Mid-August 2005 may be remembered as a moment in U.S. history when the president could no longer get away with the media trick of solemnly patting death on its head. Unreality is a hallmark of media coverage for war. Yet – most of all – war is about death and suffering. Warmakers thrive on abstractions. …
Continue reading “Rage Against the Killing of the Light”
For my radio show on August 6th I interviewed Jacob Hornberger, the founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation. [stream] [download] The man was upset. Why? Because, he says, the Bush regime, which has already acted contrary to every one of the first ten amendments, is now poised to destroy the Bill of …
Continue reading “Tyranny’s Gate”
A career diplomat and foreign policy operative, Eric S. Edelman has just replaced the controversial Douglas Feith at the Pentagon as the new undersecretary of defense for policy, having been appointed by President Bush during a congressional recess. Many observers had wrongly assumed that Edelman would become Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s top deputy. Instead …
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"Sheehan has been involved in protests against Bush since last year. She founded Gold Star Families for Peace…She said she decided to seek another audience with Bush when she heard his comments about the war last week, after a spike in American deaths. The fallen men and women "died in a noble cause," Bush said …
Continue reading “Angry Mothers and Trembling Grizzlies: The Sheehan Effect”
The news that the Rolling Stones are coming out with a song called “Sweet Neocon” that takes the administration to task for its Iraq war policy is … music to my ears: “You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite/ You call yourself a patriot. Well, I think your are full of sh*t!… …
Continue reading “No Sympathy for the Neocons”
We have now reached another of those recurring tinderbox moments relating to Iran. Yesterday, the Iranians officially relaunched their nuclear program, beginning a suspended process of uranium conversion at a facility near Isfahan. In this, Iran’s emboldened clerical regime defies the European troika – France, Germany, England – with which it has been in negotiations, …
Continue reading “Iranian Ironies”
A lot of people want to believe that the current war on Iraq is some kind of aberration – a radical departure from the previous baseline of U.S. foreign policy. That’s a comforting illusion. Yes, the current administration in Washington is notable for the extreme mendacity and calculated idiocy of its claims. But – decade …
Continue reading “Big Star-Spangled Lies for War”
Medical ethics have been corrupted because doctors and medical bodies have taken direct and indirect part in abusing prisoners detained as part of what U.S. and other officials call the "war on terror," a senior British Medical Association (BMA) official said Thursday. "Governmental and medical bodies have begun adjusting and blurring their ethical guidance, tilting …
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This morning I sit at my keyboard in awe of the events of this past weekend. Cindy Sheehan’s trip to Crawford to talk to President Bush started out as just a small idea Wednesday evening. None of us thought for even a minute that it would snowball into the media and historic event that it …
Continue reading “Peasants on the March to King George”
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