Category: Politics

Remember when Bush said he couldn’t think of any mistakes he’s ever made? The Center for American Progress has a list for you to choose from. 100 Mistakes for the President to Choose From Pre-emptive comment: yes, conservative commenters – Clinton made a lot of mistakes. Why are we always picking on poor George? Because […]

Realized I hadn’t posted my reaction to Bush’s press conference. The press conference was a fucking embarrassment. Analysis from both liberal and conservative weblogs shows a broad spectrum of reaction. President Bush showed the world his truest colors: he’s an arrogant, imperialist, fundamentalist prick that can’t admit a single mistake. No humility. Pandragons nails it […]

The Village Voice reports: An abundance of evidence had come to light that the North Vietnamese, while returning 591 U.S. prisoners of war after the treaty signing, had held back many others as future bargaining chips for the $4 billion or more in war reparations that the Nixon administration had pledged. In the [Congressional] committee’s […]

Ten years ago in Rwanda, 800,000 people were murdered in 100 days and the world didn’t stop it: Rwanda?s extremist Hutu government and military led a campaign to exterminate the minority Tutsis. One much practiced strategy was to drive Tutsis into centers such as churches and schools and kill them en mass. Stories abound by […]

History happening as you hear. Streamed from the Pacifica Foundation Also streamed at: C-Span.org I’s not on cable C-Span 1 (Under God in Pledge of Allegiance), 2 (Mars Rover). It is on C-Span 3 if you get that.

Remember in social studies when they always talked about the three branches of government and the checks and balances system that prevented that no one branch could have all the power? Well, fuck that: The Congress may, if two thirds of each House agree, reverse a judgment of the United States Supreme Court if that […]

Chalmers Johnson’s Blowback: The Cost and Consequences of American Empire really burned my brain a year or so ago and got me on my own fact-finding mission to see and find out what I wasn’t being told about recent American history. He reaches past administrations, past political parties, past mere pop politics and mucksrakes the […]

A commenter on Daily Kos makes an inflammatory, though compelling case: Al Qaeda wanted Saddam removed from power, Bush removes Saddam from power. Al Qaeda wanted US military out of the Saudi peninsula, Bush removes US military from Saudi peninsula. Al Qaeda wanted to be treated seriously as a world class player locked in a […]

My girlfriend, Amy Goodman has the scoop. The Aristides are elated to soon be re-united with their young daughters and the countries of the Carribean are bracing for what might happen enxt. What do you talk about on the plane? You’re there with the Aristides and a handful of delegates. What’s the small-talk when history […]

I’m sure you know by now that immediately after 9/11 while the FAA had grounded every aircraft on American soil, a handful of planes went around the country and picked up members of the Saudi Royal family and prepared to fly them out of the country. This included members of the multi-billionaire Bin Laden family: […]