Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 77
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Missed a Compatriot
[Read the article: The American media's fringe ideological view of Pelosi's trip]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Other than the right-wing spectrum in Israel, their mentality and worldview really does not really exist anywhere else in the world, certainly not to any meaningful degree."
The "Islamofascists" that wingnuts are pretending to be fighting to protect us against are soulmates with them. They believe in the same ends (ideological domination and oppression) and same means (violence) of acheiving the desired ends. The ONLY difference is the desired ends is for them instead of us.
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Bunk
[Read the article: Do national journalists agree with Gary Kamiya?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"every branch of the media failed, from daily newspapers, magazines and Web sites to television networks, cable channels and radio."
I don't recall where I learned all of the following things, but BEFORE the invasion of Iraq:
I knew the aluminum tubes for centrifuges lie was bunk - I knew about the DOE footnote in the NIE casting doubt on the tubes for nuclear bomb making
I knew the Iraq seeking to purchase uranium lie was bunk
I knew the Iraq had viable drones for exploding WMDs on US soil lie was bunk
I knew that the CIA warned that regime change in Iraq would likely destabilize the region.
I knew Colin Powell was full of shit
I knew without a doubt that Saddam Hussein was the least threat on Earth to the US.
So if the entire media completely failed, how did I know these things BEFORE the invasion hint, I am not prescient.)
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Defining Failure
[Read the article: Do national journalists agree with Gary Kamiya?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Paul Rosenberg
1) the quote says the media "completely" failed. That statement is plain false if the truth was available.
2) democracy is participatory and it is work. If the governed fail in their responsibility to do the work (see [1]) that is NECESSARY to be adequately informed than it is the INDIVIDUAL THAT HAS FAILED - they fail the country and they fail themselves.
3) there are liars and people of malice everywhere. It is naive to not expect "the media" to be infested with them at least to the level of the general population (which would be equal to at least 30% of population still supporting bush and the cult of republicanism) and in the case of corporate management of media conglomerates, a much higher percentage than the general population.
4) it should be obvious that by allowing the preponderance of information to the general population to be controlled by a very small number of corporations controlled by a very small number of people that the whole system is rife for corruption and manipulation. If America doesn't breakup Big Media, the country will continue to be subject to the anti-American ideology of the cult of republicanism.
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Too many Wrongs Here
[Read the article: The right's explicit and candid rejection of "the rule of law"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Greenwald your exuberance to wingnut honesty is misplaced – Mansfield is an ass and a lunatic. There is no evidence anywhere in the history of humanity to support his notion of a totalitarian benevolence; that anyone with total power would have the magnanimity to surrender to the rule of law in “quiet times” or have the wisdom necessary to act unitarily in a manner that saved the country or benefited the majority of its people. In fact there would be nothing in an omnipotent president that would hold sacrosanct that benefiting “the people” is even a criteria for his actions – case in point being the current fascist occupant of the White House who has turned the nation subservient to his whims.
Mansfield apparently misses the whole idea that his president-as-king would be the one defining the start and end of any emergency, just as the chimperor has morphed metaphorical war into actual war to claim whatever powers he wishes.
Mansfield’s notions are preposterous, idiotic, dangerous, and noxious; they are not the least bit honest, but reflect someone taken with self-indulgent fantasy; and he should be treated with the total disdain and scorn that he deserves.
That the bushliar-criminal regime operates under Mansfield’s premises, and because “…the administration is stonewalling [Congressional oversight] completely, and will continue to,” the case for impeachment is both necessary and irrefutable.
Conservatism is NOT the dominant political movement. They do not control either house of Congress; the Supreme Court is at least very close to evenly divided, republican party affiliation is shrinking rapidly; and barring an insurmountable amount of their usual skullduggery, the cult of republicanism is well positioned to loose the presidency in 2008. That they are “dominant” is a republican meme you should not be promoting.
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re: Update I
[Read the article: A glimpse at Versailles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Americans have a simple choice: either corporate television news dies or the nation as a nation of free people dies...its that simple. And that's where the blogosphere comes in - the slayer of US corporate TV news.
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Why Is Christian-Supported Torture Surprising?
[Read the article: The Islamic enemy within]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A 2005 Pew poll, for instance, found that large majorities of Christians believe in torture
Given that the central tenet of Christianity is that Jesus SUFFERED and that Christians perpetually worship an icon of a man NAILED to a cross, why would it be the least be surprising that Christians believe in torture? Furthermore, Christianity portends that all wrongs (if torture were considered a wrong by Christians) are easily forgiven given appropriate very simple declarations of fealty to Christian beliefs.
The whole premise of Christianity is torture, they stare at torture, and pray before tortured symbology. It would be surprising if Christians DIDN’T embrace torture.