By DOUG THOMPSON
Jun 5, 2006 Military commanders in the field in Iraq admit in private reports to the Pentagon the war "is lost" and that the U.S. military is unable to stem the mounting violence killing 1,000 Iraqi civilians a month.
Even worse, they report the massacre of Iraqi civilians at Haditha is "just the tip of the iceberg" with overstressed, out-of-control Americans soldiers pushed beyond the breaking point both physically and mentally. "We are in trouble in Iraq," says retired army general Barry McCaffrey. "Our forces can't sustain this pace, and I'm afraid the American people are walking away from this war." |
By JOHN WALSH
Counterpunch 7 June 06 At the very least China's President Hu displayed a sense of humor in presenting a book, of all things, to George W. Bush on his recent visit to the United States. And the choice of Sun-Tzu's fifth century B.C. classic, "The Art of War" was tantalizing. Since Dubya certainly will not penetrate too far into it, I decided to have a look, so that at least one American would honor the Chinese gift by actually reading it. This provided me a rare patriotic surge, much like the rush when I put my tax return in the mailbox.
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Washington fury over UN attack on Bush 'hypocrites' - Annan's British deputy criticises administration - Bolton calls comments 'a very, very grave mistake'
Oliver Burkeman in New York
Thursday June 8, 2006 The Guardian The deputy secretary-general of the United Nations was last night accused of making "a very, very grave mistake" after calling the Bush administration hypocrites who were feeding a right-wing anti-UN frenzy in middle America.
Washington's ambassador to the UN responded with undisguised fury to a speech by Mark Malloch Brown, the deputy secretary-general, in which he accused Washington of using the international body "almost by stealth as a diplomatic tool" while failing to defend it at home. Comment: The deputy secretary general of the UN told the truth. But, in this day and time, telling the truth is a crime in the good ole U.S. of A.
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From James Bone in New York
The Times 8 June 06 LONG-SIMMERING tensions between the Bush Administration and the United Nations leadership erupted into open warfare yesterday when Washington's ambassador voiced outrage at criticism of the United States by the UN's British second-in-command.
John Bolton, the US Ambassador to the UN, called on Kofi Annan, its Secretary- General, to "personally and publicly repudiate" criticisms of the US and its people by Mark Malloch Brown, his British deputy. |
Russell Shaw
Huffingtonpost.com 6 June 06 Earlier today, the Today Show's Matt Lauer challenged fright-wing pundit Ann Coulter on this charming statement of hers:
"These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9-11 was an attack on our nation and acted like as if the terrorist attack only happened to them. They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. |
By E&P Staff
June 07, 2006 NEW YORK Syndicated columnist and author Ann Coulter appeared on the Today show on Tuesday, promoting a new book. Host Matt Lauer asked her to explain certain remarks in the book aimed at activist 9/11 widows, including her charge that they were nothing but "self obsessed" and celebrity-seeking "broads" who are "enjoying" their husbands' deaths "so much."
After she defended these statements, Lauer inexplicably closed by saying, "always fun to have you here." Elsewhere in the book, Coulter refers to the widows as "witches" and asks, "how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies"? |
The Religious Right Is Un-American - The idea of America as a Christian nation was anathema to the Founding Fathers, as it should be to all Americans.
By Joseph Smigelski
2 June 06 Many people associated with the Religious Right in America would have us believe that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. They foster this lie because they want to force their narrow-minded religious beliefs down our throats. They would like us to envision that Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison are standing with them shoulder to shoulder when they spout their distorted views on abortion, contraception, gay marriage, school prayer, evolution, etc. But to assert that the U.S. is a Christian nation is clearly un-American, if we define "American" as holding dear the precepts and values handed down to us in the Constitution by the Founding Fathers. The framers of the Constitution had no intention of defining our country as Christian. On the contrary, they were deeply concerned about preventing any kind of religious tyranny.
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By Xue-Jiang Li
Translated By Mark Klingman May 15, 2006 Are U.S. politicians stuck in the Cold War, treating Russia as an adversary when to do so is self-defeating? According to this op-ed article from China's Communist Party-controlled People's Daily, the hypocrisy and short-sightedness of American policy was recently exposed by Vice President Cheney, who criticized Russia, and days later embraced dictator and human rights abuser Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan.
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Translated By Paula van de Werken
May 29, 2006 |
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