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The Line of Atrocity: From the White House to Haditha

May 31, 2006 No Comments

Many observers have compared the methodical murder of 24 innocent civilians by U.S. Marines in the Iraqi town of Haditha – now confirmed by Pentagon and Congressional sources – to the infamous My Lai massacre in Vietnam, when American troops slaughtered hundreds of civilians in a bloody rampage. But this is a false equation, one that gravely distorts the overall reality of the Coalition effort in Iraq.

For it is not the small-scale Haditha atrocity that should be compared to My Lai: it is the entire Iraq

Fundamentalism Kills: Abstinence, AIDS and the Bush Base

May 30, 2006 No Comments

Esther Kaplan at Talk to Action has an important post on some of the dismal — not to say fatal — results of the Bush Regime’s cynical pandering to the hardcore pseudo-Christian Right. Over the past few years, Bush has essentially farmed out U.S. policy on all health and family welfare issues to the blinkered fanatics in his sex-obsessed religious "base." These zealots — haters of

Siberian Khatru: On Being Banned by Daily Kos

May 30, 2006 No Comments

Last week, I was banned from contributing to Daily Kos, apparently for criticizing the Democratic cave-in on Peeper Hayden’s CIA nomination a bit too forcefully. At least I think that was the reason; maybe they just didn’t like the cut of my jib, I don’t know. This banishment to Kossack Siberia is a matter of no great importance, of course, neither to the wider world nor to me,

Stephen Colbert and the Agents of No Influence

May 22, 2006 No Comments

The New York Times has finally deigned to recognize the extraordinary popularity of Stephen Colbert’s blistering roast of George W. Bush at the annual Backscratcher’s Ball — sorry, the White House Correspondents Dinner — earlier this month. But the paper — which entirely ignored Colbert’s performance in its original story on the chummy chow-down — manages to spin out

Vexed to Nightmare: The Unholy Union Behind the War on Terror

May 19, 2006 No Comments

*This story has been revised since its original posting.*

The blogosphere lit up last week with stories about how the New York Times, and the Bush Administration, had information in the summer of 2001 that specifically foretold of an impending, spectacular attack by al Qaeda "perhaps to be visited on the continental United States" – information which both august institutions declined to share with the public. The

Border Lords: Immigration Plan is Crony Pork Bonanza

May 18, 2006 No Comments

My, my, my, isn’t this a surprise! It turns out that George W. Bush’s "Secure Border Initiative" to "control illegal immigration" is actually just a great big pork trough for his cronies and benefactors in the weapons biz to cash in big-time off the suffering and poverty of dusky foreigners. Now where have we seen that before?

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Annals of Liberation: Beer-Busting and Blood-letting in Iraq

May 17, 2006 No Comments

"One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, so fast they follow." — Hamlet

The "All Day Permanent Red" in Iraq roars on relentlessly, a churning spiral of death, chaos, terror and sorrow. This week brings reports of fresh horrors in the supposedly secure south, the British-held territory long cited by the apologists for aggression as a shining example of the Bush-Blair philosophy of "democracy at gunpoint." Armed gangs of religious extremists now control Basra, where the U.S.-backed Iraqi officials report that at least "one person

Smoke Alarm: Yet More Evidence for War Crimes

May 14, 2006 No Comments

Ex-WMD Inspector: Politics Quashed Facts (AP)

Here’s yet another smoking gun revealing the fireless smoke of lies that the Bush Regime spread across the land to justify its outright war of aggression in Iraq. How many more times do

Qwest Resists NSA on Phone Records

May 13, 2006 No Comments

Say Thanks to Qwest! By Chris Floyd and Richard Kastelein It’s not often these days that we have occasion to laud corporate behavior, but the stance taken by the telecom Qwest in resisting the Bush Administration’s covert program to ensnare every single American citizen in a vast web of telephone surveillance deserves our thanks. Every other telecom sold out the privacy of its customers – literally so, taking money to turn over their phone records to the National Security Agency – but Qwest alone insisted on having a court order before complying with Bush’s unprecedented and “indefensible” (as Newt Gingrich

Astroturfing the Constitution: Grassroots Grafters and Government Godfathers

May 12, 2006 No Comments

Media Citizen alerts us — and many other blogs — to the fact that the ad at the right for "www.dontregulate.org" is in fact a classic piece of astroturf: a fake "grass roots" campaign that is actually fronting for Big Telcoms like AT&T and BellSouth, who are trying to destroy one of the foundations of Internet freedom, "Net Neutrality" and replace it with a two-tier system that puts corporate favorites on the fast track and shunts all the rest of the <img loading="lazy" class=" alignright size-full wp-image-733" width="280" vspace="2" hspace="2"

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