Demos on Iran Nuke Power: "..." or "me too yada yada"
The hottest news in the world right now is (not Keith Olberman's speech, it's) the UN's attempted obstruction of Iran's right to the peaceful development of nuclear power. (See excerpt from latest AP...
View ArticlePhil Angelides Maybe/Sorta Supports Single-Payer Health Care?
Where does California Democratic candidate for governor Phil Angelides stand? Does he support Sheila Kuehl's single-payer, universal health care bill, or doesn't he? It's still hard to tell, as noted...
View ArticleOn Health Care, Democratic Party, Angelides Have No Beef
You hope for stark differences between the two major parties going into the campaign season. Lamentably, on one major issue, health care, when we get down to the nitty-gritty there seems to be little....
View ArticleOur Narrative: Bush as Captain Queeg, or Captain Ahab...
Democrats nationwide need a Bush narrative, and the President - insecure, incompetent, obsessed (with Iraq) - is doing his best imitation of a Captain Queeg (with a Captain Ahab chaser). Let's take...
View ArticleIsrael, Hezbollah Both War Criminals, So What Amnesty?
Amnesty International today condemned Hezbollah's rocket attacks on northern Israel as war crimes. It had last month condemned Israel's attacks on Lebanon's civilians and civilian infrastructure as war...
View ArticleThe Pope Didn't F#@king Apologize!
It's stomach turning that the mainstream media persistently pretends the Pope apologized for his insulting remarks on Islam, when he hasn't! Exactly as an Islamophobe might desire, this turns...
View ArticleSpringer, Rangel, Pelosi: Shut the F#@%k Up!
Apologies to indiansfordean, whiskey sam and others who have diaried on this, but now this morning Jerry Springer is carrying the ball for inside-the-beltwayers Rangel and Pelosi and their Republican...
View ArticleFreedom for fluids, 3 ounces or less, in a clear zip-top plastic bag
More good news for our homeland: AP reports the TSA has loosened its control over your gels and lotions!Passengers will be able to carry lotions and gels onto airliners again after a six-week ban --...
View ArticleBush to referee Karzai, Musharraf dinner? WHAT'S REALLY GONNA HAPPEN
Here' s the beginning of AP's newsy pro-Bush propaganda:President Bush jokes that he'll study the body language of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf at the...
View ArticleMuhammad is 6, Daddy in US black hole 5 years
Related to yesterday's torturers' out-of-jail-free bill, of course, also yesterday on the BBC website:He is known to the Americans as Enemy Combatant Prisoner 345, Camp Four, Guantanamo Bay. His...
View Article63% of the People Get It, Dem Establishment Doesn't, Why?
Thinkers should lay off "the people's" being on the wrong side, they aren't by a margin of 63% to 32%. While there are no polling numbers on the torture/detainee bill I'm aware of, those September 19...
View Article100-0! Senate Passes $600 Billion Pentagon Budget
The AP quietly (!) reported last Friday:The Senate unanimously approved $70 billion more for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan Friday as part of a record Pentagon budget. The bill, now on its...
View ArticleKos Pops Frist's Afghan Peace Balloon
This is a Democratic Party site, so when Senator Frist says something exploitable by 'our' side, he gets jumped on here. But there's a price paid sometimes. In this case, was it really so wrong for him...
View ArticleClaire, Dems, _This_ TP: "I Want Habeas for Everyone"
Why oh why was Claire McCaskill, Democrat for the Senate seat in Missouri, running away from habeas corpus on Meet the Press? We're at the deep end of a longtime Dem Party leaders' problem here, that...
View ArticleLamont the Populist vs. Lieber-BUSH-man
This diary is 'inspired' by Ned Lamont's latest ad, which sucks. You can check it out at http://www.nedlamont.com/... No Ned, Lieberman's Senate attendance record should NOT be anywhere close to the...
View ArticleNew CNN Poll: All-Time Low Support Iraq War
The latest CNN poll is more bad news for Bush and his pathetic effort to revive support for the endless U.S. occupation of Iraq. It's good news for guys like Ned Lamont, who put Bush and Iraq front and...
View ArticleWOW CNN! Dems Right Direction up 12%, Repubs Wrong Direction up 10%
Feel good, people! In a little over two months the attitude toward the Republicans has massively shifted to the negative. I don't know why this has happened, but note over those 11 weeks or so Bush has...
View ArticleMIC & TIL: "Iraq, you're _still_ f#cked!"
The present Iraq disaster can't continue, and so the military-industrial complex (MIC) and The Israel Lobby (TIL) and their two political parties (the Democrats and Republicans) are re-thinking Iraq's...
View ArticleBREAKING Blair: "Iraq, Ya Got 12 Months Then We're Out!"
The lead story on the website of the Guardian, inside Tony Blair's Labour Party if any publication is, has Blair giving a 12 month deadline to Iraq and then it better be ready for a British pull out...
View ArticleWhy not a peaceful & united Iraq, dailykos?
In continued pursuit of a US-subordinate Iraq, the NY Times yesterday jettisoned the fake goal of a democratic or united Iraq for the bare essential, continued US or proxy control of the area. The main...
View Article(RED Alert) 'Stability First': Newspeak for Rape of Iraq
Don't miss Pepe Escobar's brilliant article with the above title in today's Asia Times. I'll spare you the biblical history and his stomach-wrenching overview of the real situation there, and cut to...
View ArticleIsrael Cluster Fuccks Lebanon's Kids Again
Long after retreating from Lebanon, Israel keeps killing Lebanese civilians, in particular children, with the 2-4 million (mostly US-supplied) cluster bombs it dumped on southern Lebanon. Read at least...
View ArticleDems R Dovish on Iraq, Even Hillary on Board
Today is the day voters get to say "out of Iraq". Will the Democratic Party listen? Some say no, but I think the party establishment is getting itself in line with the anti-occupation sentiment. In...
View ArticlePeace, Love & Sunshine Will Break Out Round the World!
Well, no, not really. It's great, this smashing Democratic Party victory, but Bush is still President and all that, so let's not oversell ourselves on what's gonna happen now. Nonetheless, I'm happy...
View Article"Bush calls for global isolation of Iran"
That headline came over the AP wire 45 minutes ago (AP and Bloomberg snippets below the fold). This is what President Bush is saying immediately after a meeting with Israel Prime Minister Olmert on the...
View Article2007, 2008, 2009! Roping the Democrats into the Iraq Disaster
The election was a great big `NO!' on Iraq*, but the people's will won't be respected. Besides despair, this has produced 'Democrats have no good options on Iraq', a fine article yesterday by Walden...
View ArticleIraq, Out Now & UFPJ/ANSWER (oh brother)
The quarrel between the two main anti-war coalitions, United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) and the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism Coalition (ANSWER) means they’re sponsoring competing national...
View ArticleBushWarrior Basic Training, A True Story
The following is third-hand and very recent from a counter-recruitment listserv. It rings true to me, as no doubt it will to you. (The name and some spelling and grammar have been changed.) It is a...
View ArticleNon-Withdrawal Withdrawal Plans: Dems on Iraq
Tom Englehardt (Tomdispatch) wrote a rambling masterpiece yesterday called "Will Daddy's Boys Extend the War?" I'd add this question: "How complicit will the Democrats be in the extension?" Answers to...
View ArticlePeace through al-Sadr and Iraqi Nationalism
Speaking to his followers, he called for rapprochement between political and religious forces, saying: "Let us shake hands, and I want nothing from you. Is it not enough that in our division and...
View ArticlePresidential Candidates 2008: Positions on Iraq (with Poll)
In the wake of the Feingold withdrawal from (unofficial) candidacy, I felt deserted, I mean in a desert of uncertainty, and had a strong need to discover the positions on Iraq of the candidates and...
View ArticleBut Rubin & Hamilton Project _ARE_ EVIL!!
(Go to bottom (***) for the evilness of The Hamilton Project)ManfromMiddletown's Pelosi Bars Labor from Meeting w/ Freshman Reps has now been unrecommended into oblivion. And Phoenix Woman's Nancy...
View Article"Silvestre Reyes wants to KILL MY KIDS! He's EVIL!"
No, he doesn't, no he's not. But to judge from the diaries that've been posted (see here and here), you'd think he was Senator McCain's personal love slave, #1 concubine to the Military-Industrial...
View ArticleNo thanks to dailykos, Reyes backtracks on Iraq (with transcript)
Silvestre Reyes, incoming chair of the House Intelligence Committee, got into trouble and rightfully so by supplying the headline and content of the following Newsweek article, 'We Can't Afford to...
View ArticleSix-Year-Old Michal Brings Peace to Palestine/Israel
The primary school in Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam (like the community itself (more below)) is a dream, a bilingual school for Arab and Jewish Israelis. And the short film First Lesson In Peace is up to...
View ArticleAhmadinejad didn't say Israel "will be wiped out"
Funny how that "wiped out" verb always finds itself into AP reporting on Iran’s President Ahmadinejad. But not in Iran’s official English language news service, despite the AP saying IRNA was its...
View ArticleScrew lran Realism, Let's Have a War!
Neither the Bush administration nor the ISG are realistic about what the Iraq debacle means for U.S. dominance over the Persian Gulf. But plainly by destroying Saddam Hussein and fracturing Iraq we...
View ArticleHarry's Non-Retraction: Still Open to Surge
I'm amazed at the "Okay, everything's cool now!" response in delphine's heavily recommended diary to Harry Reid's Huffington Post non-retraction. I'm irritated both with the many turn-off-the-heat...
View ArticleF#%& the ISG, I want my ICG!
... its purpose must not be to support the Iraqi government. It must support Iraq... The International Crisis Group’s recommendations are outstanding, and deserve support by the Democratic Party...
View ArticleCivilian Killing 2006: 322+ Palestinians, 17 Israelis
Disappeared in the US mainstream media, there was an explosion of killing by Israel in Palestine in the last half of 2006. This apparently the result of the capture of a single soldier, Israel Defense...
View ArticleAFSC Says Commemorate NOW: 3,000 / 600,000+ Lives Lost
This from American Friends Service Committee:AFSC urges peace supporters to organize events in their hometowns on or soon after New Years Day, the day after the 3,000th U.S. military death in...
View ArticleExpose the Naked Emperor's Empire? Dems?
Well, of course not. But what's interesting is that in the next decade (or two) our nation's imperial reach will have to be soberly reassessed and reversed. As Democrats, we will be the party that can...
View ArticleWill Bush’s Warmongering Hoover-ize the Republican Party?
It seems to me that if President Bush starts a third war, this time with Iran, or if he goes through with what will be a disastrous surge in Iraq troops (i.e., escalation of the war), and especially if...
View ArticleRosen & Reuters on What's What in Somalia
Nir Rosen, freelance writer and fellow at the New America Foundation is excellent on Iraq and America's wars to restore warlords to power in places like Afghanistan and Somalia. The following is from a...
View ArticleHillary a lying Lieberman-on-Iraq for kos
Yesterday, dailyhowler.com wrote well (in FRAMING CLINTON!) on liberal blogs' new and ‘self-destructive for Democrats’ trend to lie like Republicans about Hillary Clinton. This kind of crap about major...
View ArticleRegurgitating Republicans' anti-Hillary spin
This is so damn sad, but my gawd can markos and dailykos please stop regurgitating Republican anti-Hillary spin? It's been coming hot and heavy lately, from kos himself today, a day before from...
View Article8 Simple Words! "I made a mistake because I was misled"
[Uninspired by Bill Press’s 'four simple words' parting shot this morning on Air America Radio]Eight simple words. But why, why??, why can't you say them, Hillary?John Edwards has already said them*,...
View ArticleRuss, 3 little words: "I was wrong" (with poll!)
Dear Senator Feingold,In the midst of all the Hillary bashing going on at dailykos, and unfortunately for you, someone brought up your October 11, 2002 statement on why you opposed the authorization of...
View ArticleNorth of Florida takes a few swings at Hillary
The beating up of the Democratic Party's front runner continues, at uhh, dailykos. The latest is kos's frontpa--no, now here's Georgia10(*see end of diary), and her formulation of why Hillary's wrong...
View ArticleHillary: correct 'soft on terror' comment on "some people"
Dear Hillary,I've defended you in five or so consecutive diaries against unfair attacks over your decision not to apologize for your four-and-a-half year ago vote on the Iraq war. So I hope you'll...
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