Update on Saleh v. Bush about War on Iraq - (N.D. Cal. 2014) – Now in Ninth...
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is being asked to hear a claim that the US-led Iraq war was illegal under laws formed because of the Nuremberg trials in the wake of World War II....
View ArticleA Tragic Legacy of the Bush Administration
Many bad policies came out of the Bush Administration. I have neither the energy or the time to catalog them here. What I would like to focus on is the terrible refugee situation playing out from the...
View ArticleLet Me Tell You About Appearing in Federal Court
Today I opened my e-mail to find a Daily Kos action on Net Neutrality, titled, "This is How Lyn Jensen Appeared in Federal Court." Well, let me tell you about the time I actually appeared in federal...
View ArticleMy Evening with Ahmad Chalabi
Today, the world learned that Ahmad Chalabi, one of the major figures in the lead up to the war in Iraq, has died. As you may remember, neo-conservatives portrayed Chalabi, leader of the Iraqi National...
View ArticleBush 41's new biography says W was "served badly" by Cheney and Rumsfeld.
A new biography of George H.W. Bush will be out next week. To drum up interest in the book, the publisher and author (Jon Meacham) are "sharing" some of the juicier bits with the press. 41 appears to...
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George H.W. Bush goes off script. Sorry, Jeb?
Daaaaaad! Former President George H.W. Bush, aka Poppy Bush, has released a book. You have probably heard by now that it is distinctly unflattering to two members of the George W. Bush presidency; he...
View ArticleThe Seven Sisters+The Cheney/Rummy Violence = ISIL/DAESH: The chickens came...
ISIL/Daesh:I’ve read that ISIL with thoughts of a Caliphate may have started as early as 1999. However most news sources indicate it sprang from George W Bush’s war on Iraq when Bremer et al kicked the...
View ArticleToo Many Secrets
Not knowing about the politically imprisoned former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman or the private rich and powerful men’s Bohemian Grove Club or what happened to the Electric Car and why, is not the...
View ArticleRumsfeld quietly shelved a 2002 report undermining Bush administration's...
Turns out, according to Politico’s John Walcott, there were some known unknowns and some unknown unknowns that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld knew about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction in...
View ArticleColbert, master of "The Word," destroyed Rumsfeld's House of Cards with a...
Stephen Colbert had Donald Rumsfeld on The Late Show as a guest. Had it been the Colbert Report, I’m sure he would have savaged Rumsfeld like he did Bill Kristol ten years ago. But this is network...
View ArticleDonald Rumsfeld wandered onto Stephen Colbert's show...
“WOW.”That was Stephen’s response to Rumsfeld’s answer to a very pointed question.The host continued to say he would never be so “cynical” to believe that the Bush administration knowingly lied to the...
View ArticleCartoon: Donald Rumsfeld, tech bro
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View Article1/27/16 TILT (THINGS I LEARNED TODAY)
,1) Isis has a dating website. It targets Western women, with a "match" dot com type of feeling to it.“There's even a hashtag that's going around - ‘jihotties’. -Trevor Noah2) Kentucky will be getting...
View ArticleRobert Bateman has the low down on Ted Cruz's National Security Advisor. It's...
Over at Esquire, where you can legitimately read it for the articles, Robert Bateman has a profile of the person who is apparently giving Ted Cruz national security advice. You know, Ted Cruz the...
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Fox News Freaks Out When Obama Mentions Climate Change Because --- Terrorism
One of the most predictable lines of attack on President Obama by Fox News and other right-wing media is to latch unto his commitment to mitigating the catastrophic effects of anthropomorphic climate...
View ArticleJeremy Scahill/Democracy Now: Is Bernie Sanders getting a pass on his own...
On a recent Democracy Now Facebook post, a video clip is shown with Amy Goodman and The Intercept founder, Jeremy Scahill. The question that is asked; Has Bernie Sanders been given a pass on his own...
View ArticleThe Miss Alternate Universe Pageant
An election-year flight from reason and reality. Positions of authority have a way of inflating people's sense of their own power. For example, Donald Rumsfeld might have been a great defense secretary...
View ArticleActually Bernie, Democracy Needn't Be "Messy." (Updated, with clarification...
In an interview with NBC's Kristen Welker, Bernie Sanders attempted to clarify:“The media often takes words out of context. The context of that is democracy is messy, that people will have a vigorous...
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John Kerry Rips Donald Trump's 'Unbelievable Contemptuous Ignorance' On...
The Republican Party long ago committed itself to a position on climate change that is at odds with reality. The question is settled with 97 percent of the scientists who study the subject agreeing...
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Chickenhawk Republican Climate Deniers Just Killed Critical Military Funding
The Republican Party has distinguished itself for its shameless, knee-jerk opposition to anything with even a faint fragrance of liberalism. Their robotic rejection of any policy proposed by President...
View ArticleDonald Rumsfeld endorses Hillary!
Donald Rumsfeld endorsed Hillary Clinton earlier today, saying “I believe Secretary Clinton is the steady hand we need in the various wars we are fighting”. This was greeted by the DNC as yet another...
View Article36 Years Down the Republican Rabbit Hole
In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," Lewis Carroll tells the story of Alice, a more-or-less average curious, rational child, who, on a dreamy summer day, chases a waistcoat-wearing white rabbit down...
View ArticleRepublicans Have Lost the Right to Govern
The election is tomorrow and I believe it will be a historical landslide as we semd Hillary Clinton to the White House. I believe the Democratic Party will do a sweep and we will have, at the very...
View ArticleDefense Secretary Defies Trump, Says Climate Change Is a Real Threat to...
The Republican Party has long been a fierce opponent of any efforts to mitigate climate change. Their opposition stands in stark contrast to the near unanimous consensus in the scientific community....
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Republicons: Sorcerers of Mass Destruction - POLITIFORMERS I
POLITIFORMERS: More than meets the pie! [ Part I - II - III - IV - V - VI ]Little did you know, but many of our most prominent politicians are actually super-powerful robots, hiding in our midst. This...
View Article46 Republicans Join Democrats to Slap Trump in the Face With Huge Climate...
Donald Trump is unarguably the most hostile president to the environment this country has ever seen. He is an unabashed science denier who believes that climate change is a hoax invented by China. He...
View ArticleTrump's Dangerous National Security Policy Contradicts His Own Defense Sec on...
In a speech intended to lay out his national security agenda, Donald Trump appeared lethargic and detached. His TelePrompter reading was stunted and his voice was slurred. At one point he said that...
View ArticleShameful Survival Strategy: Short-Sightedness Surging Self-destruction
Severe self-serving sins projected on citizenry seeking missing refugees who sought only solace, by soliciting toElement removedslip away from State sponsored slaughter – sharply switched into shipped...
View Articleat least Manafort got 47 months. Democrats let the bankers go free, gave them...
what happened to putting the Bush regime on trial for war crimes?what happened to putting the bankers who foreclosed on our homes in jail?let’s put BETTER and MORE [of the BETTER] democrats into...
View ArticleStoking Fear: We Must Remember How the Iraq War Was Sold
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of...
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In the progressive blogosphere, a Sanders nomination may feel like a very...
NetrootsWhat are the roots of the progressive blogosphere? The medium you’re reading now, in its early years, was of course the place for progressive writers to speak out against George W. Bush’s war...
View ArticleHeavy medal
Imagine you’re in a coffee shop when a man you don’t know sits down uninvited next to you. Scribbling on a napkin and spouting something about “tax cuts pay for themselves,” the man then confidently...
View ArticleIt's time for some honesty about the true cause of 9/11
September 11 2019 is the 18th anniversary of 9/11/2001, a day made forever infamous by the killing of 2,996 innocent Americans and other nationalities at the World Trade Center in New York and at the...
View ArticleDick "@$#^&%" Cheney is Saving Us from a Martial Law Coup D'état??? Now...
Ex-VP (and more importantly ex-DefSec) Dick Cheney is apparently the one who originated a joint-letter of “all living former Defense Secretaries” to stress the importance of a peaceful transition of...
View ArticleBreaking: Donald Rumsfeld is dead...
I have plenty to say about how much enmity I bear for this man and his accomplices, but hear’s the latest news from The Guardian.
View ArticleDonald Rumsfeld, Master of the Grand Delusion & Major Architect of Bush's...
In 2005, I wrote a piece about Donald Rumsfeld titled “Rumsfeld's Bloody Paths of Glory,” subtitled “Defense Secretary's shameful journey to Iraq is followed by Pentagon discussions of forming El...
View ArticleSaddam Welcomes Rummy to Hell!
There’s no better way of putting it than to quote Rumsfeld directly. Mushroom Cloud indeed!"As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns....
View ArticleMorning Digest: Ranked-choice do-over shows tight primary for NYC mayor, with...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Matt Booker, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleDonald Rumsfeld – The Passing of a Fascist War Criminal
On the passing of Donald Rumsfeld, I say good riddance. Given Rumsfeld's contribution to humanity, which included tremendous suffering and deaths, I toast the fascist's demise. Rumsfeld was...
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"We" on 9/11 and the Mythic Unity of 9/12
I was in Manhattan on September 11, 2001, on E. 89th St., just two doors down from the Guggenheim. I was teaching class, so I couldn’t watch television or listen to the radio. I have my story. For me,...
View Article"EPIC" MMT: the most promising & threatening idea since the populist left...
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:PrefaceDuring President Obama’s very dignified two terms in office, he made a number of statements equating a household’s economics with the Federal Government’s,...
View Article'Mr. Bush, when are you going to apologize': Heartbreaking video on 9/11...
As the country’s leaders remember the thousands of Americans who lost their lives to terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, activists and social media users remind the public of the years of devastation...
View ArticleDear NYT: Call On Me! I Know! I Know!
Apparently, the New York Times is...well, mystified! “20 Years On, A Question Lingers About Iraq: Why Did the U.S. Invade? Read the text! “The question remains...a matter of deep uncertainty”...”the...
View ArticleWe should never forget that America was lied into Iraq invasion
I must say I am fairly shocked not to have seen a plethora of posts here on Monday about the anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq based on assertions the Bush administration and its gang of...
View ArticleI've Been Waiting For This For 55 Years
Donald Trump has been indicted. My new hero, the courageous D.A., Alvin Bragg, has ignored all the fatuous blather about “whether this is good for the country” or whether “it might boost Trump.” What...
View ArticleK.O.'s Pitch-Perfect 9-11 Remembrance - How We Got Here
Keith Olbermann had a magnificent commentary on his podcast this morning. He began by telling us where he was in New York and the people he lost on 9-11. Then he brought it home. He reminded us of that...
View ArticleWith respect, it shouldn't be called a 'Global War on Terrorism' memorial
No one in this country would contest or doubt the sacrifices made by veterans of the two wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, launched by the George W. Bush administration in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Nor...
View ArticleBiden urges Israel to use surgical strikes rather than a full ground invasion
While some have been demonizing President Biden for showing empathy and support for an internally troubled ally that just suffered an external terrorist attack the equivalent of 30 9/11s, the reporting...
View ArticleHistory matters.
The GOP’s push to try to trigger a war with Iran is nothing new. They’ve wanted to attack Iran for decades. Remember — those of you who were around back in the days of George W. Bush?Fresh off the war...
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