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March 2005

A GLIMMER AMIDST THE GLOOM?

Wednesday, 30 March 2005 11:59 P GMT-07

William Rivers Pitt, in his daily blog For Your Information, notes a hopeful development. I had almost reached the point of deciding that there was no such thing as a "moderate Republican" in this day and age. More and more it has seeme

KEEP MR. SMITH IN WASHINGTON

Wednesday, 30 March 2005 11:59 P GMT-07

No, I'm not referring to the present Senator from Oregon or wherever, but to the fictional Senator Smith played by Jimmy Stewart in the movie "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington." If you haven't seen it, rent it and watch it. I receive sever

THE WARNINGS OF HISTORY

Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:59 P GMT-07

I consider this to be one of the most important discourses that I've posted here. It's long (I warned you yesterday), but I strongly urge you to read it. I've edited it very slightly. Originally I thought I'd publish it in two installments, but I

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REALITY & THEORY DON'T ALWAYS MATCH

Monday, 28 March 2005 4:15 P GMT-07

One thing I like about Jim Hightower: he's always short and to the point. The theories of the neo-fascists running the Bush administration just haven't matched reality when it comes to Iraq. Although they persist in denying that anything that has

FAKE NEWS IS STEALTH PROPAGANDA

Saturday, 26 March 2005 4:56 P GMT-07

Bush, Karl Rove and their cohorts have no end of ways to try to subvert public opinion. Despite their sanctimonious pretense of being the defenders of moral values they don't hesitate to use any lies, distortions, deceit and/or dirty tricks to achi

TORTURE BY PROXY - PART II

Thursday, 24 March 2005 5:52 P GMT-07

Here is the follow-up report on Canadian citizen Maher Arar, kidnapped by the U.S. government and sent to Syria where he could be tortured. Bob Herbert is a columnist for The New York Times and this report was also posted online by Common Dreams Ne

TORTURE BY PROXY - Part I

Thursday, 24 March 2005 5:51 P GMT-07

Two very shocking reports by Bob Herbert in Liberal Opinion Week, http://www.liberalopinion.com , for March 16, 2005, on a man named Maher Arar a Canadian citizen with a wife and two small children. Arar was arrested and kidnapped by John Ashcro

BUSH PLAYS CHICKEN LITTLE

Wednesday, 23 March 2005 5:46 P GMT-07

President Bush continues his frantic efforts to destroy Social Security, the most successful U.S. government program in history, dashing back and forth across the country like a demented Chicken Little, trying to convince fearful people that the s

WATCH WHAT THEY DO, NOT WHAT THEY SAY

Saturday, 19 March 2005 11:59 P GMT-07

As Jules Witcover points out in this article, our imperial president would make a great bunco artist in a travelling carnival. He has mastered the old bait-and-switch technique and has employed it over and over since he took office. The wonder is

POVERTY IN AMERICA - CONNECT THE DOTS

Saturday, 19 March 2005 11:59 P GMT-07

The fact that there are thousands of children in the U.S., the richest country in the world, who are severly malnourished -- that means they are going hungry, folks -- is a scandal of major proportions. The fact that it is occuring alongside the f

AS USUAL BUSH IS CLEAR AS MUD

Friday, 18 March 2005 11:59 P GMT-07

Without a glib speech writer and a teleprompter, G.W. Bush continues to trip over his own tongue when attempting to explain anything as this column will clearly demonstrate. Even with those props what Bush says makes little or no sense as his comme

DEFUSE THE GOP "NUCLEAR OPTION"

Wednesday, 16 March 2005 1:41 P GMT-07

Today is "Call In Day" sponsored by MoveOn.org. Everyone is urged to phone their Senators TODAY urging them to oppose the GOP's "nuclear option" to change the Senate rules in order to bypass the Filibuster Rule as a way of allow

9/11 DUE TO BUSH ADMIN. FAILURE

Tuesday, 15 March 2005 11:59 P GMT-07

It's more and more apparent that the Bush administration bears responsibility for the failure to prevent the 9/11 attacks. The evidence just keeps piling up that the administration was "woefully incompetent if not criminally negligent."

THE QUESTIONS THAT MATTER

Friday, 11 March 2005 11:59 P GMT-07

I had no intention of posting another blog on the sttack by U.S. troops on the Sgrena/Calipari convoy in Baghdad. Then I came across this commentary by William Rivers Pitt and decided that it needed to be read by as many people as possible. I do

THE AMBASSADOR FROM HELL

Thursday, 10 March 2005 11:59 P GMT-07

Bush again shows his true colors. His nomination of John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations defies any and all reason. Like the appointment of John Ashcroft as Attorney General, John Bolton is arguably the worst possible choice for the UN

UNDERSTANDING OUR MISTAKES IN IRAQ

Thursday, 10 March 2005 11:59 P GMT-07

This is a very lengthy report, but it's highly important reading for anyone who wants to understand why things have gone so badly for the U.S. in the Iraq war. After a brief examination of the current American theory of what is happening on the

SGRENA/CALIPARI - THE WAGES OF FEAR?

Wednesday, 9 March 2005 11:59 P GMT-07

A couple of days ago I posted a blog in which I labeled some bloggers as prostitutes for taking money to write supposedly "independent" blogs requested by some right-wing pimps. Fortunately most bloggers don't work like that. Two that

Q: WAS BUSH RIGHT? A: NO!

Wednesday, 9 March 2005 10:02 A GMT-07

In light of small steps of apparent progress toward democracy in the Middle East, right-wing pundits are claiming that this is evidence that the Bush administration policies in that part of the world have been right after all. Today's Progress Repo

"HORRIFIC ACCIDENT," OR ???

Tuesday, 8 March 2005 4:32 P GMT-07

I already have a backlog of stories I want to post, but this new development can't be overlooked. Nor do I have time for any extended comments of my own. Suffice it to say that if I could edge this post with a black border, I would. Whether a &

DON'T REPEAT SAME MISTAKES IN IRAN

Monday, 7 March 2005 11:24 A GMT-07

Between Feb. 23 and Mar. 3, 2005, I posted a series of blogs about the danger of the Bush administration maneuvering us into a war in Iran. I missed this report on the same subject when it came out last month, but the credentials of the author ar

WHEN BLOGGERS BECOME PROSTITUTES

Monday, 7 March 2005 10:20 A GMT-07

If you thought "Jeff Gannon's" mischeif-making and dirty work was confined to his role as a fake reporter for a fake news organization with access to presidential news conferences, you'd be wrong. Joe Conason reports on how James Dale

IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DUCK...

Monday, 7 March 2005 9:21 A GMT-07

There are a lot of reports and commentaries I've come across in the last week or so that really deserve to be posted here. Unfortunately, I've been extra busy and have not been able to keep up. Today, I'm going to try to post a number of them, keep

WAGING A JIHAD AGAINST JOURNALISM

Friday, 4 March 2005 5:46 P GMT-07

I haven't posted any blogs about "Gannongate," one of the more recent Bush administration scandals. Like most, it hasn't been well publicised, except by a few columnists and bloggers, and the Bushies have been pretty successful in ignor

BUSH'S 'TORT REFORM' IGNORES VICTIMS

Friday, 4 March 2005 4:28 P GMT-07

Jim Hightower, the maverick Texas populist, is a man of few words, but doesn't mince any words either in his brief columns or his two-minute NPR radio spots. His columns appear in many newspapers, mostly those of the small "home-town' variety

"THE CRAZIES" ARE NOT FINISHED

Thursday, 3 March 2005 11:54 A GMT-07

Here is another report by Ray McGovern on the plans by the Bush administration for an attack on Iran. (See my blog of Feb. 23, 2005, "Planning the Next War of Aggression.") Ray McGovern served as a CIA analyst for 27 years -- from the a

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