Question: How many people does it take to fill a mass grave? No, this is not a joke, because although I don't know the "official" answer, the one thing I do know about mass extermination is that it's typically not a subject that lends itself well to humor....
The Yushchenko ‘Poison Plot’ Fraud
The headlines blared: "Doctors Confirm Yushchenko Poison Claim" – and, yes, even I believed it. But, you know what? It's a lie. And now the truth is coming out…. I knew there was something fishy about the whole...
The Neocons Haven’t Won Yet
With Bush's 51 percent victory, Colin Powell's departure, and the purge at CIA, many on the Old Right seem sunk in Bunyan's Slough of Despond. They assume the neoconservatives are now free to pursue war without end. Yet, six weeks have now passed since Nov. 2,...
Lethal Weapons: Neocon Groupies
Never underestimate the contribution neoconservative women in the scribbling and broadcasting professions have made to sexing up the war. When a bunch of babes with bursting décolletages quakes and quivers for military action, their fans (males, especially) do more...
From Moral Individuals to Obedient Recruits … if They Survive
"When the prisoners first arrived at the camp, widely-published photographs showed them blindfolded, chained, and manacled...." - BBC News "From the time they are driven onto the base, recruits are told to keep their heads down and eyes closed. The less...
Rummy Back on the Rocks?
Despite being asked by President George W. Bush to stay in his post, Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld appears to be in growing political trouble, and not just because of his cavalier reply last week to a question posed by a member of the Tennessee National Guard in...
Next Target: Iran?
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e041214.html
US Military Obstructing Medical Care in Iraq
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military has been preventing delivery of medical care in several instances, medical staff say. Iraqi doctors at many hospitals have reported raids by Coalition forces. Some of the more recent raids have been in Amiriyat al-Fallujah, about 10 km (6.2...
Nation-Building Is Not Conservative
A recent study [.pdf] by the Pentagon's Defense Science Task Force on Strategic Communications concluded that in the struggle for hearts and minds in Iraq, "American efforts have not only failed, they may also have achieved the opposite of what they intended." This...
Dangerous Delusions About Iran
Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith is the neocon Likudnik who was tasked with cooking up the false "intelligence" that President Bush used to deceive the U.S. public into supporting an illegal invasion of Iraq. With the U.S. military now trapped in the Iraqi...


