Charley Reese

The American press needs to end its lovey-dovey relationship with the Pentagon. The Pentagon has provided ample evidence that it can propagandize the American people without the help of a lap-dog press. It is not the job of the press to support the troops. That is the duty of the American people, their loved ones … Continue reading “Press and Military”

President George W. Bush continues to mislead the American people as to the cause of terrorism directed against the United States. This week he guaranteed that more Americans will die from terrorist attacks due to his stabbing the Palestinians in the back. He has from the beginning acted as if he were a ventriloquist’s dummy … Continue reading “Bush Blows It Again”

Here’s a story from Arabic folklore. A man returned to his village after an absence of several days. He met his best friend, and they sat down to drink tea. “Do you remember the man who offended me 25 years ago?” the man asked his friend. “Sure.” “Well, I killed him two days ago.” “Why … Continue reading “Vengeance, Time, and US Idiocy”

The Bush administration, I fear, is severely learning-disabled. Rational people, acting as individuals or as a group, learn from their mistakes. They gather data, they make decisions, and they take actions. Then they assess the feedback from reality and adjust. For example, if you rely on a person and learn that he or she has … Continue reading “Neocons: Learning Disabled”

The murder of Hamas’ spiritual leader, Sheik Yassin, makes perfect sense as long as you understand Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s strategy. That strategy is to make peace impossible. For three years, Sharon has done everything to prevent peace. He himself provoked the new uprising, re-invaded the occupied territories, destroyed the Palestinian Authority, forced Yasser … Continue reading “US Complicity in Israel’s Misdeeds”

Every now and then, the rumor arises that I have a Palestinian wife. Some of my kin were highly amused by a debate on that subject that was being conducted by letters to the editor in their local paper recently. Apparently, it does not occur to anyone simply to ask me. As a matter of … Continue reading “My Palestinian Wife”

One of the clichés one hears incessantly from the mouths of politicians is that we have the "best-trained, best-equipped Army" in the world. No we don’t. We have a military that is overstretched and underequipped because it has more missions than resources. We have a military that is suffering from a leadership crisis. We have … Continue reading “This Cliché Is A Lie”

U.S. policy toward the most destabilizing factor in the Middle East – the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – is to support Israel and to never offend the Israeli lobby. US politicians use a number of rhetorical devices to disguise this policy, since it guarantees not only a continuation of the conflict, but a continuing supply of terrorists … Continue reading “An Occupation by Any Other Name”

Following President Bush’s hour-long interview with NBC’s Tim Russert, we can now state conclusively that President Bush deliberately misled the American people and continues to do so. Item: Bush claims he was acting on the best intelligence there was when he decided to go to war. Fact: The intelligence given to Bush was full of … Continue reading “A Cynical Manipulation”

About the middle of this month, Russia will stage the largest strategic nuclear maneuvers since 1982. These maneuvers will involve the test-firing of intercontinental ballistic missiles, both from land and sea; the test-firing of cruise missiles from strategic bombers; and even the launch of a military satellite. Publicly, according to the Moscow Times, Russian generals … Continue reading “Practicing Nuclear War”