What’s really terrifying about Bush’s bid for Congress to address the controversy around torture and detainment is that, if lawmakers take the bait, there will cease to be a torture scandal and torture will be normalized. We are approaching a… Read moreBush: ditch Geneva Conventions, habeas corpus
On a visit to his native Germany, Pope Benedict XVI weighed in Sept. 12 before an audience at Regensburg University, where he once taught, on the contentious issue of rapport between Islam and the West. Calling for a “genuine dialogue… Read morePope disses Islam, invokes Byzantine emperor who fought Turks
Unable to keep himself from milking 9-11 for all it’s worth, Bush is treading, once again, into the realm of Doublethink. At his most recent in a spate of 9-11-themed speeches, in Atlanta Sept. 7, he said: “Many Americans look… Read more“America safer”: Bush contradicts State Department
Well well, it seems Amnesty International’s conspiracy theories are decisively vindicated! Straight from the horse’s mouth! From the AP, Sept. 6 (Newspeak phrase in bold): Bush acknowledges secret CIA prisons WASHINGTON – President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged previously secret CIA… Read moreSecret CIA gulag: Bush admits it
More and more of such reports. From the UK Daily Mail, Sept. 5: Fury as academics claim 9/11 was ‘inside job’ The 9/11 terrorist attack on America which left almost 3,000 people dead was an “inside job”, according to a… Read more9-11 conspiranoiacs go mainstream
We just love all the crowing in the right-wing press about how Valerie Plame Wilson and the liberals who cheer her on are not going after Richard Armitage now that he has been revealed as the source of the leak… Read moreArmitage takes hit for Rove
The below Aug. 30 AP account notes the growing use of the term “Islamic fascism” by the Bush administration and its amen chorus in recent days. The response has been predictable in the extreme, with lefties (e.g. The Huffington Post)… Read moreBush sees “Islamic fascism”; world misses irony
Just in case you missed this one. From the New York Times, July 7 (links and emphasis added): Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting… Read moreNeo-Nazis infiltrate US military
Sometimes you have to look at your opponent’s propaganda to get a realistic sense of your own side’s weaknesses—call it an inoculation against groupthink. A case in point is this Aug. 21 analysis of the recent court ruling on the… Read moreRuling in surveillance scandal headed for overturn?
We don’t know when lefties started cheering on CIA agents. But it’s no weirder than the White House blowing their cover. We applaud Valerie Plame for not going along with the journalist-bashing that has infected right and left alike in… Read morePlame sues Cheney —not journalists
French hypocrisy exposed at last! It seems all the official pomposity and condescension about the barabric American torture state was merely for political show. We are shocked, shocked! From the New York Times, July 6: PARIS, July 5 — A… Read moreFrance interrogated Gitmo detainees
How interesting. The Supremes rule that Congress did not give Bush a “blank check” to tear up the Geneva Conventions when it voted to approve military action after 9-11. Now, Bush uses precisely the same argument to justify the program… Read moreSupreme Court strikes down Gitmo tribunals
