Month: January 2004

From an article in the Financial Times reporting the British in Basra are arguing open elections are possible: The Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad has had an unofficial policy banning even local elections since the end of the war, according to US military officials interviewed at locations throughout Iraq. This is despite the assessment of…

It turns out that the Australian SAS (Special Air Service) started the war on Iraq before it had even been formally declared by Bush, killing Iraqi soldiers, according to articles in The Age. I’m ashamed of my governments complicity in this illegal war. Thanks to Samos for the link. Thankfully we have an election this…

Presidential candidate Wesley Clark was recently asked whether, as president, he would close down the School of the Americas. He replied he wouldn’t. I hope Michael Moore took notice of his endorsed candidate’s position.

This was the first state of the union speech I had the opportunity to view while I’ve been in the U.S. As Chomsky has noted, if the administration repeats the lies often enough and they are reported by the corporate media with little fact checking, analysis or comment, they become accepted as truth.

A very well written analysis of the current crippling state of U.S. militarism by Chalmers Johnson via TomDispatch.com.

…Clark and Lieberman. The maneuver by the two most right wing candidates of the Democrat party to avoid the Iowa caucus can be seen to have now skewed the field to the right. By most analysis, Iowans voted strategically and Kerry appealed as a candidate that could compete with Bush. However that now leads him…

This is the letter I sent to Fox News, after reading FAIR’s evaluation of Fox News flak against MoveOn:

Good article on the current consideration of conspiracy theories in light of U.S and British foreign policies.