Monthly Archives: February 2003

Over the past few days it has emerged that the US justice department is planning to introduce new legislation along the lines of the patriot act that would, for example, enable the US government to expatriate any US citizen who does not behave to its liking. Yet another scary step towards the calling out of [...]

The department of defense recently established two new advisory committes to the total information awareness office. This is a clear effort of the administration to erode any oversight that congress may still have.

Even though the recent announcement from the US government regarding stricter enforcement of tax laws was not as thorough as needed, a few companies have alredy moved to hinder such developments.

As the ruling in the civilian court case against Zacharias Moussaoui, the alleged “20th hijacker” moves closer the US government is considering moving the case to a military tribunal. This is further proof that the US government is indeed not interested in the 6th amendement anymore.

Colin Powell’s pro-war presentation at the UN last Wednesday was meant to present the so-called “crucial evidence” the the US government had been holding back for some time.

Although the Bush administration has been making the case for war on Iraq for months now, their arguments have changed considerably over time.

While the US administration’s intention to enforce tax laws more harshly may seem to be an honorable intention, their plans don’t go far enough, as one could expect from a group of politicians that continuously favors the rich.

This opinion piece does a great job of explaining why containment could not only work for North Korea, but also for Iraq seeing as Hussein may not be as horrible of a dictator as he is always made out to be by the US government. This article goes into a little more detail on the [...]

It is well known that despite the fact that North Korea is much more of a danger to many than Iraq is, the Bush administration only wants to go after Iraq. This article lays out the double standard.

While it seems that the UN right now is all about advocating that Iraq disarm, most of the nations on the UN’s security council own some of the largest arsenals of nuclear in the world and would never even think of disarming. This comes on top of the fact that for some strange reason, Pakistan, [...]

In the time after Bush’s state of the union address, most alanlyses were focused on the mainstream parties, yet again. The Green Party’s response, in which the anti war sentiments were very clear, went largely unnoticed.

John Perry Barlow, the founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and activist for digital rights recently gave an in-depth interview for Mother Jones, detailing his views on the US government’s espionage efforts.

While the US government and above all their leader George Bush always try to portray foreign nations as the greatest dangers to the world, people who voted here seem to think otherwise.

This article explains how Bush’s state of the union address was more an address a new president would give as it was full of promises and lacked any mention of positive achievements.

President-select Bush has often mentioned how he would like to bring democracy to Iraq. Bombing will not solve the problem, however. Perhaps he should try something like this.

If some of the suggestions made by the president-select in his address last week regarding universal healthcare go through, everyone in this country could benefit immensely from it. I am still baffled as to how the US government could allow any citizen to go without insurance. Changes of that nature must be enacted a.s.a.p..

Even the New York Times has now managed to publish an article on the deceptiveness of Bush’s address. The main message of the article is very close to the truth: The real state of the union is one of a damaged economy and vanished liberties.

Anyone who takes a few minutes to turn off the endless war monger rhetoric coming from the White House will realize after careful analysis that the upcoming war could be very bad for the US economy, especially since it’s already gone down the toilet. An article originally published in the The Guardian explains why and [...]

Still on the topic of the State of the Union address… Whoever said that Fox news was fair and balanced needs a reality check. This article explains why.

For many years now, the US army has been actively using nuclear weapons in their wars on foreign nations and has even conducted tests off the coast near Seattle. Two recent examples of this are the first and now second war on Iraq (an LA Times story and a Washinton Times article confirm this).

In their response to the president-select’s address last Tuesday, the Democrats properly opposed some of the items and issues set forth in the State of the Union address. This is not too surprising as it is something they need to do should they wish to distinguish themselves from the Republicans again.

Even though my commentary on the president-select’s speech from last Tuesday already posted sum up my impression of the speech pretty well, I feel it is necessary that I explain my view by analyzing the speech bit by bit. What follows are some important parts of the speech intersected with my commentary.

Statements made by Iraqi officials quoted in this article are proof that they are very well aware of the US government’s unfounded accusations towards them and hold many of the same views that opponents of the attack have held here in ths US.

Despite being written before last tuesday’s speech, this article very thoroughly analyzes some of the BS Bush has included in some of his past speeches. It all basically amounts to the fact that Bush has no proof of those “weapons of mass destruction”. Some have even said there aren’t any WOMDs in Iraq.

This article asks the imminent question regarding the administrations attack on Iraq of what Bush’s excuse for the attack will be. Possibilities are Al Queda (again), a violation of a UN treaty through alleged found weapons or simply Saddam being evil and cruel (ever so much better than Bush, right).

This article adds yet another form in which some people’s constitutional rights have been violated as of late. Under the guise of “friendly searches” police in Orande County Florida have been invading people’s homes in search of drugs only to later come back with proper warrants to arrest them. True, what with the “patriot” act [...]