Month March 2004

Welcome To Bushworld

Welcome To Bushworld From CBSNews.com What’s different is that the Bush administration stands accused of politicizing and bullying processes of the government that are designed to be above the fray of partisanship and ideology, such as intelligence gathering and science…

Torture in Guantanamo

Torture in Guantanamo Those three Brits who were held for two years in Guantanamo by the US,  released only after extreme pressure from Britain, then freed by police immediately upon returning to Britain, are talking about what they endured.  They were tortured, there’s…

Word

Word From Sam Smith of Progressive Review, comes this eloquent explanation why our foreign policy is ignorant and counter-productive. Regardless of who did it, the recent events in Spain show once again the futility and stupidity of the war on…

Classic Doublespeak

Classic Doublespeak Doublespeak is “language deliberately constructed to disguise its actual meaning.” Orwell called them words “deliberately constructed for political purposes: words, that is to say, which not only had in every case a political implication, but were intended to…