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As George W. Bush stumbled, mumbled, and grumbled his way through a special edition of Meet the Press with Tim Russert, an unspoken question kept rising above his droning voice: is this stammering dolt really the President of the United States? On the Missing WMD Commission: “There is a lot of investigations going on about … Continue reading “The President Speaks”

President George W. Bush’s choice to co-chair his commission to investigate intelligence failures prior to the Iraq War is a longtime, right wing political activist closely tied to the neo-conservative network that led the pro-war propaganda campaign. Federal appeals court Judge Laurence Silberman, who will share the chairmanship with former Virginia Democratic Senator Charles Robb, … Continue reading “Co-Chair of Bush Iraq Panel Part of Neocon Network”

Bulgarians were not expecting that some of them would die in action alongside coalition forces in Iraq long before they could join NATO. Six Bulgarian soldiers were killed and 27 wounded in a major suicide attack in Iraq late December. Around 500 Bulgarian troops currently support coalition efforts to establish peace in post-war Iraq. The … Continue reading “Bulgaria Moves from Backyard to Frontline”

About the middle of this month, Russia will stage the largest strategic nuclear maneuvers since 1982. These maneuvers will involve the test-firing of intercontinental ballistic missiles, both from land and sea; the test-firing of cruise missiles from strategic bombers; and even the launch of a military satellite. Publicly, according to the Moscow Times, Russian generals … Continue reading “Practicing Nuclear War”

There is plenty of blame to go around for the mistakes made by going to war in Iraq, especially now that it is common knowledge Saddam Hussein told the truth about having no weapons of mass destruction, and that Al Qaida and 9/11 were in no way related to the Iraqi government. Our intelligence agencies … Continue reading “Congress Abandoned Its Duty on War”

You have to give CIA director George Tenet credit: he managed to pack more obfuscations, evasions, and outright lies into what couldn’t have been more than a half hour speech than one might have thought humanly possible. The purpose of Tenet’s peroration was to get the President, and also his own Agency, off the hook … Continue reading “Neocons Busted!”

Ninety-five days before the invasion of Iraq began, I sat in the ornate Baghdad office of the deputy prime minister as he talked about the U.N. weapons inspectors in his country. "They are doing their jobs freely, without any interruption," Tariq Aziz said. "And still the warmongering language in Washington is keeping on." The White … Continue reading “The Deadly Lies of Reliable Sources”

Since taking office three years ago, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has made a series of bold political pronouncements, especially for a right-wing prime minister. But questions have arisen over what he meant before, and what he means this time. Sharon has said in the past that he is willing to make "painful compromises" for peace. … Continue reading “Israel Out of Gaza? Not so Fast”

Over a decade after the United Nations claimed as a success story the restoration of democracy in war-ravaged Cambodia, the Southeast Asian country is exposing this achievement to be much less than what it has been vaunted to be. Democratic processes like elections are meant to create societies that work for a country’s citizens. But … Continue reading “Cambodia’s Crisis Puts UN ‘Success’ Into Question”

New York, the city most affected by the 9/11 attacks almost two and a half years ago, has become the latest U.S. municipality to formally urge major reforms to the USA PATRIOT Act to eliminate threats to basic civil rights and due-process protections. The New York City Council voted Wednesday to urge local agencies not … Continue reading “New York City Wants Easing of Patriot Act”