https://youtu.be/cwRkItxSbxs “I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake,...[A]nd if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who...
Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
Now, Can We Prosecute Saddam’s Unindicted Co-Conspirators? (UPDATED) Saddam’s conviction and death sentence represent the last full measure of his usefulness to the Power Elite that sustained and exploited him from the time he came to power. Of the myriad crimes he committed against his subjects, international peace, and God’s law, Saddam will swing for […]
Reich Here, Reich Now If a morbidly obese man is a year away from a heart attack, but choking on a piece of steak right now, which should be our immediate course of action: Should we pester him about changing his diet and getting more exercise, or apply the Heimlich Maneuver right now?The answer is […]
The “Wave” That Wasn’t — And The One That Was (UPDATED) In a mid-term election that, nation-wide, was double-ply, wall-to-wall ugliness for the Republicans, I find something incredibly significant in the contrasting results from two congressional races. The first was the easy victory of Representative Ron Paul in Texas, a Republican In Name Only in […]
Short Takes — November 9, 2006 Today I’m inaugurating what I hope will be a daily morning news update. The longer essays will be published in the afternoon, hopefully on a daily basis, as well. If you’ve enjoyed what you read here, please let others know. Sometime soon — hopefully before Thanksgiving — I’m going […]
Review of the News, November 10 (Expanded; Revised, 11/11) Glory, Hallelujah – The Evangelicals Are Turning on the GOPOne reason for the GOP’s much-deserved and badly overdue electoral beat-down on Tuesday is this: Evangelical Christians got religion, or at least acted on it when they went into the voting booths. Growing frustration over the mounting […]
Review of the News, November 13 (Updated) Keep a good thought….Said the Goose to the Gander: “How do you like the sauce?”Late last week, Time magazine reported that a criminal probe targeting Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, former CIA director George Tenet, “and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles […]
From the Foreword by Lawrence B. Wilkerson: “[T]he debate over whether oil was a principal reason for the 2003 invasion has waxed and waned, with one camp arguing that it absolutely was, while the other argues the precise opposite.” “Mr. Vogler, himself a former...
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...
