Originally published in the June 20, 2003 edition of The Moscow Times.

They were digging mass graves in Iraq last week.

No, not the mass graves that George W. Bush now reflexively invokes to justify his murder of up to 10,000 innocent Iraqi civilians and the needless deaths of more than 200 American soldiers in the aggressive war he launched on the basis of  proven lies and outright fabrications. Those mass graves, containing victims of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, were dug years ago, back when powerful American officials like Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Paul Wolfowitz were pursuing “closer ties”

Pax Romana, Pax Britannia and now… today’s Pax Americana.

by RichardK (webmaster)

From the Beeb

US draws up space tourism rules

Space tourists must be screened to ensure they are not terrorists, according to proposed regulations from the US Federal Aviation Administration.

If there’s anything the terrorists want to blow up, it’s stuff in space… I know… because the terrorists hate Freedom and you can’t get any freer than when you’re in space.

Might as well put that NSA data to work. Never mind four

Losing Their Minds: Mark Benjamin tells an important story of how the Pentagon denigrates, humiliates and misdiagnoses soldiers with brain injuries sustained during their term as cannon fodder for George W. Bush’s “war of choice” – as the “muscular liberals” like to call it – in Iraq. The story illustrates once again the paradox that pervades the Bush Regime: They love war, they love military power – but they hate soldiers, the actual human beings who do their dirty work for them. They regard them as mere biological material to be used then discarded. They