Via Dependable Renegade, a picture that speaks for itself. (We’ll just add that Bush’s beefy buddy here, House Porker, er, Speaker Dennis Hastert, is the subject of this week’s “Global Eye” column in The Moscow Times, which will be up on this site in a couple of days.)
This is the democracy that Bush has bestowed upon Iraq: Armed thugs from the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq — a fundamentalist group nurtured and suckled in Iran by the Ayatollah Khomeini — entered the office of Baghdad’s mayor, Alaa al-Tamimi, yesterday and summarily removed him, at gunpoint, from his post. Then they replaced them with their own man. Now the Iraqi capital can look forward to the same kind of harsh, fundamentalist rule now gracing the streets of Basra, where death squads and religious enforcers prowl the streets, enforcing Taliban-like repression.
The new “democratic” government
OXFORD, England — It’s not often that we get the chance to break historic news on this site, but we are proud to announce that our Dear Leader has been vindicated at last: the source of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction has been revealed! Let’s now see all the scoffers and doubters salt the earth with their tears of contrition!
Appropriately enough, the historic news was announced in the world’s most historic newspaper: The Times of London. Writing today in those stories pages, reporter Dominic Kennedy that the source of Saddam’s deadly anthrax WMD has been traced to….a
Wise man William Blum takes on the Bush gang’s all-purpose excuse when confronted with charges of torture in the Pentagon Archipelago. From Blum’s latest Anti-Empire Report (not yet on line, but check out his website, Killing Hope):
“It is important to note that al Qaeda training manuals emphasize the tactic of making false abuse allegations.”
This is now the official and frequent response of White House, Pentagon, and State Department spokespersons when confronted with charges of American “abuse” (read: torture) of prisoners, and is being repeated by many supporters of the war scattered around the Internet.
<brThe invaluable Dahr Jamail reports from the Veterans for Peace National Convention in Dallas, where Iraqi vets laid it on the line about the unjust, ungodly war they were dragooned into fighting by the lies of the little gutless bag of wind “clearing brush” on his little faux ranch down the road.
Their eloquent anger and dedication to halting Bush’s criminal insanity is reason enough for reading the piece, but there are also telling bits of information as well, such as confirmation of the widespread use of depleted uranium and its devastating effects on
It’s easy to forget sometimes – amidst all the lofty talk of geopolitics, of apocalyptic clashes between good and evil, of terror, liberty, security and God – that the war on is “largely a matter of loot,” as Kasper Gutman so aptly described the Crusades in that seminal treatise on human nature, The Maltese Falcon. And nowhere is this more evident than in the festering, oozing imposthume of corruption centered around the Gutman-like figure of Dick Cheney.
Yes, it’s once more into the breach with Halliburton, the gargantuan government contractor that
Original version published in The Moscow Times, March 18, 2005.
President George W. Bush often complains about the “media filter” that distorts the true picture of his Administration’s accomplishments in Iraq. And he’s right. For regardless of where you stand on Mr. Bush’s policies in the region, it’s undeniable that the political and commercial biases of the American press have consistently misrepresented the reality of the situation.
From the always intriguing Limited Inc., a glimpse into the true face of Bushist Man: predatory, pitiless, sick with envy and fear of the Good. Bloodsucking for Fun and Profit.
Eyewitnesses say undercover security officers have just shot a man dead at a London Underground station, apparently a suspected suicide bomber. Reports are still sketchy at the moment, but from eyewitness accounts, it looks like the UK police are now applying “Bush rules” when it comes to handling suspects. From the BBC:
“…[Underground passenger Mark] Whitby told BBC News: “I was sitting on the train reading my paper. I heard a load of noise, people saying, ‘Get out, get down!’ I saw an Asian guy run onto the train hotly pursued by three plain-clothes police officers. One of