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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Is Your Drinking Water Safe, and what can you do about it?
(5 comments) The NY Times reported today that over 49 million homes in the US receive municipal water that is contaminated with pollutants at levels that far exceed Safe Drinking Water Act standards. The pollutants range from arsenic to radium to dry cleaning solvent. Some water systems were found to contain high levels of dangerous bacteria from human sewage.

Saturday, May 2, 2009
The Real Swine Flu Conspiracy
(8 comments) Both the political left and the political right have their favorite swine flu conspiracy theories concerning the origins of the H1N1 strain of influenza that has caused unnecessary panic around the world.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Dinosaur Murder Plot Thickens
(9 comments) Most non-scientists have an unrealistic view of science as some edifice of knowledge that inexorably grows larger and more precise with time and effort. In reality, science is a messy business whose practitioners are often forced to toss out long held dogma after it has become part of the public consciousness. So it is with one of the most popular beliefs about earth's history, and the fate of the dinosaurs...

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Senator Arlen Specter to Switch to Democratic Party
(14 comments) In the Republicans worst nightmare, the powerful Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter, is said to be contemplating switching to the Democratic party, or running for re-election as a Democrat in 2010.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Was it Nanotech-Thermite or Phasers that took down the WTC?
(87 comments) A recently published article in an online science journal has come to the conclusion that minute flakes of thermite have been identified in particle samples collected at the site of the World Trade Center collapse.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Is Your Computer Ready for the Confiker Virus on April 1st?
(4 comments) It will probably turn out to be as non-eventful for most computer users as Y2K was back on Jan 1st 2000, but there is reason to make sure your computer is updated before April Fool's Day tomorrow. April Fool's Day is a notorious day for hackers to unleash their work, and this year is no different.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009
A Toast to Charles Darwin on his 200th Birthday.
(5 comments) One hundred and fifty years ago the Universe was a perfect clockwork mechanism, with humankind as the mainspring around which the intricate machine was built. The heavenly bodies moved according to The Creator's plan, and all the Earth and the myriad web of life upon it were put here for our benefit. The Universe had design, it had purpose, it had a center.

Monday, December 1, 2008
Posse Comitatus, RIP
(8 comments) The Posse Comitatus Act was passed in 1878 in response to the Union Army's occupation of the Confederate states following the Civil War, and prohibited the deployment of US troops within the borders of the United States. Having never met a law or constitutional stipulation that he liked, George Bush is working hard to deploy up to 20,000 US troops within the United States borders.

Saturday, October 25, 2008
The Attack on ACORN is but One Prelude to Delegitimizing an Obama Presidency.
(6 comments) Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and his friends say that voter fraud is a massive problem this election, and that Democrats are registering untold numbers of fraudulent voters so that the Democrats can steal the election.

Thursday, October 23, 2008
Why Republicans Can't Win Elections Fairly
(1 comments) Why do Republicans have to cheat, and smear Democrats every election cycle?

Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Is McCain the Republican's Mondale?
(2 comments) Current common wisdom suggests that John McCain will be the next president of the United States, in part because he is supposedly experienced, and in part because he has "earned" the privilege through his years in the Senate. However, the parallels to the Mondale campaign of 1984 seem inevitable, and do not bode well for Mr. McCain and his vice presidential pick, Sarah Palin.

Friday, July 25, 2008
Impeachment hearings underway now.
(39 comments) John Conyers is conducting impeachment inquiries right now on CSPAN1. The Republicans are calling it a political stunt. Please consider FAXing Congressman Conyers to thank him for holding hearings at 202-225-0072.

Thursday, June 19, 2008
$165 Billion for Iraq, $2.7 Billion for the US
(4 comments) Congress is starting a debate on the budget bill, which has $165 billion in funding for the war in Iraq, but only $2.7 billion for emergency spending in the US.

Saturday, June 14, 2008
Republicans Rally Round Torture and Imprisonment without Trial
(4 comments) So what have neocon conservatives decided to rally around this election year? You guessed it, the pressing need to torture prisoners and hold them indefinitely without trial.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Iraq Rejects Bush Doctrine and US military bases
(4 comments) The Iraqi government is balking at many of the provisions in the so-called "status of forces" agreement between the Bush administration and the Iraqi parliament.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Conservatives with a Conscience?
(5 comments) Scott McClellan, ex-White House spokesperson, has written a book about his experience as resident Bush administration propagandist. His main conclusion is that the Bush administration is in permanent campaign mode, and will lie, distort and manipulate to get its political way, even when going to war against a nation that did not attack the US.

Monday, May 26, 2008
Britain Releases UFO Files
(28 comments) The day that UFO proponents have been waiting for has finally arrived. Britain has finally released all of its UFO records for the years 1978 through 2002. The results are shocking. It turns out that aliens and alien spacecraft are far more common than imagined...

Thursday, May 22, 2008
Bush's Dilemma
(3 comments) This article discusses the Catch-22 dilemma facing the Bush administration: how to repair the failing US economy while simultaneously destabilizing the Middle East for geopolitical gain.

Monday, May 19, 2008
Republican desperation pours into OEN
(31 comments) Barack Obama isn't the official candidate of the Democratic party yet, but the Republican attacks are coming rapidly, and with typical Republican venom and innuendo. The perennial "swift boat" defamation of the presumptive candidate is already in full swing.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Death Toll Due to Tainted Heparin in US Rises to 81.
(1 comments) Federal officials in the US now say that the death toll due to adverse reactions to contaminated heparin coming from China has risen to 81, whereas Chinese officials dispute that any deaths were caused by the contaminant.

Sunday, April 20, 2008
Mindwars
(1 comments) The NY Times was shocked, shocked! to learn that major news outlets have been spinning the Iraq war for 6 years using "military analysts" with direct financial connections to military contractors who were reaping huge war profits.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Come Together
(1 comments) Obamamaniacs and Clintonistas clash across nation... death toll rises. Martial law declared.

Monday, April 14, 2008
Patrolling for Trolls
(37 comments) As OpEdNews grows and matures there will be inevitable growing pains. As more and more readers come to OpEdNews.com to get information and opinions that they cannot get through the mainstream media, it is inevitable that those powers that be who disagree with our worldview will try to throw a monkey wrench into the works.

Saturday, April 12, 2008
The Coming War with Iran
(36 comments) If the Bush administration, the New York Times, and the Washington Post get their way, the US military will commence with missile and air strikes against Iranian targets before the November elections.

Sunday, March 30, 2008
"Expelled" Exposed for Hypocrisy
(2 comments) Ben Stein, perennial curmudgeon and trickle-down economic warrior, has a new movie out called "Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed" about how "big science and Darwinism" don't let important ideas like intelligent design into our classrooms.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Tainted Heparin Shines Light on Funding-Starved FDA's Inability to Protect USA Drug Supply
(5 comments) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the US agency charged with ensuring a safe food supply, and that drugs sold in the US are both safe, and effective. According to a number of reports in the Washington Post, New York Times and elsewhere, understaffing and underfunding at the FDA has made them incapable of performing those tasks adequately.

Friday, February 15, 2008
Open Letter to the Washington Post
(2 comments) What Mr. McConnell gave us was more of the same vague fear mongering, without any substantiation that spying on Americans without court order was necessary to prevent terrorist attacks.

Sunday, February 10, 2008
Ron Paul to quit race.
(16 comments) It is not official yet, but the rumors are swirling that Ron Paul will be dropping out of the presidential race. On Friday Ron Paul sent a letter to his supporters saying that he will continue to talk about his message but that he would not be continuing his quest for the presidency.

Saturday, February 2, 2008
The "Let McCain Win" Strategy
(21 comments) In the last couple of weeks, as it became more likely that John McCain would be the Republican nominee, and as Dennis Kucinich and John Edwards were tossed aside by early Democratic primary voters, a bizarre idea kept cropping up in my head. That Americans need to suffer significantly greater hardships before they will finally reject Republican political philosophy.

Friday, February 1, 2008
MoveOn.org Endorses Obama
(24 comments) The progressive group MoveOn.org has just taken a poll of its members, and asked if they had a preference for the Democratic nominee. If the vote was strongly in favor of one candidate over the other, then MoveOn promised to formally endorse the winner.

Monday, January 7, 2008
Though the mills of politics grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.
(1 comments) For the past five or six years the political winds, or the political pendulum if you will, has begun to swing back from Reagan era conservatism and trickle-down economics towards American populism...

Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Dear Ron Paul Fans...
(19 comments) Ron Paul advocates have found a home here at OpEdnews.com, where they can post their ideas and communicate with a larger audience that includes independents, liberals and progressives. My question is, do you really support your fantastic, new source of information and interaction?

Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Response to "Endorsing Ron Paul"
(224 comments) I must admit that I am extremely dismayed at the constant fawning over Ron Paul here on a progressive political discussion site. I have always thought that progressives have great difficulty in prioritizing their efforts, and the fact that we are talking about who is the best Republican candidate seems to prove that point.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Dear New Hampshire, Please Draft Al Gore
(22 comments) A small but well organized campaign staffed by volunteers is working hard to draft Al Gore in the New Hampshire Democratic primaries by write-in vote. Al Gore has not decided to run, but the Draft Gore campaign is designed to get enough write-in votes in the NH primary to convince Mr. Gore that there is massive grassroots support for him to run for president.

Sunday, December 16, 2007
Why Rational Democrats, Progressives, Independents and Leftists Should Unite Now
(6 comments) Shockingly, progressives actually all seem to agree on something for once. They agree that for the most part, corporate Democrats in Congress are complicit with Bush administration policies ranging from war in Iraq, to torture. They have let us, and the constitution, down. So what is our course of action for the next election?

Friday, October 19, 2007
"Discoverer" of DNA gets Foot in Mouth Disease
(15 comments) Dr. James Watson of the famous Watson and Crick team credited with the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule is embroiled in controversy after stating in an interview that Blacks were not as intelligent as Whites. Dr. Watson, now 79 and Chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, was quoted as saying that he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa..."

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Blackwater CEO Says His People Couldn't get a Fair Trial in Iraq
(4 comments) In a House oversight committee hearing today Erik Prince, CEO of Blackwater, said many interesting things, including that he did not want to disclose how much profit his company had made off of the American taxpayer. But one thing that struck me as particularly interesting was when he said his people couldn't get a fair trial in Iraq...

Sunday, September 30, 2007
Phasers, the World Trade Center, And Discrediting the Left
(71 comments) According to some, the World Trade Center buildings could not have collapsed as fast as they obviously did, and therefore must have been destroyed by directed energy weapons which caused "molecular dissociation" of the building materials.

Sunday, September 23, 2007
It's Sunday Morning, Do You Know Where Your Nukes Are?
(10 comments) My colleagues and I went to the NIH the other day to meet with a doctor who is interested in trying an experimental treatment for a fatal genetic disorder. Our lab has been developing the treatment for several years. The meeting was to coordinate efforts to get rapid FDA approval for testing the treatment on one afflicted baby, who will die without treatment. What does this story have to do with nukes? Bear with me.

Saturday, September 22, 2007
Plan A
(6 comments) From the beginning, George Bush and friends have insisted that there was only one plan for Iraq... Plan A. Nobody, not even Condi Rice, wanted to speculate about any Plan B. So let's go over plan A.

Thursday, September 13, 2007
Petraeus; "America Safer? Never Thought About It"
(8 comments) The turning point in the debate over Iraq will almost certainly turn out to have occurred during General Petraeus' congressional testimony when he was asked if the war in Iraq has made America safer. His answer was a very bitter pill for Republican Senators to swallow.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Paranoia Are Us
(7 comments) I have always wondered why so many Americans seem so completely disconnected from the political process, despite the fact that what politicians do can drastically affect their everyday lives. Laws that are passed determine your country's direction, the wars we fight, your taxes, your freedoms and your family's benefits as members of our society...

Saturday, September 1, 2007
The Unnatural History of the Sea
(3 comments) In his new book, "The Unnatural History of the Sea" (Island Press), Callum Roberts describes in great detail the human onslaught directed against all living creatures in the oceans, an exploitation that began in earnest almost 1000 years ago, and continues with renewed effort to this day.

Thursday, August 30, 2007
Censorship
(13 comments) I have a simple solution that will negate any need for banning words at OpEd News.

Thursday, August 16, 2007
Hey GI Joe, What You Doing With That Gun in Your Hand?
(8 comments) Bush, Cheney and Rove say that the army supports the war in Iraq, and that our soldiers are getting all they need. But one statistic you won't hear out of George Bush, Dick Cheney or Karl Rove's mouth is that the active duty soldier suicide rate has reached a 26 year high.

Monday, August 13, 2007
Bush's Brain to Exit White House
(22 comments) Karl Rove has told the Wall Street Journal that he will step down from his position as White House political adviser on August 31.

Saturday, August 4, 2007
Ronald Reagan said "Government IS the problem"
(13 comments) Twenty five years later, I'll turn it around for the sake of historical symmetry. American business IS the problem.

Thursday, August 2, 2007
Misplaced Republican Spending Priorities Part II
(20 comments) As I was getting ready to write about how the Republicans have let the country's infrastructure collapse, just like the 8-lane Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed yesterday at rush hour, I saw Stephen Crocket's article on misplaced Republican spending. This got me all riled up about wasted lives and wasted money again.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
The Third Pearl Harbor
(39 comments) There has been quite a bit of discussion lately about Bush and Cheney declaring martial law and canceling the 2008 election. I personally don't think they could pull it off, but the bits and pieces of information that have come out certainly makes the suggestion seem to have some merit. Many of these have been outlined is a recent article by Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis.

Sunday, July 29, 2007
Sunday Morning News Roundup
(1 comments) A dose of the week's news... if you can stomach it before breakfast.

Saturday, July 28, 2007
Want to Fight Back Against the Right Wing Noise Machine?
(14 comments) The Daily KOS and other progressive web sites are turning the tables on Bill O'Reilly and asking their readers to flood his advertisers with complaints about the hateful nature of his broadcasts.

Thursday, July 26, 2007
Dear Progressives: Organize or Squabble, Which Is It?
(60 comments) There is an enormous chasm forming among liberals, progressives, and leftists, and the reason why is obvious.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Fox News Controls the Political Agenda?
(5 comments) Yesterday's important article by David Swanson on John Conyers' hesitance to bring charges of impeachment before the House highlights a critical problem for progressives. Republicans spent the better part of 3 decades building a power structure that spanned local and state legislatures, TV, radio, newspapers, K Street lobbying firms, think tanks, corporations, and even the companies that manufacture our voting machines.

Monday, July 23, 2007
When Comity Turns to Tragic Comedy
(18 comments) Definition: Comity \KOM-uh-tee\, noun: 1. A state of mutual harmony, friendship, and respect, especially between or among nations or people; civility. The Democrats in Congress have a lower approval rating than George Bush despite the fact that the Democrats have not broken any laws, tortured any prisoners, or stripped away the rights of any citizens. The reason is not too surprising -

Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Why Liberals are More Dangerous than Terrorists
(17 comments) Think about it. Terrorists are an absolute necessity for furthering the Bush regime's plans. Without terrorists, they could not justify Afghanistan, Iraq, torture, illegal spying, stripping away habeus corpus rights, Guantanamo, outing Valerie Plame, or any of the other debacles they have foisted upon America and the world. There is only one thing standing it their way...

Sunday, July 15, 2007
Welcome to the New Gilded Age
(13 comments) The New York Times has a must-read article on its front page today for all of you working folk who have been patiently waiting for manna from heaven. The article describes how we have entered a new Gilded Age where government becomes irrelevant, and the philanthropy of the super-rich will take care of the teeming masses.

Thursday, July 12, 2007
Bake Sale Military
(2 comments) When Donald Rumsfeld set about to "modernize" and reduce the size of the US military, he was actually working to more fully privatize and monetize the US military. As taxpayers, what we get is less bang for the buck, literally.

Friday, June 29, 2007
Darwin Strikes Back (of molecules and men)
(33 comments) Darwin and his followers continue the battle to inject rationality into the evolution-creation debate.

Saturday, June 16, 2007
More US Personnel Killed in Iraq than Reported
(2 comments) "The U.S. military has never released complete statistics on contractor casualties or the number of attacks on privately guarded convoys. The military deleted casualty figures from reports..."...the military wanted to hide information showing that private guards were fighting and dying in large numbers because it would be perceived as bad news."

Thursday, June 7, 2007
Bye Bye Birdies
(5 comments) New study shows how global warming and habitat destruction vie for the honor of being the greatest killer of world's bird species.

Monday, June 4, 2007
Defeatocrats
(43 comments) No, I'm not talking about those rhetorical bombs lobbed by chicken-hawk Republicans at the Democrats who want to bring the troops home, I'm talking about the progressives, liberals and democrats that have already thrown up their arms in disgust, and given up after the passage of the supplementary Iraq funding bill.

Thursday, May 31, 2007
God One, Darwin Zero
(77 comments) The latest chapter in this struggle pits God against Darwin in the newly opened and lavishly adorned "Creation Museum" in Petersburg Kentucky. The museum shows how people and dinosaurs frolicked together when the earth was young and everyone was a vegetarian, about 6000 years ago.

Monday, May 21, 2007
XM Satellite Down?
XM users around the country are reporting service outage. No word from XM yet as to the problem.

Sunday, May 20, 2007
King George says "Let Them Eat Poison"
(7 comments) "Mom! This food tastes funny..." "Eat your poisoned food from China Tommy; it's good for... um... the economy".

Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Lies, Damn Lies, and False Rape Statistics
(15 comments) A rather angry and somewhat incoherent rant about rampant "misandry" on college campuses spurred both editorial concern and heated "discussion" at OpEd News yesterday.

Sunday, May 6, 2007
China IS poisoning the World... Literally
(23 comments) In a masterful piece of investigative reporting, the New York Times describes today how unregulated Chinese chemical companies have shipped tons of deadly diethylene glycol (anti-freeze) around the world mislabeled as food/pharmaceutical grade glycerin, killing thousands of people in at least seven countries.

Saturday, May 5, 2007
Are Dogs Carnivores?
(2 comments) The dog food industry would like you to believe that dogs can eat just about anything, including lots of corn mixed with low-grade meat meal, and they will do just fine. A growing number of pet advocates, veterinarians and websites have come out in recent years saying that dogs are carnivores and therefore should only be fed a diet of raw meat. So who is right? Neither, of course.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Is China Slowly Poisoning the World?
(5 comments) It is virtually impossible to reconcile the number of animals made sick or killed by the pet food contamination originating in China with the fact that the major "contaminant" does not cause kidney failure, or death. So what is sickening pets, and what about the fact that farm animal feed has also been found to be contaminated?

Monday, April 23, 2007
Don't Turn Off Your TV, Do Something!!
Rob Kall has a great article about the pitiful state of network TV news, and their sensationalist disregard for the necessity of informing citizens in a democracy. Many comments on the article suggested that all we need to do is turn off the TV. I don't watch TV news anymore, but that just isn't enough to turn this country around and get it back on track.

Monday, April 23, 2007
You Are What You Eat: The Politics of Pet Food
If you are a pet owner you probably know about the pet food recall associated with numerous pet illnesses and deaths recently. But you may not know much about the details, or the politics and economics behind the pet food debacle, or how these relate to your family's food. If you thought the food safety problem was limited to pet foods, think again. The Bush administration has gutted the FDA, and all foods are now less safe.

Monday, April 9, 2007
Why CNN Can't Tell You the Truth
(14 comments) Progressives have long wondered why CNN and other TV news media have been so incapable of focusing on real issues and coming to conclusions based on reported facts. Why do they bash Democrats and puff-piece Republicans? The answer is simple. The TV news media are gaming the system for their own profit.

Saturday, April 7, 2007
Name Change Time: From Defense to Offense Department
It is time to end the charade. If our country attacks foreign nations preemptively, then our Defense Department becomes an Offense Department, and defense spending becomes offense spending. The concept of offense spending has many disturbing connotations.

Sunday, March 11, 2007
How They Put the 'Con' in Neo-Con
(5 comments) It is no coincidence that the Republicans give lip service to so many causes while actually ignoring them, or worse, working to undermine them. It is their modus operandi. This is how con-men work.

Saturday, February 24, 2007
Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Impeachment
(3 comments) It is impossible to exaggerate the stark difference between the impeachment of President Clinton and the impending impeachment of President Bush.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
The New US Isolationism
For most of American history, the United States has been an isolationist nation which shunned foreign entanglements. Even during the Revolutionary war there was much argument over whether or not to enlist the help of the French to defeat the British. Isolationism, and non-interventionism were championed by our founding fathers.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
The Goose That Laid the Rotten Eggs
I personally am a strong proponent of impeachment, because no one should be above the law, including the president. However, there is something to be said for the counter-argument that impeachment of Bush and Cheney would be like killing the goose that laid the rotten eggs in the Republican's lap.

Friday, January 12, 2007
The No-Legged Stool
The fact of the matter is that a functional stool must have three sturdy legs. A no-legged stool ensures you will fall flat on your ass. Personally, I doubt President Bush's Iraq plan would work even if all three parts were realized, but I think just about everybody would agree that it will be a miracle if all three legs of the plan can be successfully implemented.

Friday, January 5, 2007
A "New" Way Forward
President Bush's "new way forward" in Iraq is the same as his old way, which is, of course, "stay the course", with more overextended troops being put in harms way.

Monday, December 25, 2006
When Kings Go Mad
(4 comments) King George was going mad, and his council did not know what to do with him...

Saturday, November 18, 2006
Stay the Failure
George W. Bush finally made it to Vietnam, about 37 years too late to help those of his generation who fought and died there.

Thursday, November 9, 2006
America's 12 Step Plan for Recovery (from Republican corruption and malfeasance)
(2 comments) This is just the beginning of getting our country back on track. Additional moves will be required including a much fairer tax system, and a reduced commitment to obscene military expenditures. We need to pay down the national debt while also increasing funding for biomedical research...

Saturday, October 28, 2006
Why should independents vote for Democrats this election?
(4 comments) The Republicans have gone ultra-negative on their ads this election for one simple reason. They know that negative ads turn off voters and keep them from turning out at the polls. The only hope that the Republicans have this time is a massive suppression of voter turnout.

Thursday, August 24, 2006
Debacle Iraq
What had been the Republicans big selling point in the last two elections, the fact that we were supposedly at war, is now becoming a liability. As the midterm elections approach Republicans are becoming more and more nervous that four years of war have reaped only death, destruction, and a massive military credit card bill that still remains to be paid.

Monday, August 21, 2006
Are the Republicans Ready to Rejoin the United States of America?
(1 comments) Remember when the Republicans used to be part of the United States? Where they would actually participate in honest debates in the Senate, and worked with Democrats to pass meaningful legislation? Remember when Republicans acted like statesmen, and didn't spend all day bashing Democrats as being worse than terrorists on TV? Those were the days. It seemed like we actually had a functioning country.

Friday, July 14, 2006
Where are the Conservatives with Conscience?
As Israeli bombs fall on southern Lebanon, and North Korea test launches missiles, and Iran starts up its nuclear program again, and as Iraq spirals into civil war, John Dean's new book comes out to give us a glimpse into how conservatives have gotten us in to such a mess.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Dawn of the Super Citizen
Against the backdrop of Republican-orchestrated voter suppression in Ohio and other swing states, and the Jack Abramoff and Duke Cunningham scandals, the Supreme Court has ruled again that putting limits on campaign spending is unconstitutional. In their infinite wisdom they have stated that putting limits on campaign financing violates the First Amendment rights of candidates and parties (precedent: Buckley v. Valeo, 1976).

Friday, June 23, 2006
Chicken Hawk Talk… Chicken Hawk Walk
Iraq’s National Security Adviser, Mowaffak al-Rubaie, has called for a withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. He says he believes that the Iraqi army can have the security situation well in hand by 2008, and most US troops should be able to withdraw by the end of 2007. A recent poll in Iraq showed that approximately 80% of the Iraqi people would like US troops to leave in the near term.

Friday, June 16, 2006
The Silent Wheel Gets the Shaft
Entire books have now been written on how the mainstream news media have been soft on President Bush as compared to their treatment of President Clinton. Many people, including author Eric Boehlert, have commented on the fact that the mainstream media went from attack dogs to lap dogs coincidentally with the turn of administrations.

Friday, June 9, 2006
Bush’s Way of Earning Political Capital
Two days after the 2004 election, George Bush held a news conference and declared, “I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style. That's what happened in the -- after the 2000 election, I earned some capital. I've earned capital in this election -- and I'm going to spend it”.

Monday, June 5, 2006
When the Republican Bubble Bursts
Why are rich, Republican bigwigs still so happy with the George Bush presidency when most of the rest of us have decided that we have had more than enough of it? Simple, George Bush helped make them much richer than they ever could have possibly become under an independent and responsible administration.