The metronomically predictable Ann Coulter is the latest to jump all over Cindy Sheehan for something she didn’t say. Writes Ann for FrontPageMag Aug. 18: On the bright side, Sheehan shows us what Democrats would say if they thought they… Read moreAnn Coulter, Fox News, etc.: liars
The standoff between President Bush and Cindy Sheehan is escalating again, with emotional appeals from both sides, each invoking sacrifices made by Americans after 9-11, the Washington Post reports Aug. 26. In a briefing for reporters after her return to… Read moreSheehan vs. Bush: propaganda war escalates
From New York Newsday: Driver unknowingly crushes elderly woman in tragic case BY JEROME BURDI and ROCCO PARASCANDOLA STAFF WRITERS August 27, 2005 An elderly woman who survived Auschwitz was killed Friday morning after she was run over by a… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
From ArtVoice of Buffalo, NY, online at MediaStudy: I Raq and Roll Right into Fascism: Donald Rumsfeld’s 9/11 Folly by Michael I. Niman Earlier this month, when Internet news reports quoted Donald Rumsfeld announcing that the Defense Department would use… Read more9-11 “Freedom March”: fascist spectacle
Via TruthOut: More Images of Abu Ghraib By Ari Berman The Nation Monday 22 August 2005 There’s a new batch of photos from Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, and these are reportedly far worse than the sickening originals. Naturally, the Pentagon… Read moreAbu Ghraib: worst yet to come?
From Survival International, Aug. 22: The Botswana government has launched a massive crackdown on the Bushmen of the central Kalahari aimed at destroying their way of life. The move comes despite the resumption of the Bushmen’s three-year court case against… Read moreBotswana: Bushmen face forced relocation
From Newsday: Road rage rampage ends with SUV on sidewalk, seven hurt BY LUIS PEREZ and PETE BOWLES STAFF WRITERS August 24, 2005 What began as road rage turned into several terrifying moments Tuesday when an out-of-control sport utility vehicle… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Border guards in Tajikistan report that they shot down a hang-glider carrying 20 kilogram of heroin being smuggled over the border from Afghanistan Aug. 23. Tajik officials said Afghan traffickers had been using the hang-glider for three years, and previous… Read moreAfghan heroin hang-glider downed
Aug. 24 commentary in MarketWatch takes Goldman Sachs to task for exploiting the chaos—as well as government largesse—over the Ground Zero redevelopment effort in New York City: For a Wall Street bank, Goldman Sachs plays the Main Street game of… Read moreGoldman Sachs exploits 9-11 redevelopment chaos —and public bonds
In a sure sign that the anti-war movement is finally starting to have some effectiveness, protesters are now coming under violent attack. Over the weekend, police in Pittsburgh, PA, used dogs and tasers against a group picketing a recuitment center… Read moreRepression in Pittsburgh
The new resident reactionary on the New York Times op-ed page, John Tierney, boasts in his Aug. 23 column, entitled “The $10,000 Question,” that he has made a five-grand wager with Matthew Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert: The… Read moreOil shock: denial in the New York Times
Gary Milhollin, director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control and publisher of IranWatch.org, has the lead op-ed in the Aug. 23 New York Times, “Don’t Underestimate the Mullahs,” warning that Iran could be much closer to having The… Read moreIran: nuclear paranoia in the New York Times
