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Commentary
Conning America
By: Patrick F Morris
The great Republican con machine has now shifted into
high gear. And the same oracles of certainty that brought you �Iraq�s weapons
of mass destruction� and a �cake-walk through Baghdad� are now, with the same
shrill omniscience, promising that �the sky will fall in� if we pursue a
prudent policy of letting the Iraqis themselves sort out their own civil war.
Sep 11, 2006, 00:27
Commentary
A Mickey Mouse 9/11 from ABC
By Jerry Mazza
On Sunday and Monday
nights, September 10 and 11, ABC TV, which is owned by Disney, the folks who
brought you Mickey Mouse in 1928, plans to bring you a six-hour, $40 million
docudrama, called �The Path to 9/11." It might well be called �The Path to
Perdition,� seeing as how it bills itself as �an objective telling of the
events of 9/11," when in fact the film was scripted by arch-conservative
writer Cyrus Nowrasteh, whose friendship is claimed by no less than Rush
Limbaugh. Don�t throw up yet. There�s more . . .
Sep 8, 2006, 01:16
Commentary
The people�s struggle in the Middle East, an interview with Ramzy Baroud
By Joshua Frank
Ramzy Baroud is a US author and journalist, currently
based in London. He is the author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A
Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006). He is also the
Editor-in-Chief of PalestineChronicle.com. Here Baroud talks with Joshua Frank
about the latest crisis in the Middle East and how it threatens the US and
Israel�s international prowess.
Sep 8, 2006, 00:47
Commentary
Palestinian donors: What mission?
By Nicola Nasser
The Palestinians have been too grateful and too
helpless for too long to be critical of the political agenda of their donors
who have practically nailed them down as political hostages to the donors�
money, which was promised initially to help build an independent Palestinian
state, but ended as a political instrument effectively used by the Israeli
occupying power.
Sep 7, 2006, 00:34
Commentary
Americans� unrealized �peace dividend�
By Ben Tanosborn
Once upon a time, as
the Soviet Union decided, or felt compelled, to put an end to the �cold war� --
a decade short of the new millennium -- Americans rejoiced with a sense of
relief from what appeared as a diminishing possibility of a nuclear
doomsday. And there was also a rebirth of economic optimism.
Sep 7, 2006, 00:29
Commentary
Has the American homeland been free from terrorist aggression?
By John H. Burgess
President Bush keeps
reiterating that if we don't confront the terrorists in Iraq, we'll have to
fight them here in the streets at home. Yet the reality may be that we are
fighting them here already.
Sep 7, 2006, 00:26
Commentary
The 9/11 Commission: A play on nothing in three acts
By Sibel Edmonds & Bill Weaver
A wag once famously said that Samuel Beckett�s Waiting
for Godot was a play where nothing happened . . . twice. The two
former co-chairmen of the 9-11 commission report, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton,
have released a new book, "Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9-11
Commission." This book goes Beckett one
better � it is the third act of veneer over substance, self-aggrandizement over
serious analysis, and clich� over perspicacity.
Sep 6, 2006, 01:21
Commentary
Criticism of Israel Is not 'anti-Semitism'
By Linda S. Heard
Results of a 10-month inquiry into anti-Semitism in
Britain will be delivered by three members of Parliament to Downing Street on
Thursday. And according to the Guardian, the report is likely to criticize
calls to boycott academics working in Israel and blast "left-wing
activists as well as Muslim extremists for using criticism of Israel as 'a
pretext' for spreading hatred against British Jews."
Sep 6, 2006, 01:19
Commentary
Bint Jbeil; Hezbollah�s blood victory
By Mike Whitney
There�s a sign at the entrance to Bint Jbeil that
says: �Bint Jbeil -- Capital of Freedom.� The cheery greeting contrasts
dramatically with the vast devastation that lies just beyond.
Sep 6, 2006, 01:15
Commentary
Santorum defends medical malpractice
By Mary Shaw
With the campaign season heating up, we're once
again finding ourselves besieged by TV and radio ads by candidates slinging
political mud at their opponents.
Sep 6, 2006, 01:12
Commentary
Wrong about everything
By Mike Whitney
Name one part of the
occupation of Iraq that has succeeded?
Sep 5, 2006, 00:36
Commentary
Snakes On a Plane, Bush in the White House
By Zbignew Zingh
I am more afraid of the reptiles
in the Administration than anything Hollywood puts on an airplane. I mean,
these are incredibly venomous, cold-blooded creepy-crawlies that are running
the United States these days, and unlike a short flight from here to there
where, a few hours after take off, you leave the plane at your destination, we
are doomed in real life to travel with the Buskovites, like slave-rowers
chained to the galley, for at least the next several years.
Sep 5, 2006, 00:31
Commentary
The price of ignoring the elephant
By Salah Obeid
�Peace in the Middle East� may make for a snappy
bumper sticker. But a more relevant message to send to fellow motorists -- and
to the presidential motorcade in particular -- is �Free Palestine.� Because
getting that message right would not only mean peace between Israel and its
neighbors, but also the elimination of the greatest reason people target the
United States and its allies in the first place.
Sep 1, 2006, 00:53
Commentary
The truth about the "Terror Plot".... and the new "pseudo-terrorism"
By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
I am disappointed to say
that so far there has been very little serious critical discussion, grounded in
factual analysis, of the alleged �Terror Plot� foiled on the morning of
Wednesday, 10th August 2006. Except for a few noteworthy comment pieces, such
as Craig Murray�s critical speculations published by the
Guardian 18th August., the mainstream media has largely subserviently parroted
the official claims of the British and American governments. This is a shame,
because inspection of the facts raises serious problems for the 10/8 official narrative.
Sep 1, 2006, 00:39
Commentary
Reiner, Gibson and the libel of anti-Semitism
By Andrew Winkler
I think Rob Reiner is
right. Mel Gibson should 'come clean on anti-Semitism'. Not just the one drunken
incident the other day, when he shared with a Jewish cop his
thoughts on who is to blame for most of the wars. Nor just in the
'Passion of Christ' where he created the impression that Jews were responsible
for Jesus' death. No, he should admit rampant,
all-trandescenting anti-Semitism.
Aug 31, 2006, 01:05
Commentary
Lebanon must not become Gaza
By Linda S. Heard
Hostilities were
supposed to be over weeks ago. Both sides have signed up to UN Security Council
Resolution 1701. But only one side, Lebanon, is sticking to it.
Aug 31, 2006, 01:01
Commentary
Mission incompetence: George W Bush leads the way for bungling overachievers
By Nick Paccione
Determined to keep my sanity while on hold with
a rude and incompetent doctor�s receptionist who couldn�t transfer my call to
the right extension after trying over five times, I started humming a song from
the sixties called �Aquarius� and realized that the word �Aquarius� has the
same number of syllables as �Incompetence.� And with heartfelt apologies to �Hair� lyricists Ragni and Rado, I
started singing, �This is the dawning of the age of incompetence.�
Aug 31, 2006, 00:50
Commentary
Shaping opinions by constriction: Italian Islamic groups forced to sign a Statement of Values
By Mary Rizzo
In a functional
democracy, one of the basic principals is that there should be the recognition
of the right of individuals to hold their own opinion. This is often extended
to groups, as is natural, since groups are nothing more than individuals who
share things in common.
Aug 30, 2006, 00:43
Commentary
Iran should name a street after Bush
By Linda S. Heard
If US President
George W. Bush ever found time between biking, jogging, tree-felling, sleeping
and ordering around British Prime Minister Tony Blair to read the papers, he
may have said "a curse on British intellectuals" or, at least, a more
colourful Texan version.
Aug 30, 2006, 00:40
Commentary
Why is it so hard for an Israeli to admit that an Arab combatant is just slightly better?
By Gilad Atzmon
It is now clear that
as much as the Israeli Army doesn�t know how to win a war, the Israeli people
do not know how to lose one. Already at the late stages of the recent wave of
hostility in Lebanon the Israelis were desperately searching for a scapegoat,
someone to blame, someone who would take personal responsibility for the
humiliating Israeli collective defeat.
Aug 30, 2006, 00:34
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