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Walter C. Uhler is an independent scholar and freelance writer whose work has been published in numerous publications, including The Nation, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Journal of Military History, the Moscow Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He also is President of the Russian-American International Studies Association (RAISA).
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Incompetent Journalists at the Philadelphia Inquirer Slandered Joe Paterno
Like it did when it reported false assertions by the Bush administration about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the media has reported the false assertions contained in the grand jury presentment as fact and, in reaction to those false assertions, has slandered Joe Paterno.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Gingrich Wins in the "Sahara of the Bozart"
The applause of Newt Gingrich's symbolic racism by Republicans in South Carolina demonstrates that racism is alive and well in the South
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 The Grand Jury Report: Part two of "What did Joe Paterno know and when did he know it?" (4 comments)
State laws requiring mandatory reporting of child abuse severly limited Joe Paterno's options when he reported such abuse to higher officials. Still, he appears to have done more than the journalistic jackals and the mob beleive
Monday, November 21, 2011 What did Joe Paterno know and when did he know it? Part One
This article examines what Joe Paterno knew about Jerry Sandusky's alleged sexual molestations of young boys during the period from the mid-1970s to 1998.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 Lynching Joe Paterno in the Court of Public Opinion (17 comments)
Thoughtless public opinion and reckless journalism has set the stage for Joe Paterno's lynching by Penn State's Trustees
Monday, May 2, 2011 What Say Ye, Bum and Scum, Today? (1 comments)
Birthers, neocons and Bush/Cheney rogues all criticize President Obama. I ask: What Say Ye Today?
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 America's Historical Illiteracy: A Review of The Future of History, by John Lukacs (2 comments)
In an unfortunaely disorganized new book, the esteemd historian, John Lukacs looks at the sad state of historical understanding in the United States and offers prescriptions for its improvement, if not its very salvation.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Examining Jesus' Passion through the Crucible of Doubt (6 comments)
As Good Friday approaches, it is appropriate to examine the errors and contradictions that undermine the New Testament's account of the Passion narrative.
Monday, March 22, 2010 A Great Achievement for a Decent, Civilized United States of America (1 comments)
The impending Health Care law is a singulary historic accomplishment for the Obama administration and congressional Democrats. It also represents a stunning political defeat for Republicans.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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!
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!
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, 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.
