40 Articles
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
To Joe Biden: Time for Confession
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Dear Senator Biden, I don't have to remind you of the importance of this Thursday's debate from a political perspective. But as you prepare, I invite you to spare a few minutes to look at the opportunity from a moral and religious perspective.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Iran's Road Less Traveled to Nukes
Thomas Fingar, the U.S. government's top intelligence analyst, in a public speech on Sept. 4, repeated the intelligence community's key judgment that Iran's work on the "weaponization portion" of its nuclear development program "was suspended" in 2003. Not that the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) has exactly trumpeted this important conclusion.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Trickle-Down Preemption: Baghdad on the Mississippi
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Ten days ago, as the nation focused attention on the hurricane nearing the Mississippi delta, another storm was brewing far upstream in St. Paul, Minnesota - a storm far more dangerous, it turned out, but one by and large overlooked by the Fawning Corporate Media(FCM).
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Musharraf Out, Like Nixon; Bush Still In, Like Flynn
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Most of the fawning corporate media (FCM) coverage of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's resignation Monday was even more bereft of context than usual.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Out Damn Blot: A Letter to Colin Powell
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Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, in an open letter to Colin Powell, offers an opportunity to wipe the "blot" off his record.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Obama, McCain Allergic to New Iraq Reality
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Campaign rhetoric by both Obama and McCain ignores dramatic change in the policital landscape in Iraq. Israel is likely to be preparing a September/October surprise designed to keep the US bogged down in Iraq and in the wider region by provoking hostilities with Iran. And don't be surprised if it starts as early as August.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Obama, McCain Allergic to New Iraq Reality
Friday, June 20, 2008
Bomb Iran? What's to Stop Us?
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I have been reviewing the bidding on the possibility of a U.S. attack on Iran. I found the assurance and confidence projected by Israeli PM Olmert after his hour-and-a-half with President Bush truly alarming.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Impeach Bush now?
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Congressional proceedings would help prevent another mistaken war. A move to impeach would bolster the resistance to Bush among our senior military leaders who know that attacking Iran at this time would be the strategic equivalent of the marches into Russia by Napoleon and Hitler.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Jail Time for Tenet?
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As president, young George has found he can escape accountability altogether. Now when he screws up royally, he need not call Dad; George W. Bush is himself in control of all the levers he needs to pull in order to bail himself out. Is this a great country or what?
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Australia Bolts Iraq Over Bush's Lies
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Even into the sixth year of war in Iraq – even as ex-White House press secretary Scott McClellan admits the deceptions used to justify the invasion – the U.S. news media still averts its eyes from the full ugliness of what happened in 2002-03.
Monday, June 2, 2008
McClellan Book Proves Bush Replays Iraq Games on Iran
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Neglected in all the McClellan material is what he said (to Keith Olbermann) about propaganda preparation for attacks on Iran.
This piece picks up from there, and deals with the difficulty the White House has encountered in picking the best rationale to "justify"¯ bombing/missile attacking Iran. Again, there are malleable martinets doing the president's bidding and a president who prefers Israeli intelligence to ours.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
An Appeal to Admiral Fallon on Iran
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I have not been able to find out how to reach you directly, so I drafted this letter in the hope it will be brought to your attention.
First, thank you for honoring the oath we commissioned officers take to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic. At the same time, you have let it be known that you do not intend to speak, on or off the record, about Iran.
Monday, April 21, 2008
What About the War, Benedict?
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Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Washington last week against a macabre backdrop featuring reports of torture, execution, and war. He chose not to notice.
Looks as if the Vatican made a deal with the MSM. If the pope doesn't say anything meaningful on the war, torture, you name it, we the MSM will suppress the unconscionable role he played in covering up the widespread pedophilia and he can present himself as hero not goat.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Delusionary, Dancing Bush
At the American Enterprise Institute war-cheerleaders, dressed as academicians, were delivering a panegyric on how peaceful and stable the situation in Iraq had become. The "surge," they announced had nipped a civil war in the bud.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Frontline: Too Timid, Too Little, Too Late
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Frontline has been, let's just say it, cowardly in real time""no doubt intimidated partly by attacks on its funding that were inspired by the White House.
And now? Well the retrospective criticism of incompetence comes as polling shows two-thirds of the country against the Iraq occupation (and the number is surely higher among PBS viewers). So, Frontline is repositioning itself as a mild ex-post-facto critic of the war...
Friday, February 1, 2008
Iniquities and Inequities of War
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Oil-- that was Bush's true reason, in spite of his hundreds of lies-- for invading and occupying Iraq. And this becomes painfully clear as heroic writer, Ray McGovern discusses the top rate health care he's receiving for his cancerous tumor, compared to the pathetic care our Iraq vets are receiving, let alone the close to 50 million Americans who receive no health insurance supported care at all.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Gulf Shenanigans: No Laughing Matter
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a message to HONEST intelligence analysts and managers still on "active duty."
Last Sunday's misadventure in the Strait of Hormuz shows that our senior military need all the help they can get from intelligence officers more concerned with the truth than with "keeping lines open to the White House" and doing its bidding.
If you find that your leaders are cooking intelligence, think long and hard...
Friday, December 28, 2007
Creeping Fascism: Lessons From the Past
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"There are few things as odd as the calm, superior indifference with which I and those like me watched the beginnings of the Nazi revolution in Germany, as if from a box at the theater...Perhaps the only comparably odd thing is the way that now, years later...."
These are the words of Sebastian Haffner who as a young lawyer in Berlin during the 1930s experienced the Nazi takeover and wrote a first-hand account.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Are Americans Really "Better Than That?"¯
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The past few weeks have witnessed an unseemly square dance in Congress, highlighting conflicting claims about what those who are supposed to be overseeing the intelligence community knew and when they knew it""about torture, about Iran, about many things. It is an insult to the Founders that members of the House and Senate can find nothing more useful to do than wring their hands over their largely self-inflicted powerlessness
Saturday, December 8, 2007
White House & Press Spinning Iran's Centrifuges
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Without Spinmeister Karl Rove and former spokesman Tony Snow, it is amateur hour at the White House. And the theater would be as funny as The Daily Show, were the subject not so serious.
Judging from President George W. Bush's words and body language he is far from giving up on ways to "justify"¯ attacking Iran's nuclear program""weapons-related or not.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Fact-Based Intelligence Prevails on Nukes and Iran
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For those who have doubts about miracles, a double one occurred today. An honest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's nuclear program has been issued and its Key Judgments were made public. With redraft after redraft, it was what the Germans call "eine schwere Geburt"¯""a difficult birth, ten months in gestation.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
former intelligence and national security officials Speak out on Mukasey Nomination
Twenty-four former intelligence and national security officials delivered an urgent message yesterday morning to the chairman and the ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, calling on them to hold the nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey for attorney general until he states his opinion on the legality of waterboarding.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Bush, Oil "" and Moral Bankruptcy
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As the truth about our country's policy becomes clearer and clearer, can we summon the courage to address it from a moral perspective? The Germans left it up to the churches; the churches collaborated.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Greenspan Misses Cheney's Memo: Spills the Beans on Oil
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For those still wondering why GW Bush and Dick Cheney sent our young troops into Iraq, the secret is now "largely" out.
No, not from the lips of former secretary of state Colin Powell. It appears we shall have to wait until the disgraced general/diplomat draws nearer to meeting his maker before he gets concerned over anything more than the "blot" that Iraq has put on his reputation.
We get the truth from Alan Greenspan.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
"Swear Him In"
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I wrote this after being thrown out of the Petraeus hearing earlier this afternoon.
That's all I said in the unusual silence on Monday afternoon as first aid was being administered to Gen. David Petraeus' microphone before he could make himself heard before the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees.
Friday, September 7, 2007
Are Petraeus and Westmoreland Birds of a Feather?
Official Washington is awaiting the Iraq War assessment of Gen. Petraeus, though it's clear he will tout progress in line with President George W. Bush's pro-surge rhetoric.
The Petraeus team in Baghdad already is massaging the numbers, much like another ambitious commander did four decades ago.
In this Vietnam flashback, veteran intelligence analyst Ray McGovern notes the parallels between Petraeus and Gen. William We
Friday, August 31, 2007
Do We Have The Courage To Stop War With Iran?
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I fear our country is likely to be at war with Iran""and with the thousands of real terrorists Iran can field around the globe.
It is going to happen, folks, unless we put our lawn chairs away on Tuesday, take part in some serious grass-roots organizing, and take action to prevent a wider war""while we still can.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Bush League War Drums Beating Louder on Iran
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Attacking Iran Would Be Crazy! Despite the administration's war-like record, many Americans may still cling to the belief that attacking Iran won't happen because it would be crazy; that Bush is a lame-duck president who wouldn't dare undertake yet another reckless adventure when the last one went so badly.
But rationality and common sense have not exactly been the strong suit of this administration.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
John Conyers Is No Martin Luther King
What do Rep. John Conyers (D, Michigan), chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and President George W. Bush have in common? They both think they can dis Cindy Sheehan and count on gossip columnists like the Washington Postā€™s Dana Milbank to trivialize an historic moment.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Bush's Wooden-Headedness Kills
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I began this article last night, with the idea of focusing on the new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on terrorism, parts of which were declassified and made available yesterday.
But it became quickly clear there was a much largerā€”and more importantā€”story here...and that, when all is said and done, the NIE is not going to make much difference one way or another.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Ray McGovern: Remembering an: Ill-Starred Day Four Years Ago
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For those tracking the long train of abuses and usurpations of a modern-day George who would be King and his eminence grise behind the throne, July 14 has a resonance far beyond the fireworks of Bastille Day. Four loosely related events on that same day four years ago throw revealing light on key ingredients of the debacle in Iraq.
Monday, July 2, 2007
Unimpeachably Impeachable
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The evidence has now grown beyond a reasonable doubt: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have committed impeachable offenses. In this guest essay, former CIA officer Ray McGovern writes that any lingering doubts in his mind were dispelled by a series in The Washington Post detailing Vice President Cheney's disdain for the law and the Constitution, with the buck also stopping on President Bush's desk
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Four-letter Word for Tenet; : Liar
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Tenet's book is a self-indictment for the crimes with which Socrates was charged: making the worse cause appear the better, and corrupting the youth.
But George is not the kind to take the hemlock. Rather, with no apparent shame, he accepted what one wag has labeled the "Presidential Medal of Silence" in return for agreeing to postpone his Nixon-style "modified limited hangout" until after the mid-term elections last Nov.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Sorry Theyā€™ve Been So Mean To You, George Tenet
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George Tenet's book shows that he remains, first and foremost, a politician - with no clue as to the proper role of intelligence work. He is unhappy about going down in history as "Slam Dunk Tenet."
Maybe Tenet was naive enough to believe that the president, whom he describes as a "kindred soul," would protect him from thugs like Vice President Cheney and then-Defense Secretary Rumsfeld...
Friday, March 9, 2007
Why Cheney Lost It When Joe Wilson Spoke Out
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There was plenty else to enrage Dick Cheney. It is a safe bet that he went bananas when he learned that Joe Wilson's wife was a CIA officer - and working on the issue of highest priority, how to prevent countries like Iraq and Iran from obtaining weapons of mass destruction.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Are Bush and Cheney the Biggest Threats to Israel's Survival?
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President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are unwittingly playing Dr. Jack Kevorkian in helping the state of Israel commit suicide.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Wake Up! The Next War Is Coming
Sen. Rockefeller, why not stop the war against Iran before it starts. You are chair of the intelligence committee. You don't have to be stonewalled, as previous chair Sen. Bob Graham was in 2002. Yes, he voted against the war in Iraq because he knew of the games being played with the intelligence. But he failed to play a leadership role; he didn't tell his 99 colleagues they were being diddled. It's time for some leadership.
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Hoekstra's Hoax: Just When You Thought You'd Seen Everything
With an Iran war as the target in his crosshairs House intelligence committee chair, Pete Hoekstra is blowing off the real intelligence of the intelligence community, pulling the same crap Cheney and the Office of Special Plans used to gin up the Iraq war with fraud, lies and distortions.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
The Constitution: Checking a Would-Be King
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Who can forget the chutzpah of President George W. Bush as he bragged to Bob Woodward, "I'm commander in chief.... That's the interesting thing about being president...I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."¯
Wrong, Mr. President. You and Vice President Cheney seem to have missed "Constitution 101."¯
