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Recently, a number – one billion – in the New York Times stopped me in my tracks. According to a report commissioned by the foundation charged with building Reflecting Absence, the memorial to the dead in the attack on the World Trade Center, its projected cost is now estimated at about a billion dollars and … Continue reading “Reflecting Hubris”

The nomination of Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) former director, to replace the disastrously incompetent Porter Goss as director of the CIA, should be rejected on the grounds that Hayden subverted the U.S. Constitution. In addition, the public debate about the efficacy of the recent intelligence reorganization should lead to the … Continue reading “Abolish Both the Hayden Nomination and NSA”

The U.S. government has again invoked the "state secrets" privilege, arguing that a public trial of a lawsuit against a former head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for abducting and imprisoning a German citizen would lead to disclosure of information harmful to U.S. national security. Once rarely used, the "state secrets" privilege has over … Continue reading “US Fights Redress for CIA Kidnapping ‘Mistake’”

The neoconservative Bush regime has adroitly used 9/11 to create a fear of terrorism among Americans that blinds Americans to the Bush regime’s assault on our constitutional system. Americans have meekly acquiesced to the Bush regime’s brutal assaults on civil liberties, human rights, the separation of powers, and statutory law, because Americans have been brainwashed … Continue reading “The Real Assault on America”

The lies keep coming. During the run-up to war with Iraq, we were told this administration knew for sure that Saddam had “weapons of mass destruction,” and not only that, but knew exactly where they were. When no WMD turned up after the invasion, the Bushies came up with a bushel of excuses and denied … Continue reading “Fascism: Are We There Yet?”

One of the main ways modern political dialogue has gone wrong is in various people’s use of the word “lying” to describe what those they disagree with are doing. If you’ve followed any political dialogue at all over the last 10 years, you’ll know what I’m talking about. So, for example, person A makes claim … Continue reading “Did Rumsfeld Lie – and When?”

with Salam TalibThe US government has lost track of over 200,000 machine guns that were supposed to be used by the Iraqi police. The 99-ton cache of AK47s was to have been secretly flown out from a US base in Bosnia. But the four planeloads of arms have vanished. This, along with the escape of … Continue reading “America Loses Guns, Prisoners”

If you haven’t read the letter Mahmoud Ahmdinejad, president of Iran, has just sent to President Bush, maybe it’s because the media elite have deliberately kept it from you. Why would they do that? Well, according to Condi Rice – a leading candidate for worst secretary of state, ever – the first direct communication from … Continue reading “Western-Style Democracy – No!”

Untitled Document Now Is the Time for a Left-Right AllianceAlthough I am a devout liberal, it nearly brought tears of joy to my eyes to read your article and realize that the Honorable Conservative was not a myth nor even extinct, but possibly alive and fighting the good fight.In another time and place I would … Continue reading “Backtalk, May 13, 2006”

In the 27 years since the Iranian Revolution, the United States has launched air strikes on Libya, invaded Grenada, put Marines in Lebanon, and run air strikes in the Bekaa Valley and Chouf Mountains in retaliation for the Beirut bombing. We invaded Panama, launched Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait, and put troops into Somalia. Under … Continue reading “‘Comrade Wolf’ and the Mullahs”