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World Focus: 'Anyone But Bush'and the Anatomy of Moral Failure
Thursday, July 22 @ 22:42:15 UTC |  By Rootsie www.rootsie.com
July 22, 2004
There are obviously many people in the United States, people who you think would know better, who feel they can take their democratic processes for a joke. Nobody in the rest of the world is laughing.
It's interesting that workers in a troubled country like Peru can manage to organize a general strike virtually overnight to express their displeasure with their government. They obviously have a lot to teach us about the practice of democracy.
As a result of the intellectual and moral laziness of the supposed 'opposition' to Bush, America's gifts to the world for the foreseeable future will feature preemptive, illegal military interventions, an endless war of attrition in Iraq culminating in an ignominious exit or worse, and untrammeled piracy in the name of 'free trade.' The chickens will come home to roost, probably sooner rather than later. Maybe people will come to their senses then.
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War and Terror: The terrorists lost
Tuesday, March 16 @ 13:21:18 UTC | By Gabriel Ash, YellowTimes.org
Spanish voters gave a decisive blow to the right-wing and undemocratic Aznar government, which put Spain behind George Bush's war despite the strong disapproval of the overwhelming majority of Spaniards. They also did something almost unheard of in these reactionary days. They brought their politicians to account for something these politicians have actually been responsible for. Wow!
Somehow, in U.S. radical right circles, this has become "a victory for terrorists." The logic goes like this: Al-Qaeda wants the West out of the Middle East. It wants to establish a tit-for-tat in blood for perceived Western attacks on Islam, a price tag, as it were, for Western policy choices. According to this logic, the price of participating in the war has now been exacted from Spain. By refusing to up the antes and rally behind Bush's allies, the Spanish voters have effectively capitulated.
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War and Terror: ''Without Struggle, There is No Progress''
Monday, October 14 @ 05:05:09 UTC | Friend, Americans, Countrymen...
by Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch
October 20, 1990--Twelve years ago almost to the day I was at a rally in Olympia, Washington that was called to oppose the upcoming war against Iraq. Back then, we were told by the administration in DC that the reason for that war was to drive Iraq from Kuwait-a country it had recently invaded and occupied. Today-almost twelve years later, the regime in DC is proposing to do the exact same thing to Iraq-invade and occupy it. Why? Well, it depends on which week's White House press release you read. According to Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of the axis leaders, it is necessary to make war on Iraq because (and these are just the first four supposed reasons that pop into my head):
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War and Terror: March For Democracy
Saturday, September 28 @ 04:32:37 UTC | by John Pilger, The Mirror
A GREAT many people believe that democracy has been lost in this country. Today, true democracy will demonstrate its resilience on the streets of London.
In the week that Parliament was manipulated by the Government and denied a proper vote on whether Britain should join the Bush gang in its assault on Iraq, many thousands of people will converge on London in what is expected to be the greatest demonstration against war for a generation.
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