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Liberalism: A Proud Record

Sunday, 31 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
I've often complained about political labels and how meaningless they have become.  When I studied Political Science it was usual to view a four part political spectrum; Radicals, Liberals, Conservatives and Reactionaries.  This was a linear view,
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Wounded, Weary and Disappeared

Saturday, 30 August 2003 4:43 P GMT-07
Long time political observer and columnist, Bill Berkowitz, notes what has been happening to the least mentioned victims of the violence in the Middle East, the wounded, and suggests that the men and women injured in Iraq and Afghanistan have become

Homeland Security For Lunatics

Saturday, 30 August 2003 3:17 P GMT-07
Daryl Lease, who wites for the New York Times and the NY Herald Tribune takes a somewhat sardonic look at some of the bright ideas thought up by that infamous Reagan-era perjurer John Poindexter (remember Iran-Contra?), all designed in his bizar

Policy Based On Faith Not Facts

Saturday, 30 August 2003 1:15 P GMT-07
In this treatise, Jason Vest, writing for The American Prospect (TAP)  http://www.prospect.org  examines how the "neoconservatives" who have set this country's foreign policy since the Bush administration coup in 2000 have been forced

Credibility: Bush's Achilles' Heel

Thursday, 28 August 2003 3:32 P GMT-07
A couple of weeks ago I posted here the text of Al Gore's recent speech at New York University.  It was rather long and I'm not sure how many readers took the time to read it in its entirety.  It didn't seem long while listening t

Lessons On How To Lie

Thursday, 28 August 2003 12:11 P GMT-07
Bill Clinton lied about an embarrassing and stupid personal indiscretion.  Al Gore was falsely accused of claiming that he had "invented the internet."  On the basis of such earth-shaking events, both were villified and denou
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Time To Speak Truth To Power

Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:03 A GMT-07
The importance of "speaking truth to power" has never been greater than it is today.  This statement on the vital necessity of speaking out when the safe and easy course is to remain silent, comes from Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sani

Occupational Nightmare in Iraq

Monday, 25 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
Our mainstream media continue to parrot the "party line" of the Bush administration, telling us that great progress is being made in normalizing the situation in Iraq.  The pipe dream is that the goal of a democratic government and a capitalist

Top 10 Conservative Idiots # 121

Sunday, 24 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
In the interest of fair and balanced news reporting it's our priviledge to present another edition of the Top Ten Conservative Idiots of the past week.  Oh, yeah, I think the the author sometimes uses words or phraseology that I would not,

Expect No Apologies From The Right

Friday, 22 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
I'll try not say "I told you so", but I feel privilidged (yes, and vindicated) to know that News & Opinion could be numbered among those Mike McArdle mentions in this article as being invited to take a bow for being right about the whole Iraq war
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One-Party Government Inches Closer

Thursday, 21 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
Unfortunately, the recall election in California and the entry into that election of a well known movie star, has so enthralled rhe representatives of our mainstream media, that they have all but ignored a far more newworthy event taking place right
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Showing Our Worst Side In Iraq

Saturday, 16 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
Derrick Z Jackson, writing in the Boston Globe, details how we continue to show our worst side to the people of Iraq.  Why is anyone surprised that the Iraqis see us as brutal occupiers rather than heroic liberators?  One reason that too ma

Verging On The Greatest Defeat In U.S. History?

Saturday, 16 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
Writer and radio talk show host, Tom Turnipseed, describes why the U.S invasion of Iraq could become "the greatest military defeat" in the nation's history.  He also deplores the Bush administration's dishonest efforts to frighten the U.S.

Blackout Traced To Dim Bulb in White House

Friday, 15 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
In this "Tale of Two States"  Greg Palast who documented the stealing of the 2000 presidential election in my earlier posts entitled "How The Vote Was Fixed In Florida"  gives us the inside story of what led to the earlier electrical power

Media Needs To Focus On Reality

Friday, 15 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
Here's a good article by Norman Solomon, via Working Assets/Working For Change.  He discusses the media's  fixation with A.  Schwarzenegger and his attempt to move from "action" role unreality to farce.  Solomon als

Scott Ritter Addresses Iraq National Assembly, 9-8-02

Thursday, 14 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
I'm doing something different with this blog.  Usually, I try to post items that are of recent vintage.  This blog, is almost a year old.  Scott Ritter, the former Marine Colonel and UN Weapons Inspector, addressed the Iraqi Natio

Nuclear Dilemma In North Korea

Thursday, 14 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
The issue of North Korea and it's nuclear program is dealt with only very occasionally by our mainstream media, and what they do tell us is incomplete and therefore confusing.  How is anyone supposed to understand what is going on ther

California Recall Makes Farce of Democracy

Tuesday, 12 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
 At last count there were 147 people intending to run in the California gubernatorial recall election (which was bought and paid for by a millionaire Republican Congressman).  This is ridiculous and makes a total farce out of the democratic
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Health Insurance That Works & Is Fair

Tuesday, 12 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
Finally someone dares to mention the kind of health insurance program that we desperately need in the U.S. -- a national single-payer health insurance program.  Oh, I realize that all the big insurance companies, the giant pharmaceutic
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Examining Postwar Iraq And Afganistan

Tuesday, 12 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
A very interesting and useful analysis of similarities and differences between Iraq and Afganistan (remember Afganistan, when we embarked on a "war on terrorism"?) and why neither may fit into the Bush administration'

Catching Up With Wolfowitz In Iraq

Tuesday, 12 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
Posted on July 31, this article appeared in the August 18 issue of The Nation.  Again, it gives a picture of what is actually happening in Iraq that Paul Wolfowitz, the main archit

Deceptions Are Bound To Unravel

Sunday, 10 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
It seems that some people in this country still believe that the preemptive war of aggression against Iraq has some connection with the so-called "war on terrorism."  Understandable, I suppose, among those who are still taken in by the
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Top Ten Conservative Idiots (#120)

Saturday, 9 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
This is a weekly feature that appears on the Democratic Underground web page.   http://www.democraticunderground.com/    I enjoy it so much I might just start posting it every week.  --  Bryce "Fortunately, I live
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Congressional Myopia

Saturday, 9 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
Not long ago I posted a blog on this site titled "The Neo-Cons: Hubris and Hegemony" and, if you haven't read it, I urge you to do so as a companion piece to this post.  I think the major focus of criticism of the Bush administration s
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How To Make Friends & Influence People - #2

Saturday, 9 August 2003 11:59 P GMT-07
 

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