On November 6th, George W. Bush announced that America, through it's interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan was leading a "global democratic revolution". That he should have made such remarks on the eve of Leon Trotsky's birthday – the architect of...
Group Contests Casino Owned by Pro-Israel Extremists’ Backer
While U.S. Treasury officials scour financial records worldwide to stop funds donated by wealthy Arabs from flowing to radical Islamist groups, a small group of U.S. citizens is trying to shut down a major source of funding for Jewish extremists in Israel and the...
Not About Bush
Too many Americans seem to think that everything in politics is about being either for President Bush or against him. They are encouraged to do so by partisan propagandists. That's wrong. That's no different from people living in a dictatorship who have only one...
Reservists Refusing Iraq Deployment
Some members of the U.S. National Guard and Reserves are refusing to go overseas, despite the Pentagon's plan to deploy even more of their ranks in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Army Reserve tries to give soldiers at least five years between overseas postings; some are...
Pawns Amidst the Palms
Bush Versus Bush in 2004? A fraternal fracas brewing in Florida as proxies of the Governor and the President vie to succeed retiring Senator Bob Graham. Jeb backs Katherine Harris, but the White House [allegedly] demurs: "There's no way the White House will let her...
Going AWOL
We're supposed to believe that the President went to Iraq for Thanksgiving because he's such a brave guy, and just because it was The Right Thing to Do. The growing legion of Bush-haters, who see the President's every move as a calculated political ploy, frame his...
US Exporting ‘Tools of Torture’
The administration of US President George W. Bush is violating the spirit of its own export policy by approving the sale of tools to countries known to use them to torture detainees, according to a new report released here Tuesday by Amnesty International. In 2002, US...
South Asia Spars Over Commonwealth Summit
Even as they enforce a ceasefire along the Kashmir border and make other peace overtures to each other, India and Pakistan continue to fight each other in multilateral forums. They famously indulged in a slugfest three months ago at the U. N. General Assembly. The...
Experts Returning from Iraq Criticize US Tactics
While electricity generation now exceeds pre-invasion levels, markets are plentiful, and virtually all school-aged children are back at their desks, the war for Iraqi "hearts and minds" remains very much up in the air, say independent analysts who have...
Let Them Eat Turkey
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