BRUSSELS - Government blacklists that proscribe groups and individuals as terrorists are arbitrary, secretive, and unjust, according to a new report by a network of civil rights groups. Statewatch, which monitors the civil liberties in the European Union (EU), the...
Backtalk, July 1, 2005
Trading, Not Invading: US Hums Different Tune on Vietnam As someone who campaigned against the criminal American war in Vietnam, and has now lived here for eight years, this article gives an erroneous and unfair view of Vietnam today. As anyone who cares to visit or...
Memo to the Iraq War
On the propaganda front, it's been another tough week for Washington's war makers. But for them, where there's hope there's death. Let's address the Iraq war directly: It's too soon to know whether the Bush administration's new PR offensive will do anything for you in...
They Died for Their Country
"In this time of testing, our troops can know: The American people are behind you. Next week, our nation has an opportunity to make sure that support is felt by every soldier, sailor, airman, Coast Guardsman, and Marine at every outpost across the world. This Fourth...
Stay the Crooked Course
The editors of the New York Times this morning feign shock that in his speech at Fort Bragg yesterday evening President George W. Bush would "raise the bloody flag of 9/11 over and over again to justify a war in a country that had nothing whatsoever to do with...
Jesus Is Not Our Co-Pilot, Academy Insists
The U.S. Air Force continued to carry out damage control Tuesday before a congressional committee looking into religious intolerance at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., which trains future officers. A military task force reported last week that there...
Gonzocons Erase History
Oh, to be a gonzocon in denial! Has National Review online (NRO) become the National Backward Glance? Are all the rah-rah warmongers and Star Trek fans on "The Corner" beginning to feel the breath of history down the backs of their necks? Or, to paraphrase...
Report: ‘Appalling Fraud and Greed’ in Iraq Contracts
As a congressional committee heard testimony last week that billions of Iraqi dollars held in trust by the U.S. government still cannot be accounted for, the inspector general charged with tracking the funds said he has referred three contractors to the...
Bush’s Iraq Speech Falls Flat
Despite a strong delivery, solemn demeanor, and a respectful military audience, U.S. President George W. Bush's effort to rally the nation behind his Iraq strategy through a prime-time televised speech at Fort Bragg, N.C., offered nothing new to reassure a restive...
The Mask of Power
Atrocity Porn, Human Rights, and Empire Three weeks after it went public, the video of Serb militiamen shooting six Muslims in the mountains of Bosnia has turned into a media monster. The supposedly "irrefutable" evidence of Serbian involvement in the...


