Why is G.W. Bush Crushing the Nation of Iraq? Mike Berry
Secrecy: The Bush Byword NY Times
Delusions of Power By PAUL KRUGMAN
"Zipping" Dissent in America: Michael Tomasky
America'sRogue rage is a green light for monsters Ray Cassin
Believe your Eyes, Not the Polls David Meltzer
"David Frum and the Axis of Patriotic Correctness" Maureen Farrell
Howard Dean; Candidate of the Heart Joan Vennochi
CNN Factor "world's first $100 billion television commercial," Jim Hoagland
Smart Bombs, Dumb War Harold Meyerson
Baghdad as, Beirut & Belfast, rather than Stalingrad
Toronto Star: Canada is helping our American ally
Casualties at HomeThe administration is actually fighting two wars -one against Iraq and another against the idea of a humane and responsive government here at home.
McGovern speaks out against war in Iraq
Channels of Influence Paul Krugman; Pro-war/ ProBush Clear Channel (1700 Radio Stations) Vice Chair bought Team that Made Bush a Millionaire. Now they organize Pro War Demonstrations
Who'll Clean Up the Mess Ramananda Sengupta
How to Take Back America Thom Hartmann
War opens door to an America none of us has ever known
Leonard Pitts Jr.
Neoconservatives Enlist Democrats for Post-War Goals Jim Lobe
Wanted: skeptical war reporters
Get ready for 2004
Jim Cullen
Is the President Nuts? Diagnosing Dubya Carol Wolman, M.D.
The Wraps Come Off Bush's Don't Feel Powerless. The Peace Movement is More Important Than Ever Ira Chernus
War is Not Viagra
Colonialist Agenda
Robert Scheer
America the Destroyer James Carroll
Army 'Fragging' - Racial Tension Back in Spotlight Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Budgetary Shock & Awe The White House and Congress are about to march under the public's radar screen and lead the country into a decade of budgetary disaster.
Michael Moore's Post Oscar Press Conference (video)
Using the News as a Weapon By LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
At least 7 Oil Wells on Fire. Who set them? Saddam? or Cheney's Haliburton? >
Who Started The'91 Kuwait Oil Well Fires? 5 GI vets say U.S. Desert Post Weekly, 3/13/ 2003, Steve Brown, News Editor
Listen To Tommy Franks Carefully Damien Howard
A War for Democracy?Paul Starr
Best Email Forwarded Jokes
Cartoons of the Week
Great Java AntiWar Java App (broadband required)
Ski Conditions: Daily Reports
McCarthyism Watch

ArabNews: Loyola Islamic Law Teachers Inflames Arab Fears; blames war on Israel, threat of neutered Islam (slow load)

Richard Perle's Conflict NY Times

Perle's Plunder Blunder Maureen Dowd

Now that the War is Under Way, Expect Bush Regime to Try to Push his Ugliest Bills through Congress. opednews

Cutbacks To Our Children David S. Brode

The Philosopher of Islamic Terror Paul Berman

Marching Forward The largest Protest Movement Since Viet Nam. David Callahan

Hyper Power: The New Agenda: Go It Alone. Remake the World.

Pearl Harbor in Reverse' Intvw: Arthur Schlesinger,

The words of war can be dangerous Robert Koehler

War in the Ruins of Diplomacy NY Times

Bush's War; The Nadir of International Law Since Hitler

Where Bush Went Wrong; The Arrogant Empire Fareed Zakaria

Powell Furious With Rumsfeld, Cowed by PNAC Cabal

The tough part comes after the war Empty Bush Promises 12 years again

Familiar, Haunting Words Jimmy Breslin

US Keeps UN out of Iraq WMD Inspection. Makes it easier to Plant them that way.

War and The Jews Eric Alterman
Against the hijacking of patriotism John Nichols
Condi Rice's Stanford Diplomacy Class;
'C' Students Rush to War. 'A' Students Work Towards Peace Juliet Johnson

'I Saw How Easy It Is to Die' Vince Morris
We are in a Nation Ruled by Madmen Who Will Bury the U.N.
UN Security Council Refused to Rubber Stamp US' Imperial Policy Abbas Rashid
Why Colin Powell Should Go Bill Keller
Saddam believes he can win Andrew Cockburn
Better Way to Grow; planning against urban sprawl
Force Has Emerged as the Preferred Instrument of American Policy
"This is What Waging Peace Looks Like" Robert Mueller; "there are two superpowers: the United States and the merging, surging voice of the people of the world."
The War Prayer Mark Twain
War is not in U.S. interest; USA Today
Confronting Our Fears So We Can Confront the Empire Robert Jensen
Why I had to leave the cabinet Robin Cook was, until yesterday, leader of the House of Commons
DeLay’s Ploy: Building up Dean to aid GOP Jonathan E. Kaplan
Who Lost the U.S. Budget? Paul Krugman
The Second American Revolution Roger Normand / Jan Goodwin:
Caught between Bush and Saddam Haroon Siddiqui
How Bush sold war to Americans Antonia Zerbisias
Heads in the Sand the costs of the war
Today I Weep for My Country Sen Robert Byrd
The War After War With Iraq TIMOTHY GARTON ASH
Lessons of Cassandra Nicholas Kristof
Metaphor and War, Again George Lakoff
Sen. Robert Byrd: 'Today I Weep for My Country'
Cheney Behind War

The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that even though Mr. Cheney receded into the background for months, he was choreographing events like Pluto, lord of the underground. In his undisclosed locations, he had dinner parties with anti-Saddam intellectuals and reached out to Iraqi dissidents and plotted the war with his old pal Rummy, letting Colin Powell vainly spend his prestige at the mealy-mouthed U.N. Maureen Dowd, NY Times

Rachel Corrie: 'You just can't imagine it' Rachel Corrie The parents of Rachel Corrie, the American woman killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza this week, released excerpts of an e-mail message Corrie sent them Feb. 7. This material is taken from that e-mail.
There will absolutely be no dissension Stanley Kutler
Justice Served in Egypt NY Times
Who Gets What?
Metaphor and War, Again George Lakoff
Arabic media anger
The New Domino Effect; Bush’s Cynical Glowing Promises Hide Imperial Goals Jesse Lee
The New American Century vs. The UN Jesse Lee

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