You've got to hand it to President Bush. Just when you'd think our ideologically-divided country couldn't possibly be further polarized, the president this week weighed in with his opinion on teaching American schoolchildren the...
09 August 2005
Like Nagasaki, August 9 is an orphan of history.
And in that history, new, definitive evidence has finally surfaced that the atomic bombing there was completely unjustified.
More than 80,000 human beings...
And in that history, new, definitive evidence has finally surfaced that the atomic bombing there was completely unjustified.
More than 80,000 human beings...
08 August 2005
A lot of people want to believe that the current war on Iraq is some
kind of aberration -- a radical departure from the previous baseline of
U.S. foreign policy. That’s a comforting illusion.
Yes, the current...
Yes, the current...
07 August 2005
Norman Solomon's new book, "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death," opens with a disturbing prologue. The U.S. media has refused to give serious coverage to the Downing Street Memos on the grounds that they...
07 August 2005
When super-pundit Robert Novak stormed off the set of a live CNN
show Thursday -- just after uttering what the New York Times delicately
calls “a profanity” -- it was an unusual episode of TV punditry. With
rare exceptions, the slick...
04 August 2005
On Tuesday, big alarm bells went off in the national media echo
chamber, and major U.S. news outlets showed that they knew the drill.
Iran’s nuclear activities were pernicious, most of all, because people in
high places in Washington said...
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