Dispatches
Illegal Immigration? Try Re-Annexation
07.24.2006 06:00 | RUSS WELLEN
One of our readers, Albert Bivas, weighs in:"Has anyone in politics, the media or anywhere else ever suggested that one way to solve the so-called illegal immigration of Mexicans into the United States. . . [is to return] all the territories original...
Iraq? What a Buzzkill
07.17.2006 04:51 | RUSS WELLEN
Most Americans buy into the argument that if we leave Iraq anytime soon, it will once again confirm we're wimps to Islamic extremists, who will mount another attack like 9/11. Others believe it's wrong to abandon Iraq to civil war. When they hear...
Explain That to AYSO, Zidane
07.10.2006 06:54 | RUSS WELLEN
Until mid-century, when Latinos are projected to become the majority in the US, soccer may never be a major sport in the US. Nevertheless, this year's World Cup generated much fervor in the US. While our validation of the object of other nations'...
NSA Warrantless Spying? Ho-Hum
07.07.2006 05:48 | RUSS WELLEN
As causes go, NSA warrantless eavesdropping has been a non-starter with the American public. A May 2006 Washington Post article reported that "63 percent of Americans said they found the NSA program to be an acceptable way to investigate terrorism. ....
Dead for Nothing
07.03.2006 17:59 | RUSS WELLEN
Using the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the Crimean War and the Charge of the Light Brigade as his starting point, New Hampshire Gazette columnist and historian* William Marvel discourses on lives lost in the service of empire-building in "Ep...
Swift-Boating the Gray Lady
06.29.2006 05:16 | RUSS WELLEN
In his piece, "When The FBI Raids The Times" (reproduced on TomPaine.com), New Orleans Times-Picayune reporter Dennis Persica conjures up a worst-case scenario. Imagine if the U.S. Attorney's office in New York, backed up by the feds, entere...
Frontline Slam Dunks George Tenet
06.22.2006 03:18 | RUSS WELLEN
Frontline's "The Dark Side," which aired Tuesday night, boasts a score of interviews with intelligence heavy-hitters from Richard Clarke to Michael Scheuer ("Anonymous") to Vince Cannistraro. In particular, it's merci...
Are Civil Liberties Too, Well, Civil for Un-civil Times?
06.19.2006 07:46 | RUSS WELLEN
In "Blair's Big Brother Legacy" in the July Vanity Fair, British writer Henry Porter reports on Tony Blair's Bush-like erosions of civil liberties. He quotes Simon Davies, a fellow at the London School of Economics on the British public....
Oh, and Have You Heard from Ari and Scottie?
06.15.2006 12:27 | RUSS WELLEN
Such nice boys. This gem bubbled up on Google news from the blog of Contra Costa Times (California) editor Chris Lopez. He's addressing the bonhomie surrounding the incident in which President Bush apologized for teasing Los Angeles Times reporter Pet...
Choose Your Poison - American Idol or MTV
06.12.2006 08:10 | RUSS WELLEN
Sure, it's an easy target, but nevertheless it's distressing to learn that more Americans voted for American Idol contestants this season than voted in the recent American presidential election. (Though at least the chances of your ballot counting...
Bin Laden's Most-Wanted Poster Turning Yellow
06.09.2006 07:39 | RUSS WELLEN
However fortuitous Zarqawi's removal from the scene might seem for the administration, it could backfire –- because of the blood lust for big game that it's incited. In other words, with an elite force like Task Force 145 on the case, why in...
Atrocity of the Month
06.06.2006 07:43 | RUSS WELLEN
Does the title of this Dispatch offend? It's no more demeaning than those whose first impulse is to brush past grief for those Iraqis killed at Haditha and rush straight to commiseration with the third battalion marines who allegedly committed the mas...
Pat Tillman's Row Was as Tough to Hoe as Any Ranger's
06.02.2006 11:38 | RUSS WELLEN
In my May 29 Dispatch, "What if Pat Tillman's Death Wasn't Friendly Fire?" I wrote that some of his fellow Army Rangers were of the opinion that:". . . in its rush to make him a poster boy for the administration's ill-conceived...
What if Pat Tillman's Death Wasn't Friendly Fire?
05.29.2006 15:52 | RUSS WELLEN
To its credit CNN has been all over the Pat Tillman case."[Investigating Army Captain Richard] Scott noted that the Rangers in the lead vehicle firing on Tillman were not under fire at the time, and 'there were numerous attempts to signal t...
Nerve Center of ZOG Finally Found
05.25.2006 20:25 | RUSS WELLEN
White Power adherents, neo-Nazis, racists -- take heart. Hidden in an article in the June 8 New York Review of Books are names you can use to finally put a face on ZOG! (ZOG, of course, is the Zionist Occupied Government said to rule states like the US....
Was It Just Wilson the White House Was After When It Outed Plame?
05.22.2006 05:18 | RUSS WELLEN
On February 13, The Raw Story's star reporter, Larisa Alexandrovna, was among the first to explain how the work Valerie Plame performed for CIA front Brewster Jennings was evaluating Iranian nuclear capability. Alexandrovna's conclusion was cloake...
The Border Fence in Our Mind
05.19.2006 11:27 | RUSS WELLEN
In the eight years I've been commuting by train to Manhattan I think I've overheard a total of one political conversation. (The three most popular topics? House, house, and house.)Not only is talk of politics as indelicate to Americans as of relig...
Is NSA Confiscation of Phone Records the Last Straw?
05.16.2006 09:08 | RUSS WELLEN
Have Bush & Co driven the final nail into their own coffins by authorizing the NSA to confiscate phone records? Is this the final outrage that will establish the impetus for impeachment?The jury's out. In the May 12 The Boston Globe, Bruce Mohl wr...
Does Iran Already Have Nuclear Weapons?
05.12.2006 08:03 | RUSS WELLEN
Curiously overlooked is the possibility -- likelihood even -- that Iran already has nuclear weapons. It's rumored that it once obtained X-55 missiles from Russia with operational nuclear warheads. It's also armed with Shahab 3 and MIRV missiles,...
George Who?
05.09.2006 07:56 | RUSS WELLEN
In November of last year, Freezerbox founder Alex Zaitchik wrote a Dispatch about Bush's post-presidential years called "The Lamest Duck Ever":"Never will there have been less use for a two-term president so otherwise available for use....
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