Salon’s Glenn Greenwald on the establishment media’s constant and obsessive campaign to discredit Julian Assange. Shooting the messenger is an old tactic but now corporate journalists are joining in: It’s not hard to see why The New York Times, CNN and so many other establishment media outlets are eager to do that. … Serving the Government’s…
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George, may I use tongue?
Bob Geldof writes a love letter to George W. Bush. (Yes, it’s as undignified and delusional as you’d expect): On Air Force One, Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Bobby Pittman, the National Security Council adviser for Africa, and I stayed awake as the pitch night engulfed us, only punctuated by the…
Murdoch praises the greatest man on the planet
Fox News is a channel truly sponsored by the White House (its latest show is below, need one say more?):
What Bush and Rove have created
Welcome to the modern Republican Party. Freaks (and creationists) only need apply.
Lessons in dishonesty, volume 1
Republican svengali Karl Rove and George W. Bush confidante is soon to release a book, with bidding already said to be in the millions. An advance copy of the table of contents is below:
From Clinton to Bush
Greg Palast, November 12: Just months before he left office President Clinton paid a sudden visit to Musharraf. Congressional Democrats were stunned. Musharraf had quickly shown himself to be a Taliban-loving, unbalanced dictator who violated US treaty terms by exploding a nuke and threatening to incinerate our ally India. Notably, the Ambassador with Clinton made…
Tasting failure
Sidney Blumenthal, Salon, November 8: Every aspect of Bush’s foreign policy has now collapsed. Every dream of neoconservatism has become a nightmare. Every doctrine has turned to dust. The influence of the United States has reached a nadir, its lowest point since before World War II, when the country was encased in isolationism.
This is what a real commentator looks like
Keith Olbermann unloads on the Bush administration’s use of torture (his directness is almost shocking in its honesty):
Ali Allawi: The attempt to refashion Iraq was doomed
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: The Iraq war has barely registered in this election campaign (except Murdoch cheerleader Andrew Bolt declaring last week that the battle has been “won”). Clearly Bolt must have missed the millions of displaced refugees both inside and outside the ravaged country during his visit to the…