The nomination of Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the National Security Agency's (NSA's) former director, to replace the disastrously incompetent Porter Goss as director of the CIA, should be rejected on the grounds that Hayden subverted the U.S. Constitution. In addition,...
Did Rumsfeld Lie and When?
One of the main ways modern political dialogue has gone wrong is in various people's use of the word "lying" to describe what those they disagree with are doing. If you've followed any political dialogue at all over the last 10 years, you'll know what I'm talking...
Fascism: Are We There Yet?
The lies keep coming. During the run-up to war with Iraq, we were told this administration knew for sure that Saddam had "weapons of mass destruction," and not only that, but knew exactly where they were. When no WMD turned up after the invasion, the Bushies came up...
Backtalk, May 13, 2006
Untitled Document Now Is the Time for a Left-Right AllianceAlthough I am a devout liberal, it nearly brought tears of joy to my eyes to read your article and realize that the Honorable Conservative was not a myth nor even extinct, but possibly alive and fighting the...
Western-Style Democracy No!
If you haven't read the letter Mahmoud Ahmdinejad, president of Iran, has just sent to President Bush, maybe it's because the media elite have deliberately kept it from you. Why would they do that? Well, according to Condi Rice a leading candidate for worst...
America Loses Guns, Prisoners
with Salam TalibThe US government has lost track of over 200,000 machine guns that were supposed to be used by the Iraqi police. The 99-ton cache of AK47s was to have been secretly flown out from a US base in Bosnia. But the four planeloads of arms have vanished....
April 18, 2006: America’s Step Off the Nuclear Edge
Remember the old cartoons where the character walks off a cliff and continues walking on thin air until he looks down and plunges? America walked off the cliff on April 18, 2006, and has been suspended above the nuclear abyss since, set to plunge down at a moment's...
Israel’s Road to ‘Convergence’ Began With Rabin
With his coalition partners on board, Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is plotting his next move: a partial withdrawal from the West Bank over the next few years that he and his government will declare as the end of the occupation and therefore also any legitimate...
Iran Nuclear Conflict Is About US Dominance
As the George W. Bush administration pushes for a showdown over Iran's nuclear program in the UN Security Council, it has presented the issue as a matter of global security an Iranian nuclear threat in defiance of the international community. But the history of...
American Dominatrix
Anti-Americanism is a big problem for U.S. business: if people turn against America because of the policies of our government, then that means lost profits. Our proclivity for alienating the citizens of practically every nation is costing us a pretty penny, and...


