Anyone who favors self-government should support the efforts by WikiLeaks to expose official lies. Their latest release of hundreds of thousands of State Department diplomatic cables will hopefully undermine the piety and pretentiousness of U.S. foreign policy for years. The Obama administration is rolling out the same old “people will die!” hobgoblin in response to […]
Tag Archives | War crimes
A Better Book Cover Design for Bush’s Autobiography?
The Washington Post had a giant version of the cover of Bush’s DECISION POINT in its Style section today. Bush is trying to look solemn but I suspect he is going to a baseball game. I think this photo – entitled “Bush Swings by Congress” – I took at a January 2007 antiwar DC demo […]
Pentagon’s Biggest Lie? “No Surprises” Expected from WikiLeaks
So the pre-leak spin by the Pentagon is that they have already disclosed everything important that will be revealed in the next WikiLeaks document super-dump. Obama’s Pentagon apparently believes that Americans are as gullible – if not mutton-headed – as the Bush Pentagon believed. No surprises expected in WikiLeaks Iraq war dump: Pentagon WASHINGTON | […]
MP3 of my “Police State USA” interview with Antiwar’s Scott Horton
Scott Horton and I had a zippety time thumping the usual suspects here. (Antiwar.com Radio) The Bush and Obama administrations both took a hiding.
Winning Hearts and Minds and Fingers in Aghanistan
The latest PR challenge in Afghanistan…
The True 9/11 Legacy: USA as Valhalla for Torturers and Government Secrecy
The Ninth Circuit court of federal appeals embraced the Obama and Bush administration’s spurious arguments that Americans cannot be permitted to know the details of Bush-era torture. But the court, in one of the most optimistic moments in recent judicial history, declared that its decision “does not preclude the government from honoring the fundamental principles […]
Government Lies Make Leaks Explosive
The Pentagon is caterwauling that the next round of WikiLeaks’ disclosures of US government documents will be even more damaging than the last round. It is always touching to see the world’s most powerful military machine portray itself as a “pitiful, helpless giant” (the phrase Nixon used in his speech announcing his illegal invasion of […]
