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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).

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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 29, 2011
The Grand Jury Report: Part two of "What did Joe Paterno know and when did he know it?" 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
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Three False Assertions by the Grand Jury turned the Press and Public against Joe Paterno and Penn State Three misrepresentations in the grand jury summary of what Mike McQueary actually saw and actually reported to Joe Paterno inflamed both the press and the public against Joe Paterno and Penn State.
(15 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, December 11, 2011
New, Previously Suppressed Grand Jury Testimony and Joe Paterno: Part four of "What did Joe Paterno know and when... New, previously suppressed testimony by Dr. Jonathon Dranov further discredits the grand jury report that was uncritically used by the news media and, then, the incited mob pressure Penn State's board of trustees to throw Joe Paterno under the bus.
SHARE More Sharing        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.
SHARE More Sharing        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.
(24 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Hitting Penn State's Board of Trustees Where it Hurts The movement to peacefully topple Penn State's Board of Trustees has gained momentum, especially with the announcement of a "Rally for Resignation" to take place on Sept. 15th. Anorther way to get the attention of the BOT is to threaten to change previous plans to contribute to the university.
(67 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 1, 2012
Did Mike McQueary Commit Perjury? There's a material difference in Mike McQueary's sworn testimony before his email of November 15, 2011 was published and after it was published. The difference might constitute perjury.
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 14, 2012
BIG LIES in the Grand Jury and Freeh Reports, a New Poll and "Framing Paterno" A new poll commissioned by John Ziegler of "Framing Paterno" demonstrates the pervasive ignorance of Americans, when it comes to the facts implicating Joe Paterno in the Sandusky scandal
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(38 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 6, 2014
Did Right-Wing Protesters Hire Snipers to Kill Protesters and Police at Maidan? Evidence indicates that protesters in Ukraine hired snipers whose murders could be blamed on the government of Viktor Yanukovych. Rather than rushing to recognize such people as the new rulers in Ukraine, the US, EU and Russia must investigate. In the process, Vladimir Putin's decision to send troops to the Crimea might be seen in a new light.
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(25 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 1, 2020
America's White Christian Churches Remain Bastions of White Supremacy This is an expanded book review of, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity.
(17 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Lynching Joe Paterno in the Court of Public Opinion Thoughtless public opinion and reckless journalism has set the stage for Joe Paterno's lynching by Penn State's Trustees
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 19, 2012
The Freeh Report and Joe Paterno The Philadelphia Inquirer continued its record of shoddy journalism with its coverage of the Freeh Report
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Republicans Court the "White Trash" Vote in Alabama and Mississippi The so-called moral and religious superiority of Christians in the American South is contradicted by the many social pathologies that plague that region
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 22, 2012
Joseph Vincent Paterno Died Today, but his "Grand Experiment" Lives On! Joe Paterno had a great impact on my life and on the lives of the all the people who really knew what he was about.
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(63 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Seeking the Truth about Ukraine Richard Sakwa has written the most judicious and comprehensive book about the recent events in Ukraine to date.
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(72 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, May 9, 2015
Seventy Years after the "Great Patriotic War:" "Let No One Forget, Let Nothing Be Forgotten" Based upon a recent study by David Stahel, it now appears that Nazi Germany lost World War II as early as December 1941, some 41 kilometers short of Moscow.
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(52 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 9, 2013
The Historical Jesus and New Testament Rubbish: Part Two: Jesus' Transformation into Christ (God's Begotten Son) In part two of my review of Zealot, by Reza Aslan and Christian Beginnings, by Geza Vermes, I address the conflict between Paul and Jesus' brother James as well as the four contradictory explanations in the New Testament concerning when Jesus became Christ.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 6, 2011
DeLillo's Jesuit Priest, the Media Jackals, the Incited Mob and Joe Paterno: Part three of "What did Joe Paterno know .. Condemning Joe Paterno on the basis of the grand jury report not only is a failure of what Socrates called effective virtue, it also is unethical, according to the authors of the book, Blind Spots.
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(16 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 7, 2013
The Historical Jesus and New Testament Rubbish: Part One: The Road to Golgotha This is part one of a review essay of two books devoted to the subject of the historical Jesus
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Sergei Vasilievich Utechin's "You Tube" Reflections on Isaiah Berlin 1n 1997 Walter C. Uhler and George Enteen interviewed Russian historian S.V. Utechin. In the initial interview Utechin discussed his encounters with the reknowned philosopher Isaiah Berlin. Now, those discusiions hav been published on You Tube
(23 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 27, 2012
Another Media Clown Show Stupifies Minds About Penn State Three days ago, Philadelphia's NBC TV 10 6:00 PM News aired a broadcast, actually a clown show under the guise of a news report, about Penn State that could not but further stupify the public about the Sandusky scandal.
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 4, 2012
Part One: Making it Up as We Go Along: Religion in Human Evolution Part One examines human evolution as the basis for examinging the origins and evolution of religion
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 1, 2014
Military Victories by Ukraine's Separatists Cause Heads to Explode at the New York Times The New York Times, like much of the knee-jerk anti-Russia West, is in a panic, due to a string of victories by the separatists in Eastern Ukraine. As a consequence, cunning, deceit and derangement have become substitutes for responsible journalism.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 26, 2012
My Letter to Jerry Sandusky's Lawyer and His Grateful Response Jerry Sandusky's lawyer greatly appreciated the news that the grand jury report contained false assertions about his client.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 6, 2011
The Debt Ceiling Debacle, S&P's Credit Downgrade and "Boobus Americanus" The ignorant American public, more so than the reckless Tea Party Republicans, are largely responsible for the debt ceiling debacle and the S&P credit downgrade
(17 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Why Bush, Cheney and the Neocons Failed to Protect America from al-Qaeda's Vicious Attacks Urgency about regime change in Iraq, rather than urgency about intelligence indicating an imminent al-Qaeda attack explains the failure of Bush, Cheney and the neocons to adequately prepare for 9/11.
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(31 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 18, 2015
The New York Times Sinks to a New Journalistic Low in its Reporting on Ukraine Either out of Russophobic deceit or incompetence, the Times seems determined to deny that murders by snipers were committed by anti-government protesters, probably with the help of the CIA, that sparked the coup in Kiev that overturned Viktor Yanukovych's democratically elected government.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 23, 2012
The Tide Begins to Turn on the Sandusky Scandal With the counteroffensive launched by former Penn State President Graham Spanier and his laywers yesterday, the tide has begun to turn in the Sandusky scandal. John Ziegler's hilarious animation -- which deserves to go viral -- shows just how absurd Freeh's allegation of a cover-up by Paterno et. al. actually is.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 12, 2011
Centuries of Lying in the Name of Christianity: A Review of Forged (by Bart D. Ehrman) In his new book, Forged, Professor Bart Ehrman critically examines the New Testament and finds that Christians have not only forged specific verses but also entire books within that holy book.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 20, 2007
Truth, Lies, Errors and Bullshit About Iraq and Iran 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.
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(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 28, 2020
America's Caste System and Trump's Aggrieved White Working Class Supporters This is a review essay about Isabel Wilkerson's book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Examining Jesus' Passion through the Crucible of Doubt As Good Friday approaches, it is appropriate to examine the errors and contradictions that undermine the New Testament's account of the Passion narrative.
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 14, 2014
The Hypocritical United States of Amnesia and Russia Due to its amnesia, Americans forget the many violations of national sovereignty committed by their government, as well as NATO's and the EU's relentless expansionism that now threatens to encircle Russia. All they see, alas, is Putin's interference in the Crimea.
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(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 3, 2022
The Best Analysis Yet About the War in Ukraine As a long-time student of Russia, I've attached an article from today's Johnson's Russia List that most accurately captures the origin and current situation in Russia's war against Ukraine. The author argues that the war began on February 18th, not with Russia's invasion on February 24th.
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(38 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 30, 2015
Appropriating Russia's History to Bolster Ukrainian Nationalism The celebrations in Moscow and Kiev of the one thousand year anniversary of the death of Prince Vladimir (who brought Christianity to Russia)provided an occasion to note how Ukraine's leaders appropriate Russia's history to bolster Ukrainian nationalism.
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, December 30, 2007
William Kristol, the New York Times and Nazi Gunter d'Alquen 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.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 10, 2020
Destroying Our Country From Within: Trump's Assault on America (Part three: The Pandemic) Part three of my review of Mary Trump's book attempts to substantiate her suspicion that uncle Donald possesses a "dependent personality disorder." Its hallmarks include an inability to make decisions, refusal to take responsibility, discomfort with being alone, and the going to extreme lengths to obtain support from others.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 17, 2011
Yesterday's Preliminary Hearing: What We Learned Concerning Joe Paterno (Part five of "What did Joe Paterno know ... Yesterday the minor, but important, role played by Joe Paterno in reporting an allegation of sexual assault by former coach, Jerry Sandusky, became a bit clearer.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 5, 2012
Thinking about Racism as the Election Draws Near As recent survey by three reputable scholars found that Republicans far exceed Democrats or Independents when tested for indications of explicit antiblack racism. But, then, racism and conservatism have long been linked in American history.
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Why Russia Probably will not Bomb Kiev's Forces in Eastern Ukraine Although President George H. W. Bush set a precedent when he ordered the bombing of Panama, which he justified in part by claiming a need to protect the lives of Americans living there, it is unlikely that President Putin will bomb Kiev's coup regime forces in eastern Ukraine to protect the many Russians living there. Russia is not the mad bomber that America has become.
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SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 25, 2014
The West's Hysterical Pseudo-Environment, Operation RYAN, and World War III The world nearly suffered a preemptive nuclear attack by the Soviet Union in 1983, after incessant hostile rhetoric by the U.S. reached its peak with the downing of KAL-007. It convinced Soviet leaders that U.S-NATO exercise in November was a cover for an actual preemptive nuclear strike.
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Destroying Our Country From Within: Trump's Assault on America (Part One) This is part one of a three part review of Mary Trump's book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. It provides concrete evidence to support Ms. Trump's claims about Donald's sociopathy.
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SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 21, 2023
Our Supine News Media, Ukraine, And Post-Cold War American Aggression This article examines the failure of America's news media to fully and accurately report on the war in Ukraine. It also examines an article in Harper's Magazine titled, Why are we in Ukraine?
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(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 2, 2020
Destroying Our Country From Within: Trump's Assault on America (Part Two) This is part two of my review of Mary Trump's book. Its focus is on substantiating Ms. Trump's observation of uncle Donald's learning disability, as well as his refusal to learn whenever the presentation of new information threatens to humiliate him.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 26, 2011
America's Historical Illiteracy: A Review of The Future of History, by John Lukacs 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.
(36 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 27, 2012
The Freeh Report, Joe Paterno and NCAA Sanctions The facts in the Freeh Report concerning the investigation of Jerry Sandusky in 1998do not support the irresponsible conclusions reached by the authors of that report.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 22, 2013
American Militarism: Part One (Rachel Maddow) On April 14th Rachel Maddow spoke at the University of Pennsylvania to describe and decry the many reasons why war has become so extremely easy to initiate in the United States.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 21, 2012
Mendacious Mitt Politicizes Benghazi As he demonstrated by politicizing the tragedy in Benghazi, Mitt Romney shares George W. Bush's contempt for facts and truth. That's why he shouldn't be elected to become our next Commander in Chief
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Part Two: The Propaganda War over Ukraine: The New York Times vs. Russia's "White Book" (December 2013) Incompetent or dishonest reporting by the Times in December 2013 caused readers to miss the violence perpetrated by neo-Nazis at Maidan and, thus, believe that a legitimate revolution was occurring, rather than an illegal coup.
SHARE More Sharing        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
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 5, 2007
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and America's Immoral Addiction to Nuclear Weapons "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."
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 19, 2014
Who's Responsible for Shooting Down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17? Although the mainstream news media remains absorbed in the anti-Russia, anti-separatist narrative propagated by the White House, less than bullet-proof evidence has emerged to indicate that the shoot down of Flight MH17 was a false flag operation.
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(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Trump, Hannity, and America's Long National Nightmare Part two of my review of Brian Stelter's new book, titled, HOAX: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth, turns its attention to the reciprocal brown nosing by Trump and Sean Hannity to energize the cult supporting both Trump and Fox News -- to America's detriment.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 15, 2011
(A Review of) The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice, by Peter Corning Americans live in a very unfair society. Peter Corning offers reasons and remedies for improving our situation
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 17, 2008
Allegations of "Elitism" Also Brought Down America's Founding Fathers 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.
SHARE More Sharing        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.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 12, 2020
My Invitation to Let President Trump Know What I Think of Him Today, I -- a liberal Democrat -- was invited to complete a fundraising poll inquiring as to what I think about President Trump. It reminded me of the time when Republicans made the mistake of inviting me to George W. Bush's President's Dinner in 2007. In both instances, I was given a direct line to campaign officials for stating what was on my mind.
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SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 7, 2022
How Rigged "Free Markets" Shackle and Plunder Most Americans Part One examines how the collapse of robber-baron capitalism opened the door for the New Deal reforms that became ensconced as a political order
SHARE More Sharing        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
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 5, 2006
Crackpot Christianity and America's Current Moral Degeneration The religious right's crackpot Christianity and America's current moral degeneration
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 30, 2012
Former Chairmen of Penn State's Faculty Senate Repudiate the Freeh Report and Decry Unjust NCAA Sanctions Former charimen of Penn State's Faculty Senate have issued a statement repudiating the Freeh Report and the NCAA sanctions based upon it.
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SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 26, 2022
Flawed Estimates of Russian and Ukrainian Military Casualties The "fog of war" in Ukraine has been compounded by biased reporting about military casualty rates in Russia and Ukraine, rendering a realistic assessment of he state of the war there problematic.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 12, 2012
Fox News, Benghazi and President Reagan Fox News deals in misinformation and lies. It misled it viewers during the election campaign and it is misleading them on Benghazi. What they won't do, however, is compare the attack on Benghazi with the three attacks on the U.S. in Beirut -- in 18 months! -- during President Reagan's watch.
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SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Part One: The Propaganda War over Ukraine: The New York Times vs. Russia's "White Book" As early as 28 November 2013, the New York Times decided to launch a propaganda campaign against Russia for its "strong-arm tactics" against Ukraine. It has continued to this day.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Examining the Flashpoints in Ukraine The crisis in Ukraine, in the final analysis, boils down to Russia's willingness to go to war rather than allow NATO forces and weapons in its back yard. Americans should understand, given that their leaders once threatened nuclear war over the issue of Russian missiles in Cuba.
SHARE More Sharing        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
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 15, 2009
Legacies? How About "Good Riddance to the Swine?" 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
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, December 10, 2006
The South Continues to "Make" Race: Will the Supreme Court Follow? "Symbolic racism" is the latest construction by the South and is supported by the Republican party. Will the Supreme Court fall for it?
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SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 14, 2022
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order This is part two of my review of Gary Gerstle's book, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, and specifically addrsses the reason for its rise and fall, as well as its harmful impact on many Americans.
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 3, 2020
One Big Hoax: Donald Trump and Fox News (Part One) This is part one of a two part review essay of Brian Stelter's new book, HOAX: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 17, 2014
Dear NATO: Are You Lying about Russia or Simply Incompetent? NATO's recent "fact sheet," designed to rebut Russian propaganda, is itself riddled with propaganda
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 2, 2009
Last Rites for the United States, and Himself A review of John Lukacs' Last Rites (and his "grand truth" about the world)
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 12, 2011
Commemorating al Qaeda's Heinous Attacks on America, but Forgetting America's Equally Heinous Invasion of Iraq Americans who paused to commemorate the tenth anniversary of al Qaeda's heinous attacks but fail to demand justice for America's heinous invasion of Iraq are hypocrites
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 1, 2011
The Myths That Buttress America's First National Pastime: A Review of Baseball in the Garden of Eden, by John Thorn Baseball's founding myths for the historically illiterate
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SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 22, 2014
The "Stinky Inky," Part VII: Trudy Rubin's Astounding Ignorance about Russia Anti-Putin hysterics have displaced disinterested scholarly analysis in Trudy Rubin's recent columns about event in Ukraine.
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SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 24, 2020
Bob Woodward's Book Explodes Trump's "I alone can fix it" Hoax This is a review of Bob Woodward's new book, Rage.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 2, 2011
What Say Ye, Bum and Scum, Today? Birthers, neocons and Bush/Cheney rogues all criticize President Obama. I ask: What Say Ye Today?
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Ukraine in Crisis. A Path for the Future or Potential for Global Crisis and is the West to Blame? The article simply serves as an introduction to a radio broadcast the was dedicated to a discussion about the crisis in Ukraine.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Let's Reverse the Spread of the Social Diseases Already Blighting the Republican-Controlled American South Given pervasiveness of social pathologies in the Republican-controlled South, Americans should be wary of allowing any Southern Republican to bring his values to the entire country.
SHARE More Sharing        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."
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, June 14, 2009
Igor Sutyagin and I. F. Stone: Spies? 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.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 23, 2013
Republicans and the Iraq War: Ten Years Later Ten years later, a large majority of Republicans remain clueless about the heinous war crimes committed by their party's leader -- George W. Bush.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 22, 2010
A Great Achievement for a Decent, Civilized United States of America 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.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 14, 2008
Bacon's Rebellion and Hillary's Wink and a Nod to Pennsylvania's "Racially Sensitive" Voters 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.
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SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 23, 2013
Fifty Years after the August 28, 1963, March on Washington Over the past fifty years Americans have forgotten the main objective of the March on Washington. A new book by Professor William Jones restores that forgotten history.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The Myth of McCain's Impeccable National Security Credentials 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.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 29, 2007
The Bush/Cheney Holocaust in Iraq, Part Two: Incompetence 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.
SHARE More Sharing        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
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 13, 2007
Inciting a New Cold War: Hypocritical U.S. Views about Russia's Democracy U.S. hypocrisy is fueling a new Cold War
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 20, 2007
Blaming All Americans for Bush's Debacle in Iraq? 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."
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 3, 2007
Press Secretary Dana Perino: Spinning Lies for the Butcher of Baghdad 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."
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 8, 2013
American Militarism: Part Two (Charles Krauthammer) In order to divert blame from the Bush administration, the neoconservatives and himself for the illegal, immoral invasion of Iraq, Charles Krauthammer has deceitfully placed blame on President Obama losing Iraq.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 18, 2008
My Protest to the Times: "Effete Warmonger Kristol/Sanitizing Five Years in Iraq" 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.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 28, 2008
The Psychopath's "State of the Union": Disguising America's Deep Humiliation "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.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 10, 2007
Lying Again, This Time About Iran's Nuclear Program 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.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 11, 2008
By Playing its Iraq Card, Russia Exposes McCain's Poor National Security Judgment 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.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 16, 2007
After All, It's President George W. Bush: So "Attention Must Be Paid!" Like Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman," Americans no longer buy what Bush is selling
SHARE More Sharing        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?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 25, 2007
The Global Impact of Bush's War Crimes in Iraq: King Midas in Reverse 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.
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Crackpot Christians Blame Darwin for Hitler Crackpot Christianity: Part Two A commentary on the Coral Ridge Hour's show, Darwin's Deadly Legacy.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 17, 2008
For Bush and McCain, Iraqis are merely "ropes for American dirty laundry" 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.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Screwing Philadelphia's Poor While Stroking Wall Street's Elite While lavishing billions on Wall Street, the Bush administration has decided to kill Philadelphia's highly regarded school lunch program.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 8, 2008
Is the United States of America Addicted to War? 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.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 21, 2008
Barack in Iraq 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.
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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.
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Addressing America's "Deeper Malignancies" 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?
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Philadelphia Inquirer Editor Gushes over Bush, Columnist Panders to Anti-Immigration Crowd Is the Commentary Page of the Philadelphia Inquirer edited and overstaffed by right-wing morons?
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Were Baghdad's Female Suicide Bombers Mentally Retarded? The Bush administration, their boot-lickers in the mainstream news media and its quislings in Iraq have attempted to dupe Americans yet again.
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Foxbats over Dimona: Revisionist History or Marvelous (Zionist) Fantasy? Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez allege that the Soviet Union instigated the crisis that led to the Six-Day War of 1967
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Obama's Populism versus McCain's Free Trade 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.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 18, 2006
Bush's Iraq Quagmire: "Lions Led By Donkeys"
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The Bush/Cheney Holocaust in Iraq: Criminality, Immorality, Incompetence and Desperation 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.
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Bringing Die-hard War Supporters and Feckless War Opponents to Their Knees 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.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 5, 2008
America's Occupation Trumps the "Surge" and Petraeus' Counterinsurgency Manual 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.
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Israel's Bomb, Iran's Pursuit of the Bomb and U.S. War Preparations (Part Two) 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.
SHARE More Sharing        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.
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Book Review: The Kremlin and the High Command: Presidential Impact on the Russian Military from Gorbachev to Putin Presidential Impact on the Russian Military from Gorbachev to Putin
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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."
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 30, 2008
Barack Obama: Don't go "Wobbly" on Iraq! 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.
SHARE More Sharing        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.
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Israel's Bomb, Iran's Pursuit of the Bomb and U.S. War Preparations (Part Three) The Bush administration's supposed concern about Iran's nuclear program masks its real goal: regime change.
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Crackpot Christianity, Part III: Bush and the Third Great Awakening 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.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, February 10, 2007
Yesterday's Inspector General's Report About Feith's "Gestapo Office" Both the Inspector General and the mainstream news media gave a very superficial account of the activites performed by Feith's "Gestapo Office."
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Bringing the "Perps," Bush and Cheney, to Justice An opinion piece about Elizabeth de la Vega's recent book, U.S. v. Bush.
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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.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Supporting the Troops? Senator Webb Puts Bush in the Cross-hairs Senator Webb asserts that President Bush's reckless invasion of Iraq is opposed by America's military and has needlessly harmed America's military
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, March 18, 2007
Iraq, Bush's God-Emboldened Narcissism and Parasitic Militarism Bush's God-emboldened narcissism and four years in Iraq
SHARE More Sharing        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
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To Understand Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Recall Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 10, 2007
FOX News Fascist, Gretchen Carlson, Swift-boats Sen. Kennedy's Opposition to Bush's "Surge" FOX News continues to cultivate fascist "reporters" like potted plants.
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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."
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 7, 2007
Missile Defense: Putin Rescues Bush from Yet Another "Foolish Thing Poorly Done" 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).
SHARE More Sharing        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.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 23, 2006
Giving Thanks? Yes, Thanking God that I'm Not Like Them! There, but for the grace of God, go I
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The Republican's Chernenko versus the Democrat's Gorbachevs President Reagan and, now, John McCain have received a "pass" that Americans never granted the gerontocrats running the Soviet Union
SHARE More Sharing        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.
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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."
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Deceit About Iraq: "Things Related and Not" A review essay of Hitting First: Preventive Force in U.S. Security Policy
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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.
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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.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 5, 2006
Saddam's Conviction: One War Criminal Down, Three to Go (Bush, Cheney and Blair) Justice for Saddam Hussein now must be followed by investigations and justice for the perpetrators of the illegal, immoral invasion of Iraq
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 16, 2007
Does the Bush Administration Support the Troops? Yes, Like a Noose Supports a Hanging Man! 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.
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Confronting the "Cut and Run" Slander of Bush's Praetorian Guard The implications of the latest NIE for the 'cut and run" slander of Republicans
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 12, 2007
Earth to Bush: "The Chaos in Iraq You Now Decry was Caused By You!" 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!
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 29, 2006
An Open Letter to Congresswoman Pelosi: Please Reconsider Your Pledge to Take Impeachment "off the Table" Why impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney Needs to Remain on the Democrat's Agenda
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Bush's Campaign of Lies to Conceal War Crimes 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.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 10, 2008
"Mission Accomplished," "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," and now "There will be a signed peace treaty..." 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."
SHARE More Sharing        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.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 28, 2007
Certain Americans 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.
SHARE More Sharing        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.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 21, 2006
Put on the Spot, Our Punk President Lies Yet Again President Bush is an inveterate liar whose behavior fits the classical definition of a punk.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Senator Rick Santorum: Poster Boy for Obnoxious and Desperate Conservatism 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."
SHARE More Sharing        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!
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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.
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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.
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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.

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