Commentary from Monica Benderman
A Man’s Word
When a soldier no longer wants to fight, when his conscience tells him that he can no longer believe in the mission and commanders order that soldier back to combat against his will, there is something wrong. There is something very wrong when commanders send that soldier [...]
Glenn Greenwald, who has been writing so eloquently the past few weeks about the Bush administration’s many failings and the Democrats’ many missed opportunities, has an entry today that deserves reading. In fact it needs to be a must read for anyone involved in public policy regarding the criminalization of drugs in this country.
While [...]
Remember the “horrible” Oil for Food scandal those nasty Europeans perpetrated with Saddam to steal away millions from a program designed to help average Iraqi citizens following the first Gulf War?
Apparently it was small potatoes compared to what we have managed in just 3 short years of occupation. Ths is an excerpt from the [...]
So, bush and his gang of Stooges don’t think there’s a civil war going on in Iraq? Let’s hear from someone in Baghdad, Riverbend describes some pretty chilling times on this third anniversary of the US committing a war crime by invading a nation that represented no threat to the US.
I don’t think anyone [...]
WWIII or Bust? Dori Smith’s interview with Heather Wokusch, author of a February 19, 2006 piece, “WWIII or Bust; Implications of a U.S. Attack on Iran.”
Heather Wokusch is in the process of finishing her book, “Progressive Primer, 100 easy ways to make a difference now.” She explained that she is writing the [...]
Fabulous post today by Riverbend in which she manages to skewer all the major players (only some of whom Americans will even recognize) in the ongoing series of Iraqi dramas through which we are forcing her and her countrymen and women to live.
Nominees for Best Actor:
Ibraheim Al-Jaffari in “Free Iraqi Elections†for his attempted portrayal [...]
Well, in keeping with this piece I wrote a while back on Rummy’s fixation with the threat of information and the written word I see on today’s CNN website home page this article that ramps up his concern over this apparently very serious threat to American Powertm now apparently affecting our own media as well. [...]
One of the more convenient aspects of hewing religiously to a particular extreme ideology is that such ideologies rarely get tested in the real world. Thus they make convenient foundations for opposition to established norms and processes and especially convenient foundations for opposition to “government”, which as all adherents of extreme ideology (right or [...]