Therapy 1. Open a new file in your PC; 2. Name it "George W. Bush"; 3. Send it to the trash; 4. Empty the trash; 5. Your PC will ask you: "Do you really want to get rid of George W.Bush?" 6. Answer calmly "Yes" and press the mouse button firmly. BUSH AND HITLER: Is History Repeating Itself? "Your enemy is not surrounding your country. Your enemy is ruling your country." -- George W. Bush No one expected Hitler to rise to power. He had failed at just about everything he had...
by Larry Everest / May 30, 2004 ROOTS OF THE 2003 WAR What are the roots of the 2003 war? There has been an outpouring of books criticizing Bush and his administration--his lying, his family's ties to the CIA and various dictators and tyrants, his corporate connections. This shows how deeply troubled many people, with widely divergent viewpoints, are about the Bush regime, and much interesting information has been brought to light. But we need to dig much, much deeper. This war didn't...
WILLIAM FINNEGAN / Harper's Magazine May 03 In early March, President Bush, on the verge of declaring war on Iraq, was asked at a press conference why he thought "so many people around the world take a different view of the threat that Saddam Hussein poses than you and your allies." Mr. Bush replied, "I've seen all kinds of protests since I've been the president. I remember the protests against trade. There was a lot of people who didn't feel like free trade was good for the world. I compl...
by Maureen Farrell Buzzflash.com 18 May 2004 "I am writing this from Frederick, Maryland. I've just been filming, for Channel 4, a press conference in which the son of a CIA officer who died in suspicious circumstances presented his evidence that vice-president Dick Cheney and defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld were, in 1975, when part of the Gerald Ford administration, involved in a cover-up of the events surrounding his father's death. The press conference was due to have been two...
By Barry Grey Mar 23, 2004 The acquisition of FleetBoston Financial Corp. by Bank of America provides revealing insights into the workings of the American profit system and its social priorities. On March 17, the same day that shareholders of both banks met to approve the takeover of Fleet, the nation’s seventh largest bank, by the number-three financial institution, the Wall Street Journal reported that the merged bank plans to eliminate between 12,000 and 13,000 jobs. The job cuts, w...
By DOUGLAS VALENTINE "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!" Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I. Finally, a period of re-evaluation. Too bad it took a war crimes scandal to bring it about, and that the entire Iraqi misadventure was a criminal fraud to being with. But here we are, with calls from Congress for the resignation of the once popular, infallible Donald Rumsfeld, and the absence of that permanent, arrogant smi...
Mr. George W. Bush: the million Cubans who are gathered here today to march past your Interests Section is just a small part of a valiant and heroic people who would like to be here with us, if it were physically possible. We have not gathered in a hostile gesture to the American people whose ethics, rooted in the time when the first pilgrims emigrated to this hemisphere, are well known to us. Neither do we wish to upset the officials, employees and guards of this mission, who are given al...
by Christopher Deliso balkanalysis.com Last November, when George W. Bush traveled to London for an official state visit, pundits wondered if the timing could possibly have been worse. Both Bush and his British counterpart Tony Blair were then "mired in slumping approval ratings" because of the shoddy state of occupied Iraq. The American public would get a taste of how their supreme leader is perceived abroad, with televised footage of anti-Bush protests and denunciations from the likes o...
Joseph Wilson blasts the secretive neoconservative cabal that plunged America into a disastrous war, in this excerpt from his new book. Note: In July 2003, former ambassador Joseph Wilson revealed in a New York Times piece that President Bush's assertion that Saddam Hussein was seeking to acquire uranium from the African nation of Niger was false and should have been known by the Bush administration to be false. Wilson was in a position to know: He himself had been sent by the CIA (acting ...
Several major weapons manufacturers and military contractors reported higher than expected first quarter profits or increased revenue at the end of April. Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, and Halliburton were three of the companies that have benefited from recent US military contracts, as more reports of heavy fighting and evidence of torture underline the brutality of the continuing occupation of Iraq. "I am pleased with the progress the Boeing team made during the quarter to deliver value to...
Only a year after defeating Absolute Evil in Iraq, the Bush politburo has decided that some former members of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party may be useful in controlling the population the United States has liberated from Saddam’s tyranny. Whether you find this confusing or amusing depends, I suppose, on your temperament. It’s not unusual, though, for Absolute Evil to become only a relative evil, or even a positive good, after a war. Japan and Germany were Absolute Evil during World War II,...