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The Past Is Present: Watergate, Vietnam & Iraq
Tuesday, 12 August 2003, 2:30 pm | Bernard Weiner
A few years ago, while visiting Bellingham -- one of the few times I'd been back to that Northwest town in decades -- I walked out of a downtown drugstore, happened to look across the street, and suddenly started shaking and sobbing. More >>
Shallow Throat Advises Democrats to Bring It On
Friday, 18 July 2003, 10:25 am | Bernard Weiner
With the Bush Administration in imploding disarray, frantically scrambling for ways out of its WMD scandal, I set the code for alerting "Shallow Throat" that I wanted to talk. More >>
The Advisability Of Holding One's Nose When Voting
Tuesday, 15 July 2003, 9:24 am | Bernard Weiner
Since we're going to get there anyway -- and since our mailbag is starting to get weighted down already on this issue -- we might as well jump into the electoral debate now and see if we all can reach a resolution before the primaries and, for sure, ... More >>
Bernard Weiner: Re-Igniting America's Soul
Monday, 30 June 2003, 6:30 pm | Bernard Weiner
What happens when individuals or whole societies damage -- or even temporarily lose -- their soul, their spiritual anchor, their sense of themselves as moral entities? More >>
Bernard Weiner: A Peek Inside Bush's PostWar Diary
Monday, 16 June 2003, 3:13 pm | Bernard Weiner
Dear Diary: The war went well. We licked those Iraqi towelheads real quick. We didn't get Saddam, though, which is more than a little embarassing, since we also didn't get Osama in Afghanistan. Makes me look bad. Also makes me look like I'd rather have ... More >>
Germany In 1933: The Easy Slide Into Fascism
Tuesday, 10 June 2003, 10:14 am | Bernard Weiner
The veneer of civilization is thin. We know this from our own observations, and various writers -- from Shakespeare to Sinclair Lewis (''It Can't Happen Here'') -- have shown us how easily populations can be manipulated by leaders skillfully playing ... More >>
PNAC Primer: How We Got Into This Imperial Pickle
Tuesday, 27 May 2003, 11:52 am | Bernard Weiner
Recently, I was the guest on a radio talk-show hosted by a thoroughly decent far-right Republician. I got verbally battered, but returned fire and, I think, held my own. More >>
Shallow Throat: How to Take Bush Downnnnnnnn
Monday, 12 May 2003, 11:23 am | Bernard Weiner
Appalled at the damage being done by the HardRight ideologues who had hijacked the GOP, "Shallow Throat" -- the highly-located mole in the Bush Administration, who revealed secrets from behind the White House curtain -- had had enough and had moved ... More >>
Bernard Weiner: U.S. Iraq Policy for Dummies
Tuesday, 29 April 2003, 10:32 am | Bernard Weiner
What with Shia and Sunni and Ba'ath and imams and Syria and Abu Mazer and WMDs, it's no wonder many are confused in this post-Iraq-war period. Time once again to turn to that franchised series of books for easy-to-comprehend answers to difficult questions. More >>
Wolfowitz's Confidential Memo on Post-Iraq Plans (Satire)
Tuesday, 15 April 2003, 9:42 am | Bernard Weiner
From: Paul Wolfowitz - To: Dick Cheney, Richard Perle, Don Rumsfeld, Bill Kristol, Jim Woolsey - In re: PNAC's next moves (**For Your Eyes Only**) More >>
Depression - And Its Activism Antidote
Monday, 7 April 2003, 1:56 pm | Bernard Weiner
Let's talk about a subject that remains mostly hidden in American social discourse: depression. And, in particular, where personal depression meets economic and political depression -- and, even more specifically right now, when all these states meet at ... More >>
Bernard Weiner: The Vietnam Connection
Saturday, 29 March 2003, 6:15 pm | Bernard Weiner
Anyone Detect a Familiar Odor in the Air? The Vietnam Connection By Bernard Weiner The Crisis Papers More >>
A Vietnam-era Dad Talks to His Protesting Son
Monday, 24 March 2003, 9:07 am | Bernard Weiner
A Vietnam-era Dad Talks to His Protesting Son By Bernard Weiner The Crisis Papers More >>
Open Letter to Bush: You Are Disgracing America
Monday, 17 March 2003, 12:57 am | Bernard Weiner
Dear George W. Bush, Congratulations! With your decision to bomb and invade Iraq, you are about to make yourself both an enemy of the state and an international war-criminal. More >>
Inside Rummy's Diary: They're On To Us! Let's Roll
Thursday, 13 March 2003, 11:41 am | Bernard Weiner
Dear Diary: They're on to us. It all looked so easy when we drew it up: We'd talk tough, frighten those who might oppose us, get our war plans in high gear, and move before anybody could do anything about it. More >>
Bernard Weiner: An Address from the Oval Office
Monday, 10 March 2003, 10:35 am | Bernard Weiner
My fellow Americans. I am speaking to you tonight to thank you for the overwhelming support you have given our Administration in confronting Saddam Hussein. Because the American people, and the nations of the world, have stood together, Saddam has ... More >>
Bernard Weiner: Bush's Foreign Adventurism
Wednesday, 5 March 2003, 1:53 pm | Bernard Weiner
How to Swagger & Bully Your Way to Disaster: Bush's Foreign Adventurism By Bernard Weiner The Crisis Papers More >>
Bernard Weiner: Explaining Iraq To The Grandkids
Friday, 28 February 2003, 11:28 am | Bernard Weiner
Within a few weeks, the world is going to change drastically. A terrible war is about to be unleashed, and -- even though the events will happen far, far away from America -- it will affect your parents and Gran and me, indeed all of us in this country ... More >>
Bush Knows the Jig Is Up: Let's Hurry To Baghdad
Thursday, 20 February 2003, 9:54 am | Bernard Weiner
One can almost sense a palpable shifting of momentum, from an unrestricted Bush war-juggernaut rolling to its bloody unfolding to an administration caught between Iraq and a hard place, condemned if it unleashes the dogs of war (imperial warmonger), condemned ... More >>
Artistic Sign Language& The Coming Bush Fall
Friday, 14 February 2003, 12:24 am | Bernard Weiner
Sign is symbol, symbol is sign. Consider: *Powell goes to the United Nations so that the missile attacks on Baghdad and Basra can begin -- and, in the lobby of that grand building, Picasso's "Guernica" painting, which depicts the horrific results of the ... More >>
