The Guerrilla Campaign

By Eli Stephens Oct 4, 2006 http://lefti.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_lefti_archive.html#115996811131949564 George Bush says about Rep. Mark Foley: "I was dismayed and shocked to learn about Congressman Foley's unacceptable behavior. I was disgusted by the revelations." In Iraq and Afghanistan, George Bush & Co. have committed the ultimate in child abuse, committing the outright murder of thousands of them and being directly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands more. Is George Bush "dismayed, shocked, and digusted" by that behavior? No, he's proud of it. Has he ever even mentioned the brutal, shocking (if one can be shocked by anything U.S. troops do in Iraq) rape and murder of 14-year-old Abir al-Janabi and the simultanous murder of several of her family members? A search of the White House website says the answer is no. I guess that event wasn't "dismaying, shocking, or disgusting" enough by George Bush's standards. Phone sex...

Jeb really has eye on presidency • Don't be confused by his denials today that he is not interested in the job; his campaign for the highest office in this land has already begun. by Gema Hernandez July 23, 2006 http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060723/OPINION/607230389/1015 We Floridians have a moral and ethical responsibility with the rest of the nation, and as such, we need to provide our fellow citizens with a complete assessment of Jeb Bush's legacy to our state. There is a royal plan in place, and Jeb is making sure that his political resume includes all the necessary components so when he is ready to run in 2016 no questions will be asked. The plan is to portray Jeb as the right Bush for the turbulent times his brother will leave behind. This will eliminate the need to explain why Jeb is not part of the Bush Dynasty, separating him from his brother and at the same time reaffirming the Bush mantra of faith, family and friends. This requires a very de...

re: Red State Babylon If the blue states are sinkholes of moral decay, as right-wing pundits insist, how come red states lead the nation in violent crime, divorce, illegitimacy, and incarceration, among other evils? To a bus-riding innocent on Manhattan's stroller-filled Upper West Side, it looks like a case of hypocrisy meets stupidity. by James Wolcott November 2006 http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/11/wolcott200611 Jimmy, I can call you Jimmy, right? After all, I do live in one of your "red states". The number one reason the republicans have been winning those “red states”? They talk to the people, not at the people. I’ve worked for 16 years to change attitudes in my local area, and I have had a decent amount of success. And looking at the polls for this state, and the south in general, I believe that there have been a whole lot of people doing the same. And I’m going to tell you, it would have been a whole shit-load easier if people here weren’t continu...

What can I say? America and Israel. The only two countries to use nuclear weapons. This vista of endless wars, each one becoming more horrifying than the last, is what the bushistas promise us. The criminal bush has told us that future presidents will have to solve the Iraq problem. This push off of accountability is little georgie’s signature position throughout his life. He has NEVER had to face up to the consequences of his actions. And now, daddy has to bail him out again. Most men, at least real men, by the time they’re in their fifties don’t have to go running to daddy. But our little georgie still does. What’s that tell you about us, that he’s still the president? You know, we need to look at ourselves, too. We are, after all, allowing this uranium poisoning of innocent victims. Do we really want it to continue for another 2 years, and then let the war criminals go retire in ease and comfort? Is that justice? Is that courage? Is that even wise? The bush policies, foreign and dom...

By now, we've gotten used to the bushistas releasing video and audio tapes purported to be by Osama at politically opportune times. Before we get our shorts in a bunch when the next one comes out (it IS getting close to the mid-term elections, remember), here's a little something from the Guerrilla Campaign history vault to keep in mind. MIT previews scary 'speech' tech Software that puts words into your mouth John Geralds in Silicon Valley, vnunet.com 24 May 2002 http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2118878/mit-previews-scary-speech-tech A breakthrough in video technology has given researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) the power to animate images of real people saying words they've never actually spoken. Tomaso Poggio, an investigator with MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Tony Ezzat, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, have simulated mouth movements that look so real that they convince most v...

by Mary Pitt HUZZAH! The old folks are getting a raise in their monthly pittance next year. We are to be eternally grateful that we are allowed to be blessed by the trickle-down that has finally reached us, Compassionate Conservatism at its best. With this Cost Of Living Allowance, their lives will be so much easier. But wait! Surely they will not be allowed to luxuriate for long with this untold wealth. As with the paychecks over the years, we must count the "deducts". While the news reports that the average retiree recieves the grand amount of $1,049 per month currently and will gain $33.00 per month, the average couple now receives $1,658, since the "dependent" wife receives a much smaller amount than does the wage earner, and that will increase to $1713 in 2007, a whopping $20,556 per year. However, the amounts deducted from these checks will be reduced by the insurance premium for Medicare Part B. This insurance, which pays for doctors' office visits will a...

Iraqi War Dead and the Collateral Damage to America's Soul by Phil Rockstroh Headline (Reuters): "United States numb to Iraq troop deaths: experts" http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061020/ts_nm/iraq_media_usa_dc "O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies! not the smallest atom stirs or lives in matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind." - Herman Melville, Moby Dick All human beings have a talent for the denial of the more unpalatable aspects of ourselves, but we Americans have turned denial into a form of collective genius. There is no need to burn books, if the public is too ignorant to know they exist -- or too benumbed to resonate with their content. Regarding the death of well over half-a-million Iraqis, the majority of the citizenry of The Corporatists States of America have experienced a comparable degree of regret and remorse that their oligarchic overlords experience when topping-off the tanks of their corporat...

Amidst the tawdry and the carnage, a bright spot from New Jersey. Even if the democratic party does take control, I don’t really expect a lot to change. Pelosi, the woman who would become Speaker of the House has already said that impeachment of the president bush is just not on her agenda. The tawdry and the carnage will continue, and we’ll all just sort of bumble along to the sad denouement for the US. When Clinton was elected President, he chose not to push a full investigation into the crimes of Iran-Contra, in order to try to restore a semblence of bi-partisanship to the US political scene. Well, we all know how that worked out. Abrams, Negroponti, Otto Reich, those guys. Guess where they are today? Yep. Working for the little georgie, and doing the same sort of things they used to. So, besides leaving the precedents, policies, and laws of the bushistas in place, we also run the danger of seeing them back in government. And meanwhile, we’ll all be left holding the bag while the li...

A Collective Perversion by Stephen Lendman; October 24, 2006 The daily headlines about a single congressman's online pedophiliac behavior obscure the greater issue of a nation off its moorings and afflicted by the collective perversion of defiling the foundational equity and justice-for-all letter and spirit of what the nation long-claimed to stand for but no longer does if it ever did. Nearly everyone in the administration, Congress and courts share the collective guilt and shame and by their actions destroyed Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address "resolve....that this nation....shall have a new birth of freedom (in a) "government of the people, by the people, for the people (that) shall not perish from the earth." They conspiratorially participated in the crimes of a nation that go against Lincoln's hope that the dead he spoke of hadn't "died in vain" on "the great battle-field" where he stood and all the other civil war ones he refer...

The Rude Pundit 10/23/2006 http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2006/10/amway-rhetoric-of-administration-of.html The Rude Pundit was once friends with a guy whose father was an Amway salesman. In case you've never confronted Amway, the company gets people to sell their products, calling each salesperson an Individual Business Owner. Even though Amway sells online now, the real cash money used to be, at least, in suckering others to give up real jobs to waste a portion of their short lives trying to convince people that what they're selling is better than what you could get at the mall. Then, once you have minions who sell, you merely skim from their profits and, lo and behold, Amway says you could be rich. It requires a certain profligacy with bullshit for one to be remotely successful. It requires that one put aside any notions of soul or morality. And it requires one to be upbeat to an unreal point. On the refrigerator of the friend's big house, the father had pictures of his ...

Talking Points memo - Josh Marshall October 23, 2006 http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/010512.php Stay the course. We never said 'stay the course'. Our Iraq policy is stupid . No, sorry, I didn't mean that. I don't know what I was thinking. As we watch what, in the Star Trek universe, they might refer to as the ' synaptic breakdown ' of the president's Iraq policy, it's worth remembering why President Bush, short of being forced kicking and screaming, will never and can never withdraw American forces from Iraq. Fundamentally, it doesn't have to do with military strategy or ideology. It has to do with coming to grips with the monumental failure he has wrought, which of course he can never do. Setting aside the vast costs in human life, national treasure and regional stability, I see President Bush's adventure as a failed business venture, a start-up that went bad -- an analogy that, come to think of it, he could probably relate to. A fail...

By Sheila Samples "Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughtson the unthinking."~~ John M. Keyne Much to the dismay of the Bush Crime Family and the Flying Monkey Right, their most fervent nemesis, talk-show host Mike Malloy, will return to progressive airwaves on Monday, Oct. 30 -- a whole week-and-one-day before the mid-term elections. When you consider the corruption and scandals oozing like slime from the right over just the past week-and-one-day, Malloy's return is not a moment too soon. Mike Newcomb, a Pheonix physician and award-winning radio host, has joined Sheldon and Anita Drobny, the original co-founders of Air America Radio, to form the progressive Nova M Radio,Inc. Network, which will feature the popular Malloy nightly from 9 p.m. - midnight ET on 1480-AM KPHX Phoenix, the nation's 5th largest city and 15th largest radio market; and on 1380 KDXE-AM Little Rock, Ark. More information on podcasting, Internet streaming and archiv...

Bush Buys Land in Northern Paraguay 10/13/06 http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7bEBA55617-2676-4091-ABBC-20650EB6FEE1%7d&language=EN Buenos Aires, Oct 13 (Prensa Latina) An Argentine official regarded the intention of the George W. Bush family to settle on the Acuifero Guarani (Paraguay) as surprising, besides being a bad signal for the governments of the region. Luis D Elia, undersecretary for the Social Habitat in the Argentine Federal Planning Ministry, issued a memo partially reproduced by digital INFOBAE.com, in which he spoke of the purchase by Bush of a 98,842-acre farm in northern Paraguay, between Brazil and Bolivia. The news circulated Thursday in non-official sources in Asuncion, Paraguay. D Elia considered this Bush step counterproductive for the regional power expressed by Presidents Nestor Kirchner, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Evo Morales, Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. He said that "it is a bad signal that the Bush family is doing business with natural reso...

The White House and the Congress are Equally Guilty By Brian Cloughley October 20, 2006 http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughly10202006.html I was a soldier for 36 years. And when soldiers of NATO (including the US) and Commonwealth countries are killed, nowadays, I feel that "there but for the Grace of God go I" because during my military service I was preparing to fight (or was actually fighting) against people who were enemies of my country. But when I examine the wars going on at the moment I wonder whether NATO and Commonwealth soldiers (and others, too) who are suffering so many casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan should feel morally comfortable with fighting against the people who are resisting their presence and attacking them. What are they fighting for? In September, 74 US soldiers were killed in Iraq. In the first 19 days of October, 70 US troops died. Of the 370 US soldiers wounded in September, 295 are seriously incapacitated. In Afghanistan the picture is equally gr...

The White House and the Congress are Equally Guilty By Brian Cloughley October 20, 2006 http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughly10202006.html I was a soldier for 36 years. And when soldiers of NATO (including the US) and Commonwealth countries are killed, nowadays, I feel that "there but for the Grace of God go I" because during my military service I was preparing to fight (or was actually fighting) against people who were enemies of my country. But when I examine the wars going on at the moment I wonder whether NATO and Commonwealth soldiers (and others, too) who are suffering so many casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan should feel morally comfortable with fighting against the people who are resisting their presence and attacking them. What are they fighting for? In September, 74 US soldiers were killed in Iraq. In the first 19 days of October, 70 US troops died. Of the 370 US soldiers wounded in September, 295 are seriously incapacitated. In Afghanistan the picture is equally gr...

Lancet study says Iraq war has killed 650,000; Bush calls it Hoboken By Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Media Services October 19, 2006 http://www.commonwonders.com/ The judgment of history is closing in on us. A new study in a respected British medical journal has put the “excess death” toll in post-invasion Iraq at a soul-numbing 650,000, which, of course, can’t be true. No way. Can’t be. Those who have wedded themselves to this war, beginning with President Bush, prefer the figure 30,000 — a nice, safe number, apparently, which won’t gum up the media. What’s 30,000 dead? It’s a few corpses past “whatever.” It’s Kankakee, Ill., Paducah, Ky., Hoboken, N.J. It is, in short — among the dwindling ranks of the gung-ho — a small price to pay for a war as important as this one. So let’s pause and absorb the number Bush and his apologizers are willing to concede: 30,000. Let it stand naked in the spotlight for a moment, out of the shadow of those six-figure estimates that make it seem trivial,...