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  • John Roberts and Enemy Combatants
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Chris Floyd
    The United States long ago ceased to be anything like a living, thriving republic. But it retained the legal form of a republic, and that counted for something: as long as the legal form still existed, even as a gutted shell, there was hope it might be filled again one day with substance.
    But now the very legal structures of the Republic are being dismantled. The principle of arbitrary rule by an autocratic leader is being openly established, through a series of (…)

  • Darker Purpose
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last week, we wrote of the Bush Faction’s increasingly successful drive to establish the principle of unlimited presidential authority — beyond the reach of any law or constitutional restriction — as the new foundation of a militarist American state. This relentless push toward autocracy gained even more strength in recent days, in two cases centering on what has emerged as the very core of President George W. Bush’s authoritarian philosophy: torture.
    Vice President Dick Cheney was (…)

  • Global Eye: Dark Waters
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last Friday, the former physician of ex-President George H.W. Bush wrote a guest column for The Washington Post. Two days later, the attorney general appointed by current President George W. Bush made a surprise visit to Baghdad. These seemingly unrelated events are not only inextricably linked; together they form a portrait of a nation gone wretchedly astray, hurtling into a moral void from which there may be no return.
    There was nothing unusual about the physician, Dr. Burton Lee III, (…)

  • America is led by a brutal, mocking, heedless Caligula
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Killing Joke: The Day the American Republic Died
    Bob Herbert, who has been incandescent for months now , usefully reminds us of the comedy routine that Bush performed for a sycophantic audience of TV and radio "journalists" back in March 2004: the infamous "hunt for WMD" in the Oval Office. As you’ll recall, this was a series of cutesy shots showing Bush peering behind the office curtains, looking under the rug while cracking wise: "No weapons of mass destruction under here! Maybe they’re (…)

  • Indefensible: Bush and Blair’s Secret Air War that Began in 2002
    5 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Global Eye Heaven’s Gate
    By Chris Floyd
    This week, President George W. Bush gave a big speech "explaining" the Iraq war to the American people. It was the usual load of lying blather and false piety — deeply, even murderously cynical. But there’s no point in wasting a single thought over these clown shows anymore. Bush is a nasty little moral cretin fronting a gang of elitist thugs whose only concerns are loot and power. Nothing he says has the slightest credibility. Only his actions — (…)

  • The Big Fix- Russia examines US vote fraud
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Chris Floyd
    Let’s face the facts. The game is over and we — the "reality-based community," the believers in genuine democracy and law, the heirs of Jefferson and Madison, Emerson and Thoreau, the toilers and dreamers, all those who seek to rise above the beast within and shape the brutal chaos of existence into something higher, richer and imbued with meaning — have lost. The better world we thought had been won out of the blood and horror of history — a realm of enlightenment that (…)

  • Global Eye : Hysterica Passio
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Chris Floyd
    Now we come at last to the heart of darkness. Now we know, from their own words, that the Bush Regime is a cult — a cult whose god is Power, whose adherents believe that they alone control reality, that indeed they create the world anew with each act of their iron will. And the goal of this will — undergirded by the cult’s supreme virtues of war, fury and blind faith — is likewise openly declared: "Empire." You think this is an exaggeration? Then heed the words of the White (…)

  • National Guard Troops in Iraq Intervene in Prisoner Beatings
    14 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Eye Unnatural Acts
    By Chris Floyd
    After months of bad press, here at last was an act of genuine humanitarianism by U.S. troops in Iraq that could have been trumpeted to the skies: a unit of National Guard troops — part-time citizen-soldiers from Oregon — rescuing a group of prisoners from sadistic torture by the security forces of the "sovereign" Iraqi government. Yet the incident was buried by U.S. brass, who repudiated their own soldiers — and backed the Iraqi torturers.
    It (…)