Month: October 2007

I’ve been trying to write a post on Iran that would compare the rhetoric with the reality, but I haven’t been having much success in making it coherent. Now I see that Scott Ritter has written what I meant to say:...

I rarely agree with their analysis, which tends towards the conspirtorial, but the World Socialist Web Site is always an interesting read. Today, they take a look at the stunning momentum of the Democrats and infer that the...

Massachusetts now requires health insurance.  If this is not unconstitutional it should be.  People without insurance of course don’t do their patriotic fair share in supporting the big pharma industry. Watch for...

The White House’s propaganda campaign laying the groundwork for military action against Iran dates back almost six years–to Bush’s 2002 State of the Union address in which he designated Iran as a founding...

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson is getting kind of shrill: “My proposal on torture is serious,” Robinson wrote on a washingtonpost.com discussion board Sunday. “Let me know if you agree: Bush...