Month: January 2006

MoveOn.org Surrenders I agree with your statements 100%. As a progressive lesbian feminist, I would never have dreamed I would be opposed to a Hillary Clinton presidential candidacy. But my antiwar sentiments trump everything, and I would not vote for Hillary if she were running for dog catcher. As for MoveOn, they will not get … Continue reading “Backtalk January 16, 2006”

There is a “revelation” in James Risen’s latest book – State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration – that is perhaps more revealing than anyone intended. According to Risen, back in February 2000, the CIA finally found a job for one of their assets – a Russian "defector," long … Continue reading “Planting Evidence”

With the billions of dollars appropriated by the United States for Iraqi reconstruction almost spent, Japan, Australia and other nations in U.S. President George W. Bush’s "coalition of the willing" are likely to be asked to shoulder much of the burden for funding the large number of unfinished projects. Getting others to take up the … Continue reading “Bush’s New Multilateralism”

LONDON – Western powers are already planning use of the military option in the face of Iran’s insistence that it will go ahead with what it calls its nuclear research program, a leading expert says. ”The military option is being considered already, they are just not talking about it because it would be deeply unpopular,” … Continue reading “Iran Air Strikes ‘Under Consideration’”

Ariel Sharon, Israel’s prime minister, is for all practical purposes dead. They might keep his body alive, but if the bleeding was as massive as it’s been reported, then chances of his regaining his mental powers are nil. Sharon was a great, though controversial, military tactician. I always thought of him as Israel’s George Patton. … Continue reading “Sharon: Not a ‘Man of Peace’”

James Risen’s State of War: the Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration, may hold bigger secrets than the disclosure that President George W. Bush authorized warrantless eavesdropping on Americans. Risen’s book also confirms the most damning element of the British Cabinet Office memos popularly called the "Downing Street memos;" namely, that "the … Continue reading “Proof Bush Deceived America”

Now that Iran has broken the seals it put two and a half years ago on an atomic research facility at Natanz, 250 km (155 mi.) south of Tehran, the threat of escalating conflict centered on the Western powers’ effort to halt its nuclear activities looms large. The major nuclear-weapon states, led by the United … Continue reading “Iran Opens Nuclear Locks – and a Hornet’s Nest”

As the U.S. gets ready to move on Iran, under the pretext of a gathering Iranian nuclear threat, the news that the War Party got creative when WMD were nowhere to be found in Iraq should give us pause. According to a report in Raw Story by Larisa Alexandrovna, the Office of Special Plans (OSP) … Continue reading “War, Lies, and Videotape”

Three years ago, the United States undertook an invasion – a war of choice, not necessity – of Iraq, a country about which most Americans, and most American policymakers, knew very little. Saddam Hussein had been properly demonized by officials and most of the U.S. media, of course, but even if he had possessed the … Continue reading “History’s Burden in Iraq”

2006 is sure to be the year of living dangerously – for the Bush administration and for the rest of us. In the wake of revelations of warrantless spying by the National Security Agency, we have already embarked on what looks distinctly like a constitutional crisis (which may not come to a full boil until … Continue reading “Bush v. Reality”