Avedon Carol

Peace Wouldn’t it be cool if the Iraqis all just got together and made peace with each other? And then we could just leave and declare victory. Except that’s apparently not what the Bush administration wants, either. Check out Robert Dreyfuss at The American Prospect on just this subject, Peace Talk. And it’s after four […]

GUILTY, GUILTY, GULTY… Murray Waas has just posted this at The National Journal: Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence […]

AND THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE… The Daily Howler reported recently that the WaPo finally printed an article pointing out that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is no raving liberal, regardless of the spin. This is just the sort of thing that makes Bob Somerby so useful – if anyone was listening: Several thoughts about this […]

WHO PUT THE BUBP… Max Blumenthal has a nice little post on Mean Jean’s Marine and why he thinks Murtha is a coward: “A few minutes ago I received a call from Colonel Danny Bubp, Ohio Representative from the 88th district in the House of Representatives. He asked me to send Congress a message: Stay […]

Don’t waste your respect on Tony Blair I’ve written before about the Tony Blair conundrum, but I’d like to take the opportunity Kevin has offered to tell my progressive friends back home in the States that their strange belief that Blair is a good and principled statesman who just happened to get pushed into joining […]