War on terror – The case of impotence

Fox News presented their viewers another feel-good report. Frances Townsend told “FOX News Sunday”, two weeks ago,  that the tape from bin Laden was made recently, possibly in the last several months. While the intelligence community is still evaluating the tape to determine the terror leader’s health, possible whereabouts and other details, it does not [...]

Blackwater – black deeds for rent

  Blackwater USA’s mercenary mission in Iraq is very much in the news this week, and rightly so. The private military contractor’s war-for-profit program, which has been so brilliantly exposed by Jeremy Scahill, may finally get a measure of the official scrutiny it merits as the corporation scrambles to undo the revocation by the Iraqi [...]

Greenspan – a delayed reaction

Alan Greenspan has published his memoir where he admits the Iraq bloody adventure is a war for the resouces, the oil. Great, I say, more hard proof is needed to expose this sick administration. My question though is why now? Why not in 2002 or 2003? If the truth was revealed then preventing this atrocity perhaps more [...]

Primum non nocere – doctors and torture. Part I

On July 2004 The New England Journal of Medicine, arguably the most prestigious medical journal in this country, presented an article “Doctors and Torture. Under normal circumstances this article should have provoked a heavy stream of media response, yet, our gutless news organizations quietly turned its attention to the victorious progress of our occupation of [...]

My 9/11 Commentary

September 11. The saddest day in the life of this country. Thousands of commentaries will focus on the details of this atrocity. After deep thougts I decided to offer a poem by Polish-Jewish poet Julian Tuwim .
The Common Man
When plastered billboards scream with slogans
“Fight for your country, go to battle”
When media’s print assaults [...]

The Surge Works!

It works! The surge is working! What ungrateful fools we are! We got it all wrong!Now we are safe! Saved. Saved and safe! And proud of our mission spreading democracy in the Middle East.  
Thank you Mr. President. Thank you for your resolve, your vision and bravery! Despite all the criticism you stay the course guided [...]

The Report

The Bush administration’s most senior advisers on Iraq, the commander of US forces, General David Petraeus, and the ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, will launch a new drive today to defer any exit of troops until April 2008 amid growing doubts about their credibility in Congress and among the public. The testimony from Gen Petraeus [...]

Mission Accomplished! Act 2.

The “surge” is working, the US is winning, al-Qa’ida is on the run, terrorists are being wiped out, and democracy is on the march in the Middle East. US military claims about Iraq have increasingly matched White House political aims.
The rhetoric from all top commanders, but especially Gen Petraeus, reads like undiluted White House [...]

Quo Vadis?…

The last few days brought us at least two critical news in , so called, ” war on terror”.
First, a duel of words with a sublimal aftertaste. Bush likes Maliki then.. maybe not; Maliki needs W but could find friends elsewhere turning his lower back at our prophet.
That’s fine…But I am hearing, mostly on a [...]

Play doh

My kids, like many others, love to litter the house with play-doh. They do it innocently… The play-doh has amazing properties, is pliable, gives in to the molder’s will and when needed it pretends to be a permanent as a marble. But leave it unattended for a while and it will crumble into the pile of [...]