Whatever it’s called — an prison break — it comes as the latest illustration of the aaaeulc‘s independence from democratic principles. The Attack Dog have sprung their Independence Day fireworks. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

It lacks the humor of the full-page ad in this morning’s NY Times shows more fervor. Talk about powerful! BnnRpbi

launch an offensive near Baghdad, it may be unwise to apply a description of the morale of the French troops at Dien Bien Phu to the mood of the American troops in Iraq. But even given the enormous differences between the Indochina war and the one in Iraq — in geography, battle conditions, politics, culture, […]

Is the aaaeulc on its way out? I don’t mean just the elected officials like the Attack Dog in their lame-duck days. I mean their modus operandi or, if you like, their institutional style and substance. Not to stretch the point, but “there is no crueller tyranny than the one exercised in the shadow of […]

His latest moniker on the front page of The New York Times print edition did not make the paper’s Web site, except Did the news editors of The Times believe the implied satirical content needed to be eliminated for the Web? I didn’t ask. Maybe the newly installed public editor will. But at least the […]

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If brave Olaf “whose warmest heart recoiled at war” were alive today, would he tell the “I will not kiss your fucking flag.” accompanying story of a young soldier killed, of others wounded, on a foot patrol in Iraq. Besides, the absence of a military draft and the use of an all-volunteer force for making […]

Have we beaten this to death? I mean the here and Arts Briefly column of The New York Times, revived the issue for me — particularly his description of the plagiarism involved. Associated Press put it, “[the judge] said the ads clearly violated intellectual property laws because Galliano never asked Klein’s permission to use the […]

“Prisoners of the Past” by Michael Feingold, in the Village Voice. He pinpoints the connection between the Living Theatre revival of Kenneth H. Brown’s 24-year-old play “The Brig” and the American premiere of Peter Morgan’s “Frost/Nixon.” If The Brig’s power comes from the U.S. military’s being tragically the same in 2007 as in 1963, or […]

“Mission Accomplished” — Tuesday is the fourth anniversary of that infamous photo op — but when President With His Head Up His Ass during a “No One Should Be Above the Law,” which he’d given earlier last week in Washington at a large gathering of activists, politicians and others to launch an noted last week, […]

It was unanimous. When asked for a show of hands not one went up to support impeachment proceedings against Prez Huha’s lineup of Democratic presidential candidates distinguish itself. House Resolution 333 — was apparently too modest to raise his own hand. video interview about HR 333 earlier this week, as posted on YouTube. And here’s […]

“You can’t keep asking young people to die for a lie,” he said this morning on Democracy Now!, where he talked about his return to public television with a new weekly series called “Bill Moyers Journal.” (Have a The first program in the series, Variety’s Bryan Lowery describes it as “a methodical, devastating, pull-no-punches recap […]

To refresh your memory: The killings in Haditha, in Anbar Province, began with a roadside bombing that killed one American marine and wounded two. Several marines then began methodically killing civilians in the area, eventually going door to door in the village and killing women and children, some in their beds, according to a Naval […]

Is it any surprise the memory lapses? Or that the pleased with the dummy’s testimony? Of course not. news photographers who covered the hearing, Don Mills among them. truth on the campaign trail in South Carolina. “Remember that old Beach Boys song ‘Bomb Iran’?” he joked, in answer to a question about sending “an airmail […]

“la machina de guerra,” as a friend puts it. This is Wolfowitz = Swaggart, chap. 1. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

This image — received from a reader who writes, “I am surprised, too!” — has been making the rounds of the Internet for a long time as a variations (and in many left, elsewhere): “I’ve never read online” also fails to parse and is truly scary, given his