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Rupert Murdoch wants to kill your 18 year-olds in a fruitless war with Iran. Robert Greenwald’s video shows how Faux Cable News is running the same scam on Iran that it ran on Iraq, with side by side footage so you can see the Goebbels techniques at work. Liberals don’t like anything that smacks of […]

See Barnett Rubin’s latest blog entry at the Global Affairs blog, “Return from Herat: Wherein one Pessoptimist Meets Another.”

My Salon column is out: The poisonous rhetorical legacy of Karl Rove Even Fox’s Chris Wallace wants to know why Bush’s newly departed advisor had to paint Democrats as traitors. Excerpt: ‘ [Chris] Wallace followed up by asking Rove to justify the notorious June 22, 2005, speech he gave before the New York Conservative Party, […]

Satire on Karl Rove’s resignation: Rewriting a Wikipedia article on Goebbels through search and replace. (Link in time stamp, below.) Karl Rove, leader of the Republican Party’s propaganda machine, later the official in charge of all Republican Party Propaganda and Bush’s adviser. Homeland official for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda Preceded by None Political party Republican […]

US Military Strikes Embarrass al-Maliki While he is in Tehran The US military took advantage of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s absence from the country to settle some scores with the Mahdi Army in Sadr City (East Baghad), attacking units there and mounting air strikes on them, killing 32 and wounding about a dozen. Local observers […]

Beeman to NYT: Hyping Iran Threat in Times of Diplomacy William O. Beeman of the University of Minnesota shared with IC this letter to the editor of the New York Times: “From: William O. Beeman Sent: Wed 8/8/2007 3:22 PM To: letters@nytimes.com Subject: U.S. Says Bomb Suppled by Iran Kills Troops in Iraq To the […]

Bush v. Zombies A satire on Bush administration fear-mongering. courtesy YouTube.

US Deployment of Mass Terror: Hiroshima Not a shining moment. From YouTube.

Farhi on Afghanistan, Iraq and the Bush Administration’s Incoherent Iran Policy At our Global Affairs group blog, Farideh Farhi explains “Afghanistan, Iraq and the Bush Administration’s Incoherent Iran Policy”. She points out that Bush said on Monday that Iran’s leaders had announced their intention to acquire a nuclear weapon, which is of course the opposite […]