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GOP MORAL VALUES INCLUDE GREED, MATERIALISM

Tuesday, 30 November 2004 5:01 P GMT-07
Here's another take on the question of "moral values" and the part values played in the elections. The authors zero in on the "moral crisis... of... 'greed and materialism,'" the moral issue that voters said they were most concer

WHOSE MORAL VALUES DO WE BELIEVE IN?

Tuesday, 30 November 2004 4:01 P GMT-07
Since the elections the mainstream media have been hammering away at the notion that the Republicans swept to victory because they were seen as the party of "moral values" by a large segment of the public.  If that's true, it makes one won

WHO ARE THE REAL TERRORISTS ?

Saturday, 27 November 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
The second news report posted online by TruthOut is by Miles Schuman, who writes for The Nation , http://www.thenation.com .  The bombing of hospitals as well as other civilian targets in Iraq is the kind of thing that, if it was happening to us,

WMD USED IN FALLUJAH ?

Saturday, 27 November 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
This is the first of the TruthOut , http://www.truthout.org , news reports from Fallujah that I mentioned in the previous blog.  Written by an "on the scene" reporter for Inter Press Service, it carries reports from civilians of the use o

HOW OUR NEWS IS WARPED

Saturday, 27 November 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
This TruthOut, http://www.truthout.org , editorial will serve as an introduction to two news stories posted online by this fine organization, detailing what has been happening in Fallujah. Needless to say, these stories paint a picture far different

MORE BOZO THAN DARTH VADER

Friday, 26 November 2004 2:37 P GMT-07
I had my little rant about John Ashcroft in my comments on the previous blog.  It's only right that columnist Molly Ivins gets to have a crack at him, too.  She's able to talk about the man she says was more Bozo the Clown than Darth Vader, wit

TORTURED CHOICE FOR A.G.

Friday, 26 November 2004 2:01 P GMT-07
Nobody is happier than I am to see John Ashcroft leaving the government.  By a large margin the worst U.S. Attorney General in the history of the country, -- yes, even worse than the crook John Mitchell or the incompetent hack Ed Meese --  the onl

CIA 'CRUMBLING' UNDER BOSS GOSS ?

Friday, 26 November 2004 11:37 A GMT-07
Two more top CIA operatives have resigned from the agency thanks to Bush's heavy-handed effort to ensure that the agency will only give him information that he wants to hear. The resignations follow those of Steven Kappes, head of the clandestine uni

SILVER LINING REDUX

Thursday, 25 November 2004 4:59 P GMT-07
Here is another commentary noting how fortunate John Kerry was not to win the election.  No, the country was not fortunate, just Kerry and the Democratic party. Donald Kaul recently retired as Washington columnist for the DesMoines Register. He now

A SILVER LINING IN DEFEAT

Thursday, 25 November 2004 4:57 P GMT-07
I've said this before: my greatest fear if John Kerry had won the election (which I became convinced he would do), was that it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to undo all the damage George Bush has done to the country in the last fou

"CREATE A DESERT & CALL IT PEACE"

Sunday, 21 November 2004 12:55 P GMT-07
It's fashionable, I guess, nowadays to give every military operation a scary-sounding name.  The attack on Fallujah was called "Operation Phantom Fury."  Based on the results, a better name would have been "Operation Wrack and Ruin,

NEOCONS MORE FIRMLY IN CONTROL

Thursday, 18 November 2004 3:55 P GMT-07
Last week I was leaning heavily on the Common Dreams News Center for blog posts.  This week it may turn out to be the organization TruthOut.com, http://www.truthout.com , which posted this article by Robert Scheer written originally for the Los Ange

IMPERIAL HUBRIS

Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
In my blog of Nov. 15, "The Jihad Equation", I recommended this essay by Justin Raimondo, but felt it was too long to post here. On second thought, I decided to edit and abridge it and post the shortened article. It is actually a book revie
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BUSH'S GUERNICA

Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:50 A GMT-07
An 'incident" during the Spanish Civil War was the bombing and destruction in April, 1937, of the city of Guernica in the Basque country of northern Spain. During that war the governments of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sent many tons of weap

A HUMAN DISASTER IN FALLUJAH

Monday, 15 November 2004 12:52 P GMT-07
As I wrote earlier, things are moving fast and I'm having difficulty keeping up. This is a news dispatch from the Reuters News Agency. It presents the real face of the war in Fallujah, something the American media tend to hide of gloss over.  This i

JIHAD EQUATION, TAKE # 2

Monday, 15 November 2004 12:18 P GMT-07
This report follows along the same line of thinking as my last post, "The Jihad Equation."  It's a subject that has for the most part been avoided by the media, so I don't think it hurts to post this piece as well as the previous one.  

THE JIHAD EQUATION

Monday, 15 November 2004 8:51 A GMT-07
There are so many stories out there that need circulating that I can't keep up.  I've also been reading Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War On Terror, by "Anonymous" (actually CIA analyst Michael Scheuer).  There's an excellen

WE'VE NOT DONE RIGHT BY OUR TROOPS

Sunday, 14 November 2004 2:57 P GMT-07
This piece by Bob Herbert was written for the New York Times back on Oct. 29, but is still relevant.  It was re-published by Liberal Opinion Week in the November 8, 2004, issue.  As Herbert observes the entire Iraq debacle has been directed (by p

IT WAS IRAQ & TERRORISM, STUPID!

Sunday, 14 November 2004 1:37 P GMT-07
I seeem to be leaning heavily these last few days on the Common Dreams News Center, http://wwwcommondreams.org , for material to post here.  Well, that's where the most important (in my opinion) stories have been.  The report by Arianna Huffington

FALLUJAH AN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY

Sunday, 14 November 2004 10:45 A GMT-07
On May 16, 2003, I posted a blog here summarizing a talk given by Scott Ritter on April 25.  I'd heard that speech on C-SPAN and also found out who Scott Ritter was. He was one of the UN weapons inspectors in Iraq between 1991 and 1998 (part of tha

BUSH WIN SUITS BIN LADEN

Saturday, 13 November 2004 5:43 P GMT-07
We'll probably never know for sure if Osama bin Laden was pulling for a Bush victory in the U.S. election.  There is good circumstantial evidence, however, that a Bush win fit right in with bin Laden's strategy.  If you don't believe that just read

GOV'T. HIDES BEHIND SHROUD OF SECRECY

Friday, 12 November 2004 8:09 A GMT-07
One issue (among many) that was never addressed during the 2004 election campaign was that of secrecy in government and the threat it presents.  The Bush administration has fostered an unprecedented increase in government secrecy.  It is one reason

FALLUJAH SPELLS TROUBLE FOR IRAQ INTERIM GOV'T

Wednesday, 10 November 2004 4:16 P GMT-07
The attack on Fallujah has caused at least one prominent Sunni party to withdraw from the puppet Interim Government of Ayad Allawi in Iraq.  The object of the Fallujah "invasion" was to clear insurgents from the city so that the Sunnis the

WORSE THAN 2000

Tuesday, 9 November 2004 10:49 A GMT-07
William Rivers Pitt, in a Nov. 8 editorial for TruthOut, http://www.truthout.org , contends that the elections on Nov. 2 were a "disaster" and a much worse foul-up than what we had in 2000.  It's lengthy, but read it anyway and decide for

HOW A VOTE CAN BE HACKED

Tuesday, 9 November 2004 9:12 A GMT-07
While there seems to be no chance of overturning the "official" results of the Nov. 2 election, there is mounting evidence of serious problems in the election process.  Votes that weren't counted, were lost, incorrectly thrown out, or my

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