Not only is the following an important environmental topic but when you read through and see what else it tells us there is an embedded lesson for progressives and the future of the Democratic Party. Progressives have spent the last five years decrying what they see as the tendency for the working poor and [...]
It’s becoming a favorite sport among editorial writers and even reporters these days, this mocking of the Democratic Party. Revealing this sport will, of course, do nothing to stem the tide of conservative scorn and derision of their favorite strawman, the “Liberal Press”, but as the following article on Consortium News makes crystal clear, [...]
Garry Trudeau has a new Doonesbury book out and the NYTimes has a review of it that is worth a read.
What struck my eye was the last paragraph of Kurt Anderson’s review [emphasis mine]:
”The Long Road Home” is ”Doonesbury” at the other, ultrarealistic extreme. The point is that Garry Trudeau, who by all rights should [...]
I can’t believe it. There is no level of outrage great enough to be an appropriate response to Gingrich on this one. To accuse a sitting Senator of treason for speaking the truth…just about says it all about these arrogant bastards.
Gingrich
“By voting for or against the censure, the rest of the members of [...]
posted by sandy47 in TheWar
bush’s Alderaan
“Fuck Saddam,” Bush said. “We’re taking him out.”
March 2002
By Robert Parry
April 8, 2003
In the latest sign of a troubled American democracy, a large
majority of U.S. citizens now say they wouldn’t mind if no weapons of
mass destruction are found in Iraq, though it was George W. Bush’s
chief rationale for war. [...]
posted by Dori in TheWar forum
In light of the recent revelations on the Bush/Blair war planning and advanced bombing in Iraq, we should be revisiting this story of spying at the Pentagon that may have given Israel top secret information about US Iran policy. Did the Bush White House change any of its war plans [...]
see it all at Iraqi War News
War News for Friday, June 17, 2005
Bring ‘em on: Twenty-six Iraqi soldiers killed by suicide bomber near Khalis.
Bring ‘em on: Five US Marines killed by roadside bomb near Ramadi.
Bring ‘em on: Eight Iraqi policemen killed, 25 wounded by car bomb on Baghdad airport road.
Bring ‘em on: [...]
”Today, Iran is ruled by men who suppress liberty at home and spread terror across the world,” Bush said in a statement distributed by the White House. ”Power is in the hands of an unelected few who have retained power through an electoral process that ignores the basic requirements of democracy.”
It’s a little hard [...]
posted by Monica Benderman in TheWar forum.
Another tree dedicating ceremony on Ft. Stewart today..for another soldier from the 2-7th KIA. Guess the tree makes up for it somehow, right??? a life for a life….that makes about 15 now from Kevin’s unit that have died since being deployed in Jan.
When I lived in Texas, [...]
Here’s a link to an entry on Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo site.
The writer muses that we might be seeing the beginning of the runup to the start of an impeachment process (and yes, that is deliberately vague on my part). I’ve heard similar musings and wishes over in the forums from various posters [...]
posted by Dori in the Human Rights forum
Jim Lobe does it again. Here he assembles another portrait of the crumbling neoconservative image over such crimes as treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo, something the White House has said it finds necessary to fight the war on terror. The media at large has not blinked when [...]
Well, well, well. It appears in their zeal to destroy public broadcasting from within the new Republicans in charge are already playing fast and loose with our money in working to do whatever they can to undermine what little integrity the CPB has left.
This article in today’s NYTimes highlights the backroom dealing engaged in [...]
posted by Dori in TheWar forum.
I think the genesis of the Adminstration’s response to criticism about Guantanamo, should be carefully studied for the window it opens on America’s propaganda ministry.
Ultimately, lawmakers will have to look at the facts on how prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were treated. They will have information from public and private [...]
Welcome to Talk Nation, the blogging face of the NeverGiveUp forums. Our forums have been around for a while, since the 2000 elections, but you may wonder why you’ve never seen the name before on progressive websites. That’s because for most of our existence we were the Alternet forum associated with Alternet.org, a [...]
posted by sandy47 in TheWar forum
Enabling Evil
Bush’s Willing Executioners
In which Paul Craig Roberts calls a spade a spade…
“If generals commanding armies could not overthrow Hitler, it is unclear what ordinary Germans could have done. They could not vote Hitler out, as the Enabling Act had made him a dictator. The Gestapo had [...]
To get an idea of just how far removed from reality the Democratic politicians have become one need only peruse this item from kos on the FEC and blogs.
And then read up on Paul Waldman’s excellent commentary on Howard Dean and how the media just can’t fit him into their little boxes.
Chairman Dean, it’s time [...]
posted by edandbunkie in TheWar forum
Two armies, two reporters, too much trouble in Iraq
A remarkable Washington Post article finds Iraqi fighters singing hymns to Saddam Hussein, and these are the ones on our side. It gets worse from there.
Just back, absurdly well-fed, from E&P’s interactive media conference in New Orleans, I was about to [...]
Sheesh, how many smoking guns do we need before we acknowledge the crime?
From the Sunday Times
[emphasis added]
Ministers were told of need for Gulf war ‘excuse’
Michael Smith
MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of [...]
From Anti-War.com
June 11, 2005
War: Realities and Myths
by Chris Hedges
The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief. They know the lies the victors often do not acknowledge, [...]
posted by dori in TheWar forum
Links related to this subject of mercenaries, the law, and pay levels versus those of soldiers serving in the US Military or national guard.
Blood Money: The Human-Capital Equation of the U.S. Occupation of Iraq by Stephen “Flint” Arthur, NEFAC, Sunday, 15/08/2004
“Military recruitment is a big business. The U.S. [...]