With great fanfare the other day, Oprah Winfrey asked James Frey a question that mainstream journalists refuse to ask George W. Bush: "Why would you lie?" Many pundits and news outlets have chortled at the televised unmasking of Frey as a liar. The reverberations have...
The neoconservatives who dreamed up the Bush Doctrine – promoting "democracy" would be the U.S. mission in the Middle East – may be about to hold yet another "Seconds Thoughts" conference. Certainly, Israel must be having second thoughts on the folly of...
As Antiwar.com reported two weeks ago, the Italian mission in Iraq, Antica Babilonia, will last until late 2006. At that time, Minister of Defense Antonio Martino maintained during a parliamentary hearing, all Italian troops will be withdrawn from Iraq, since the aim...
In keeping with its established role as purveyor of disinformation, Fox "News" talking head Brit Hume misreported Fox's own poll. On Special Report on Jan. 26, Hume said that 51 percent of Americans "would now support" air strikes on Iran. What the poll found is that...
Success, money, and the sort of competence that looks effortless – Google, the company behind the world's best search engine, has it all. It was therefore only a matter of time before ideologues, cretins, and government regulators – or do I repeat myself?...
Request For Urgent Political Intervention Dear American Citizen, First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and "top secret." Many authorities in the current regime of my home...
When The New York Times revealed that President George Bush had authorized warrantless surveillance of Americans, the Bush administration reacted in its usual manner: attack and then stage a public-relations campaign. The attack was in the usual jingoistic mode,...
JERUSALEM - It took acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert more than 12 hours to respond. Maybe, like most Israelis, he was caught off guard by Hamas's stunning victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections. Maybe, having stepped into the role of acting prime...
In a series of developments – some more publicized than others – the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, has been undergoing a transformation that will more closely align its activities with the State Department and the Pentagon....
After every deep-serious meeting with Russian and/or Chinese leaders, Secretary of State Condi Rice emerges to tell her media sycophants that the Russians and/or Chinese basically agree with our position on Iran’s nuclear programs. Condi’s position is that...
