December 2005
James Wolcott: Intelligent Design: Opiate of the Dummies
Wielding a sword of truth and a surgical scalpel of reason (he's quite ambidextrous), NRO's John Derbyshire pierces the fatty deposits of bad faith in the postures of religious piety by certain conservative eggheads.
Iraq's Death Squads
OF ALL THE bloodshed in Iraq, none may be more disturbing than the campaign of torture and murder being conducted by U.S.-trained government police forces.
Rev. William E. Alberts: the Forgotten Christmas Story
Saying "No" to King Herod
Mr. Bush, have I got an exit strategy for you
In view of his miserable record, his arrogant lack of good judgment and his failure to understand the gravity of his record, President Bush (and Vice President Dick Cheney) should be shown the exit door with a proviso to never darken the Oval Office again
November 2005
Full Marx for George Bush by John Laughland
libertarian analysis that Bush has marxists supporting him ideologically and practically
August 2005
The Official Site Of Irwin Corey
Listen and Laugh!
America's Big Malignant Tumor /
Libs are salivating that Karl Rove might go down. But hasn't the worst cancer already spread?
Sickening story in The Washington Post
Documents Tell of Brutal Improvisation by GIs: Interrogated General's Sleeping-Bag Death, CIA's Use of Secret Iraqi Squad Are Among Details
The Neo-Conservative Ascendancy in the Bush Administration
Jim Lobe: the man who has, in my opinion, done better reportorial work on the neoconservatives and the Bush administration than any other reporter around: TomDispach
July 2005
Roy Greenslade: The lies behind the lies: Secrets and Lies: The True Story of the Iraq War by Dilip Hiro
A depressing but magisterial assessment of the reasoning that led to the invasion of Iraq.
The Smirking Chimp
Daniel Ellsberg: 'I wrote Bush's war words — in 1965'
June 2005
Three Things About Iraq - NYT
If the war is going according to plan, someone needs to rethink the plan.
Joe Conason at Salon.com: Karl Rove is a liar and a scoundrel. He is not a patriot but a pure partisan, as his own record proved long before now.
In attacking liberals' reaction to Sept. 11, Bush's senior advisor once again resorts to McCarthy-style tactics.
Two years on, the echoes of Vietnam are getting louder
American defeat in 1975 brought about Vietnamese unification, while American failure in Iraq will almost certainly precipitate that country's fragmentation.
May 2005
The Quagmire: As the Iraq War Drags on, it's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Vietnam
. Two years after the U.S. invasion, Iraq is perched on the brink of civil war. Months after the election, the new Iraqi government remains hunkered down inside the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, surviving only because it is defended by thousands of U.S
April 2005
Ian Rutledge in the Financial Times:
US appears to have fought war for oil and lost it
Speech by Cindy Sheehan made at Riverside Church -- where Martin Luther King gave his "Beloved Community" speech
Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs....gangsters who lust after fortunes and power; never caring that their addictions are at the expense of our loved ones, and the blood of innocent people near and far.
March 2005
The Top Ten Conservative Idiots: Democratic Underground
Yet another list from DU. Well they're spoilt for choice aren't they?
The Seattle Times: Health: U.S. suicides outpace homicides
Suicides outnumber homicides in the United States, and about 90 percent of people who kill themselves have a diagnosable and preventable problem such as depression, a top mental-health official said yesterday.
February 2005
Press Impostor
How is it that an administration that screened thousands of people for attendance at Bush campaign rallies repeatedly let a fake reporter into the sanctorum of the White House pressroom under a false name? Who was running that background check?
January 2005
Ignore the vanity of the Bushites, America's might is draining away: Matthew Parris
For many decades America’s share of the world’s economic output has been in decline. America’s modesty in 1945 understated its muscle, Bushite vanity overstates it today.
