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William Rivers Pitt is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two books: War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know and The Greatest Sedition Is Silence.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, May 14, 2010 Out of Iraq? Don't Hold Your Breath
We made such an incredible mess in Iraq that continued violence is a brass-bound guarantee. Every act of violence gives more fuel to those who argue for staying. It's a perfect circle, and it is not going to stop.
SHARE Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Here We Go Again
Few issues raise more consternation and rage on the left than the constitutional crisis created by the deranged activities of the Bush administration. Liberals will point to this in disgust and accuse Obama of moving the Supreme Court even further to the right.
(9 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 9, 2010 A Simple Way to End This Recession ... Forever
Just dumping the Osprey program would have given us enough money to pay for the disasters in Tennessee and the Gulf, with a whole lot left over to help those affected by the recession and the Wall Street thievery. Psssst, Mr. Obama: tap the defense budget. We can be out of this recession in the morning.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 4, 2010 Things Fall Apart
It was sickening to behold, and says many things about our national character that are deeply uncomfortable to contemplate. An unknown person filled with hate tried to blow up Times Square. A shabbily-run oil rig might literally kill us all. A water crisis turned ordinary people into greedy, pushy animals right before my eyes. The center cannot hold.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 29, 2010 By the Time I Get to Arizona
This new Arizona law, however, deserves as much condemnation as can be mustered. Beyond the fact that it is so brazenly unconstitutional that it will likely not survive long, there is the matter of turning an entire race of people - nay, make that a few races of people - into suspected criminals.
SHARE Tuesday, April 27, 2010 The Real War Reporters
It's not over over there. Not by a long chalk, and despite the whistling silence, it's not over over here, either. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan affect every living American well beyond the impact of the flesh-and-blood conflicts we occasionally see on TV.
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, April 23, 2010 Do the Right Thing
George W. Bush and his people got a walk for the flagrant crimes they committed, and we've watched these Wall Street criminals thus far escape equally scot-free, and I am here to tell you, the view from the sidewalk is nothing but livid little people who wonder what it has to take before someone goes to jail for being a crook.
SHARE Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Tea on the Common
With Obama in the White House, the combination of 'Bagger bedlam and Boston-style racism will almost certainly turn Boston Common into an open-air insane asylum complete with pigeons poop and trolley services.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 10, 2010 A Quiet Giant
The right-wing media, and the bevy of presidential wanna-bes like Palin and Romney who are scurrying around the countryside attending Tea Party rallies trying to gin up support for their erstwhile campaigns. A Supreme Court nomination and confirmation is a big, fat, juicy target, and you can bet the entire GOP will be taking some big swings.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, April 5, 2010 Stupid People With Guns
There are right-wing people who are angry, and there are right wing people who are angry and stupid, and that turns out to be a pretty ridiculous combination, especially when these angry stupids also happen to own firearms. The stupid ... it burns ... If we can't or won't cure the stupid, at least we can disarm it.
(8 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 25, 2010 The New Dumb
It's pretty much official now. The GOP, in whole and in part, has gone completely over the high side in the aftermath of the House's successful passage of President Obama's health care reform package. Angry, bitter and frustrated has made way for deranged, deluded and dangerous within the minds and souls of that particular crowd.
SHARE Wednesday, March 17, 2010 Victory at Last?
The US military has been shredded by this conflict in combination with the ongoing war in Afghanistan. The dire financial straits we find ourselves in, thanks in no small part to the spending for these wars, undermine our national security in any number of ways.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, March 5, 2010 Out of Iraq? Maybe Not
The number of Iraqis killed in war-related violence increased by 44 percent between January and February, with civilians accounting for almost all of the casualties. We should never have been there to begin with. We should not be there now. Let the word go forth from this time and place: we must be gone from there before another year passes.
SHARE Friday, February 26, 2010 Skewing the Health Care Debate
Every once in a while, CNN and MSNBC deigned to show footage of the actual event, but a majority of their air time was devoted to giving right-wing anti-reform mouth-breathing cretins free reign to spew their nonsense to all points on the compass.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Has a Shakeup Started in Washington?
Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, whose name could be changed to "Harry The Inert" after his anemic leadership of the majority to date, appears poised to use the same reconciliation process the White House is preparing to deploy as a means of passing an actual public option in the health care reform process.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 6, 2010 Bush, Cheney and the Great Escape
A recent report from the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility slapped a big fat "Not Guilty" stamp on the jackets of John Yoo and Jay Bybee, the two central authors of the notorious "torture memos" that argued the legal justifications for the use of torture by the Bush administration.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, February 1, 2010 Schooled
On Friday, Mr. Obama presented himself before a collection of some 140 Republican members of Congress and, not to put too fine a point on it, bounced them individually and collectively off all four walls in the room. Fox News saw how badly those GOP Congress people were being thrashed and cut away from their broadcast of the event a full 20 minutes before it was over.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, January 1, 2010 Strange Days Indeed
I know, I know, the decade doesn't really end until next year, but whatever to that. The calendar police can come and arrest me, because I'm calling this damnable decade over and done with first thing Friday morning. To hell with it, and anything that looks like it. The odometer is rolling, and I say good riddance to bad rubbish.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, December 18, 2009 Palin the Pundit
If President Obama came out in favor of sunshine, puppies and the Lord Jesus Christ, a poll would come out a week later that showed cratering GOP support for all three. If he's for something, they will be against it, and Sarah Palin has never been one to miss out on a good pander, even if it promotes a mindset that could lead to the end of human civilization on this planet.
(16 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Joe Lieberman and the Health Care Train Wreck
According to several sources,Rahm Emmanuel and the White House are actively pressuring the Democratic leadership in Congress to give Lieberman whatever he wants in order to pass some form of health reform legislation, no matter how ragged, damaging and useless the final product may turn out to be.