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Recently, George Lakoff wrote a provocative post about The Words None Dare Say: Nuclear War. “What we are seeing now is the conservative message machine preparing the country to accept the idea of a nuclear war …against Iran.”
Of course, Iran has no nuclear weapons program. However, we have to consider that the Bush [...]

Who’s up for The Long War? This is a term first popularized in February 2006 for the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review, although its origins appear to date back further. In April 2005, James Jay Carafano, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, co-published a book titled Winning the Long War. [See comments below [...]

I’ve been trying to write an appropriately sarcastic and ironic response to our state legislators opposition to the IB program. It’s almost impossible to satire someone who does not know the difference between “socialization” and “socialism.” It’s equally difficult deploying sarcasm in response to someone who thinks the any positive mention of the [...]

I think we are reaching a nadir in the American consciousness. There are so many indicators both large and small. The surprising populist movement lead by Barack Obama is an obvious one. The changing language and focal points of the Right-Wing are another. Almost no one is left in the media nor in politics [...]

America’s manufacturing capacity has struggled to produce enough body armor, up-armored Humvees and MRAPs, and even bullets for the Iraq fiasco. Yet the White House propaganda mill has had no trouble keeping up with the demand for new slogans. [Inspired by HTML Mencken's thorough vivisection of Rich Lowry on Sadly, No!]
“The smoking gun [...]

Slate’s Fred Kaplan has a new book, Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power. Slate offers an exclusive two-part preview. Kaplan’s thesis, in a nutshell: “The great divide in thinking about American foreign policy these past few years is not so much between Realists and Neoconservatives; it’s between realists (with [...]

I am so pleased with my response to Ken on McCain, I thought I would top post it if only to shake things up around here.
What you are seeing Ken is Republican Buyer’s Remorse for Bush. You see, Bush — being the worst fuckup in the history of America — has virtually ended any chance [...]

Brilliant editorial in today’s NY Times:
The C.I.A. contracted out its inhumanity to nations with no respect for life or law, sending prisoners — some of them innocents kidnapped on street corners and in airports — to be tortured into making false confessions, or until it was clear they had nothing to say and so were [...]

h/t Crooks and Liars  A Crippling Legacy
By: Nicole Belle
Vanity Fair offers a sobering look at the costs that we — and our children and their children — will pay for the last eight years of Bush/Cheney economics.
The damage done to the American economy does not make front-page headlines every day, but the repercussions will be [...]

Randi Rhodes of Air America, speech to the 50th Anniversary party of “PEACE ACTION of Michigan” on November 11, 2007.
DO not miss this. It is the most honest REAL discussion of what is really happened over the past seven long years.

President Bush can stop threatening everybody with World War III, at least in regard to Iran. The declassified key judgments (PDF) of the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) titled Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities concludes that “in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program… Tehran’s decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggests [...]

Neocon “Prince of Darkness” Richard Perle was interviewed recently by BBC’s Stephen Sackur. Perle advocated an attack on Iraq in 2003 with utter disregard of the consequences, saying “I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing.”
From Think Progress:
“I’m not happy about the way events [...]