Since Michael Parenti says right off the bat that this can be distributed and posted at will I’ll take him at his word and post the entire thing here. Here’s the link to the original.
Dear Friends
Here is a ZNet Commentary that appeared awhile ago. Please feel free to circulate and post. Best [...]
This needs to be said and repeated until someone begins to get it. Thanks to Hunter at the DailyKos
Having Ann Coulter on your network debating the “meaning” of the Fitzgerald investigation isn’t relevant. It isn’t useful. It’s like watching a dog crap to music. There’s some percentage of the country that would probably tune [...]
By now you’ve probably heard the good news about the indictment of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby for two counts of perjury, two counts of making a false statement and one count of obstruction of justice. It’s worth a read. This is the lone indictment to come out of this probe so far but [...]
Wow, buried in this LATimes story is a reference to a recent segment on NBC’s Today show called “Leak Investigation for Dummies”. But it’s the part of the quote that I highlighted that bugs me, but doesn’t surprise me. Rove is the man setting the tone for the entire nation, the one driving [...]
Paul Begala guest blogging at TPMCafe.
Tom Petty was wrong. The waiting is not the hardest part.
Sure, all of what Eric Alterman dubbed “the punditocracy” has a severe case of indictus interruptus, but for President Bush and his White House staff, the worst is yet to come. To be sure, waiting [...]
The litany of lies, compliments of Arianna Huffington at Huffpost.
It’s getting hard to keep track of all the lies we’ve been told. Here’s a quick cheat sheet:
We now know that Cheney lied to the American people about his involvement in the effort to smear Joe Wilson.
Three months after reportedly receiving a briefing about Wilson’s trip [...]
Let’s remember, shall we, that this country wouldn’t be in the mess it’s in right now without the active and will participation of most major news outlets. From Miller at the Times and her active proselytizing for the mythical WMD and her buddy Chalabi to Russert at MSNBC the major media has pretty consistently [...]
Condoleeza Rice went before our compliant Congress the other day and “testified” (I use the term loosely with this bunch) about our Mideast policy, such as it is. I don’t know what is more sickening, the revelation that well, yes Virginia, we really did want to invade Iraq all along, or that the Senators [...]
This headline really got my attention on the CNN website this morning. I figured it had to be a misprint and they really meant Washington D.C.
Terror hoax suspect arrested in Mexico
A man accused of making a phony threat of a nuclear attack on Boston earlier this year has been arrested in Mexico, authorities said [...]
From discussions among some of the Gold Star families… feel free to pass along, far and wide.
Nick
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One day in the next few weeks, our Defense Department will release another dry announcement about a U.S. service member killed in Iraq. The press release won’t say so, but he or she will be the 2,000th to [...]
A long but good read by Hunter over at DailyKos. You can see the whole thing here.
Party over country. You can hear it in Miller’s accountings of her conversations with Libby; you can hear the “crimes aren’t crimes if they’re done for the sake of politics” meme from pundits like Chris Matthews and William [...]
October 13, 2005
From Chaos to Conscience to Peace
Monica Benderman
Please visit Sgt. Benderman’s website BendermanTimeline.com for a chronology of events, complete with documentation, leading to his court martial, along with a continuous discussion about Conscientious Objection and veterans’ issues.
On July 27, 2005, Sgt. Kevin Benderman was found guilty of Missing Movement and sentenced to [...]
A fascinating listing of bush casualties in this country, the sacrificing of truth, honest and good governance on the altar of greed and lust for power.
In late August 2005, after 20 years of service in the field of military procurement, Bunnatine (”Bunny”) Greenhouse, the top official at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in charge [...]
From our forums, posted by trina the other day about the Judith Miller/Plame connections and other scandals:
… quote from Libby to Judith Miller…
You went into jail in the Summer. It is now Fall (it actually wasn’t, quite, when he wrote the letter on Sept.15th). You will have stories to write, (and he listed four, [...]
From my friend Scott Buttki who just posted this at blogcritics.
The only comment that I’ll add is that I believe Fitzgerald isn’t operating under the statute to which Scott refers about revealing covert operatives identities. That’s so narrowly written, really just to go after one person (a silly use of a law), that it [...]
From CNN’s main page online just now [emphasis mine]. It will change soon but this is the wording as of the time I read it:
Amid dipping approval for the Iraq war, President Bush said today that the fight against terrorism must continue there because it is the center of a terrorist movement to “intimidate [...]
The Politics of Mean, by Dori Smith, September 30, 2005
On September 28, 2005, Talk Nation Radio aired an interview with Paul Waldman, a senior fellow at Media Matters. Waldman discussed the often extreme comments of conservative pundit Richard Lowry, editor of the National Review. Earlier in the month Lowry debated David Corn of the [...]