Here’s the ‘ganda machine at work, Bullshitter-in-Chief. Although it is cropped, below, as used by The New York Times on its Web site (and downplayed in a secondary position), the full shot appeared huge above the fold on the front page of The Times print edition. ROUGH RIDERS AND TOUGH TALKERS before, when Tucker Carlson […]

toastie postie about the “Mein Kampf” Postscript: Adolf certainly stopped at nothing. His war ‘ganda. Slogans were a specialité de maison: The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very […]

We have led a country to civil war in order to permanently weaken it. We have largely destroyed its cultural patrimony to erase its identity and autonomy. We have set up a potential genocide against our opponents. And now we step aside and claim we can’t control what will happen. Pinter was so dead-on when […]

Revelations of Iraqi torture centers continue. As John Burns reports, the Wolf Brigade of Shiite commandos have hung Sunnis from roof hooks, extracted their fingernails, applied electric shocks to their genitals and burned their bodies with lighted cigarettes. This has outraged American military officers and the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad. How does that […]

We keep asking: “Isn’t it time to drop religious faith from human belief?” We also keep answering: “The answer is self evident.” (Check out GRAY’S ANATOMY.) So it tickled us to see Yes, it was a promo for his latest book, “The Modern Mind,” a great big tome subtitled “The Intellectual History of the 20th […]

The report in today’s Washington Post, Sunni genocide. Oddly, the WashPost buried this graf very low in the story: Investigators said they found 625 prisoners at the center but declined to give details about them. Most of the detainees found at the secret prison last month were Sunni Arabs who had been picked up by […]

We have to hand it to them. Just in time to miss the cut-off date for choosing the front-page review of Robert Fisk’s “The Controversy of Zion” and other books, the review is lengthy and circumspect and, we might add (not that we take credit), has appeared soon after our And so to the meat […]

Here he is folks, GOP: The Party Leader Speaks!

acceptance speech, he has also provided us with cover to post what may be the most incredible item — truly the hardest to believe — we’ve ever put up. It’s not only about genocide, which we’ve written about before, it’s about “the coming genocide of the Sunnis in Iraq,” to quote a friend of ours, […]

The “amazing progress” made there during the past two-and-a-half years. ROCKS I think that I shall never push A rock as stubborn as George Bush. A rock whose lopsided bottom Is covered over with something rottem. A rock that looks at God all day And has no rational thing to say. A rock that thinks […]

A mathematician we know, who evaluates weapons systems for the U.S. military, sent us a message about a Van Creveld’s article ran in the Forward on Nov. 25. What popped up yesterday in The New York Times? Bingo! An article headlined “Why Iraq Will End as Vietnam Did.” Most of it details at great length […]

When it comes to the last year’s picks (four of 58). 10 Best Books list, however, which restores a tad of credibility to the Book Review’s picks. For a minute there, we thought we’d have to come up with an exposé. Even so, counting all journalists whose books made the notable non-fiction list — a […]

A reader writes, in re: that item is a nice comment, too, on why you occasionally look at As to the to the contrary, he still has to be dragged kicking and screaming toward reality. That’s our totally unsourced take on him, without benefit of expert opinion.* For us, he’s still a four-letter word working […]

“Mission Accomplished” on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to Bullshitter-in-Chief when, in fact, it means the exact opposite: We’re going backwards. The slogans say it themselves. talking-points prez on rewind, left, weren’t enough to make you throw up, how does this “the same tired argument that everything’s going just fine.” Even USA Today, the […]

In re: said so little about recent genocides, like the genocide in Darfur, or for that matter, the

When 16,000 demonstrators marched in Columbus, Ga., earlier this month to protest U.S. military involvement in torture, they received less national attention than the Thanksgiving Day Local press offered the best, most extensive, coverage of the protesters, who demanded that the Army shutter its Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly the School of the […]