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INSTANT DEMOCRACY

Monday, 31 January 2005 4:37 P GMT-07
Yesterday's "elections" in Iraq went off as well as could be expected considering that one of the three main ethnic groups in the country didn't participate, voters did not know the names or positions on issues of the candidates and the vot

GLOBAL WARMING POINT OF NO RETURN

Saturday, 29 January 2005 5:52 P GMT-07
A new international report issued last week says that within the next 10 years we will have reached the point of no return as far as global warming is concerned.  At the same time G. W. Bush, president of the country which is the world's major cont

THE ICEBERG COMETH

Friday, 28 January 2005 12:23 P GMT-07
Returning to the subject of Social Security again.  I don't like to kick a dead horse, but this horse is taking a long time to die.  Bush still seems determined to mount a strong, lavishly funded campaign to push for his scheme of "privatizati

GLOBAL WARMING THREAT HEATS UP

Thursday, 27 January 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
Amid the evidence that global warming is proceeding at an even faster pace than scientists have predicted, the puerile and parochial-minded Bush administrtion continues to deny its existence.  Unexpectedly rapid melting of the arctic, antarctic and

THE U.S. -- ISRAELI AXIS

Tuesday, 25 January 2005 2:11 P GMT-07
It's appropriate to examine a topic that I haven't dealt with much here on News-Opinion -- the relationship between the United States and Israel.  I don't know much about the author of this analysis, Uri Avnery, except that he is an Israeli from Tel

'TRAPS, MARKETING & DIRTY TRICKS' : HOW BUSH WON IN 2004

Tuesday, 25 January 2005 11:53 A GMT-07
The presidential campaign of 2004 is now behind us, as is the inauguration of George W. Bush.  Still, the lingering question nags at the back of my mind and, I'm sure, the minds of many others.  How did it happen?  How could it happen?  It seeme

DESPERATION GRIPS PENTAGON

Monday, 24 January 2005 3:13 P GMT-07
As the situation in Iraq, both militarily and politically, continues to deteriorate, the Bush administration is getting more and more desperate in its attempts to find a way to turn things around.  Unfortunately, desperate "solutions" usua
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WHAT PRICE FAILURE?

Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
One major goal of the neocon (more correctly neo-fascist since they're not remotely conservative) ideologues in control of the U.S. government, has been to establish a democratic, market-based-economy government in Iraq as the first step in exporti

BUSH'S FAKE 'CRISIS' IN SOCIAL SECURITY

Wednesday, 19 January 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
Here's one more post on why Bush's warnings on the imminent "crisis" in Social Security is another fake crisis.  Just like his lies about WMD in Iraq and a Saddam-al Qaeda link, the cost of his Medicare Drug bill and the cost of the war i

GREED MESHES WITH IDEOLOGY

Sunday, 16 January 2005 4:21 P GMT-07
Sticking with the Social Security issue today.  There's a lot of good material out there on this issue, so you can expect to see more.  I'm having a tough time keeping up to date, so I'm posting two articles in one here.  The GOP, led by the neoco

PICKING THE LOCKBOX

Saturday, 15 January 2005 6:33 P GMT-07
Revisiting the issue of Social Security seems warranted as it is obvious that Bush is going ahead with his "privatization" scam.  If enacted it will provide a huge financial windfall for the big Wall Street financial institutions, which is

ANOTHER RUMSFELD OVERREACH

Friday, 14 January 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
Here's one I missed but still wanted to post.  While I agree with the last blog that Bush is ultimately the one responsible for the actions of the administration, Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld increasingly looks like the loosest of the administrat

SUCCESS REQUIRES SACRIFICE

Friday, 14 January 2005 1:16 P GMT-07
Our troops in Iraq and Afganistan, along with their families and friends, are making great sacrifices, but for most everyone else in the U.S. life goes on pretty much as usual.  That includes those whose decisions sent the troops into an unnecess

WELCOME TO THE CITY OF DEATH

Friday, 14 January 2005 11:43 A GMT-07
Having gotten a glimpse of life in Baghdad in yesterday's blog, today we'll get a look at conditions in Falluja, the city of death.  This is a VERY long report, which I've abridged slightly. On November 8, the American army launched its biggest ever

WELCOME TO THE CITY OF FEAR

Thursday, 13 January 2005 3:47 P GMT-07
Here's a frightening snapshot of what things are like on the streets of Baghdad today, as the Iraqis enjoy the freedom brought to them by their liberators.  I never seem to see any reports like this from U.S. journalists, embedded as they are in the

AMATEUR HOUR IN WHITE HOUSE & PENTAGON

Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
I certainly have no clear idea as to how to end this disastrous misadventure in Iraq.  But then, I'm not the President or the Secretary of Defense and they don't seem to have any ideas of how to do this either.  It's clear that the Bush administrat

IRAQ NIGHTMARE DEEPENS

Wednesday, 12 January 2005 5:27 P GMT-07
Two reports posted online by TruthOut, http://www.truthout.org , yesterday indicate how conditions in Iraq continue to worsen.  I'll post them both here separately today. Borzou Daraghi, a correspondent in Iraq for the British paper, The Independen

TORTURE AS SHOCK AND AWE

Tuesday, 11 January 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
In launching its unprovoked invasion of Iraq the Bush administrtion's signature was the phrase "shock and awe."  Repeatedly, they proclaimed that the attack would be characterized as one that would deliver "shock and awe" upon
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SENT ON FOOL'S ERRAND TROOPS PAY

Monday, 10 January 2005 4:04 P GMT-07
In this somewhat retrospective report New York Times columnist, Bob Herbert, reflects on how our troops and their families are paying the dearest price for the fool's errand that their president has condemned them to in Iraq.  An errand Herbert de

RUMMY & THE BUTCH CASSIDY DEFENSE

Sunday, 9 January 2005 4:36 P GMT-07
Even the troops are getting fed up with Donald Rumsfeld.  Why not, they have the most reason to be angry with his performance as the top man at the Pentagon, and are in the best position to see the results of his incompetence and arrogance.  Donald

HOW MANY BLUNDERS ARE ENOUGH?

Sunday, 9 January 2005 3:26 P GMT-07
Here's a second kick at that cat, Rumsfeld.  Just how many blunders will it take before he is held accountable?  Individual accountability, or the lack of it to be more accurate, is perhaps the worst failing of George Bush as president.  Blunder a

DOING TIME FOR SUPPORT OF TROOPS

Sunday, 9 January 2005 3:25 P GMT-07
I've been kicking the Social Security cat for awhile and it's time to kick a different cat.  How about Donald Rumsfeld?  There's a cat that could benefit from a few good kicks.  This post only obliquely gets at Rumsfeld (there will be more posts t

MEND IT, DON'T END IT

Saturday, 8 January 2005 1:40 P GMT-07
OK.  One more kick at the Social Security "reform" cat and I'll stop with that topic.  For today.  Don't worry, I'll have more during the coming week.  I promise.  This is one I missed when it came out, but I always enjoy Molly Ivi

BUYING INTO FAILURE

Saturday, 8 January 2005 1:37 P GMT-07
Here's another in a number of commentaries that I intend to post dealing with the Bush administration's attempt to turn our Social Security program into "a giant 401(k)."  The Bushies plans to tamper with this very successful and efficien

ANOTHER MANUFACTURED 'CRISIS'

Saturday, 8 January 2005 11:50 A GMT-07
The Bush administration is busy preparing to manufacture it's latest "crisis."  It's how they've managed to gain and maintain power: Convince a majority of Americans that a dangerous crisis is imminent, then keep feeding the climate of fe

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