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One of the clichés one hears incessantly from the mouths of politicians is that we have the "best-trained, best-equipped Army" in the world. No we don’t. We have a military that is overstretched and underequipped because it has more missions than resources. We have a military that is suffering from a leadership crisis. We have … Continue reading “This Cliché Is A Lie”

On March 9, the all-but-official Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry told a group of supporters after a speech in Illinois that he had never had to deal with such "lying and crookedness." He did not specify about whom he was speaking, but outraged Republican leaders assumed, probably correctly, that he was referring to the Bush … Continue reading “Untruth And Consequences”

For neo-conservative and other right-wing US hawks, Madrid has suddenly become Munich in 1938 and Spain’s Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. In an extraordinarily unanimous campaign, newspaper columnists and television commentators are flooding the media with cries of “appeasement,” the dreaded epithet with which Chamberlain was permanently … Continue reading “Madrid 2004 = Munich 1938? Not Even Close”

Casualties in Iraq I would like to see a breakdown, if it is possible with the information you can get, of the wounded as to how many are "life changing" wounds. In other words, how many are receiving wounds that will hamper their future lives in terms of physical and mental activity? This is certainly … Continue reading “”

Between 1971 and 1973, he was commander of the Derry Brigade of the Provisional IRA, which fought gun battles with British soldiers in a war that would cost 320 lives. Arrested in Donegal near a car loaded with 5,000 rounds of ammunition and 250 pounds of explosives, he was sentenced to six months by a … Continue reading “Terrorists – and Freedom Fighters?”

This silly question is being asked by billionnaire Rupert Murdoch’s and Conrad Black’s media outlets all over the world in blazing headlines. For some strange reason, the billionnaires aren’t happy that the Socialist Workers’ Party won the elections in Spain, and are trying to portray the outcome as cowardice on the part of the Spanish … Continue reading “Did al-Qaeda Win the Spanish Elections?”

Mistrust of the United States, particularly US President George W. Bush, has grown steadily in western Europe over the past 10 months while anti-American sentiment in the Arab world remains pervasive, says a major new public-opinion poll of nine countries. Large majorities in each of the eight foreign nations surveyed (the United States was the … Continue reading “Gap Grows Between US, World Public Opinion”

The neocons wanted a new world war – and now they have it. That is the meaning of the Madrid attacks, in which 201 people were killed and over a thousand wounded, for which Al Qaeda has taken responsibility. In the run-up to the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the neoconservative network – which had … Continue reading “The Meaning of Madrid”

NATO is being asked to take a hand in security for the Olympic Games to be held in Athens in August. The day after bombs killed some 200 and wounded more than 1,400 in Madrid, the Greek government formally asked the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to get involved in Olympics security operations. Security is … Continue reading “Greece Cracks Down on Political Asylum as NATO Called in for Olympics Security”

Within just four days, terrorism radically changed the direction of the general elections that took place Sunday in Spain, and tested the public’s tolerance of concealment and manipulation of information in the investigation effort. On Sunday, the governing Popular Party (PP) lost 35 seats in Congress and its absolute majority. To judge by the opinion … Continue reading “Government Lies on Iraq, Bombings, Led to Defeat at the Polls”