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John Chuckman Cartoon: Middle East Realities
Wednesday, 11 June 2003, 1:51 pm | John Chuckman
Cartoon By John Chuckman More >>
John Chuckman: Banality, Bombast, And Blood
Thursday, 5 June 2003, 1:26 pm | John Chuckman
The saga of America's Private Lynch, no matter what the details of her movie-set escape prove to be, adds only banality to needless bloodshed in Iraq. More >>
Chuckman Cartoons: George Bush The Laughing Monkey
Friday, 30 May 2003, 11:37 am | John Chuckman
Two cartoons by John Chuckman… More >>
Chuckman: An Interpretation of Bush's Character
Wednesday, 28 May 2003, 10:31 am | John Chuckman
While I find those images on the Internet of a blunt little mustache digitally-scribbled onto President Bush's upper lip feeble and unhelpful, still, there are parts of Bush's character and behavior that strikingly resemble at least one major biographer's interpretation ... More >>
Of Blair, Hussein, And Genocide
Tuesday, 20 May 2003, 7:51 am | John Chuckman
Britain's Prime Minister Blair has now claimed that the war in Iraq was justified by the discovery of mass graves. The ugly truth is that mass graves have become pretty common things since the beginning of the twentieth century, although many of the ... More >>
Policy Through Rose-Colored Pilot's Goggles
Thursday, 15 May 2003, 8:53 am | John Chuckman
Everyone, not attached by threadbare ideology or plain old war profiteering to President Bush's War on Terror, knows that even on its own terms, it can only fail miserably in a great waste of lives and substance. More >>
Chuckman Cartoon: George W. Christ
Wednesday, 7 May 2003, 9:16 am | John Chuckman
Cartoon Comment from John Chuckman. See also... William Rivers Pitt: George W. Christ? More >>
John Chuckman: Friedman's Life As A Pet Hamster
Monday, 5 May 2003, 8:44 am | John Chuckman
If you ever had a pet hamster when you were young, you know what I mean about hearing its regular scrambling and spinning on the exercise wheel. The squeak-squeak sound becomes an amusing background noise of everyday life. More >>
The Iraq War's Trashiest Piece Of Propaganda
Tuesday, 15 April 2003, 10:57 am | John Chuckman
There are scores of candidates for the distinction of trashiest war propaganda in a mainstream publication, and readers outside Canada may not recognize my nominee's name, but I am confident readers will recognize the merit of Margaret Wente's column ... More >>
America's Right To Do Whatever It Pleases
Friday, 11 April 2003, 1:20 pm | John Chuckman
The U.S. is claiming a "sovereign right" to try Iraqi officials as war criminals. I thought it was a nice touch, including, as it does, an allusion both to Bush's scholarly observations on Nazis and an assertion of rights. Rights are always good, ... More >>
Contradictions & Absurdities Concerning Iraq War
Monday, 31 March 2003, 11:54 am | John Chuckman
The title could be the name of a television quiz show, although I doubt the subject matter would attract a large audience, especially in that key market of the United States. More >>
Chuckman Cartoons: The Ugly Side Of War
Monday, 24 March 2003, 9:30 am | John Chuckman
Four web-only cartoons from Canadian commentator and cartoonist John Chuckman … More >>
John Chuckman Cartoon: Out Of His League
Friday, 21 February 2003, 10:53 am | John Chuckman
"According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz Daily, during a meeting with U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton yesterday, Sharon said that Israel was concerned about the security threat posed by Iran, and stressed that it was important to deal ... More >>
John Chuckman: Answers To Two Great Mysteries
Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 9:55 am | John Chuckman
( YellowTimes.org ) – On Friday, February 14, the Foreign Minister of France, M. de Villepin, gave a remarkable speech to the U.N. Security Council. The precision and force of reason with which he put France's case concerning Iraq were nothing ... More >>
Words On Columbia's Fiery Destruction
Thursday, 6 February 2003, 10:49 am | John Chuckman
Is the shuttle program has much to do with space exploration. The program's main focus has always been the military exploitation of earth orbit with a few interesting civilian matters thrown in to help hold the public's imagination and support. More >>
John Chuckman: Bulldozing Hope
Tuesday, 28 January 2003, 10:14 am | John Chuckman
I'm not sure exactly why it is, but nothing I have read recently about Israel's treatment of the Palestinians touched me quite so deeply as the destruction of about 60 shops in the village of Nazlat Isa. More >>
John Chuckman: Twelve Rusted Pipes
Thursday, 23 January 2003, 10:47 am | John Chuckman
My head turned when I heard on the radio that a number of chemical warheads had been discovered in Iraq, the words "chemical warheads" evoking powerful suggestions and images. Shortly after first reports, one of Mr. Bush's spokespeople termed it "significant." More >>
John Chuckman: National Sanctity of Life Day
Wednesday, 22 January 2003, 10:45 am | John Chuckman
President Bush has declared National Sanctity of Human Life Day. I should be forgiven for greeting the news with cynicism, but at least they included the word "national" in the title. More >>
The Futility Of War
Thursday, 9 January 2003, 11:51 am | John Chuckman
We've all likely seen or read about scientific studies of aggression and violence in that otherwise intelligent and loveable species, chimpanzees. Some even take these observations as a kind of biological justification of war. But intellects able to ... More >>
