The latest signal came from George Bush, warning of a “nuclear holocaust” if Iran gets The Bomb (despite an IAEA report that Iran isn’t as much of a threat as Bush claims). There can’t be any more provocative words than “nuclear holocaust” to justify the purported prevention of one. Nor can there be any doubt […]

It’s yet another example of reporting that makes no effort at analysis of Bush’s claims. This time, Bush says that an American withdrawal from Iraq would have an effect like that of our withdrawal from Vietnam - a bloodbath resulting in the deaths of millions of people.
…one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price […]

The American Psychological Association now says that its members can’t take part in water-boarding, sleep deprivation or sexual humiliation, among other techniques that have become part and parcel of Bush tactics against alleged terrorists at Guantanamo. If they see such activities, they are now required to intervene to stop them, report them to superiors, and […]

The war - George Bush’s War, the Neo-con’s War, Joe Lieberman’s War, the Republican-Democrat’s War - is as catastrophic as its opponents predicted, but the reality of it is far more catastrophic than they could have imagined, because it’s impossible to imagine such endless, grinding horror. It must be lived to be known. Words can […]

Quiz: How many people have been killed and wounded in Iraq since Hillary Clinton said that an immediate full-scale withdrawal would be a “big mistake”?
Answer: She said that on Nov. 22, 2005. Not really that long ago, but since then 1,600 American soldiers have been killed and 11,000 wounded, and about 32,000 Iraqi civilians and […]

Conservatives are already giving up the good fight. They’re going to have to do what liberals have been doing for decades now: vote for the least of the evils. A column in today’s Los Angeles Times lays it all out:
Sen. Clinton is rapidly becoming not merely acceptable to many right-wingers but possibly even their candidate […]

It’s not just Iraqis, or even Muslims. Christian militarism has been getting along just fine for centuries now, even turning on each other when there was no non-Christian enemy to bring to Jesus at the point of a sword. When it comes to war, Christian militarists – I also like the term Christian fascists, and […]

He’s a notorious world conqueror, barely able to conceal his lust for empire behind a facade of altruistic spreading of Kagan-style democracy throughout the benighted world. And he seems to see America as his alter ego, created to do his bidding. America is Superman, destined to save the world from itself and mold it into…into…what? […]

Michael McGough, senior editorial writer of the Los Angeles Times, wrote a whopper on July 26. It was about politics and the U.S. Supreme Court, and his reasoning - to use the word with wild abandon - rested on the philosophy of none other than Sen. Lindsay Graham. Yes, the same cheerleader for Bush’s War […]

one night I dreamed about the waterfalls - in reality they were a mile away, visible from my yard - as they had been in real life for many weeks, the dream falls were just narrow threads of white falling three thousand feet down the vertical face of the mountain, their usual summertime state, barely […]