From the Contracorner (paywall): It took 213 years and 43 presidents—-from George Washington to Dubya Bush—- to generate the first $6 trillion of public debt. Now a mad man in the Oval Office and a herd of Capitol Hill larcenists will be doing it in just 700 days....
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The Great Gareth Porter on the Woodrow Wilson Flu Epidemic of 1918
He's not just the father of American Fascism, German Nazism, Soviet Communism, Chinese Communism, World War II, the American empire and the Bush family fortune. Wilson was also responsible for the great "Spanish" flu epidemic of 1918 and 1919. I sure hope there's such...
Holy Moly
Watch Joe Biden pretend he opposed Iraq War II, that he voted to authorize it just so Bush could send inspectors back in, which is a total lie, and that he never believed or claimed that Saddam had WMDs. He was just trying to trick Bush into disproving it. What a...
Green Berets Ambushed in Afghan Insider Attack
Jack Murphy writes at ConnectingVets: A team from 7th Special Forces Group was ambushed today while conducting a Key Leader Engagement (KLE) in Sherzad, Afghanistan. A source familiar with the events spoke to Connecting Vets about the incident, requesting anonymity....
House Votes to End Iraq War
On FPF #450, I discuss the House vote to repeal the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force. The bill was passed in 2002, allowing President Bush to start a war with Saddam's regime in Iraq. Saddam was hung in 2006 and, his army disbanded. However, both...
Confirmed: Elliott Abrams’s Defense of Mass Murder Was Based on Lies
In The Nation, Eric Alterman reminds us of Elliot Abrams's lying on behalf of Salvadoran death squads in the Reagan years. This was 20 years before the W. Bush administration's "El Salvador Option" in Iraq, using the Badr Corps to hunt and kill Sunnis, which...
Fox News Documentary Puts Brutality of the Militarized Central State on Full Display
K. Lloyd Billingsley has a review of a new Fox News documentary about George Bush Sr.'s Ruby Ridge slaughter over at the Independent Institute . "[T]he issue was not the left versus right but the militarized central state versus individual life and liberty." Read the...
George P. Bush: Get a Real Job
Why oh why do Americans keep electing Prescott's corrupt and incompetent spawn? What right does the Bush family have to rule over the rest of us? How can their insistence on taking positions of power do anything but push people away?
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