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Sunday, June 14, 2009
Igor Sutyagin and I. F. Stone: Spies?
(1 comments) Neither Igor Sutyagin nor I. F. Stone were spies, notwithstanding the former's incarceration in Russia and the smearing of the latter in a new book, Spies.

Monday, March 2, 2009
Last Rites for the United States, and Himself
(1 comments) A review of John Lukacs' Last Rites (and his "grand truth" about the world)

Thursday, January 15, 2009
Legacies? How About "Good Riddance to the Swine?"
(2 comments) Tony Auth's political cartoon of 14 January is worth a thousand words about the political swine, George Bush and Dick Cheney. They deserve to be cast on the trash heap of history

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Screwing Philadelphia's Poor While Stroking Wall Street's Elite
(1 comments) While lavishing billions on Wall Street, the Bush administration has decided to kill Philadelphia's highly regarded school lunch program.

Thursday, September 11, 2008
By Playing its Iraq Card, Russia Exposes McCain's Poor National Security Judgment
(4 comments) The Taliban in Afghanistan, al Qaeda in Pakistan and, now, the Russians in Georgia, have exposed the strategic stupidity of McCain's obsession with keeping most of America's military forces tied down in Iraq. One can only speculate which country will next play the Iraq card to America's detriment.

Monday, July 21, 2008
Barack in Iraq
(3 comments) Having foolishly raised expectations to justify their invasion of Iraq, Bush and McCain have their reputations at stake. Which is why they cannot define success there as Barack Obama has defined it and why they have neither a strategy for success nor strategy for leaving Iraq. All they have is the surge (a mere tactic) and hope for a miracle.

Monday, June 30, 2008
Barack Obama: Don't go "Wobbly" on Iraq!
(3 comments) Recent flip-flops by Barack Obama bring into question his campaign pledge to "immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq ...and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months" of his inaugeration. Obama supporters need to assure that he doesn't go wobbly on that pledge.

Thursday, June 12, 2008
Addressing America's "Deeper Malignancies"
(1 comments) According to Condoleezza Rice, the Bush administration's goal after September 11 was to address the deeper malignancies of the Middle East. Given America's illegal; immoral invasion of Iraq, a more pressing question is: "When will the rest of the world unite to "address the deeper malignancies" of the United States?

Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Scott McClellan's Residual Affection for Bush (the Psychopath?)
One shouldn't be surprised to learn that Bush held fast to the possibility of achieving greatness through war. Scott McClellan has confirmed Bush's opinion that "only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness."

Thursday, May 8, 2008
Is the United States of America Addicted to War?
(4 comments) Based upon both the number of wars involving America, as well as the number of its unnecessary wars, one must ask whether America is addicted to war.

Monday, May 5, 2008
America's Occupation Trumps the "Surge" and Petraeus' Counterinsurgency Manual
(1 comments) As Professor Truman Cross has concluded: It is a foolish and disastrous assumption that the government of the United States should learn how to fight anti-colonial wars against peoples who will keep fighting until the Americans and all other foreigners are gone--and then get down to the business of fighting for whatever territory is up for grabs.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
To Understand Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Recall Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(19 comments) Fortunately Rev. Wright does not live in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Soviet Union of the early 1970s. Otherwise he would have found himself banished from the country, not just the political campaign, for the moral thunderbolts he hurled at the state.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
An Ersatz Christian Smears Obama with a Willie Horton-type Ad
Floyd Brown's dishonest smear of Barack Obama excludes all the details that would falsify his Willie Horton-type ad.

Thursday, April 17, 2008
Allegations of "Elitism" Also Brought Down America's Founding Fathers
(2 comments) Allegations of "elitism" against America's Founding Fathers sent the country down the path of commerce and personal gain. Similar attacks on Barack Obama appear designed to defend this questionable status quo.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
"Symbolic Racism" and the "US of KKK A"
My brief, two-part, introduction to "Racism 101" should persuade you that Rev. Jeremiah Wright's utterance about present-day racism is no more outrageous than are the smug, self-serving beliefs of symbolic racists who maintain that "discrimination is no longer an obstacle for blacks, that their current lack of upward social mobility is caused by their unwillingness to work hard, that the

Thursday, March 27, 2008
Hannity, Clinton, Obama, Rev. Wright and "Racism 101"
Rev. Jeremiah Wright had nothing on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Thomas Jefferson when he responded to America's despicable history of slavery and racism by proclaiming "God Damn America."

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
My Protest to the Times: "Effete Warmonger Kristol/Sanitizing Five Years in Iraq"
(1 comments) William Kristol committed another sourcing blunder when accusing Barack Obama. Worse, the Times has attempted to shift legitimate opinion toward acceptance of a large and permanent force in the Middle East.

Friday, March 14, 2008
Bacon's Rebellion and Hillary's Wink and a Nod to Pennsylvania's "Racially Sensitive" Voters
(2 comments) Controlling lower- and working-class whites through appeals to their "racial sensitivities" has a long, sordid history in America. It should have no place in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary campaign.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The Myth of McCain's Impeccable National Security Credentials
(1 comments) As long as the mainstream news media continue to fawn over John McCain and portray his interventionism not as the radicalism it is, but as evidence of strong credibility on national security, they enhance his chances of becoming President and, thus, the chances of more Americans perishing needlessly on foreign soil.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Obama's Populism versus McCain's Free Trade
(1 comments) Even before the ethics questions just raised by the New York Times, John McCain was hardly the presidential candidate to roll back widespread corporate socialism.

Thursday, February 7, 2008
The Republican's Chernenko versus the Democrat's Gorbachevs
(3 comments) President Reagan and, now, John McCain have received a "pass" that Americans never granted the gerontocrats running the Soviet Union

Saturday, February 2, 2008
Were Baghdad's Female Suicide Bombers Mentally Retarded?
(2 comments) The Bush administration, their boot-lickers in the mainstream news media and its quislings in Iraq have attempted to dupe Americans yet again.

Monday, January 28, 2008
The Psychopath's "State of the Union": Disguising America's Deep Humiliation
(1 comments) "Nobody wants to be dependent on an America that talks loudly about how indispensable it is, yet stages coups, makes threats, overthrows governments, democratic or not, and kills many of the world's poorest people, to the amusement of some generals." [pp. 388-89]. Such is the state of our union.

Thursday, January 17, 2008
For Bush and McCain, Iraqis are merely "ropes for American dirty laundry"
(1 comments) Like the quislings in the Green Zone that the Bush administration installed via so-called "democratic elections," the Awakening forces are coming to be seen as mere "ropes for American dirty laundry." Not just the dirty laundry of Bush's sordid invasion and McCain's myopic cheerleading, but also the dirty laundry of American Exceptionalism.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
"Mission Accomplished," "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," and now "There will be a signed peace treaty..."
(4 comments) Bush's prediction -- "There will be a signed peace treaty by the time I leave office." -- is pure bullshit. Bullshit that ranks right up there with "Mission Accomplished," and "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

Sunday, December 30, 2007
William Kristol, the New York Times and Nazi Gunter d'Alquen
(12 comments) In post-war Germany, the former editor of the Nazi paper, Das Schwarze Korps, was put on trial and convicted for his earlier pro-war propaganda. In Bush's Amerika, a propagandist for our illegal, immoral war against Iraq lands a job at the New York Times.

Thursday, December 20, 2007
Truth, Lies, Errors and Bullshit About Iraq and Iran
(3 comments) The thought provoking book, On Bullshit, by Professor Emeritus Harry G. Frankfurt provides a perspective from which to evaluate bullshit flung by the Bush administration, the neocons and the mainstream media.

Sunday, December 9, 2007
Philadelphia Inquirer Editor Gushes over Bush, Columnist Panders to Anti-Immigration Crowd
(4 comments) Is the Commentary Page of the Philadelphia Inquirer edited and overstaffed by right-wing morons?

Monday, December 3, 2007
Press Secretary Dana Perino: Spinning Lies for the Butcher of Baghdad
(4 comments) It was Ms. Perino, who, on November 30th, placed her own humanity in a lock box when she offered journalist Helen Thomas the following lie: "To suggest that we, the United States, are killing innocent people is just absurd and very offensive."

Sunday, November 25, 2007
The Global Impact of Bush's War Crimes in Iraq: King Midas in Reverse
(1 comments) Were we merely limiting ourselves to the catastrophes that has bedeviled both the United States and Iraq as a consequence of Bush's war, we'd be forced to conclude that Bush's national security policy has the touch of King Midas in reverse. Unfortunately, as serious pre-war scholars and critics feared and predicted, Bush's King Midas touch in reverse has extended far beyond Iraq and the United States.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Bush's Campaign of Lies to Conceal War Crimes
(1 comments) Bush's lies about Iraq leading to war with Iraq and lies about torture leading to the continuation of torture prompt logical people around the world to suspect that his lies about Iran virtually guarantee an American attack.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Journalistic Weeds Blighting America's Political Landscape
When Ben Stein argues that ethical investors must not shun military contractors, he emulates the journalistic weeds, such as "crabgrass" Bill O'Reilly, "pigweed" Rush Limbaugh and "creeping jenny" Ann Coulter, who have blighted America's political landscape.

Friday, September 28, 2007
Certain Americans
(3 comments) Certain Americans spoil the country's political landscape, but are courted by cynical Republicans and molified by condescending feckless Democrats. Thus, our war without end.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Bringing Die-hard War Supporters and Feckless War Opponents to Their Knees
(8 comments) In light of the posturing surround the testimony by General Petraeus, now is the time to stop the war by executing a nation-wide strike.

Thursday, September 6, 2007
The "Surge" Without the Bush/Petraeus Smoke and Mirrors
The evidence demonstrates that Bush's surge is a failure both politically and militarily.

Sunday, August 26, 2007
Iraq, Iran and the Moral Rot Infecting the Soul of America
Walter Lippmann said it best: "No moral code, as such, will enable [a person] to know whether he is exercising his moral faculties on a real and an important event. For effective virture, as socrates pointed out long ago, is knowledge; and a code of right and wrong must await upon a perception of the true and false."

Monday, August 20, 2007
Blaming All Americans for Bush's Debacle in Iraq?
(13 comments) In an otherwise thoughtful article about Bush's debacle in Iraq, former Assistant Secretary of State James Dobbins recommends that "Above all, Americans should accept that the entire nation has, to one degree or another, failed in Iraq."

Friday, August 10, 2007
Lying Again, This Time About Iran's Nuclear Program
(4 comments) To his long list of lies about public matters, itself an impeachable offence, Presdient Bush recently added a new lie -- about Iran's nuclear program.

Sunday, August 5, 2007
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and America's Immoral Addiction to Nuclear Weapons
(3 comments) "On at least 30 occasions since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, every US president has prepared and/or threatened to initiate nuclear war during international crises, confrontations, and wars -- primarily in the Third World."

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
The "Protocol of the Elders of American Neoconservatism" and the Blood of American Soldiers
America's Neoconservatives have been eager to shed American military blood, but not their own, for the sake of America's empire, the world's oil and for Israel. It's time to assign them a new "Protocol" that avoids slandering America's Jews.

Thursday, July 26, 2007
Bush's Missile Defense vs. My Erector Set
My erector set will provide but a slightly less reliable missle defense system than the totally unworkable Ground-based Midcourse Defense system currently deployed by the Bush administration -- but at a greatly reduced cost!

Monday, July 16, 2007
Does the Bush Administration Support the Troops? Yes, Like a Noose Supports a Hanging Man!
(2 comments) Bush appears to be quite willing to sacrifice more lives in order to be able to say that Iraq wasn't lost during his presidency.

Thursday, July 12, 2007
Earth to Bush: "The Chaos in Iraq You Now Decry was Caused By You!"
(4 comments) President Bush retold three lies during his July 12th press conference devoted to the Interim Benchmark Assessment Report. He also had the gall to complain about the chaos al Qaida is causing in Iraq!

Monday, July 9, 2007
The Bush/Cheney Holocaust in Iraq, Part Three: Desperation unto Bombing Iran?
The cowardly Bush/Cheney regime is getting desperate. Will it double down on its holocaust in Iraq by bombing Iran?

Friday, June 29, 2007
The Bush/Cheney Holocaust in Iraq, Part Two: Incompetence
(3 comments) The criminality and immorality of the Bush/Cheney regime's invasion of Iraq were compounded by the incompetence with which the invasion and occupation were conducted.

Monday, June 18, 2007
The Bush/Cheney Holocaust in Iraq: Criminality, Immorality, Incompetence and Desperation
(3 comments) The two-part article details up to the moment evidence concerning the criminality, immorality, incompetence and, now, desperation, of Bush/Cheney's war in Iraq.

Thursday, June 7, 2007
Missile Defense: Putin Rescues Bush from Yet Another "Foolish Thing Poorly Done"
(1 comments) Don't bet, however, that President Bush will take President Putin up on his offer to make Azerbaijan's radar site available for missile defense (in place of sites in the Czech Republic and Poland).

Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Foxbats over Dimona: Revisionist History or Marvelous (Zionist) Fantasy?
(2 comments) Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez allege that the Soviet Union instigated the crisis that led to the Six-Day War of 1967

Thursday, May 31, 2007
My Invitation to "The President's Dinner," Warmonger Podhoretz and Absurd Condi Rice
Three absurdities involving lying warmongers of which I've become aware

Sunday, May 13, 2007
Inciting a New Cold War: Hypocritical U.S. Views about Russia's Democracy
(2 comments) U.S. hypocrisy is fueling a new Cold War

Monday, May 7, 2007
George Kennan vs. Bush, Cheney, Rove, Kristol, Limbaugh, O'Reilly and Coulter
In 1953, George Kennan delivered a courageous speech at the Univeristy of Notre Dame, which challenged the high flying McCarthyites. It remains equally applicable when confronting Bush, Cheney, Rove, the Neocons and the media McCarthyites today.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
John Lukacs on George Kennan: The Conscience of America
The many ways in which George Kennan personified the best of America

Monday, April 16, 2007
After All, It's President George W. Bush: So "Attention Must Be Paid!"
(3 comments) Like Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman," Americans no longer buy what Bush is selling

Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Bush/Cheney: Holding on by the Skin of Their Teeth
The "surge" is designed to put off defeat in Iraq until after the Bush administration is safely out of offfice.

Monday, April 2, 2007
Stinky Inky, Part VI: Carlin Romano's April Fools' Joke on His Philadelphia Inquirer Readers
Mr. Romano attempts to trick his readers into believing that he has written a review of Tom Stoppard's play, The Coast of Utopia, that will "spur the conversation as Tony time approaches."

Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Part Two: Iraq, Bush's God-Emboldened Narcissism and Parasitic Militarism
America's parasitic militarism is a more enduring threat to the world than President Bush's God-emboldened narcissism.

Sunday, March 18, 2007
Iraq, Bush's God-Emboldened Narcissism and Parasitic Militarism
(2 comments) Bush's God-emboldened narcissism and four years in Iraq

Tuesday, March 6, 2007
When Does Opposition to Israel or the Israel Lobby Indicate Anti-Semitism?
Further consideration of Stanley Fish's recent lamentations about Israel, Iraq and anti-Semitism.

Thursday, March 1, 2007
A Pig Looking at a Watch: Assessing Iran's Nuclear Program

Thursday, February 15, 2007
Israel's Bomb, Iran's Pursuit of the Bomb and U.S. War Preparations (Part Three)
(1 comments) The Bush administration's supposed concern about Iran's nuclear program masks its real goal: regime change.

Saturday, February 10, 2007
Yesterday's Inspector General's Report About Feith's "Gestapo Office"
(2 comments) Both the Inspector General and the mainstream news media gave a very superficial account of the activites performed by Feith's "Gestapo Office."

Thursday, February 8, 2007
Israel's Bomb, Iran's Pursuit of the Bomb and U.S. War Preparations (Part Two)
(1 comments) Much like Iran appears to be doing today, Israel engaged in lies and deceit to become a nuclear power. But America's reaction then was far more forgiving than it is today.

Sunday, February 4, 2007
Israel's Bomb, Iran's Pursuit of the Bomb and U.S. War Preparations (Part One)
Part One of a three-part article about the hypocrisy,lies and deceit surrounding the bomb in the U.S., Israel and Iran

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Supporting the Troops? Senator Webb Puts Bush in the Cross-hairs
(1 comments) Senator Webb asserts that President Bush's reckless invasion of Iraq is opposed by America's military and has needlessly harmed America's military

Sunday, January 21, 2007
Stinky Inky, Part V: Dinesh D'Souza and the Smatterers at the Philadelphia Inquirer
By publishing D'Souza's nonsense, the Philadelphia Inquirer promotes mental closure.

Thursday, January 18, 2007
Hoover Institution Hack from Ann Coulter's School of History Slimes "Left" for 9/11
Dinesh D'Souza's attack on the "Left" is riddled with errors and all-too-convenient omissions, suggesting both ignorance and fraud.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
FOX News Fascist, Gretchen Carlson, Swift-boats Sen. Kennedy's Opposition to Bush's "Surge"
(3 comments) FOX News continues to cultivate fascist "reporters" like potted plants.

Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Bringing the "Perps," Bush and Cheney, to Justice
(3 comments) An opinion piece about Elizabeth de la Vega's recent book, U.S. v. Bush.

Thursday, December 21, 2006
Put on the Spot, Our Punk President Lies Yet Again
(5 comments) President Bush is an inveterate liar whose behavior fits the classical definition of a punk.

Sunday, December 10, 2006
The South Continues to "Make" Race: Will the Supreme Court Follow?
(1 comments) "Symbolic racism" is the latest construction by the South and is supported by the Republican party. Will the Supreme Court fall for it?

Sunday, December 3, 2006
The Times Continues to Understate the Influence of Feith's "Gestapo Office" in the Run-up to War
The New York Times understates the Bush administration's fraudulent link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, which played a major role in persuading Americans to support the invasion of Iraq.

Sunday, November 26, 2006
Militarist Joshua Muravchik: Stoking the Conflagration in the Middle East
Muravchik advocates military solutions in the Middle East that only will further inflame the region.

Friday, November 24, 2006
Book Review: The Kremlin and the High Command: Presidential Impact on the Russian Military from Gorbachev to Putin
(1 comments) Presidential Impact on the Russian Military from Gorbachev to Putin

Thursday, November 23, 2006
Giving Thanks? Yes, Thanking God that I'm Not Like Them!
(1 comments) There, but for the grace of God, go I

Sunday, November 5, 2006
Saddam's Conviction: One War Criminal Down, Three to Go (Bush, Cheney and Blair)
(2 comments) Justice for Saddam Hussein now must be followed by investigations and justice for the perpetrators of the illegal, immoral invasion of Iraq

Friday, November 3, 2006
The Privilege of Unaccountable Elitism: The Real Insult to Our Troops
Republicans slam Senator Kerry for his elitist insult of our troops, conveniently overlooking their even more egregious elitist insults.

Sunday, October 29, 2006
An Open Letter to Congresswoman Pelosi: Please Reconsider Your Pledge to Take Impeachment "off the Table"
(2 comments) Why impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney Needs to Remain on the Democrat's Agenda

Thursday, October 12, 2006
Blaming Others First: Warmongering and the "Pseudo-environment" of Warped American Exceptionalism

Friday, September 29, 2006
Confronting the "Cut and Run" Slander of Bush's Praetorian Guard
(3 comments) The implications of the latest NIE for the 'cut and run" slander of Republicans

Sunday, September 24, 2006
The "Stinky Inky," Part IV: More Incompetence, Bias and Dishonesty at the Philadelphia Inquirer?
Two articles in its September 23, 2006 edition highlight the continuous deterioration of journalistic standards at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Crackpot Christianity, Part III: Bush and the Third Great Awakening
(2 comments) Crackpot Christianity, as represented by Messrs. Falwell, Robertson, Dobson and Kennedy has suffered a steep intellectual decline since the days of Christian theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.

Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Deceit About Iraq: "Things Related and Not"
A review essay of Hitting First: Preventive Force in U.S. Security Policy

Sunday, August 27, 2006
Crackpot Christians Blame Darwin for Hitler
(2 comments) Crackpot Christianity: Part Two A commentary on the Coral Ridge Hour's show, Darwin's Deadly Legacy.

Friday, August 18, 2006
Bush's Iraq Quagmire: "Lions Led By Donkeys"

Saturday, August 5, 2006
Crackpot Christianity and America's Current Moral Degeneration
(13 comments) The religious right's crackpot Christianity and America's current moral degeneration

Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Senator Rick Santorum: Poster Boy for Obnoxious and Desperate Conservatism
(1 comments) Santorum revalidates the timeless truth spoken by Samuel Johnson: "Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrel." Santorum knows even less about foreign affairs and national security than he does about the traditional family - thus validating Jose Ortega y Gasset's timeless truth about the "learned ignoramus."