Author Archives: RagBlog

As Juan Cole points out in Informed Comment, “Bush’s reply, however, does not prove that he read Bremer’s letter, only that Rumsfeld passed it on to him. You have a sense that Bush gets a lot of memos he doesn’t … Continue reading →

From Another Day in the Empire. Porter: Kill More Iraqis or Pay $9 per GallonKurt Nimmo No doubt, for a large number of Americans, it is a good enough excuse: “Gasoline prices could rise to about $9 per gallon if … Continue reading →

The Right to Unionize: Key to Democracyby Dean BakerSeptember 04, 2007, t r u t h o u t For the last quarter century, corporate America has been at war against the labor movement. After a long period in which … Continue reading →

Well, there’s a fair measure of class warfare tossed in for additional consistency with US domestic policy. The Crimes Continue: Katrina and the Progress of the SystemBy SUNSARA TAYLOR On the two year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, George Bush stood … Continue reading →

Travails of the Super-RichBarbara Ehrenreich On Labor Day we customarily give a nod to America’s underpaid and overworked blue- and pink-collar workers–janitors, flight attendants, forklift operators and the like. But this year let’s go a step further and salute the … Continue reading →

Many thanks to the folks at Iraq Today / Staying Alive.

What will you do if the United States uses “small-scale” (“bunker buster”) nuclear weapons against Iran? 1,200 Targets in 3 Days? A Look at Bush’s Iran War PlansBy MARJORIE COHN The Sunday Times of London is reporting that the Pentagon … Continue reading →

The Next Quagmireby Chris Hedges The most effective diplomats, like the most effective intelligence officers and foreign correspondents, possess empathy. They have the intellectual, cultural and linguistic literacy to get inside the heads of those they must analyze or cover. … Continue reading →

Fake Photos Helped Lead US to War in Iraq: The News DronesBy WALTER BRASCH Add faked photos to the list of lies told by the Bush­Cheney Administration before its invasion of Iraq. In a town hall meeting in Bloomsburg, Pa. … Continue reading →

End in Sight – A Movie ReviewBy Alice Embree No End in Sight by Charles Ferguson is a powerful documentary. It will chill you to the bone. It is not, however an antiwar film. If you have read The Assassins’ … Continue reading →

… to direct the orchestra. “Can’t recall” why the Iraqi military was disbanded, our collective ass. George W. Bush is a bald-faced liar. Bush can’t recall why Iraqi army disbanded: In biography excerpts, he says he initially wanted to maintain … Continue reading →