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  • The bubble boy Bush lives in a world immune from the realities of Iraq.
    25 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sidney Blumenthal
    The news is grim, but the president is "optimistic." The intelligence is sobering, but he tosses aside "pessimistic predictions." His opponent says he has "no credibility," but the president replies that it is his rival who is "twisting in the wind." The secretary general of the United Nations speaks of the "rule of law," but Bush talks before a mute General Assembly of "a new definition of security." Between the rhetoric and the reality lies the campaign.
    A reliable (…)

  • Learning from "Fahrenheit 9/11"
    24 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Thompson
    We have at last watched this brilliant film, which, as my wife has since said, should be compulsory viewing for every single voter in the U.S.A., and I hope that as many of you as possible have seen it.
    Having been made aware by so many of you of the deliberate misinformation spread across the U.S.A. by media subject to the control of the neo-cons, and their failure to tell the public so much of what goes on in the word, we obviously do not know how much was known on (…)

  • Kerry and Progressive Party Building
    23 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ted Glick
    Peter Camejo was the first one I heard put it out, back in April: "Kerry will do what Bush wants to do better." In other words, Kerry and the Democrats are the greater evil, not the Republicans which, followed to its logical conclusion, means that Camejo hopes that Bush/Cheney will win re-election.
    Since that time I’ve heard and seen others put forward this same point of view. There’s not a lot of them on the Left but they’re out there. The Counterpunch website seems to be a (…)

  • Playing into the hands of Bush
    22 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Murderous barbaric butchers betray cause
    by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
    So, Eugene Armstrong has been beheaded. The tape has been sent to the Internet. A victory for senselessness, idiocy, butchery, cruelty, mindless violence, perpetrated by the legions of Baal.
    What is the difference between slitting the throat of an American contractor and blasting away the limbs of an Iraqi child with a cluster bomb?
    What is the difference between killing an American civilian and killing an Iraqi (…)

  • Letters from France: Divided by a single language
    18 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Thompson
    It is said that the late Sir Winston Churchill was the first to make the comment that the U.S.A. and Britain were divided by a single language, and listening to spokesmen for the present administration in the U.S.A. this becomes more and more evident as the election campaign rolls on on your side of the Atlantic.
    It seems almost comic when one has to learn that what you call "diapers" are the ordinary British "nappies", or that your "sidewalk’ is the British (…)

  • Far graver than Vietnam
    17 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Most senior US military officers now believe the war on Iraq has turned into a disaster on an unprecedented scale
    by Sidney Blumenthal
    ’Bring them on!" President Bush challenged the early Iraqi insurgency in July of last year. Since then, 812 American soldiers have been killed and 6,290 wounded, according to the Pentagon. Almost every day, in campaign speeches, Bush speaks with bravado about how he is "winning" in Iraq. "Our strategy is succeeding," he boasted to the National Guard (…)

  • When the Rabbits Get a Gun
    15 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Rivers Pitt
    This is the comforting fiction: Osama bin Laden is a monster who sprang whole from the fetid mire. He had no childhood, no influences, no education, no experiences to form his view of the world. He did not exist, and then he did, a vessel into which the universe poured the essence of evil. It is a simple, straightforward story of a man who hates freedom and kills for the pure joy of feeling innocent blood drip from his fingers.
    This is the fairy tale by which (…)

  • ANOTHER LOOK AT 9-11 MORE PNAC PLOTTING?
    15 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By: Ted Lang
    Increasingly, evidence continues to mount against our own government. Parts of what were formerly viewed as disjointed, confusing and disconnected pieces of a puzzle are beginning to fall into place. The Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal was bad enough, but the Bush administration’s cover-up is much worse. The same can be said for the 9-11 Commission that never really addressed how it was possible for our skies to be so vulnerable on that day. We are to believe that nary a jet (…)

  • When The Fiends Cry, "Kill!"
    7 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sheila Samples
    09/06/04 "ICH" — ...So I’m sitting here with a sack over my head, trying to come to grips with reality. Facts just don’t compute anymore. For example, it’s a fact that on Sept 7 the New York Yankees turned in the worst loss in their entire century of kicking baseball ass. It’s a fact that the Yanks lost 22-0 to the Cleveland Indians — but is it logical? Believable? Is it reasonable?
    My friend Bernie says stuff happens, even if only once a century and — sadly — even to (…)

  • The Great Alliance
    6 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Thompson
    These comments are addressed above all to those among you who follow Judaism, Christianity or Islam, but it might be useful for others to ponder on the points raised.
    At the end of June, when I wrote on the subject of the "Misappropriation of Christianity (or of any other religion)", I ended with the advice "Above all, pray for guidance to our loving, compassionate and merciful God, who cannot be served with evil actions".
    This has since become even more urgent, and (…)