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March 2006



TRUTH IS THE DAUGHTER OF TIME (REDUX)

Thursday, 30 March 2006 5:24 P GMT-07
The media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) compiled this group of quotes from the right-wing punditocracy during the premature celebrating of the "easy" military victory after the first six weeks of the war in Iraq while echoi

SECRECY - TOOL OF TYRANNY

Wednesday, 29 March 2006 3:32 P GMT-07
There's an often quoted aphorism to the effect of, "If you find yourself in a hole the first thing to do is to stop digging." President Bush has been busily digging himself into a lot of holes during his time in office and rather than stopping what

BORN-AGAIN BUSH BASHERS

Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:47 A GMT-07
The mendacity, arrogance and sheer incompetence of the Bush administration is finally penetrating the consciousness of increasing numbers of erstwhile "worshipful admirers" of Bush and his ruling cabal. More and more former sycophants and cheerleade

WHAT HAVE WE BECOME?

Saturday, 25 March 2006 4:02 P GMT-07
What have we become? We have become like those we fear and hate. It is a sad and shameful time for the U.S. as we stoop to embrace the actions and behaviors of tyrants, brutes and terrorists. I never thought I'd see the day, but we have sunk to th

IF TORTURE IS OK, WHAT'S NOT OK?

Friday, 24 March 2006 2:11 P GMT-07
It was almost exactly a year ago that I posted a two-part report by NY Times columnist Bob Herbert entitled "Torture By Proxy." The subject was a Canadian citizen, Maher Arar, who was kidnapped by U.S. authorities at Kennedy Airport in New York and

THE SHAME OF GUANTANAMO

Friday, 24 March 2006 12:56 P GMT-07
The most egregious and shameful actions of the Bush administration have been the imprisonment, use of torture and denial of due process to people for unproven suspicions, without any charges. Add to this the practice of kidnapping people and shipping

CAN YOU SAY 'PERMANENT BASES'?

Thursday, 23 March 2006 5:27 P GMT-07
All of a sudden there's a lot of talk in the media about a U.S. pullout of our troops from Iraq.  The media, however, is still virtually silent about the facts that make a permanent and complete pullout a very unlikely event. The thing that is scar

MY PRINCIPLES AND VALUES

Tuesday, 21 March 2006 1:13 P GMT-07
This "Statement of Principles and Values" of the Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism" is as close as anything I've ever seen, to articulating my own beliefs, principles and values. So I thought I'd share it with readers.

EXPLOITATION OF PATRIOTISM

Wednesday, 15 March 2006 5:32 P GMT-07
I haven't had a chance to see Eugene Jarecki's documentary film Why We Fight, but I certainly intend to if it ever comes around this area.  It deals with misplaced trust and the exploitation of patriotism.  And it reminds us, I'm told, of the warni

CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY

Monday, 13 March 2006 11:19 A GMT-07
There's little I need to say about this letter to President Bush from U.S. Navy veteran Joseph W. DuRocher. It speaks eloquently for itself. In returning the symbols of his years of service to his country, DuRocher concludes that this president has
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TORTURE: PSYCHOLOGICAL "SHOCK AND AWE"

Saturday, 11 March 2006 4:24 P GMT-07
The committment of the Bush administration to the use of torture is difficult to understand.  It has been regarded in this country as a distinctly immoral practice and, pragmatically, it is a highly ineffective way of obtaining valid information or

A GROWING TRAIL OF LIES

Friday, 10 March 2006 11:03 A GMT-07
Jay Bookman contemplates how historians of the future will view the Bush administration's record of "ignorance, arrogance and dishonesty."  He notes that nothing in the history of our country quite matches it and hopes that "for our children's sake.

TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING

Sunday, 5 March 2006 2:45 P GMT-07
Vietnam vet, John Cory, aptly characterizes the two major political parties, saying that Republicans are "people of the lie." and Democrats are the "people that lie down." The Republicans sell us fear while selling out America and the Democrats sit s

ANTICIPATING THE INEVITABLE (AGAIN)

Saturday, 4 March 2006 4:11 P GMT-07
The lies of George Bush appear to have no end.  Every time he or anyone from his administration commits a blunder, whether out of arrogance, ignorance or incompetence, the response is the same.  Lie about it. (In this case like so many others to p
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AN OUTLAW REGIME

Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:00 A GMT-07
Legal, diplomatic, religious and human rights authorities are struggling to be heard on what many consider to be the "Son of Guantánamo" - a secret prison in Afghanistan where the US military is said to have been holding some 500 "enemy combatants"

POLITICS AND BOOMERANGS

Wednesday, 1 March 2006 6:13 P GMT-07
As William Rivers Pitt points out there's more to the UAE/US Ports flap than meets the eye.  Already, things that were hidden in the initial announcement are coming to light.  First a US Coast Guard Report that questioned the security of our ports