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CheneyBush Burned Again: Too Near the Plame
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 12:47 am | Bernard Weiner
Bush and Cheney being fingered in the Plamegate scandal by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan is not news. More than a year ago, Americans learned about CheneyBush's complicity in the outing of Valerie Plame as a covert CIA operative ... More >>
Robert Redford, Julie Taymor: America At War
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 11:37 am | Bernard Weiner
I saw two movies last week, one exceptional (Julie Taymor's "Across the Universe") and the other disappointingly so-so (Robert Redford's "Lions for Lambs"). Both films speak to the prevalent confusions, moral lapses, corruptions of spirit ... More >>
Bernard Weiner: Perversions of Power
Thursday, 15 November 2007, 10:44 am | Bernard Weiner
There are a few things in life that one can count on: death, taxes, and people wanting to rewrite your play. And, for our purposes today, the famous dictum from the noted British historian Lord Acton (1834-1902): More >>
Incremental Steps to "The Revolution"
Wednesday, 7 November 2007, 4:52 pm | Bernard Weiner
Incremental Steps to "The Revolution" By Bernard Weiner , Co-Editor The Crisis Papers http://www.crisispapers.org/essays7w/steps.htm More >>
A "Two-Headed Party," and the Power of a Dime
Thursday, 1 November 2007, 8:12 pm | Bernard Weiner
In essays over the past two weeks, I've speculated about the reasons for the dangerous timidity of our Democratic Party leaders, and came up with quite a number of possibilities . But, as many letter-writers reminded me, I might have left out the main one: More >>
But WHY Are Our Dem Leaders Such Timid Wimps?
Thursday, 25 October 2007, 11:47 am | Bernard Weiner
When I was in Germany recently, addressing the Democrats Abroad chapter in Munich, most of us in the meeting hall were perplexed by the behavior of Democratic Party officials in Washington, D.C. What is behind those leaders' ongoing timidity that ... More >>
Will Democrats Commit Political Suicide in 2008?
Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 11:25 am | Bernard Weiner
Will Democrats Commit Political Suicide in 2008? An Address to Democrats Abroad-Munich, October 10, 2007 By Bernard Weiner Co-Editor, The Crisis Papers October 16, 2007 More >>
Blackwater Blues for Dead Iraqi Civilians
Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 12:30 am | Bernard Weiner
Erik Prince, the founder and head of Blackwater USA, has contributed mega-bucks to Republican Party candidates and Christian right organizations and causes. Why is this advocate of "traditional family values" stonewalling the families ... More >>
2008 Election: Confusion, Anger, Hope...
Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 12:19 am | Bernard Weiner
Let's construct a pair of binoculars out of two quotes. What we see may help us understand more clearly our current reality and where it could take us in November 2008. More >>
Bush At His Shrink: The Nightmares Continue
Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 8:11 pm | Bernard Weiner
"I am delighted to see you again, Mr. President. I thought you might have wanted to talk after the Democratic sweep of Congress, but you never called. So, please, tell me why you are here today." More >>
Twenty-Two Things We Now Know Six Years After 9/11
Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 8:01 pm | Bernard Weiner
Each year around the anniversary of 9/11, I summarize what we ordinary citizens have learned since that awful day in 2001. This is the sixth annual look backwards, an update based on new information about those horrific events and what followed. More >>
Bernard Weiner: CheneyBush's "Mercenary" Legions
Wednesday, 29 August 2007, 1:29 pm | Bernard Weiner
"Outsourcing" jobs overseas is only the tip of the iceberg. How about the CheneyBush Administration "outsourcing" our military, our intelligence-gathering, our nation's soul? More >>
Bush Bunker Crew's Legacy: "Dangerous Losers"
Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 12:52 am | Bernard Weiner
President Lyndon Johnson gave up his chance for re-election in hopes that the ongoing Vietnam War eventually would resurrect his political reputation and land him a place of honor in history. George W. Bush sacrificed Donald Rumsfeld in the hope that by ... More >>
Bernard Weiner: A News Quiz: Real or Fake?
Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 11:24 am | Bernard Weiner
Satire is getting harder and harder to recognize. Just think how many times lately you've come across a news story and said to yourself: "That couldn't be true; it must be a joke." The real news too often is just as scarily ridiculous as the faux ... More >>
Rove's Diary: Just Try to Stop Me, Coppers!
Thursday, 9 August 2007, 12:19 am | Bernard Weiner
For many months, I've felt like the little silver ball in a pinball machine, getting banged around this way and that, about to fall into a dark hole. My subpoena, the U.S. Attorneys scandal, our political briefings at Justice and so on -- they almost ... More >>
Art As Vaccine Against the CheneyBush Virus
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 12:32 am | Bernard Weiner
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one..." -- "Imagine," John Lennon More >>
Bernard Weiner: Do You Get It NOW?
Wednesday, 25 July 2007, 12:34 am | Bernard Weiner
As Bush&Co. isolate themselves even further in the White House Bunker with their lies, scandals, coverups and unending wars, they're becoming even more reckless and dangerous to America and its citizens. That behavior shouldn't be all that surprising: ... More >>
Bernard Weiner: Inside Bush's "Surge" Diary
Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 11:57 am | Bernard Weiner
Even though every day is a battle -- my enemies are always attacking me -- I think we'll make it to the January 2009 finishing line. Once the Dems announced that impeachment was "off the table," I knew everything would be OK. More >>
Bernard Weiner: Impeaching the Shadow Master
Wednesday, 11 July 2007, 10:16 am | Bernard Weiner
So there we were last week hanging out on the banks of the pristine Eagle River, just north of Juneau, awed by the bald eagles right over our heads, feeling the clean Alaskan wind on our faces, looking out at the snow-capped mountains beyond -- and ... More >>
National-Security Breaches: Time for Impeachment
Wednesday, 4 July 2007, 10:46 am | Bernard Weiner
By taking impeachment "off the table," Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers may have made partisan sense during the run-up to the November 2006 midterm election -- the Dems didn't want to scare away any wavering Republicans. Perhaps it even made sense in ... More >>
