'America at the Crossroads,' by Francis Fukuyama

'America at the Crossroads,' by Francis Fukuyama - New York Times: "Supporter's Voice Now Turns on Bush By MICHIKO KAKUTANI Published: March 14, 2006 'America at the Crossroads' serves up a powerful indictment of the Bush administration's war in Iraq and the role that neoconservative ideas — concerning preventive war, benevolent hegemony and unilateral action — played in shaping the decision to go to war, its implementation and its aftermath. These arguments are made all the more devastating by the fact that the author, Francis Fukuyama, was once a star neoconservative theorist himself, who studied with or was associated with leading neoconservative luminaries like Paul D. Wolfowitz, William Kristol, Albert Wohlstetter and Allan Bloom, and whose best-selling 1992 book, 'The End of History and the Last Man,' was celebrated (and denounced) as a classic neoconservative text on the end of the cold war and the global march of liberal democracy."

Logic out the window at the White House

Logic out the window at the White House: "Logic out the window at the White House By Gwynne Dyer 03/09/06 'Cyprus Mail' -- -- The biggest pitfall in predicting the behavior of radical groups like the inner circle of the Bush administration is that you keep telling yourself that they would never actually do whatever it is they’re talking about. Surely they must realize that acting like that would cause a disaster. Then they go right ahead and do it. “(The Iranians) must know everything is on the table and they must understand what that means,” U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told a group of visiting British politicians last week. “We can hit different points along the line. You only have to take out one part of their nuclear operation to take the whole thing down.” In other words, he was calmly proposing an illegal attack on a sovereign state, possibly involving nuclear weapons. "

TIA Lives On

NATIONAL JOURNAL: TIA Lives On (02/23/2006) By Shane Harris, National Journal © National Journal Group Inc. Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006 A controversial counter-terrorism program, which lawmakers halted more than two years ago amid outcries from privacy advocates, was stopped in name only and has quietly continued within the intelligence agency now fending off charges that it has violated the privacy of U.S. citizens."

A Short List (Very Short!) Of Bush's Mistakes?

AlterNet: Who's Counting Bush's Mistakes?: "Who's Counting Bush's Mistakes? By Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. Posted February 20, 2006. Given how ambitious and wide-ranging the incompetence of this administration has been, it's high time we started keeping track of its many failures."

Bush's Mysterious 'New Programs'

When is it going to become clear to the rest of you that Bush intends to declare martial law (or at least behave as if it were in place anyhow) and start locking up anyone who disagrees with his drive for world dominance as is spelled out in the PNAC document penned by several of those in his administration. Wake up!!! We are approaching fascism so fast that people are apparently in a state of shock....disbelief that any American, nevertheless the President....would do such a thing. But that's what they have calculated on, and so far at least, appear to have calculated correctly. Wake up!!! mycos~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Bush's Mysterious 'New Programs': "Bush's Mysterious 'New Programs' By Nat Parry, Consortium News. Posted February 23, 2006. Is the Pentagon building U.S.-based prison camps for Muslim immigrants? Evidence points to the possibility. Also in Rights and Liberties The Perpetual Surveillance Society George Monbiot The Life and Death of Public Records Terry Allen Bringing an End to Illegal Wiretaps Onnesha Roychoudhuri They Keep on Knocking But They Can't Come In Jean Butterfield More on Blacks and Immigration Earl Ofari Hutchinson Not that George W. Bush needs much encouragement, but Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a new target for the administration's domestic operations -- Fifth Columnists, supposedly disloyal Americans who sympathize and collaborate with the enemy. 'The administration has not only the right, but the duty, in my opinion, to pursue Fifth Column movements,' Graham, R-S.C., told Gonzales during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Feb. 6. 'I stand by this president's ability, inherent to being commander in chief, to find out about Fifth Column movements, and I don't think you need a warrant to do that,' Graham added, volunteering to work with the administr"