House Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), has bowed to pressure — see here, here, and here — and has announced she is now backing Rep. Jack Murtha’s “out in 6 months” resolution on Iraq.
Of course, Antiwar.com is not taking credit for this sudden turnaround — that belongs to her antiwar constituents, [...]
The Cunning Realist makes the timely argument, working from this Rumsfeldian "epiphany." Read the whole thing, but here’s a quote:
" For Rumsfeld to try to wish away an overwhelmingly indigenous resistance as if it were no more than a stray neighborhood dog is not only the height of hubris, it’s utterly reckless. It also indicates [...]
Or whatever they want to call it, so long as they leave. But before you get your hopes up, see this.
As if it wasn’t hard enough already for alternative media groups to survive in the face of legal competition from the all-powerful mass media…
The following article may be lengthy, but I’d be grateful if you read it: it tells the true story of how my own humble independent news website was plagiarized by a [...]
“For misleading the American people, and launching the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 B.C. sent his legions into Germany and lost them, Bush deserves to be impeached and, once he has been removed from office, put on trial along with the rest of the president’s men. If convicted, they’ll have plenty of [...]
Just in case anybody hasn’t gotten around to watching this yet.
The Huffington Post is headlining the latest congressional Democrat to find his cajones when it comes to the Iraq war, and they direct us to this Seattle Times story, which relates the “agonizing” of Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Washington) over the issue, and informs us of the following rationale for Dicks “loudly and proudly” supporting the [...]
As the war in Iraq drags on, less and less attention is being payed to the daily carnage there.
In addition to the hundreds of Iraqis dying every week, an average of three American troops are dying every day there. In the first 24 days of this month, 76 GIs have lost their lives.
A total [...]
Frequent contributor Jorge Hirsch writes:
Iran dropped a bombshell with a full-page ad in last Friday’s New York Times (Nov. 18, 2005, p. A11). It presents clear factual information and levelheaded arguments on what kind of nuclear program Iran is pursuing and why, and why the European offer to Iran of August 2005 is not acceptable [...]
Arthur Silber has a thorough treatment of the latest in the Padilla case. There’s good news and bad news:
The good news is the Supreme Court will not have an opportunity in the near future to declare that the president has dictatorial powers. That’s very good news in one sense, and it shouldn’t be underestimated. The [...]
Frequent contributor Jorge Hirsch writes:
“Iran dropped a bombshell with a full-page ad in last Friday’s New York Times (Nov. 18, 2005, p. A11). It presents clear factual information and levelheaded arguments on what kind of nuclear program Iran is pursuing and why, and why the European offer to Iran of August 2005 is not [...]
With the 10th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords yesterday, every liar, calumnist and imbecile in the mainstream media has felt the need to flap their gums about it, preferably in the context of paeans to American interventionism, empire and “commitment.” In the same breath that praises the Clintonian Empire for ending the “genocide” in [...]
