The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast…
The order is rapidly fading
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’
Nat Hentoff, one of our great champions of civil liberties, uncovers the ugly truths behind the Bush Regime’s plans for a Nuremberg-in-reverse
(Updated below.)
There is a recently-coined proverb in Britain that is imminently adaptable to the Bush Faction mode of government. It springs from an email sent by a “spin doctor” in the Ministry of Transp
ort to her boss regarding some bit of impolitic information their ministry was obliged to release at some point to the pain-in-the-neck public who are always sticking their noses into the government’s business, as if
Let us turn once again to the other war, the “good war” in Afghanistan, where five years ago Ge
orge W. Bush famously liberated the suffering Afghan people from the clutches of the militant Islamic extremists of the Taliban into the hands of the militant Islamic extremists of the Northern Alliance (and their U.S.-picked frontman, Hamid “Why, Yes, I Did Once Work for Oil Barons, Why Do You Ask?” Karzai). <br
Was this obscene war based on lies? Yes.
This is my latest piece for Truthout.org.
I. Rashomon in Iraq
Mass death came again to the Iraqi town of Ishaqi last Friday. Nine months after an American raid that killed 11 civilians, including five children under the age of five, another ground and air assault on suspected insurgents in the area left behind a pile of corpses, including at least two children. As with the earlier incident, Friday’s attack has produced conflicting stories of what really
Glenn Greenwald teases out the troubling implications and the faint glimmers of light in the federal court ruling yesterday that upheld at least part of the draconian “Military Commissions Act.” The decision 
is, as Greenwald puts it, “a Judicial Victory for the Leader.” However, if the ruling stands as is in the higher courts, it will apparently dispel at least some of the (deliberate?) ambiguities in the MCA, whose sloppy wording left open the question of
This tells you pretty much all you need to know about the American debacle in Iraq. Imagine the arrogance and stupidity of conquering, occupying and trying
There has been another alleged atrocity in Ishaqi, site of a contentious mass killing of civilian
s in March 2006, which we examined here, here and here. The new attack occured on December 9, in the Ishaqi district village of Taima. I will be writing about this in more detail soon, but briefly, the new controversy once again
Karzai: NATO Bombs, Terrorists Kill Kids (AP)
So how’s it going in the “good war” over in Afghanistan, that”rousing success” of Bushian liberation in the “War on Terror”? Here’s the latest report from the very top, His Excellency President Hamid Karzai:
(Major update below.)
The reaction from actual Iraqis on the just-released report by the “Iraq Study Group”? They don’t like it; it won’t work; it’s largely a tissue of fantasies and shows no grasp of the true situation in Iraq; 
it has nothing to do with solving Iraq’s problems but everything to do with the American Establishment’s desperate attempt to save face, no matter how many people must be slaughtered in the process.
But why should we listen to