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BUSH IN NEVER-NEVER LAND

Thursday, 30 June 2005 2:24 P GMT-07
Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan publishes an online blog site called "Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion."  It can be found at http://www.juancole.com .  In his blog for Wedne

BUSH 'TURNS THE CORNER' IN IRAQ

Thursday, 30 June 2005 1:49 P GMT-07
On seemingly rare occasions the vaunted New York Times succeeds in living up to it's reputation.  One of these instances occurred last Wednesday with its editorial reaction to G.W. Bush's speech the night before.  It was a typical Bush speech:  fu

JURY OF CONSCIENCE PRELIMINARY REPORT

Wednesday, 29 June 2005 1:38 P GMT-07
Following is the Preliminary Declaration of the Jury of Conscience resulting from the World Tribunal on Iraq, just concluded in Istanbul, Turkey, the culmination of 20 meetings of this body held around the world over the last two years.  It is a mor
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WORLD TRIBUNAL ON IRAQ

Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:01 P GMT-07
The World Tribunal on Iraq has concluded its final meeting in Istanbul, Turkey.  I've referred to it in my last three History Lesson blogs.  Since the U.S. (and as far as I know U.K.) media haven't been giving it the attention it deserves I'm posti

AN IRAQ HISTORY LESSON -- PT. III

Tuesday, 28 June 2005 5:52 P GMT-07
In the concluding section of this history lesson, Larry Everest examinies what has happened in and to Iraq in the 1990s as a result of the 1991 Gulf War and the effect of the UN imposed sanctions applied by the victors.  The myths and lies that have

AN IRAQ HISTORY LESSON -- PT. II

Tuesday, 28 June 2005 2:12 P GMT-07
Here is Part II of Larry Everest's dissertation on the history of intervention in Iraq by the U.S. and U.K.  It's a history lesson that everyone needs to be aware of in order to understand the present insurgency as a reaction to the U.S. invasion an
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AN IRAQ HISTORY LESSON -- PT. I

Monday, 27 June 2005 2:55 P GMT-07
"We can't understand events today without understanding their development over time - i.e., history." - Larry Everest

HOW WE WENT TO WAR

Sunday, 26 June 2005 8:49 A GMT-07
Obsessed with "regime change" and control of the world's oil the Bush administration, at the helm of the world's only superpower, launched an unprovokes war of aggression, making the most admired and envied nation into the most hated and feared.

LESSONS OF THE PAST

Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:34 A GMT-07
Bobb Herbert revisits some lessons from Vietnam and Watergate, noting that Congress and "an aggressive press" played a crucial role in finally bringing to light the truth about those past traumas and wonders if they will be up to the challe

TRAINING IN TORTURE GOES AWRY

Tuesday, 21 June 2005 11:31 A GMT-07
Spc. Sean Baker, who was medically retired after a drill went awry, asks for $15 million... and wants to be allowed back in the army!

AMERICA'S FAILURE

Tuesday, 21 June 2005 9:59 A GMT-07
Amnesty International's spokesperson was guilty of using hyperbole in describing the U.S. concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay as a "gulag of our times."  My dictionary defines hyperbole as, "An exaggeration... intended to produce an
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SADDAM'S SHAME IS NOW OUR SHAME, TOO

Monday, 20 June 2005 5:04 P GMT-07
I'm going to post two articles dealing with the unpleasant subject of torture.  They speak for themselves so I'll keep my comments to a minimum.  Warning: this article is graphic in places, but the things it describes have been happening and they'r

USE EMBRYOS TO GIVE LIFE

Sunday, 19 June 2005 4:49 P GMT-07
When 50 Republicans in the House of Representatives decided to vote their consciences, instead of marching in lock step with a party leader who doesn't know right from wrong, and helped pass a bill to extend funding of stem cell research, G.W. Bush

SAY HELLO TO THE DAUGHTER OF TIME

Friday, 17 June 2005 1:23 P GMT-07
"Truth is the daughter of time." -- Old proverb

THE WAR THAT NOBODY MENTIONS

Wednesday, 15 June 2005 3:42 P GMT-07
The war no one talks about -- the overwhelmingly one-sided class war -- is being waged all across America. Guess who's winning.

BUSH'S HOLE GETTING DEEPER

Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:57 P GMT-07
There's an old adage that says that if you find yourself in a hole the best thing to do is stop digging.  G. W. Bush could profit from that advice.  As things continue to go wrong in Iraq, and elsewhere, he just keeps building on the same mistakes

WANTED! SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH PLAN

Monday, 13 June 2005 1:27 P GMT-07
The U.S. is the only developed nation that hasn't moved to a single-payer type health insurance plan.  It's high time we did.  Paul Krugman points out the obvious reasons:  It's administrative costs are low making it more affordable, and by nature
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BRINGING FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY TO IRAQ

Friday, 10 June 2005 5:32 P GMT-07
Bush and his cohorts keep telling us how well everything is going in Iraq as the people there enjoy the blessings of American-style freedom and democracy that we've brought them. Hear what Iraqis are saying.
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MORE THAN AN IMAGE PROBLEM

Thursday, 9 June 2005 11:35 A GMT-07
The U.S. image under the Bush administration has "morphed" from an idealized champion of liberty and justice to that of a brutal arrogant bully - an armed thug in camouflage fatigues. The problem, however, goes much deeper than just the image.

IRAQ WAR STARTED LONG BEFORE 2003

Tuesday, 7 June 2005 4:01 P GMT-07
We all knew that the U.S. and Britain had been conducting bombing campaigns in Iraq long before the invasion by the U.S. in March 2003, the "official" date of the war's beginning.  What we didn't know was how heavy this bombing campaign wa

ACCOUNTABILITY IS DUE

Sunday, 5 June 2005 6:07 P GMT-07
It's not just "Gitmo."  In Afganistan, in Iraq and, yes, at Guantanamo, thousands of people have been imprisoned -- some for years now -- with no charges against them, no trials, no legal recourse and no contact with families.  Many, if n

WHERE FOOLS RUSH IN

Sunday, 5 June 2005 5:55 P GMT-07
By continuing to lie about our outrageous violations of human rights and basic democratic processes despite overwhelming evidence, the Bushies are making fools of themselves in the eyes of the entire world.  And they seem oblivious of this.  Unfort

AMNESTY AMNESIA

Sunday, 5 June 2005 4:05 P GMT-07
I don't know which I dislike more about the Bush administration -- all the lies or the blatant hypocrisy.  So one of the world's most respected and honored human rights organizations, Amnesty International, dares to criticize the Bush administration

THE RIGHT IS WRONG - AGAIN!

Saturday, 4 June 2005 1:22 P GMT-07
It's becoming more and more clear that the right-wing ideologues just can't tell the truth about anything.  Since they don't have defendable positions they respond to everything with lies and/or distortions.  Here's one sent to me by another blogge

THE DISCONNECT IN BUSH'S MIND

Thursday, 2 June 2005 5:37 P GMT-07
Molly Ivins is always entertaining to read or to listen to.  She also always has something worthwhile to say.  This column is no exception.  She artfully exposes the hypocrisy of Bush trying to justify his opposition to stem cell research as being

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