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Top officials in the Bush administration have often complained that news coverage of Iraq focuses on negative events too much and fails to devote enough attention to positive developments. Yet the White House has rarely picked direct fights with U.S. media outlets during this war. For the most part, President Bush leaves it to others … Continue reading “Blaming the Media for
Bad War News”

A Collapsing PresidencyI judge people by their records. The only man who really predicted everything that has happened in the last four years BEFORE it happened was Paul Craig Roberts.I am a Republican and a classical conservative. Paul Craig Roberts is my number one hero in life. I consider every article he writes to be … Continue reading “Backtalk, March 24, 2006”

In his provocative documentary Why We Fight, director Eugene Jarecki asks whether Washington’s foreign policy is overly preoccupied with the idea of military supremacy, and if the military has become too important in U.S. life. Jarecki interviews subjects from across the political spectrum, including Wilton Sekzer, a retired New York police officer whose son died … Continue reading “Is War America’s Real National Pastime?”

Wednesday, Sibel Edmonds, former FBI language specialist and a whistleblower, filed a motion in a Washington, D.C., federal court asking for the recusal of Judge Reggie Walton from Edmonds’ pending case filed under the Federal Tort Claim Act. Walton is also currently hearing the perjury case involving I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former chief of … Continue reading “FBI Whistleblower Files Motion for Judge’s Recusal”

In Part 1 of his interview, Chalmers Johnson suggested what that fall-of-the-Berlin-Wall, end-of-the-Cold-War moment meant to him; explored how deeply empire and militarism have entered the American bloodstream; and began to consider what it means to live in an unacknowledged state of military Keynesianism, garrisoning the planet, and with an imperial budget – a real … Continue reading “What Ever Happened to Congress?”

American officials, lawmakers, and pundits have been analyzing – over-analyzing is probably the right term – U.S. President George W. Bush’s new National Security Strategy (NSS), leading one to conclude that the document that was issued last week has major significance in terms of gaining insights into what kind of approach to world affairs the … Continue reading “Muddling Through”

It isn’t looking so good for the War Party. As things fall apart on the ground in Iraq, a similar process of disintegration is occurring on the home front. It seems as if there are almost daily defections from the ranks, and – as the blame game gets underway – our war birds are turning … Continue reading “The War Party in Disarray”

The agreement last week between Washington and Iran to hold direct talks on Iraq has forged a new linkage between the Iraq and Iran crises. Hardliners in the George W. Bush administration are resisting any linkage between the two crises, because they want to avoid pressure for a broader settlement with Iran. But they have … Continue reading “Iran, Iraq Crises Converge Despite US Hardliners”

Savoring the triumph of poking a stick in the eye of an upstart Arab country, U.S. lawmakers are girding for a face-off with a much larger opponent. With the rescue of the American seaboard from a shadowy sheikdom now a mission accomplished, they are steadying their aim at the second largest economy in the world … Continue reading “Those Zany Xenophobes”

Imagine knocking on America’s door and being told, “Americans don’t live here any longer. They have gone away.” But isn’t that what we are hearing, that Americans have gone away? Alan Shore told us so on ABC’s Boston Legal on March 14: “When the weapons of mass destruction thing turned out not to be true, … Continue reading “What’s Become of Americans?”