There is a story I have been hearing lately that goes something like this: "A Japanese Dairy Group opened a factory in China and began processing dairy products for consumption in Japan. The Japanese, being both fastidious and organized in character, kept the factory...
Iraq Dispatch
American Troops Cut Down Iraqi Couple, Terrorize Village
This is the farm village that Cliff Kindy, leader of the Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT), refers to as the "razor wire place." It's actually a small town, around half of which the U.S. Army has unrolled concertina razor wire, and completed the effect with a checkpoint...
Have the Neocons Killed a Presidency?
George W. Bush "betrayed us," howled Al Gore. "He played on our fear. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure, dangerous to our troops, an adventure that was preordained and planned before 9-11 ever happened." Hearing it, Gore's rant seemed slanderous...
Smoking Gun
In the run-up to war, as the British were going through the motions of getting a second resolution through the UN Security Council, there was much speculation as to how the 6 non-permanent members of that body would vote. So high was the interest in this question on...
A Cynical Manipulation
Following President Bush's hour-long interview with NBC's Tim Russert, we can now state conclusively that President Bush deliberately misled the American people and continues to do so. Item: Bush claims he was acting on the best intelligence there was when he decided...
Gazans Fear This Might Not Be Goodbye
Outside the Israeli settlement of Neve Dekalim a group of Palestinians waited patiently under a corrugated iron roof near an Israeli barrier to cross back to their village. The Gush Katif bloc of settlements in southern Gaza, of which Neve Dekalim is one, have cut...
How Not to Curb Nuclear Proliferation
President George Bush's proposed curbs on the spread of nuclear weapons, outlined at his National Defense University address on Wednesday, and the continuing disclosures about clandestine nuclear transfers from Pakistan to North Korea, Libya and Iran, occasion a good...
Both Parties AWOL
The limitless capacity of both major parties to distract us from what's really important may be their true and only function. That thesis, at any rate, is certainly on display this election season. The Democrats are now howling that President Bush has no right to call...
Violence Stymies UN Efforts to Return to Iraq
Multiple suicide bombings in Iraq early this week and escalating violence against U.S.-led multi-national military forces are stymieing U.N. efforts to return to the war-devastated country. The world body pulled its international workers out of the occupied nation...
Backtalk, February 13, 2004
GoodBye Gancarski I agree 100% with getting rid of Gancarski, if anything, it should have been done a lot sooner. I'm not sure I could have been as easy on him as you were (maybe you don't think you were easy on him, but I was thinking of a Singapore-style public...


