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Fallujah: The 21st Century Guernica

[In Commentary]

Fallujah: The 21st Century Guernica
Where is the new Picasso to help citizens focus on the themes of our times?
by Saul Landau

The Arts

The Bushiad and The Idyossey
The epic battle of testosterone, circa 2003.
by Victor Littlebear

Fahrenheit 9/11: Moore's Public Service
Why hold a self-proclaimed polemicist to a higher standard than you hold the president of the United States?
by Paul Krugman

Fahrenheit 9/11: Michael Moore's Candid Camera
When you have a story this ugly and this powerful to tell, subtleties and fine distinctions are unnecessary.
by Frank Rich
Media

The Silenced Majority
More people are saying no to government lies, corporate greed, and a slavish media.
by Amy Goodman

The Power of Audacity
An excerpt from The Book on Bush.
by Eric Alterman
Life & Culture

Understanding the Christian roots of my political depression
The Republican mix of piety, patriotism and fear works, but is lethal for America and Christianity.
by John Shelby Spong

I am your dog
A word to humans, on behalf of canines everywhere
by Fi Doe

Church and State
A lunatic Christian cult has the run of the White House and the ear of the president. What do they want? The end of the world. Be afraid.
by Neal Pollack
Politics

God help America
If this is the finest democracy in the world, does it really deserve George W. Bush?
by The Daily Mirror

Dean Wins!
The incredible story of how Howard Dean became President of the United States by seizing the radical center.
by Tom Gogola

The Unfeeling President
He cannot mourn but is a figure of such moral vacancy as to make us mourn for ourselves.
by E.L. Doctorow

The power and politics of Spite
A distressing but plausible theory as to why people vote against their own interests.
by Mark Ames

The Brains Thing
Three years of watching Bush makes the point: Intelligence matters more than “character.”
by Matthew Yglesias
Commentary

Fallujah: The 21st Century Guernica
Where is the new Picasso to help citizens focus on the themes of our times?
by Saul Landau

George and the Ten Commandments
Can you be a good Christian if you fail the Ten Commandments test?
by Samuel Raider

We're not in Lake Wobegon anymore
An adapted excerpt from the new book Homegrown Democrat
by Garrison Keillor

Hypocrisy: The US Government's Biggest Problem
A very simple and easy-to-understand explanation for why the world hates us.
by Charley Reese
Cost of the War in Iraq
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EPHEMERA


SorryEverybody.com


TIME Magazine's repeat Black Wednesday issue

FUCK THE SOUTH

Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results


Pseudo Fascism in America
An interview with
David Neiwert

I.Q. and Politics
States ranked by average intelligence quotion


How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?


Janet & Dean
A wardrobe and microphone malfunction?

Mosh
Eminem's must-see video

Freeway Free Speach Day Photos

Without a Doubt
by Ron Suskin

Remember the Alamo
How George W. Bush reinvented himself
by Nicholas Lemannn

Bush's Lost Year
By deciding to invade Iraq, the Bush Administration decided not to do many other things: not to reconstruct Afghanistan, not to deal with the threats posed by North Korea and Iran, and not to wage an effective war on terror. An inventory of opportunities lost
by James Fallows

If Jesus ran against Bush

Sentient Non-Idiots For Kerry
by Mark Morford
Repubs pick a fight about Vietnam while Bush ruins America right now? Is the nation drunk?

Facing the enemy on the ground
by Scott Ritter
The Iraqi resistance has been years in the making. And with the help of American involvement, the insurgency will continue to flourish and grow until no force can defeat it.

The Case Against George W. Bush
by Ron Reagan

DateJesus.com
Jesus seeks loving woman

FTheVote.com
Trade sex for votes against Bush

The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War

DESERTER
The story of George W. Bush after he quit the Texas Air National Guard

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know

How to Get Out of Iraq
by Peter W. Galbraith


The Reagan $3 bill now in the Skreed Gallery

Leader of the Free World?
A must-see interactive webpage featuring Bush and Blair doing what they do best

The Manipulator
by Jane Mayer
Ahmad Chalabi pushed a tainted case for war. Can he survive the occupation?

The Gray Zone
by Seymour M. Hersch
How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib

Who is Lane McCotter?
The answer to that question should be enough to bring down John Ashcroft, if not George W. himself

How big is
$87 billion
Update!
(Hint -- it looks more like $191 billion)

Claim vs Fact
A database that charts conservatives' dishonesty -- and compares it with the truth

Get Your War On

Rush, Newspeak and Fascism: An exegesis
by David Neiwert

Gallery of the Forbidden
Music they don't want you to hear, art they don't want you to see!

Then... and now

The Candy Wrapper Museum
Sure it's nostalgia. But it's also art -- with a healthy dose of humor

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