It is not yet Bush's second term. All available U.S. troops are tied down in Iraq by a few thousand lightly armed insurgents. Go-it-alone Bush has isolated America from her allies. And the neocons want to spread their war to Iran. The Bush administration is recycling...
The United States is in dire straits. Its government is in the hands of people who connect to events neither rationally nor morally. If President Bush's neoconservative administration were rational, the U.S. would never have invaded Iraq. If Bush's government were...
On Nov. 2, Americans blew their only chance to redeem themselves in the eyes of the world. The entire world is stunned by the Bush administration's abandonment of a half century of U.S. diplomacy in favor of misguided, unilateralist, "preemptive" naked...
What was the presidential election about? In their victory speeches, Vice President Cheney and President Bush claimed a "mandate," "historic victory," and that "America has spoken." A mandate for what? A victory for what? How spake...
James Bovard, the great libertarian champion of our freedom and civil liberties, recently shared with readers his mail from Bush supporters. For starters, here are some of the salutations: "communist bastard," "a**hole," "a piece of trash,...
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie, have purchased a $6.4 million townhouse in Connaught Square and plan on spending another $900,000 fixing it up. The Blairs already own a $800,000 six-bedroom home in his Sedgefield constituency on which taxpayers...
The presidential debates are going nowhere. Why? Because both President George Bush and Senator John Kerry are encapsulated in a big lie. The lie is too big to be acknowledged. Both candidates repeat the mantra that Saddam Hussein was dangerous to America and had to...
Democrats should face it: they are incompetent and Bush will be reelected. With less than two months to go before the election, John Kerry is yet to address a single important issue. William Rivers Pitt, who runs the liberal web site Truthout, vented his frustration...
Anyone following the Larry Franklin Pentagon spy story is keenly aware of the solidarity binding neoconservatives, AIPAC, Israel's right-wing Likud Party, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the war drums neocons are beating against Iran. By this time, only the willfully...
Writing for the public has always been a challenging task. However, President Bush's declaration that "you are with us or against us" has intensified readers' tendency to see columnists in the same way. Awareness is fading that a writer could be an independent thinker...
