40 Articles

Sunday, June 21, 2009
On the DoD's "Correcting" Its Labeling of Protest as "Low-Level Terrorism"
The correction by the DoD of its original training exam that described protest as "low-level terrorism" after the ACLU protested still leaves much to be desired.

Monday, May 4, 2009
Four Times in Eight Sentences
(3 comments) Condi Rice does her best Hermann Goering impression in front of a class of fourth graders yesterday.

Saturday, March 14, 2009
If You Undermine the Foundation, What Happens to the Structure?
Obama's Justice Department has just dropped another shoe in their ongoing saga of upholding the egregious Bush White House's use of rendition, torture, and denial of habeas corpus rights, reversing what Obama promised as a candidate.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
From the Uncola to Cola: Obama Rebrands the Empire
(5 comments) Obama says detainees can challenge their detention "ultimately." Wait: he only means GITMO. This doesn't apply to Bagram prisoners. Obama: Bush curbed his abuses of power two years after 9/11. His evidence? Hayden and McConnell. Excuse me?

Monday, March 2, 2009
Britain's Secret Plans for Quelling Insurgency, and Turmoil in Ukraine
(9 comments) The British government has plans to dispatch troops to put down any insurgent actions this summer, fearing that "the middle classes... may take to the streets with the disenfranchised." The scope for contagion is very broad across Europe and in the U.S. itself. And in Ukraine, turmoil that threatens to topple the government.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Obama and the Fairness Doctrine: A Rejoinder
(3 comments) Obama's against restoring the 1949 Fairness Doctrine that was abolished under Reagan in 1987. Its abolition has made possible the right-wing media empire. Obama's opposition to the Fairness Doctrine is very, very bad and very consequential if he goes forward with that stand.

Thursday, February 5, 2009
Panetta, Holder, Obama, Torture and Nuremberg
(5 comments) Leon Panetta testified before the Senate that CIA officers who tortured prisoners should not be prosecuted because they were operating "pursuant to a legal opinion." This "legal" opinion is as weighty as fairy dust.

Thursday, January 29, 2009
Eric Holder Signals No Prosecutions of Bush War Criminals
(27 comments) Holder Gets Approved by the Judiciary Committee after assuring GOP Senator Bond that he's not going to prosecute war crimes. Say it isn't so!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Obama's Inauguration: the Hopes of a Nation, the Needs of an Empire
(6 comments) A penetrating and lyrical look at the diverse and contradictory strands concentrated in the Obama Presidency.

Monday, January 19, 2009
How Bad Has Bush Been? How Deep is the Ocean? How High is the Sky?
(32 comments) The stakes involved if Bush and Cheney's war on the law and reason are allowed to stand.

Monday, January 19, 2009
Report from DC - Stop the Wars OF Terror!
(1 comments) Breaking News from D.C.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009
"This Time" is Like Last Time, Only Worse: Israel and Gaza
(3 comments) Israel in Gaza is trying to rectify the "errors" of its last invasion of 2006 of Lebanon. Is it? Will it?

Friday, January 2, 2009
Is the GOP's "Southern Strategy" Over?
(2 comments) Paul Krugman skewers the GOP for its racist backlash strategy in "Bigger Than Bush." Is the "Southern Strategy" dead?

Wednesday, December 31, 2008
The New Year and the Past Eight: Culpability and the Bush Years
Question: What could be worse than eight years of Bush and Cheney?

Saturday, December 27, 2008
The Nature of Capital and Bob Herbert's "Stop Being Stupid"
(12 comments) New York Times' Bob Herbert's OpEd gets some of it right, but doesn't nail the sources of the problem. What is the problem?

Monday, December 15, 2008
Whither Rendition? Ex-CIA Officer Predicts Obama Will Use It
(11 comments) The New York Times is running a series on the future of the war on terror. This commentary is on Ex-CIA officer Marc Gerecht's OpEd who bases his advocacy of rendition on the phony "ticking time bomb" scenario.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Strangling Dissent, Muzzling Whistleblowers
(3 comments) Matt Miller calls for muzzling advisors and cabinet officials. Some universities are encouraging students to complain if they don't like what professors are saying. What do these two have in common?

Saturday, December 6, 2008
Slip Sliding Away and the Democrats: Is Torture Torture or Not?
(1 comments) Sen. Feinstein and Wyden are backsliding on what constitutes torture apparently at the behest of the Obama transition team. Quo Vadis Obama?

Monday, December 1, 2008
Bill Kristol Wants the Medal of Freedom for Torturers and Spies
(14 comments) What kind of world and what kind of country are we in when some of the most influential people laud torture and felonious spying on all of us?

Saturday, November 29, 2008
Pure, Unadulterated Balderdash and Poison
(5 comments) Should the Bush regime be prosecuted for torture? Jack Goldsmith says: No, No, No.

Friday, November 28, 2008
Obama's Picks: Know People by the Company They Keep
(26 comments) The flaw in Obama's defense that the "vision comes from me."

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Obama: No War Crimes Charges Against the War Criminals
(53 comments) Obama's camp signals that they will not prosecute the Bush gang for war crimes. How is this the change we need?

Monday, November 3, 2008
The Storms to Come: the Election, a November Surprise, and the Aftermath
(9 comments) Whether Obama is declared the winner or McCain steals the election, there WILL be great turmoil. What should our orientation be in the face of the storms to come?

Saturday, November 1, 2008
What Matters Now? The Bush/Cheney Legacy
(7 comments) In 2002 Cheney declared that "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter." What have the Bush/Cheney years proved? That the rule of law and the truth don't matter. What can be done in the face of this outrage and the fact that the elections promise no accountability?

Saturday, November 1, 2008
It's Happening Already
(3 comments) An attempt by the GOP to steal the 2008 election is already underway. Whether they succeed this time, the third time in a row, or not is the question.

Sunday, October 12, 2008
On Naomi Wolf's Sounding the Alarm
(14 comments) An assessment of Naomi Wolf's warning that a coup has taken place plus a warning about the 2008 Election.

Saturday, September 13, 2008
Repression in Minneapolis and Pakistan
The link between the Minneapolis City Council's Green lighting police state tactics at the RNC and the Bush White House's adopting Obama's Stance on Pakistan

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Moral Turpitude and the Democrats
(3 comments) Playing Where's Waldo at the DNC. What the Democrats Aren't and Won't Talk About.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
If Donkeys and Elephants Could Fly
(5 comments) "Take it from me, elections matter," said Gore yesterday in endorsing Obama. Funny, if that were true, then why didn't Gore, and after him, Kerry, act like elections and election results mattered, especially when they both won?

Sunday, June 8, 2008
"Change We Can Believe In"?
(32 comments) Upon securing enough delegates for the Democratic nomination, Obama made crystal clear his adoption of every single prop of the White House's justifications for attacking Iran. What is the content of Obama's promises of "change?"

Monday, June 2, 2008
Storm's a Comin': Racism, Ruling Class Fights, and Assassinations
Why is Obama being threatened with assassination, including through the veiled and repeated comments of his Democratic rival? What is going on?

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
On McClellan's Memoir and Its Applicability to Iran
(7 comments) Ex-Presidential Press Secretary Scott McClellan assuages his guilt and reveals some truths about the Bush White House and its cynical manipulation of public opinion to justify the Iraq invasion. Iraq yesterday, Iran today. This essay also addresses the GI suicides epidemic and the need to instead resist these hoary imperialist wars.

Monday, May 12, 2008
The Road Ahead and the Audacity of Moral Truth
(14 comments) Many people think the only political power the people have is through the electoral process and voting in particular. This is like buying a car that you can only steer every four years. Would you buy such a car? This essay analyzes this widespread perspective and offers another road.

Thursday, May 1, 2008
Avoiding the Abyss
(8 comments) The situation in this country is much worse today than the conditions provoking the American Revolution. The President has openly admitted to orchestrating torture and the mass media collectively yawns and won't even cover it. This essay focuses on the fundamental lie allowing them to get away with their crimes: the idea that American lives are more precious than other people's.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Hands Down
An American President admits to ABC News that he has approved torture! Congress is up in arms, the media are calling for his immediate resignation, the presidential candidates rush to condemn the president and say they would never countenance such monstrous behavior! Not!

Monday, April 14, 2008
Bush Warns of Another 9/11
(13 comments) Bush signals another 9/11 may be coming. This article exposes the perilous paradox of this presidency: all they need do is fail once again, and they will succeed in getting what they wanted all along.

Saturday, March 15, 2008
A Leitmotif on Legitimacy
How do we harness the mass sentiment - a task that's urgently needed - against the Bush White House in the face of the collusion of the rest of the leadership class? How do you constitute an alternative, competing, moral authority?

Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Orange Ribbons Protesting Torture at the Oscars!
Directors and Actors declare their opposition to torture at the Oscars. The "Declare It Now: Wear Orange to Drive Out the Bush Regime Campaign" made its appearance with nominees, winners and attendees wearing orange ribbons and orange wristbands. Photos, interviews, and commentary.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
The Op-Ed the New York Times Didn't Run
Men in White Coats: Why America under Bush and Cheney is the Milgram Experiment Writ Large.

Monday, January 7, 2008
An Elections Allegory and Some Relevant History
(6 comments) Why the Elections Campaign Is A Weapon of Mass Distraction