Month: October 2007

I am introducing a comprehensive piece of legislation to restore the American Constitution and to restore the liberties that have been sadly eroded over the past several years. This legislation seeks to restore the checks and balances enshrined in the Constitution by our Founding Fathers to prevent abuse of Americans by their government. This proposed … Continue reading “Support the American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007”

Updated at 11:59 p.m. EDT, Oct. 20, 2007At least 24 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 32 more were wounded in the latest violence. A wanted serial killer was arrested al-Bu Owan. Also, the DOD reported that a Marine was killed yesterday in Baghdad, while an MND-B soldier was killed and eight others were … Continue reading “Saturday: 2 GIs, 24 Iraqis Killed; 32 Iraqis Wounded”

BAGHDAD – Resistance to occupation seems to have risen after the assassination last month of Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, head of the al-Bu Risha tribe. Abu Risha had begun to cooperate actively with US forces. Abu Risha was killed Sep. 13 when a bomb exploded outside his house in the restive al-Anbar province to the … Continue reading “Assassination of Sheikh Shakes US Claims”

I am at a conference on war, liberty and the free press sponsored by the Liberty Fund, and there are some discussions we have held that I believe are worth passing on. One of the most significant aspects of the relationship between the press and the military in time of war is secrecy. Almost everybody, … Continue reading “Secrecy and the War Without End”

Five years ago, in a new National Security Statement, President Bush announced that; “The United States has long maintained the option of preemptive actions to counter a sufficient threat to our national security. “The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of inaction – and the more compelling the case for taking anticipatory action … Continue reading “WWIII – Bring It On”

They can’t help themselves. They want to confess. How else to explain the torture memorandums that continue to flow out of the inner sancta of this administration, the most recent of which were evidently leaked to the New York Times. Those two, from the Alberto Gonzales Justice Department, were written in 2005 and recommitted the … Continue reading “Bush’s Pentagon Papers: The Urge to Confess”

The Mother of All Pretexts Uri Avnery’s “The Mother of All Pretexts” is carefully and subtly wrought, by a mind alive with the history of the region and its deeper nuances. Two points might be added. The idea of a “clash of civilizations” is not a new idea, but rooted in the study of the … Continue reading “Backtalk, October 20, 2007”

Updated at 11:15 p.m. EDT, Oct. 19, 2007At least 22 Iraqis were killed and 22 were wounded during violence that was extremely light — even for the Friday prayer day when few reporters are working. Also, two American servicemembers died in separate incidents. An MND-B soldier was killed and another was wounded during an IED … Continue reading “Friday: 2 GIs, 22 Iraqis Killed; 22 Iraqis Wounded”

The policy of isolation towards Cuba is a bad hangover from the Cold War that the United States can’t afford to nurse any longer, foreign policy experts and Cuban-American political activists argued this week, both because of its unpopularity and a variety of concerns raised by critics of all stripes. “The Cold War is over,” … Continue reading “Still Flogging a Dead Cuba Policy?”

The George W. Bush administration’s shift from the military option of a massive strategic attack against Iran to a surgical strike against selected targets associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported by Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker earlier this month, appears to have been prompted not by new alarm at Iran’s role … Continue reading “Military Resistance Forced Shift on Iran Strike”