A little background first, then to the meat and potatoes of this article. Hang in there. It'll be worth the long read. The home base of RBN is Berks County, Pennsylvania, just outside the...
Author - Bob Cesca
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"[Bombings and humiliation in Iraq] could in the long term create an environment in which an Iraqi Hitler could emerge like the one created by the defeat of Germany and the humiliation of Germans in...
The buck stops everywhere else
Google search results for: Bush blames: 24,800 Bush takes responsibility: 657 Bush takes the blame for: 12 Inspired by this post at DailyKos.
Brzezinski: 'Fanatics' led us to war
Former National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, appeared this afternoon on CNN's "Late Edition". While Wolf Blitzer tried to guide the Iraq discussion in the direction of the White House "the...
Surprise! White House blames Kerik
The White House is claiming that their vetting of Bernard Kerik failed because Kerik didn't tell them what they needed to know -- even though their vetting process is "thorough and extensive"...
Give 'em Helen!
One of the many tragedies of the Bush administration is the banishing of Helen Thomas from participation in Bush's televised press conferences. For more than 30 years, Helen had the honor of the...
What political capital?
The operative question on everyone's mind is: "What political capital?" Sure, we all know Bush's mandate isn't a real mandate. No doubt, this week, we've seen substantive proof. With the turbulence...
Kerik withdraws from DHS consideration
Didn't the White House vet this guy? MSNBC just announced that Bernard Kerik is withdrawing himself from consideration for Secretary of Homeland Security. It's likely this has to do with concerns...
Miller blasts the New York Times
Mark Crispin Miller is arguably one of the finest progressive authors and thinkers of our time. Today, he wrote an open letter to the New York Times regarding their conspicuously nonexistant coverage...
Please don't go, Bill Moyers
I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee. We have an...
More Rush Limbaugh racism
The word "hypocrite" fails to fully encompass an adequate description for a thrice-divorced drug addict who continues to indict everyone else on equal or lesser charges every day in 250 radio markets...
Hella rich, hella tax free: Hellaburton
Following up on this item posted here yesterday, Halliburton announced that it has surpassed the $10 billion mark (Reuters) in government checks from their no-bid Iraq contracts. Halliburton...
Right attempts to discredit soldier
Just over 24 hours after Donald Rumsfeld was grilled by soldiers stationed in Kuwait, news broke Thursday that a reporter coached Army Specialist Thomas Wilson before the soldier asked the famed...
The well-paid and the well-screwed
From the DoD transcript: Q: Mr. Secretary, Lieutenant Colonel Alan Kronolog (sp). I’m the Inspector General for the 116th Brigade Combat team. We’re helping – or trying to help about 150 soldiers get...
Enough, already!
Google News search results: Pistons Pacers brawl: 14,100 9/11 intelligence bill: 3,670 Guantanamo torture: 2,010 Ohio voting irregularities: 1,190 Halliburton investigation: 924 Darfur ethnic...
The realities of Darfur, 12.09.04
A civilian killed by the Sudanese Government backed Janjaweed militia in Farawyaiah, West Darfur. The soldiers in the background are from the Sudanese Liberation Army, one of many military factions...
And it's going to get worse?
Jimmy Massey, a former marine staff sergeant, told an immigration and refugee board hearing in Toronto that he and his fellow marines shot and killed more than 30 unarmed men, women and children and...
Yellow magnets and homeless vets
Yellow ribbon car magnets sold in department stores, gas stations, and websites, adorn nearly every vehicle in the country. "Support our troops" or "Pray for our Troops" they say. A token gesture by...
December 8, 1980
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's...
60 Minutes: 5,500 absent without leave
60 Minutes will report Wednesday night that 5,500 soldiers have deserted their units rather than to fight in Iraq. "I was told in basic training that, if I'm given an illegal or immoral order, it is...