Best Political Commentaries (by date) Best Political Articles Sorted by Subject   [Editor's Note: This page is no longer updated because of time constraints. However, the best political commentaries are still continually mined for excellence in widsom, wit, and writing, and their choicest quotes all appear in the Quotes for our Times page. The political poems are also up-to-the-minute with current events.]   June 2005 Journalistic "Sewerage" http://www.gregpalast.com/printerfriendly.cfm?artid=433   May 2005 Here We Gulag Again! http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0527-34.htm Israel's Infamy http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=7983 Apocalypse Soon http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2829 Cowardice in Journalism Award http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=428&row=0 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8954.htm Callousness in Journalism Award http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/16/1329245 Tyranny Imitates Art http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/05/1738168.php Triumphs of Conscience http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/13/1437208 http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0525-22.htm Bush/Blair Bollocks http://www.tompaine.com/articles/proof_bush_fixed_the_facts.php   March 2005 Monstrous Media Manipulation www.freepress.net/news/7202 The Feast of Deception www.rense.com/general63/cry.htm   February 2005 U.S. Wages Nuclear War www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=86474 The Press Gang -- 21st Century Style http://counterpunch.org/whitehurst02172005.html Outsourcing Torture www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050214fa_fact6 The Hideous Hidden Agenda www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102%257E8854%257E2691835,00.html Nuclear Guinea Pigs www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2004/05/24_keever_suffering-secrecy-exile.htm   January 2005 Why Kerry Lost http://makethemaccountable.com/podvin/more/050125_IshtarII.htm Guilty of Voting While Black http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/209316_palastjackson26.html?searchpagefrom=1&searchdiff=2 Targeting Iran (by Seymour M. Hersh) www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact U.S. Torture Now Routine www.alternet.org/rights/21105 www.commondreams.org/views05/0106-26.htm Big Brother Getting Bigger http://progressivetrail.org/articles/050128Turse.shtml Ethic-Cleansing in U.S. Media www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/0112-24.htm   December 2004 Fraud is Lord www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/23/1541230 www.truthout.org/docs_04/120404W.shtml   November 2004 Fucking Fallujah www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7389.htm Serial Murderer to Run U.S. Justice Department www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=7Sji957UtN&Content=463 Kerry Won. Here are the Facts http://www.reedandwrite.com/poems/Election_Fraud_for_Dummies.shtml www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=392&row=0 Pharma's Poisoning Spree http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/4038375.stm The Dawning Dictatorship www.rense.com/general59/newsgatheringisillegal.htm Murdering Moslems in a Mosque www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=6699 Framing Iraqn http://www.reedandwrite.com/poems/CitizensLetter.shtml This One Needs No Explanation! http://fuckthesouth.com/   October 2004 Election Theft - Part Deux www.buzzflash.com/editorial/04/10/edi04079.html   September 2004 U.S. Retreating Within Iraq www.commondreams.org/views04/0930-15.htm Sentenced to Slow Death at Ground Zero www.metronewyork.com/nymetro/news/sept11/features/9875/ Moore-ish www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2004-09-20 "The Middle East is radioactive forever...DU particles have engulfed the world in a radioactive poison gas that promises illness and death for millions." http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B2E2DF9B-1E0C-43F4-BBF6-074C1367E27C.htm Bush War Crimes www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1303064,00.html Corruption of U.S. Judges www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_39/b3901001_mz001.htm Sins of Commission http://www.reedandwrite.com/poems/Sins_of_Commission.shtml   August 2004 If You Can't Win an Election, Cancel It! http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/100829 We Sacrificial Lambs of New York www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/19/1354251 Blasphemy of God's Image www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1275478,00.html Israel Concealing Mass Death www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/18/136217&mode=thread&tid=25 The Culpable Media www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/13/1413248&mode=thread&tid=25 More of Moore www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1335239&mode=thread&tid=25   July 2004 U.S. Soldiers Sodomized Iraqi Boys www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/294874.html Framing Iraqn www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/19/1410202&mode=thread&tid=25 Yet more ballot-rigging www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/26/1338204&mode=thread&tid=25 Keeping U.S. Safe From Hungry Bears www.businessinsurance.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?articleId=15028&a=a&bt=hungry%20bears Another Thug Installed as Iraqi Prime Minister www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/21/1353247&mode=thread&tid=25 Window-dressing Iraqi "sovereignty" www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=5819&sectionID=15 www.k1m.com/antiwarblog/archives/000110.html   June 2004 Ballot rigging precedes ballot casting www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=342&row=0 "less democratic by the day" www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_24/b3887068.htm www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_24/b3887070.htm www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_24/b3887074.htm www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_24/b3887076.htm www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_24/b3887078.htm   May 2004 Al Gore on "the most dishonest president since Richard Nixon." www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0405/S00247.htm "it just became utter chaos. It sickened me so that I had actually brought it up to my lieutenant, and I told him, I said, you know, sir, we're not going to have to worry about the Iraqis -- you know, we're basically committing genocide over here, mass extermination of thousands of Iraqis, and with the depleted uranium that we're leaving around on the battlefield, we're setting up genocide for future generations within Iraq." www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/24/148212 U.S.-Sponsored Massacre in Afghanistan www.democracynow.org/afghanfilm.shtml   April 2004 Defeating Fascism Tops Kucinich Agenda www.kucinich.us/talksabout/patriotact-talksabout.php U.S. Troops Poisoned Along With Iraqis www.nydailynews.com/news/story/180332p-156685c.html   March 2004 More 9/11 Coverups Uncovered www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1658 www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0403/S00280.htm Officials Threatened, Legislators Bribed www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/18/157201 A Dim Light Amid the Media Darkness www.commondreams.org/views04/0304-12.htm Traumatizing Titties www.swans.com/library/art10/procks20.html   February 2004 Anything to Avoid Peace www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0228-01.htm U.S. Irradiates Iraqis www.sundayherald.com/40096 Poisoning Our Bloodstreams www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040308&s=kennedy Sins of the Present Dwarf Sins of the Past http://themoderntribune.com/bush_national_guard_record_campaign_issues_service_or_disservice.htm The Death Knell of Democracy www.prospect.org/print/V15/2/kuttner-r.html Ticklish Christian Dilemmas www.thecommongood.org/CGN/3_3/biblicalmarriage.html www.ethicsdaily.com/article_detail.cfm?AID=3313 Dennis Kucinich for U.S. President http://members.audiogenerator.com/postcards/?2321401 www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040301&s=dugger   January 2004 Bush "intentionally allowed 9/11 to happen" www.deceptiondollar.com/news/911BookReview.htm Bush Administration Eliminates Opponents? www.liberalslant.com/jt123003.htm Bush Administration Targeting Citizens' Bank Accounts www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul146.html Dissenters Labeled and Treated as Terrorists www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0104-04.htm Five Democrat Contenders for President Made WMD Claims www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/27/1558247&mode=thread&tid=25 Mad Cow Pervades Entire U.S. Meat Industry www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17513   December 2003 Iraq – America's Booty Call www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=299&row=1 U.S. Concealing its Dead Soldiers in Mass Graves www.commondreams.org/views03/1120-04.htm The Ghost of Election-Rigging-Yet-to-Come www.truthout.org/docs_03/120303A.shtml Scapegoated Immigrants Face U.S. Brutality www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13497-2003Dec18.html   November 2003 Kennedy Cries Out Against Rape of America www.ecolivingcenter.com/board/main/messages/1399.html The Other Gore on "despotism in spades" www.commondreams.org/views03/1113-07.htm Suffocating the Oxygen of Democracy (Bill Moyers Keynote Address) www.commondreams.org/views03/1112-10.htm Fiscal Murder of the U.S. www.whoseflorida.com/misc_pages/professor_takes_the_gloves_off.htm Iraq Invasion Built on a Foundation of 50 Lies www.earthisland.org/project/newsPage2.cfm?newsID=491&pageID=177&subSiteID=44 U.S. Baying for Blood of British Protestors http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1086397,00.html The Al-Qaeda Myth http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/11/1662747.php   October 2003 Lies Wrapped in the American Flag www.veteransforpeace.org/The_emperor_has_101803.htm Schwarzenegger's Long-Standing Deal to Shield Enron http://gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=283&row=0 Bush Malevolence Outstrips Nixon's - White House Revenge on Truth Teller Joseph Wilson www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/10/03/ellsberg/index_np.html Fascism in the U.S. www.rense.com/general42/dee.htm   September 2003 9/11 Was Part of Bush Administration's Strategy http://truthout.org/docs_03/091203A.shtml http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1036687,00.html "the German intelligence service issued a number of strong and very clear warnings to the CIA that hijacked airliners were going to be crashed into the World Trade Center in the week of September 9th" http://64.239.13.64/free/ww3/091703_not_one_night.html The Ghost of Election-Rigging-Past www.guerrillanews.com/counter_intelligence/doc233.html The Ghost of Election-Rigging-Yet-to-Come Most articles on this are neither well written nor presented. But key facts are: Diebold Election Systems provides touch-screen voting systems; Diebold's CEO, Walden O'Dell, is a major fundraiser for Bush; O'Dell said he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President next year"; Diebold's voting machines caused wild deviations in election results in Georgia; Diebold has penetrated 37 states; Diebold's voting software falls "far below even the most minimal security standards applicable in other contexts" according to scientists at Johns Hopkins and Rice. www.prisonplanet.com/archive_vote_fraud.html White House Revenge on Truth Teller Joseph Wilson www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0927-01.htm Bush Tells It Like It Is? www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=275&row=0 Schwarzenegger Teamed Up With Enron to Unseat California Governor Davis www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3034cheney_calif.html U.S. Military's Atrocities in Iraq www.commondreams.org/views03/0917-13.htm www.progressive.org/oct03/zinn1003.html   August 2003 Real Reasons Behind the Blackout www.oilcrisis.com/politics/kucinich.htm Betrayal of America www.thirdworldtraveler.com/America/WhatHappenAmer_Vorwarts.html www.commondreams.org/views03/0807-15.htm Lunatic Underpinnings of U.S. Foreign Policy www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0309&article=030911 U.S. Fiscal Suicide www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_32/b3845029_mz007.htm Carnage in Iraq www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=987 www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/08/1060145870882.html The U.S. Murdered Millions of Iraqis BEFORE Gulf War II www.ccmep.org/2003_articles/Iraq/082403_former_un_chief.htm Propaganda www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1020467,00.html U.S. Tortures Innocent Prisoners www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,995989,00.html http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR511182003?open&of=ENG-USA http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR511142003 Fascism in the U.S. www.warblogging.com/archives/000700.php http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/08/75586.php thttp://ruthout.org/docs_03/081203D.shtml White House Deleted EPA Asbestos Warnings Post 9/11 www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0823-03.htm U.S. Empire Founded on Genocide http://thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2003/08/8071_comment.php   July 2003 Noam Chomsky on Propaganda www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/07/22/2198470 Senator James Jeffords on Bush http://jeffords.senate.gov/~jeffords/press/03/06/06052003speech.html Planned Ballot Rigging for 2004 www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00064.htm Coca-Cola Pollution in India www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=7728 Framing Iraq www.commondreams.org/views03/0715-02.htm Bush Complicity in 9/11 www.truthout.org/docs_03/071403I.shtml Falling into Bin Laden's trap www.commondreams.org/views03/0706-05.htm   June 2003 Patriot Act II www.villagevoice.com/issues/0325/lee.php New York Times an Instrument of U.S. Government Propaganda www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/media/2003/0606fudged.htm The Oil Motive in Attacking Iraq http://truthout.org/docs_03/060503A.shtml U.S. Army Doctors Break Hippocratic Oath in Iraq www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0623-09.htm Fascism in the U.S. http://bbsnews.net/bw2003-06-24a.html www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,969705,00.html?=rss   May 2003 14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism www.rense.com/general37/fascism.htm The Rise of the Fourth Reich http://land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/4th_reich.shtml Bush Puny Against Terrorism www.pkarchive.org/column/051603.html U.S. Fiscal Suicide http://truthout.org/docs_03/052803F.shtml   April 2003 Fascism Comes to New York www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15770 Shredding Baghdad http://foi.missouri.edu/destructiondocs/robertfisk.html   March 2003 Fascism in the U.S. www.villagevoice.com/issues/0313/lee.php Corporations as the Private Face of Government www.tmtmetropolis.ru/stories/2003/03/28/120.html Who are the Iraqis? www.une.edu.au/campus/chaplaincy/uniting/links/iraqis.html U.S. Fiscal Suicide www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00041.htm The Irradiation of Iraq www.sundayherald.com/32522 Perpetuating Terror to Perpetuate War http://www.reedandwrite.com/poems/Leaving_my_office.shtml A Human Rights Justification for War? http://www.reedandwrite.com/poems/Reply_Taxidriver.shtml   February 2003 Irradiation of U.S. Soldiers www.futurenet.org/25environmentandhealth/rokke.htm Conscience Prevails Over Carnage www.commondreams.org/views03/0227-13.htm   January 2003 Iraq Scapegoated for 9/11 www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/2003/01/27/news/local/5025024.htm   December 2002 U.S. Supports Israel's Murders www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1221-08.htm The Blight of Prisons www.londonshakespeare.org.uk/prisondiaries/penal.htm Government Destruction of Bill of Rights/U.S. Constitution http://www.reedandwrite.com/poems/Fight_Good_Fight.shtml   November 2002 Forced Vaccinations and the Department of Homeland Security www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul61.html Government Spying on its Citizens www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,843104,00.html www.commondreams.org/views02/1114-08.htm Bush Appoints War Criminal www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=334 Harold Pinter on the American Nightmare www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14783   October 2002 Government Destruction of Bill of Rights/U.S. Constitution www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20021014&s=editors www.universaltransparency.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=35 "Make the pie higher!" www.snopes.com/politics/bush/piehigher.asp U.S. Empire www.worldpolicy.org/journal/articles/wpj02-3/hendrickson.html   September 2002 U.S. Advocates Torture www.law.northwestern.edu/depts/communicate/newspages/article_full.cfm?eventid=271&pagetype='current'   August 2002 U.K. Intelligence Infiltrates Amnesty International www.monabaker.com/pMachine/more.php?id=1451_0_1_0_M   April 2002 U.S. Contempt on the International Stage www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,689478,00.html www.globalpolicy.org/unitedstates/unpolicy/gen2002/0502fpif.htm U.S. Concealing Weapons of Mass Destruction www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,685155,00.html   February 2002 Destroying the EPA www.gristmagazine.com/muck/muck030102.asp "We did not authorize assassination squads" www.alternet.org/story/12477   January 2002 Plans for Invading Afghanistan Preceded 9/ll www.projectcensored.org/publications/2003/4.html Pentagon Profiteering and Profligacy www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=982&fcategory_desc=Economy   December 2001 Fascism in the U.S. www.truthout.org/docs_01/12.07C.Safire.Voices.htm The U.S. -- a Rogue State with International Reach www.thesunmagazine.org/bully.html   September 2001 U.S. Genocide Against Iraqis www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/UScahIraq.html