stupidity and cynicsm, anyone noticing this?
I'm still trying to digest this news, so I ask you to stay with me for a minute while I try to sort it out myself. The media reported yesterday that the administration has named nine senior Iraqi ...
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Bush gone off the deep end
Paul Krugman sees Bush as Captain Queeg. But unfortunately this isn't fiction, and there's more than one ship at risk. Aboard the U.S.S. Caine, it was the business with the strawberries that fin...
for Germans, the end of a kind of self-censorship
In an article frustratingly inadequate for the subject, at least on account of its brevity (although it takes 64 inches of NYTimes typespace, including two excellent historical photographs), Richar...
calling a plague a plague
A surprisingly mild-tongued Larry Kramer calls a plague a plague in the NYTimes today. Why does no one have the courage to say loudly and unequivocally that 50 million people around the world are...
making the world safe for all kinds of terror
Via Electrolite, a serious look by Michael Lind at what the Bushites have done to global security. The grand strategy of the Bush administration rests on three axioms: American global hegemony; p...
no kristallnacht yet, but we are warned
An alert from Adam Greenfield, via Kottke.org, that the U.S. may face a brain drain not unlike that which accompanied the Nazi consolidation of power in the 30's. Ironically, 65 years ago, in spit...
Ridge: Iraq war will increase terrorist danger
This is not a news story. It's not even an interesting feature story. We all know this already and it's definitely not entertaining. In fact, I'm convinced the only reason the White House and th...
silence equals death
Don't be quiet. JACKSONVILLE, AR -- The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging officials at Jacksonville Junior High School over repeated punishment of a 14-year-old student for being open...
let's not paint ourselves into a corner
U.N. resolution or not, this war violates international law. So argues Rahul Mahajan in an excerpt from a book on the U.S. war against Iraq. The majority of the antiwar movement has made a mista...
leaders of "coalition of the willing" exile selves
They're in hiding in the middle of the Atlantic, because they know they wouldn't be safe from the ridicule and fury of millions anywhere on the continent of Europe. President Bush will travel to ...