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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
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 When the Whitehouse goes to Cheney to defend itself, you know something's gone wrong. thetip.org
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.
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
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
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
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.
 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
 
Faulty Connection by Jim Lobe Were the American people victims of an orchestrated campaign to link Iraq to Al Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks?
 
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.
 
The Peace From Hell; Molly Ivins Time is running out to avoid worst-case scenario in "postwar" Iraq
 
Murdoch's Extended Reach Jeffrey Chester, The Nation If Rupert Murdoch gains control of DirecTV, expect a torrential downpour of dozens of Fox News Channels targeting major U.S. cities across the nation
Pattern of Corruption Paul Krugman The case of the bogus uranium purchases wasn't an isolated instance. It was part of a broad pattern of politicized, corrupted intelligence.
 16 Words, So Far Nicholas Kristof I'm afraid the bigger the picture gets, the more it looks like a pattern of dishonesty.   
Hitler Did this with the A-Bomb, not using Jewish Scientists. Bush does it with any science that conflicts with Rove's Policies Critics Say E.P.A. Won't Analyze Clean Air Proposals Conflicting With President's Policies In the last several months, the E.P.A. has delayed or refused to do analysis on proposals that conflict with the president's air pollution agenda.
Rumsfeld Announces Discovery of Spears of Mass Destruction satire
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?
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
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
 
Favorite read of the day: Searchin' Every Which A-Way for WMD Colbert I. King Wash Post, 6/21
A WorldCom of Trouble By Molly Ivins, AlterNet
June 20, 2003
Gale Norton; Ecology's Worst Nightmare is congress waking up? NY Times 
Loving AmeriCorps to Death; Run Into the ground by Bush Appointee, by  David Skinner Slate.com
Don't draw that map yet of the new American Empire By Georgie Anne Geyer, Boston Globe 6/21/2003
Chomsky On Iraq: What's happening? "We can be quite confident on one thing. The reasons we are given can't possibly be the reasons." Intvw with Noam Chomsky
Where Are WMDs? Where's Congress? Dick Meyer The WMD-Gate Inquisition has begun not with a bang but a whisper. CBSNEWS.com
A Nepotism That Insists on Worth The author Adam Bellow sees America as a land where the once frowned-upon practice of dynastic succession is no longer the exception but the rule. By EMILY EAKIN NY TImes, 6/21
Democracy's Trust Fund by Chuck Collins Tompaine.com
Unfair America "subsidies encourage US farmers to produce far more than the nation needs and to dump the rest on world markets, undercutting farmers in the Third World. Boston Globe
How To Look Credible in Promoting Liberty Michael McFaul, Christian Science Monitor
`Educating' Congress at the hands of lobbyists Jonathan Turley, Consider the following scene. A lobbyist comes into a congressional office and gives an envelope filled with $100,000 in cash to a member of Congress. The member expresses shock and throws the envelope back at the lobbyist as a "crude attempt at bribery." Chicago Tribune, 6/22
'Seven true things you can't say on television (or anywhere else)' Rich Procter Smirkingchimp 6/21
The Masters of Spin Why the Bush administration is the most arrogant in memory Eleanor Clift Newsweek, 6/20
U.S. media criticism of Bush too soft By Dave Zweifel Madison WI, Capitol Times 6/20
Bush Takes A Page From Clinton's Book In his re-election game plan, the President will try to smother the Democrats and steal key issues Newsweek, 6/18
What are Americans dying for now? By Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe 6/18/2003
 
FALSE CLAIMS by Joanne Doroshow There's ample evidence that rising medical malpractice rates are caused by greedy insurance companies. But that's not stopping tort reformers. tompaine.com
THEY IMPEACH MURDERERS, DON'T THEY? Ted Rall, Bush Must Step Down
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LIES by Steven Rosenfeld An interview with Phyllis Bennis on why the trail of missing Iraqi weapons shows the Bush administration is accountable to no one, at home or abroad. tompaine.com
In A Wal-Mart Kind Of Hell Wal-Mart is, in short, deciding what America needs based on the shockingly uptight whims and intolerant perspectives of the hard Right. Mark Morford  SFGate  6/19
John Dean on Impeaching George Bush for Lying on WMD Buzzflash.com 6/17
Washington Post to Justice Dept.: Investigate Delay Westar Connection 6/19
WMD: The Most Dangerous Game Lawrence Magnuson OpEdNews.com June 18, 2003 The Democrats have not yet relearned to speak without reacting, in detail, to the Other’s agenda.
The Clinton Wars By Molly Ivins, AlterNet June 18, 2003
Indefensible Secrecy Wash. Post 6/18
America's nightmare: is Iraq the new Vietnam? Gwynne Dyer Theage.com.au 6/18 At the present loss rate, US military deaths in Iraq since the war "ended" two months ago will pass that total before the end of June. Is this the start of an anti-American guerilla war in Iraq?
Iraq scandal a threat to democracy Robert Manne One important moment on the road that led to the invasion of Iraq can be found in the formation in 1997 of a lobby group known as the Project for the New American Century. Theage.com.au 6/16
Jesus Plus Nothing; Undercover Among America's Secret Theocrats Jeffrey Sharlet, Harper's
Corporations are not persons By Jennifer Van Bergen, Truthout.com
The FCC's Rape of the Public Interest By Jim Hightower, AlterNet June 17, 2003
How Europe Can Stop the Hate Europeans... have too frequently dismissed anti-Semitic violence as routine assaults and vandalism. Rudolph Giuliani NY Times 6/18
What Did He Know and When Did He Know It? Robert Scheer The Nation, 6/17
People First Molly Ivins tompaine.com
 
Call it Reverse Speech or Call it Lying The Spirit of Service Betrayed Bush has touted his plan to "increase AmeriCorps by 50 percent." But He Cut their Budget. NY Times
 
Democrats' Online Appeal (By Harold Meyerson) Last Thursday MoveOn.org sent out an e-mail to its members -- all 1.4 million of them -- asking if they'd like to take part in an online Democratic presidential primary later this month
The War Built On A Lie Harley Sorenson
Why mince words? These are the facts:
1) President George W. Bush is a liar.
2) Secretary of State Colin Powell is a liar.
3) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is a liar.
4) National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice is a liar.
SF Gate 6/16
Bumpersticker Banner Micah L. Sifry If American progressives hope to counter the Right, we're going to need more than a laundry list of grievances and a souped-up infrastructure for projecting our message. We're going to need to articulate a counter-vision to the Right's drumbeat themes. You can't emulate the New Right in deed without recognizing the need for an affirmative counter-vision, a unifying theme that explains why we're fighting the Right.  tompaine.com
Needed: A Vast Liberal Conspiracy
By Ana Marie Cox In These Times  6.16.03
WMD Doublethink: Bush’s Watergate By Michelle Mairesse hermes press
We can seize the day George Monbiot: The task is not to overthrow globalisation but to use it for a democratic revolution. Guardian 6/17
Spinning out of control The Australian government's deception over the war in Iraq may yet jolt voters out of their apathy, writes David Fickling Guardian 6/17
Dereliction of Duty By Paul Krugman Behind the rhetoric of the Bush administration's "war on terror" lies a pattern of refusing to take crucial actions to protect us from terrorists. NY Times, 6/17
All the Fibs that Fit the Print By Greg Palast, AlterNet June 16, 2003
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 tha