Category: Politics & World Affairs
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Perhaps George W. Bush has a touch of insanity. The horrendous mess in Iraq, Monica Gate at the Justice Department , Scooter Libby, Cheney’s fall guy going to jail and his presidency slated to go down in US history as the worst so far, George W. Bush is hopping mad. No wonder the trusted aides he…
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The Bush administration has a horrible record of squaring with the American public about the true cost of the Iraq war. Yes, the relevant cost of a war is not measured in dollars but in human lives, lost and mangled. We will never know the true extent of Iraqi lives lost and destroyed but at…
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In the forty years since the tumultous days of Israel’s 1967 Six Day War against the joint attack by Egypt, Jordan and Syria, the memory of that war and the image of Israel have undergone a sea change. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is no longer seen in the context of Israel’s stunning victory against impossible odds,…
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Some interesting things may have been said at the recent debate. To wit: Obama would assassinate Osama bin Laden; Kucinich would see him held to account in an international court of law. Bill Richardson would be willing to boycott the Beijing 2008 Olympics if China continues to support Khartoum instead of using its considerable influence…
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As if the grandiose claims and threats of ‘Baghdad Bob’ ( Mohammad Saeed al Sahaf of Iraq) weren’t enough, we now have a new candidate for the grand prize of propagandery : ‘Khartoum Karl'(Link to WaPo article via Rawstory):
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In the run up to the unnecessary war of choice in Iraq, the Bush administration used several slick phrases and slogans as pep talk to gain public support for the criminal and as we know now, foolhardy enterprise. Many of the more notorious ones still come back to haunt and taunt the bellicose warmongers –…
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Once again a sordid story is unfolding in our capital involving people in power and their sexual foibles. Fortunately, this one is playing under the radar and has not (and hopefully, will not) assumed the proportions of an Anna Nicole Smith or American Idol size saga. What after all, is new about the powerful seeking extra-constitutional,…
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Most of you have by now seen news reports of the May Day rally at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles which turned violent when some demonstrators threw bottles and cans and the LAPD opened "fire" with rubber bullets and charged into the crowd with batons (the CNN report here). Although the incident is reported in…
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Should a foreign government pick and choose what "kind" of people from another nation may or may not be allowed to enter a country? Unofficially, we know that it happens all the time. Visas are routinely refused to members of "suspect" ethnic / religious groups. Muslims (and even bearded, turbaned non-Muslims and olive skinned men)…
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Today is May Day. It means different things to different people – to celebrants of spring, labor organizations, political protesters and anarchists. In communist countries it is a state holiday in honor of International Labor Day. There is much speculation this year whether Cuban president Fidel Castro who is sick and has not been seen…
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"Riverbend," the young Iraqi woman whose blog Baghdad Burning gave us a glimpse into her first hand, personal, beyond the TV cameras view of Baghdad during its invasion and occupation, is moving out of her home. She and her family will leave Baghdad for a new life elsewhere. She describes her feelings about leaving her home…
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Links to some recent events – all a bit disturbing, none wholly surprising. Slam Dunk to Infamy: George Tenet, the former CIA chief who was one of Bush-Cheney’s chief enablers in the criminal invasion of Iraq, is attempting to clean up his own guilty legacy and like all other rats, moving to abandon the sinking…
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Not being a regular reader of legal blogs, this story came to my attention a few days late (via Sujatha). A top Constitutional scholar from Princeton who gave a televised speech that slammed President George W. Bush’s executive overreach was recently told that he had been added to the Transportation Security Administration’s terrorist watch list.…
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