Index of Top News Stories

Commentary ~ December 30, 2006: 3,000 Dead Americans in Iraq. Despite President George Bush’s attempt to overshadow the grim milestone with a political execution, the 3,000th dead American soldier bought his trip home today in a body bag. The soldier fell on the last day of 2006, ringing in the New Year with a march towards 4,000.

Commentary ~ December 4, 2006: Bolton Leaves United Nations in Disgrace. Giving up hope on the newly rediscovered democratic process of the United States Senate, embattled U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said Monday he would resign, a defeat for a chagrined President Bush who had clung to unrealistic hopes of confirmation. Bush had tried again to subjugate democracy but found that he had run out of alternatives.

Commentary ~ August 25, 2006: Bush's War Tally: 2,600 American Soldiers, 45,000 Iraqi Civilians, 0 WMDs. The number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq has topped 2,600, according to official counts from the Associated Press and iCasualties.org. Three US soldiers were killed yesterday when one was hit by small-arms fire, another was killed by a roadside bomb, and the third died in an exchange of fire.

Commentary ~ July 12, 2005: Bush Administration Protects Karl Rove After Investigation Reveals His Act of Treason. George Bush is under pressure to fire his senior advisor Karl Rove after an investigation revealed he released the name of an undercover CIA agent. Rove leaked the name of Valerie Plame, which appeared in a column by right-wing mouthpiece reporter Robert Novak.

Commentary ~ June 28, 2005: Bush Tells America Iraq War is Worth the Costs. George Bush this evening tried to explain to the American people why so many of them should be killed and maimed in Iraq, while his government funnels billions of taxpayer dollars to a few entrenched oligarchs in charge of the nation’s military machine.

Commentary ~ March 27, 2005: Bush’s Popularity Plummets Amongst American Public. Americans coast to coast are slowing waking up to the realities of the Bush regime.

Commentary ~ March 9, 2005: Bush Moves to Appoint John Bolton to United Nations, Signaling Contempt for the International Community. George Bush’s choice to appoint John Bolton as the next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations is a new low for a president who is used to dragging his belly in the trenches of bad decisions.

Commentary ~ March 3, 2005: Bush's War in Iraq Claims More Than 1,500 American Soldiers. The number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq has topped 1,500, according to an Associated Press count showed Thursday after the military announced the deaths of three Americans. The latest reported American deaths brought the toll to 1,502 since Bush launched his war in Iraq in March 2003.

Commentary ~ March 3, 2005: Greenspan Gives Bushonomics Red Light. The head of America’s Federal Reserve Board said yesterday that Bush Administration is out of control in the way it is increasing the size of government. If it keeps going this way, he said, the economy will collapse.

Commentary ~ December 20, 2004: Americans Slowly Waking Up to Horrors and Costs of War in Iraq. Americans are slowly realizing that Bush’s war in Iraq was a huge mistake, and that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the chief architect of that conflict, should be fired.

Commentary ~ December 19, 2004: Bush Joins Hitler, Stalin and Khomeini as "Person of the Year". George Bush has been named “Person of the Year” by Time magazine, joining such historical similarities as Ayatollah Khomeini (1979), Adolf Hitler (1938) and Joseph Stalin (1939).

Commentary ~ December 6, 2004: Data Show Correlation Between IQ Scores and States in 2004 Presidential Election. An analysis of data that measures the average IQ scores of each of the 50 states, compared with the results from the 2004 presidential election, reveals startling new evidence that the less intelligent Americans are the more they were likely to vote for George W. Bush.

Commentary ~ December 4, 2004: Once again, it’s the Bush Administration vs. the World. George Bush and his minion Republican attack dogs launched a vicious assault this week on United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan because, they say, his son received $125,000 in payments from Cotecna, a Swiss contractor in the oil-for-food program.

Commentary ~ December 3, 2004: Bush asks Rumsfeld to Stay On as Defense Secretary, Despite Record of Human Rights Abuses and Gross Abuses of Authority. In another high-profile admission of his complete disregard for ethical propriety, George Bush has asked the man who was responsible for gross violations of human rights to stay in his job as defense secretary.

Commentary ~ November 14, 2004: Bush Faces Mounting Allegations of Widespread Fraud in 2004 Election. The evidence is mounting against George Bush and his election team for committing widespread fraud in the November 2004 elections. Documented allegations range from telephone subterfuge to get Democrats to stop voting, to high-tech warfare that suppressed the votes of thousands of Kerry supporters.

Video Commentary ~ October 29th, 2004: Fascism Lite: A film by Ian McGrady. Ian McGrady (ABC News, NBC4, ABC7, News 12 Connecticut) captures the “the chill” on free speech that New York Police, apparently on loan to the RNC, helped enforce on the evening of President Bush’s acceptance speech for the Presidential Nomination at the Republican National Congress in Madison Square Garden, NYC.

Commentary ~ October 28, 2004: American Economy Can Not Survive Four More Bush Years. John Kerry is right. Middle-class families can't afford four more years of a Bush economy. George Bush is destroying the economic fabric of this country right out from underneath nearly every America outside the elitist crowd of his billionaire buddies.

Commentary ~ October 5, 2004: Nader Should Pull Out of Battleground States Unless He Wants Bush to Win. In a nightmarish deja-vu of the 2000 election, left-wing independent Ralph Nader is again pulling votes that might otherwise go to the Democrats. New polls suggest Nader could still divide the Democratic vote in some key states just as what happened four years ago when George Bush reaped the benefit.

Commentary ~ September 29, 2004: Bush's Hometown Newspaper Endorses Kerry. George Bush yesterday received a ringing rejection from the newspaper in his home town of Crawford, Texas when the paper endorsed John Kerry for President.

Commentary ~ September 28, 2004: Observers say Bush Team is Preparing to Cheat Again in Florida Election. A growing chorus of analysts, critics, politicians and journalists are lamenting what they say will be a repeat of the 2000 Florida debacle this coming November.

News ~ September 26, 2004: Act of God? Hurricanes Only Strike Florida Counties that Voted for Bush. An interesting insight from Bob Morris has been circulating on the internet, comparing the Florida hurricane paths in 2004 with the election results of 2000. It seems that all of the deadly storms missed the counties that voted for Gore, and went out of their way to hit the counties that voted predominately for Bush.

Commentary ~ September 14, 2004: Bush Honors 9/11 by Putting Assault Weapons Back onto American Streets, and into Terrorist Hands. Going against the wishes of 70 percent of the American public, Bush allowed – indeed encouraged – a 10-year federal ban on assault weapons to expire today, allowing Americans and resident terrorists to purchase AK-47s and Uzis at their local gun stores. The move also coincides with the third anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America.

Commentary ~ September 10, 2004: The Sleazy and Despicable Bush-Halliburton Administration. Al Gore slammed Vice President Dick Cheney this week for saying "the wrong choice" by voters could result in another terrorist attack, calling it "a sleazy and despicable effort to blackmail voters with fear."

Commentary ~ September 9, 2004: Bush Loses by a Landslade in Global Opinion Poll. George W. Bush may be popular in some dusty corners of his homeland, but around the world he is mostly detested, according to a new poll of 35 countries.

Commentary ~ August 28, 2004: Republicans Pitch Progress While More Americans Ponder Poverty. While hundreds of rich Republicans gather in New York to exaggerate the achievements of the Bush administration, an increasing number of real Americans are being pushed into poverty by the policies of the incumbent presidency.

Commentary ~ August 11, 2004: Bush Pushes America Deeper into Debt as Federal Deficit Hits New Record. The Bush administration continued to push the United States deeper into debt last month. With only two months left in the government's budget year, the federal deficit has hit a record $395.8 billion.

Commentary ~ August 11, 2004: White House Doctor Says Bush is Becoming Dependent on Drugs for Dealing with Depression. George W. Bush is retreating further and further into a dark, depressed and paranoid world, trusting no one but his closest loyalists. To deal with this depression, he is increasingly turning to a dependence on drugs

Commentary ~ August 5, 2004: Bush says he will "never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people". President Bush on Thursday declared that his administration will "never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people."

Commentary ~ August 4, 2004: American War Dead Peer Out from the Portraits of Their Killer. Two different initiatives have put the presidency of George W. Bush into perspective. At last count, nearly 1,000 American soldiers were sent to Iraq thinking they were fighting for American security. They returned to America in boxes, hidden by their Government in the darkness of night. They now have their proud faces peering out from the portraits of the man who is responsible for their death.

Commentary ~ August 2, 2004: Bush Team Supporting Ralph Nader in Key States Across the US. George Bush and his Republican supporters across the United States are mobilizing to support Ralf Nader in the November election. Though some may call it dirty politics, if we see a re-run of 2000 the effort may succeed in getting Bush elected.

Commentary ~ July 30, 2004: Bush's Deep Reasons for War on Iraq: Oil, Petrodollars and the OPEC Euro Question. our leaders are not being candid with us. Oil has been a major US concern about Iraq in internal and unpublicized documents, since the start of this Administration, and indeed earlier.

News ~ July 29, 2004: Full text of John Kerry's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. We can do better and we will. We're the optimists. For us, this is a country of the future. We're the can do people. And let's not forget what we did in the 1990s. We balanced the budget. We paid down the debt. We created 23 million new jobs. We lifted millions out of poverty and we lifted the standard of living for the middle class. We just need to believe in ourselves — and we can do it again.

News ~ July 26, 2004: Full text of Bill Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. John Kerry and John Edwards are good people with good ideas, ideas to make the economy work again for middle-class Americans, to restore fiscal responsibility, to save Social Security, to make health care more affordable, college more available, to free us from dependence on foreign oil and create new jobs with clean energy and a cleaner environment.

News ~ July 26, 2004: Full text of Al Gore's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. "Friends, fellow Democrats, fellow Americans, I'll be candid with you. I had hoped to be back here this week under different circumstances, running for re-election."

Commentary ~ July 21, 2004: Republicans Blast George Bush for Protecting Polluters and Destroying the American Environment. An army of state Republican state politicians, standing side by side with one of the Environmental Protection Agency’s earliest leaders – also a Republican – blasted George Bush this week for his dismal record on the environment.

Commentary ~ July 14, 2004: Bush Sells Out America's Forests. The Bush administration is chopping down former president Bill Clinton's ban on building roads through federally-owned woodland, thereby opening up America's forests to commercial loggers.

Commentary ~ July 13, 2004: Pentagon Destroys Key Documents, Keeping Bush's Vietnam Secrets Safe. In what looks like a reckless move of a Third World dictatorship, the Pentagon last week publicly announced that the military payroll records that could more fully document President Bush's whereabouts during his service in the Texas Air National Guard were inadvertently destroyed.

Commentary ~ July 12, 2004: Bush Plans Another Coup d'Etat to Hang Onto Presidency. In a desperate attempt to hold on to an illegitimate presidency, the Bush administration is preparing plans to postpone the November presidential elections by claiming the threat of a terrorist attack would disrupt the process.

Commentary ~ June 18, 2004: Bush in Constant State of Denial Regarding al-Qaeda and Iraq. Even after the commission investigating 9/11 reported that it had found no evidence of any relationship between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, George Bush stands obstinately behind his false justifications for launching an invasion of Iraq.

Commentary ~ June 17, 2004: American Diplomats and Military Commanders from Both Parties Condemn Bush Administration. A group of 26 retired diplomats and military commanders released a statement this week saying the Bush administration does not understand the world and remains unable to handle "in either style or substance" the responsibilities of global leadership.

June 16, 2004: Diplomats & Military Commanders for Change: Official Statement Calling for Vote Against Bush

Commentary ~ June 11, 2004: Bush Team May Have Understated Terrorist Threat for Political Gain. The U.S. government acknowledged Thursday that its report declaring a decline in terrorism in 2003 was wrong. Dead wrong.

Commentary ~ May 25, 2004: Studies Reveal Most Canadians Harbor Deep Hatred of Bush. Canadians are renowned for being easy-going, friendly and polite. They usually give everyone the benefit of the doubt before forming an opinion. And they rarely hate anyone. Except Bush, that is.

Commentary ~ May 23, 2004: Bush's Fall From Grace. George Bush, not known for spending much time on the job, took a tumble on his mountain bike yesterday while vacationing at his Texas ranch.

Commentary ~ May 11, 2004: Bush Congratulates Rumsfeld For Doing 'Superb Job' (in torturing Iraqis). President Bush traveled to the Pentagon yesterday and examined more than a dozen new photos documenting the abuse of Iraqi detainees.

Commentary ~ May 8, 2004: Bush and Rumsfeld Pretend Not to Know About Iraqi Abuse. Despite assertions from George Bush and his Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that they were in the dark about the gross American violations of human rights committed by U.S. troops in Iraq, the facts say otherwise.

Commentary ~ May 6, 2004: Bush Friends Move to Censor New Film from Michael Moore. Disney has banned Miramax, its film company subsidiary, from distributing director Michael Moore’s latest film, Fahrenheit 9/11, because it criticizes George Bush’s handling of the September 11 terrorist attacks and connects the Bush family with many prominent Saudis – mostly notably that of Osama bin Laden.

Commentary ~ April 27, 2004: Bush Television Commercials Found to be Inaccurate and Misleading. The Bush-Cheney campaign has produced another television commercial it hopes will brainwash the American public into believing Senator John Kerry doesn't support a strong military.

Commentary ~ April 23, 2004: Pentagon Under Fire for Censorship on Photos of Dead Americans. The Bush Administration has forbidden the filming or photographing of the hundreds of American bodies being flown back from Iraq. Tami Silicio, a contractor working in Kuwait, discovered the hard way that this censorship includes the photographing of bodies being loaded onto planes at the other end.

Commentary ~ April 21, 2004: International economic watchdogs report that Bush's uncontrolled budget deficits pose a serious threat to global prosperity. The 184-nation International Monetary Fund and the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have both issued statements condemning the Bush Administration for mishandling the world's largest economy.

Commentary ~ April 18, 2004: Bush Gets Saudis to Lower Gas Prices for the 2004 Elections. Investigative reporter Bob Woodward has revealed that Bush made a secret deal with Saudi Arabia to lower oil prices before this November's election. The manipulation has begun (or perhaps never stopped). Bush knows he has no hope in hell of winning this election based on his own merits.

Commentary ~ April 9, 2004: Bush Propaganda on Iraq is Eerily Reminiscent of the 1960s White House Publicity on Vietnam. President Lyndon B. Johnson traveled to Baltimore 39 years ago this week to persuade Americans to support U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

Commentary ~ April 8, 2004: Bush succeeds in uniting disparate Sunni and Shiite militias. George Bush has succeeded in uniting disparate Sunni and Shiite populations – against his hegemonic plan for occupation.

Commentary ~ April 6, 2004: Bush sends dogs of war after Richard Clarke in attempt to obfuscate reality. As a true American patriot, Bush's former National Counter terrorism Coordinator recently spoke out against the Bush administration's feeble attempts to prevent the 9/11 attacks and against the ridiculously absurd invasion of Iraq.

Commentary ~ March 6, 2004: Halliburton Continues to Benefit from White House Connections. Large contracts worth billions of dollars, secured through connections to the Bush White House, apparently is not enough for Dick Cheney's company, Halliburton. Once it cashed in through the corrupt process, it proceeded to rape the American taxpayer even further.

Commentary ~ March 4, 2004: Bush Team Readies Multi-Million Dollar Whitewashing Effort. The Bush Propaganda Machine is set to roll into high gear today in what the New York Times has called the "most expensive advertising campaign in presidential history."

Commentary ~ January 14, 2004: Kennedy Blasts Bush for Launching Private War Against Iraq. Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts blasted Bush Jr. and his administration today for lying to the American public about Iraq in order to attack the middle eastern country. It was, he said "one of the worst blunders in more than two centuries" of American foreign policy.

Commentary ~ January 11, 2004: Bush Discussed Carving up Iraq's Oil Wealth Within a Week of Taking the White House. The Bush administration started making detailed plans to invade Iraq within days of coming to office, according to former treasury secretary Paul O'Neill.

Commentary ~ January 5, 2004: U.S. Dollar Continues to Tank as Bush Continues to Lie About the Economy. The American dollar continued its dramatic drop in 2004, putting the U.S. economy in the same category as many so-called Banana Republics.

Commentary ~ November 20, 2003: George vs. George: Soros is a True American Hero. George Soros knows the perils of Nazism, Stalinism and Fascism. And he sees all three in the White House.

Commentary ~ November 19, 2003: Bush Team Hiding Bodies of Fallen Americans. When it comes to the brave American men and women who have lost their lives in Iraq, President Bush and his Cronies have adopted a strange policy: deny they even exist.

Commentary ~ November 18, 2003: In this continuing effort to stamp out any remaining American values from the White House, George W. (Weasel) Bush has intensified his war against free market capitalism.

Commentary ~ October 28, 2003: Why is Bush Blocking the 9/11 Investigation? Is he afraid of the truth? George Bush and his administration are blocking every attempt to get to the bottom of what happened on September 11, 2001.

Commentary ~ October 23, 2003: Bush's Betrayal of a CIA Agent is a Blatant Act of Treason. Someone on George Bush's team blew the cover of CIA operative Valerie Plame as an act of revenge against her anti-war husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson.

Commentary ~ August 27, 2003: Is Bush Hiding U.S. Casualties in Iraq? Since pseudo-president Bush declared the end of combat in Iraq at a dramatically staged ceremony on May 1, 2003, 141 United States soldiers have died. Of these, 63 Americans were killed in action and 78 died in "nonhostile incidents," according to military sources.

Commentary ~ August 25, 2003: Americans are slowly waking up to the fact that they they have been deceived. Well, at least they are in California, where the pseudo-president's rating has slipped downward to a new post-Sept. 11 low, according to a Field Poll released August 21.

Commentary ~ August 16, 2003: Bush as the Ace of Spades Gets Evicted From, then invited Back to eBay A Canadian artist who painted a series of images depicting the U.S. adminstration on a deck of cards was recently declared persona non grata by eBay.

Commentary ~ July 04, 2003: Americans are Starting to See Through the Bushit. A poll released yesterday reveals that a majority of Americans now know the Bush administration exaggerated the threat of lethal weapons in Iraq to justify the war.

Commentary ~ July 01, 2003: Liberia, a West African country that the United States created in the 19th century as a home for freed American slaves, is in crisis. The Liberians are pleading with the Bush Administration to intervene militarily. Despite the fact that the slaugher in Liberia is worse than what happened in Iraq under Saddam Hussain, Bush could care less because the former American colony has no oil. At best he may send a couple of thousand troops.

Commentary ~ June 7, 2003: Bush-whacked on WMDs: Bush team lied about Iraqi weapons. George W. Bush, in his mad rush to wage war in Iraq, declared in the Rose Garden on September 26, 2002 that "the Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons. The Iraqi regime is building the facilities necessary to make more biological and chemical weapons." However, this is now being exposed as an outright lie.

Commentary ~ May 26, 2003: Snow Job: Bush team tries to downplay dramatic drop in dollar value. U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow's recent attempt to downplay the dramatic drop in the value of the American dollar is a lame attempt to whitewash Bush's inept handling of the economy.

April 30, 2003: Anti-war sentiment and disapproval of President Bush's international policies continue to erode America's image among the publics of its allies. U.S. favorability ratings have plummeted in the past six months in countries actively opposing war - France, Germany and Russia - as well as in countries that are part of the "coalition of the willing." In Great Britain, favorable views of the U.S. have declined from 75% to 48% since mid-2002.

April 25, 2003: The Times of London reported today that since the start of the Iraqi war more than a month ago, on March 19, US forces have been unable to find any conclusive evidence of Iraqi development of chemical or biological weapons, or evidence that Saddam was building a nuclear bomb.

April 24, 2003: The head of BBC has criticized the American Media for turning into the U.S. Pentagon's Propaganda Machine. Although CNN, ABC, NBC and others have indeed sacrificed journalistic integrity for blind and unquestioning patriotism, BBC Director General Greg Dyke singled out Rupert Murdoch's Fox News as one of the worst.

April 20, 2003: "Our ability to disagree, and our inherent right to question our leaders and criticize their actions define who we are. To allow those rights to be taken away out of fear, to punish people for their beliefs, to limit access in the news media to differing opinions is to acknowledge our democracy's defeat.

April 19, 2003: The Globe and Mail reports that a bonanza of reconstruction and nation-building work is rolling across Iraq, and U.S.-based firms with close links to the Pentagon and State Department are cashing in.

April 8, 2003: Arab journalists killed. Cloud of speculation. Were they killed because their version of events differed from that of the Pentagon Propaganda Machine?