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February 2005



REPORT: BUSH OKs IRAN ATTACK

Thursday, 24 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
Here's a 3rd report on the growing possibility of a U. S. attack on Iran that is obviously being considered by the Bush administration.  Scott Ritter, former Marine Colonel and UNSCOM Weapons Inspector in Iraq, in a talk given Feb. 19, 2005, in Ol

IRAN -- REASON TO WORRY

Wednesday, 23 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
Here's a short editorial written by Matt Zencey an editorial writer for the Anchorage (AK) Daily News.  I found it in the Feb. 14, 2005, issue of Liberal Opinion Week, http://www.liberalopinion.com .  Zencey shows understandable alarm after hearing

PLANNING NEXT WAR OF AGGRESSION?

Wednesday, 23 February 2005 9:57 P GMT-07
I've paid a lot of attention here to the Bush administration's disastrous misadventure in Iraq.  It's time to turn some attention to Iran where the next U.S. war of aggression may already be in the planning stages.  All part of the neocon/neo-fasci

GOD'S CHOICE OR ELMER GANTRY?

Monday, 21 February 2005 6:19 P GMT-07
I found this story on the website of The Consortium of Independent Journalists, Inc. on it's Consortium News online publication site http://www.consortiumnews.com .  It makes, I think, an appropriate follow-up to yesterday's blog as it examines the

APOCALYPSE ABSURDITY, RAPTURE RUBBISH

Saturday, 19 February 2005 10:44 A GMT-07
On Feb. 8, 2005, I posted a blog here which I titled "When the Stars Begin To Fall."  That report, written by journalist and environmentalist Glenn Scherer, detailed the political implications of the apocalyptic beliefs of many (far more
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GOP 'MORAL HIGHGROUND' IS A SWAMP

Thursday, 17 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
Here is a second section from The Progress Report, http://progressreport.org , referred to in today's earlier blog.  The GOP, with the media's tacit agreement, continues to expound on the party holding the high ground with the public in the area of

GREENSPAN ON SOCIAL SECURITY

Thursday, 17 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
For no particular reason it's been a long time since I posted here from the American Progress Action Fund's The Progress Report, http://www.progressreport.org .  I'll post today's report, slightly abridged, in two separate posts.  The mainstream m

BLAME MAY FLAME IN PLAME GAME

Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:00 A GMT-07
Google's News carried this report this morning from Forbes Magazine, http://www.forbes.com .  It looks as though the identity of the Bush administration officials who illegally leaked the information that Valerie Plame (wife of Ambassador Joseph Wil

IRAQ OCCUPATION FAR FROM OVER

Tuesday, 15 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
I don't have time to write much of an introduction to todays blog article, but I though this was important enough that I wanted to get it posted.  From Sunday's The Independent, published in the UK, and posted online by TruthOut, http://www.truthout

PRE 9/11 WARNINGS IGNORED

Saturday, 12 February 2005 3:21 P GMT-07
NOTE to visitors of this site:  I am going to be heavily involved in a variety of new activities over the rest of this year which means that the number of blogs posted here on News-Opinion will be fewer in number.  I hope to still be able to post a

DEMOCRACY COMES TO FALLUJAH

Thursday, 10 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
Here's a shocking and profoundly sad look at how the U.S. is exporting democracy to the Middle East.  Right after the U.S. elections the Bush doctrine of "shock and awe," as the primary means of bringing democracy, freedom and liberty to t

U.S. & IRAQI GOALS DIFFER

Thursday, 10 February 2005 4:06 P GMT-07
N.Y. Times columnist Bob Herbert filed this report on Jan. 31, the day after the Iraq elections.  It was posted online by TruthOut, http://www.truthout.org , and reprinted in the Feb. 7, 2005, issue of Liberal Opinion Week, http://www.liberalopinion

WHEN THE STARS BEGIN TO FALL

Tuesday, 8 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
In my blog of Jan. 27, 2005, entitled "Global Warming Threat Heats Up," I added a "footnote" regarding an article I'd read a short time before, but could no longer find.  The article dealt with how many members of the Christian
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"NOT ONE CLAIM WAS TRUE"

Friday, 4 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
Here is a very interesting website that I was unaware of until now, the Carnegie Endowmwnt for International Peace (CEIP), http://www.carnegieendowment.org .  To quote from their "Who We Are" statement, the organization is "a private,

HIJACKING DEMOCRACY FOR FASCISM

Thursday, 3 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
It's reassuring to know that my sense of our country going down the road to Fascism is shared by someone I have a great deal of respect for.  And a Kennedy, at that.  For sometime, I've waged a lonely campaign urging that we stop referring to the r

MADE IN THE U.S.A. -- NOT!

Wednesday, 2 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
This commentary is two weeks old but I can't resist posting it since it was written by my favorite member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Bernie Sanders.  It's still pertinent as it's a passionate plea to end the "outsourcing" of job

STAR WARS SO MUCH MOONSHINE

Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
In 2005 what term best describes the Bush administration's determination to continue pursuit of the cold war dream of a Star Wars system to defend the U.S. from a nuclear missile attack?  I can't make up my mind, perhaps due to the immeasurable num

MORE POST-ELECTION FALLOUT

Tuesday, 1 February 2005 5:55 P GMT-07
This blog post by Juan Cole is a follow up to the last two blogs of mine.  Take with several grains of salt, the overly sanguine shouting of the mainstream U.S. media about what a wonderful "victory" has been achieved for "democracy&q

CREDIT SISTANI NOT BUSH

Tuesday, 1 February 2005 2:48 P GMT-07
The blog I posted yesterday was written late on Sunday, Jan. 30 the date of the Iraq "election."  Today, I'm posting two followup posts by Juan Cole in the aftermath of that exercise, one written the day after the election and the other po