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With the naming of former ambassador L. Paul Bremer as something of a co-consul proconsul (the news accounts say he will be in charge with former Gen. Jay Garner his subordinate but the real picture at this point is still a little fuzzy, the administration has apparently done its best to put a civilian face … Continue reading “A Civilian Face on Imperialism”

An Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz, is one of the few media outlets worldwide to focus on the Israeli far-right’s effort to undermine the much-touted "road map" that Bush is throwing like a bone after a banquet to the family pet. The administration is touting its peace plan to give the appearance of the U.S. as an … Continue reading “Whose ‘Road Map’?”

Somebody hand David Brooks a Kleenex. He’s upset that President Bush’s victory dance last Thursday was interpreted politically. Boy am I in a terrible mood. I watched and listened to the punditry on President Bush’s speech on the USS Lincoln. . . . And what do my fellow pundits say? They sit in the studios … Continue reading “Election 2004: Let the Cynicism Begin!”

A while back I wrote a column about cheating and getting ahead in Chinese Universities – I received a torrent of emails demanding how I could brand an entire nation as a nest of liars and cheats. An article this year in the Asia Times by Gary LaMoshi addressed this "phenomenon" from a different perspective: … Continue reading “Know When to Lie, Know When to Shoot Straight”

How did 19 hijackers manage to decimate the Pentagon, destroy the World Trade Center, and plunge us into a war without end? That is the question we still don’t have an answer to, two years after the worst terrorist attack in American history, and, if the Bush administration has anything to say about it – … Continue reading “The Final Secret of 9/11”

For a while there, I didn’t think it was all that big a deal when Dubya told the press that the United States has a definite commitment to the defense of Taiwan against military hostility from the mainland Chinese regime. After all, such a commitment was very close to being U.S. policy for a long … Continue reading “China: Getting Chillier”

As any survivor of Imperial "liberation" can attest, it is usually followed by the mass conversion to the conquerors’ religion, Democracy. As with most religions, it means different things to different people. Its definition is kept deliberately vague to preclude criticism, and even when offered, frequently changes for the same reason. Because of its asserted … Continue reading “After ‘Liberation,’ Democracy”

President Bush told the world that Saddam’s alleged WMDs directly threatened the U.S. Now that the war is over and no arsenal was found, where does that leave America? Months before the horror of 9-11, Secretary of State Colin Powell defended a recent air strike against Iraq during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt. On … Continue reading “Weapons of Mass Delusion”

One of the major accomplishments of this site, aside from keeping our readers up-to-the-minute on what’s really happening in Iraq, has been to educate the public about who brought us this war, and why. We have held, from the beginning, that war on Iraq did not and does not serve American interests, and we have … Continue reading “Neocons in Denial”

And to think some of you had less than a high opinion of Mr Rumsfeld. No doubt contrition consumes you, as the United States announces that it\’s, more or less, going to withdraw from the Saudi bases it formally established after the previous Iraq war, and, of course, she\’s not looking to set up new … Continue reading “How Osama Got His Way”