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Body Blow: Bush’s Worldwide War on Women

January 7, 2007 No Comments

Note: Below is an article from 2003 that is, sadly, as relevant today as ever. I ran across it while doing some research on an upcoming article on the politics of healthcare, and a new development that has the potential to help transform the geopolitical landscape in a positive way (in contrast to the Bushist way of geopolitical transformation: mass killing and “creative destruction”). But more of that later. Here is a look back at the early days of

Down But Not Out: Empire Burlesque Returns

January 6, 2007 No Comments

We were out of circulation for about a day due to a major technical upgrade that should make Empire Burlesque smoother, faster and more secure. (The website, that is, not necessarily the author.) But here’s a quick round-up of items that we might have covered more in-depth today if not for the upgrade.

Rug, Meet Broom
Josh Marshall has another entry in his series of Bush “disappearing acts” of public information. This time, Bush Admin Makes White House Visitor Records Disappear.

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Thug Bones in Bushland and Babylon

January 4, 2007 No Comments

Updated below.

George Bush lauded the hanging of Saddam Hussein as a hallmark of Iraq’s efforts to create "a society governed by rule of law." But as both Steve Gilliard and Juan Cole note, Saddam was not actually hanged by the "sovereign" Iraqi government at all; he was turned over to the Mahdi Army militia of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, religious Chekists in black

CYA for the USA: The Coverup of Complicity Continues

January 1, 2007 No Comments

Rush to Hang Hussein Was Questioned (New York Times)
(Updated below. See Update II and III as well.)

This is a very curious story. Some of it is probably true, some of it is patently false – and all of it is a massive, panicky CYA job by American officials. However, through the heavy fog of this assemblage of spin, it seems fairly obvious what has really happened: the same group of dim-witted fools, ideological cranks and violent sectarians who have driven the whole misbegotten enterprise

The Enduring Legacy of Gerald R. Ford

December 27, 2006 No Comments

I believe that the picture below tells us all we need to know about the lasting impact the presidency of Gerald R. Ford has had on the United States of America, the nation he so proudly led for a couple of years after pardoning the man who was at that time the biggest criminal ever to occupy the Oval Office:

Yes, it was Gerald R. Ford who took those famously amoral and criminally incompetent backroom operators, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, out of the

Loose Talk: Bush Redefines His Global War to Encompass a New Range of Enemies

December 26, 2006 No Comments

Wise man Robert Parry, who has been a light shining in the darkness for decades now, identifies an important – and entirely sinister – change in Bush’s description of the “Long War” that he has initiated around the world. This semantic shift portends an even greater level of bloodshed, state terrorism and tyranny than we have yet

Escalation and Expansion: Bush’s “Great Leap Forward” Into Hell

December 25, 2006 No Comments

The outlines of Bush’s “New Way Forward” or “Great Leap Forward” or “Long Walk Off a Short Pier” in Iraq is now fairly clear. It has three general thrusts: a large increase in troop numbers; a direct assault on the forces of Motqada al-Sadr; and, if possible, an expansion of the war beyond Iraq’s borders through a military strike on Iran.

The troop increase is now certain (if indeed it had ever been in doubt). In the past

House Un-American Activities: Founding Fathers Refute Bigoted Congressman

December 22, 2006 No Comments

Juan Cole — or rather, the Founding Fathers of the United States — take down the bigoted belchings of U.S. Representative Virgil “Uber-Goober” Goode, in this essential piece. Excerpts:

Republican Representative Virgil Goode of Virginia wrote his constituents: “The M

uslim representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district and if American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely

Last Bad Deal Gone Down: War Profits Trump the Rule of Law

December 22, 2006 No Comments

I. The Wings of the Dove
Slush funds, oil sheikhs, prostitutes, Swiss banks, kickbacks, blackmail, bagmen, arms deals, war plans, climbdowns, big lies and Dick Cheney – it’s a scandal that has it all, corruption and cowardice at the highest levels, a festering canker at the very heart of world politics, where the War on Terror meets the slaughter in Iraq. Yet chances are you’ve never heard about it – even though it

A Chronicle of Escalation Foretold: The Red Crescent Assault

December 20, 2006 No Comments

This is my latest article for Truthout.org. Links to follow later.

Less than a mile from where British Prime Minister Tony Blair was gripping and grinning during a surprise visit to Baghdad on Sunday, agents of the extremist factions that he and George W. Bush have empowered, paid and heavily armed were raiding the offices of the Iraqi Red Crescent Agency and rounding up some of the few remaining relief workers in the country who attend to the suffering of all sides.

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