I remember back to the days of Jimmy Carter when I think I first heard this desire expressed. It struck me as wrong then and I’m that much more convinced it is wrong now. That is the idea that somehow what this government needed was a good CEO with management experience to run [...]
This is truly disgusting. I might think it a coincidence had I not spent much of this afternoon watching Aaron Brown talking about looters while looping the same 4 or 5 video sequences of small groups of black people carrying goods from stores. I swear I saw the same loops repeated at least [...]
As of this writing Hurricane Katrina is both gone from the maps but also getting worse than when it was moving across the coastline. This is the kind of destruction that comes in the aftermath of massive natural disasters. Infrastructure has failed or is failing and the damage in New Orleans is getting [...]
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this Reuters article on bush’s latest desperate attempts to justify the Iraq debacle.
In a speech in which he sought to cast the conflict as the modern day equivalent of America’s World War Two struggle against Japan, Bush said Americans “once again” had a stark choice to [...]
Yes, I know it is really Hurricane Katrina but this hurricane illustrates exactly the price we are paying for having the bush administration in charge. Right now we have 3 major, and who knows how many minor, catastrophic and potentially catastrophic events happening in this country. The first is fuel prices. I [...]
Maureen Dowd, whose commentary I occasionally like when she isn’t being obtuse, gets one right today and manages to bring a new phrase into the lexicon in relation to george w. bush. Here’s an excerpt, the whole thing is here.
W. has jumped the couch.
Not fallen off the couch, as he did when he choked [...]
Dori Smith has a new interview with Aisha from Doctors for Iraq. The interview transcript can be viewed at Talk Nation Radio Talk Nation Radio interviews Doctors For Iraq about a humanitarian crisis in Western Iraq.
The audio can be heard here.
Doctors For Iraq, an independent organization of medical doctors seeking to help Iraqi civilians has issued an emergency call for aid and support. The group is asking people to help inform Americans that bombing in Western Iraq and escalating violence there is taking many civilian lives.
This is an appeal written by Iraqi Doctors concerning [...]
This is hilarious and the excuse the campaign comes up with “work of a vendor trying to fit an image into a pre-designed space” is ludicrous since it wouldn’t change relative heights anyway. Check the image at the bottom of the editorial, it not only made the candidate look taller it made his fiancee [...]
From today’s NYTimes. Not only is this guy living in a bubble but it’s also full of helium, or nitrous oxide.
President Bush told thousands of National Guard members and their families on Wednesday that an immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq would only embolden terrorists and make America and its allies more vulnerable [...]
This piece was written by Dori Smith, of Talk Nation Radio, who provides the excellent interviews whose transcripts are available on this blog.
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With approval ratings in the thirties George Bush has been spending at least some of his Crawford vacation working on public relations strategies. Karl Rove and others have tended to keep Bush in [...]
Meshing too uncomfortably well with my last post here comes this entry by Kos over at DailyKos which is enlightening as to the frightening nature of what bush and his co-horts are doing to this nation. It makes it look as if all Osama had to do was hit the World Trade Center and [...]
George Bush goes to great lengths to work the phrase “September 11th” into just about everything he says to justify our continued occupation of the nation we invaded in 2003, as does just about everyone on his staff and virtually all the America-hating talking heads on the right. So this would be a good [...]
Norman Soloman takes Moveon to task for being wishy washy.
Part of the problem is MoveOn’s routine fuzziness about the war – and the way that the group is inclined to water down the messages of antiwar activism, much of which is not connected to the organization.
Consider how the MoveOn website summarized the vigils: “Last [...]
Frank Rich’s column in the NYTimes today, as always, is a must read.
Once Ms. Sheehan could no longer be ignored, the Swift Boating began. Character assassination is the Karl Rove tactic of choice, eagerly mimicked by his media surrogates, whenever the White House is confronted by a critic who challenges it on matters of war. [...]
Cindy Sheehan’s diary entry today really points up the difference between her personal vigil and her personal approach and the desires of the groups who have latched onto her one-woman campaign like remoras who can’t fend for themselves but are happy to suck up the scraps from someone else’s success.
I’ve felt all along that groups [...]
This excellent article on the role played by the pundit class in the selling of this invasion appeared in the Prospect. I can’t remember a time when the media acted quite so blatantly as propagandists and war shills. The media have always played the role of cheerleader, the myths of Vietnam notwithstanding, but [...]
A few weeks ago I made a post about the new series on FX (that’s a Fox network) called “Over There”. I called it propaganda at the time and I’m still quite convinced that it was intended as propaganda, a way for the folks at home to cheer for our brave troops fightin’ terror [...]
Received today from Monica Benderman.
August 16, 2005
There is no Glory in Dying
Monica Benderman
~ for cindy ~
From Sgt. Kevin Benderman - Prisoner of Conscience for objecting to war
“I have come to the conclusion that the Creator does not want us to fight wars or to leave our brothers to die in hunger or disease. [...]
From The Huffington Post today, an entry by Justin Frank:
With every passing week, President Bush marches deeper and deeper into a world of his own making. His August move to Crawford and his refusal/inability to meet with Cindy Sheehan are only the latest steps in that long retreat from the real world. Central to Bush’s [...]