Well after years of pressure, international criticism, protests, and warnings from all sorts of organizations and individuals, the US has finally started the slow move towards civilization. Pretty soon it will denounce torture. Heck it might even allow fair trials. Although I doubt whether it will rein in its secret police. It took the Supreme […]

Come on everyone! Wake up. There have been a couple of reports arguing that the US now has a new “softer” foreign policy. Somehow, the argument goes, George Bush has seen that light and shifted toward a more “engaged” foregn policy, in contrast to the machismo driven yee-haw nonsense of the last few years. Kind […]

No surprise, except if you’re one of Bush’s bubble people, but the violence in Iraq continues unabated. I suppose that Cheney will claim everything is coming under control and that the insurgency is in its last throes. Or maybe the Administration will just say that the good news is not being reported. The New York […]