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William Rivers Pitt: Here's the Funny Part
Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 10:38 am | William Rivers Pitt
Try this madness on for size. Here we have Pat Robertson, ostensibly a Christian, judging by the number of crosses he surrounds himself with, calling for the assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Parsing the gibberish that pours forth from ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Desecration of the Dead
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 11:51 am | William Rivers Pitt
His name is Larry Northern, and he is a wretch. The Arlington West cemetery has been growing for more than a year. Begun in California by activists seeking to honor those soldiers killed in Iraq, and also seeking to highlight in an unavoidably searing ... More >>
Bush Is No Nixon
Friday, 12 August 2005, 10:20 am | William Rivers Pitt
No mother who lost her son to this Iraq war should be made to stand in a ditch, and yet that is exactly where Cindy Sheehan stands today, by the side of the road in Crawford, Texas. She has been standing there since she heard about the 20 Marines ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Every Mother's Son
Tuesday, 9 August 2005, 2:53 pm | William Rivers Pitt
George W. Bush hauled stakes for Texas and a vacation a few days ago. Cindy Sheehan followed. She got off a bus Saturday afternoon and started walking to the Crawford ranch. She wanted some answers and was going to get them. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Something to Choke On, Again
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 11:09 am | William Rivers Pitt
There have been two bad moments looming over the horizon for the last couple of weeks. One is still in the offing, and a lot of people who have been watching and working the details should prepare themselves for the ram. The other went down this ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Vacation's All I Ever Wanted
Thursday, 28 July 2005, 1:49 pm | William Rivers Pitt
The First Marine Expeditionary Force, which took part in the initial invasion of Iraq more than two years ago, is suiting up for another deployment to the war zone. For many in this vaunted crew, it will be their third deployment to that country ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Bush's Soviet State
Monday, 25 July 2005, 12:41 am | William Rivers Pitt
It's funny in an awful sort of way. The defining events of the last fifty years all centered around the Cold War and the eventual demise of the Soviet system. Toward the end of the Soviet regime, their government was often forced to grossly overstate ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Best Of Us
Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 11:43 am | William Rivers Pitt
It was late July 2004, and it was a hot day for Seattle. The park was filled with activists, organizers and regular folks, there to hear a battery of speakers who had come together for this stop on the Rolling Thunder Democracy Tour. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Over There
Friday, 8 July 2005, 9:52 am | William Rivers Pitt
A British associate penned a quick response to the bombing attacks that took place in London this morning. "The message from those claiming responsibility says, in part, 'Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its northern, southern, ... More >>
Will Pitt: The Supremacy of the Super-Citizen
Friday, 1 July 2005, 3:28 pm | William Rivers Pitt
The document reads, "All men are created equal." When those words were first put to paper, of course, the literal meaning of the phrase did not match what was written. A more accurate sentence would have read, "All white land-owning men are created ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Bush Speech Drinking Game
Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 3:14 pm | William Rivers Pitt
"We," eh? "We"? That's interesting. I'm not seeing a lot of "we" in the 1,743 dead American soldiers from Iraq, the ones who bore the sacrifice Rice used as a talking point back in March. I'm not seeing a lot of "we" in the story of Pfc. Diane Cardile, ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Thing We Don't Talk About
Friday, 24 June 2005, 2:51 pm | William Rivers Pitt
With the revelation of the secret Downing Street Minutes, which exposed the fact that George Bush and Tony Blair had decided to invade Iraq in April of 2002, a heated debate has blown through media, congressional and activist circles. More >>
Will Rivers Pitt: Nail It to the White House Door
Thursday, 16 June 2005, 12:49 am | William Rivers Pitt
Almost five hundred years ago, Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Church, initiating a sequence of events which forever altered the geometry of global religion, politics and power. Luther's Theses began with the ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Dean Was Right
Monday, 13 June 2005, 12:30 am | William Rivers Pitt
If the leadership qualities of those in charge of the national Democratic Party could be squeezed into a shampoo bottle, the directions on the back of the bottle might read something like this: “Make tentative statement. Offer equivocation to ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: After Downing Street
Friday, 10 June 2005, 12:13 am | William Rivers Pitt
Intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. Bush had already made the decision to invade. That's what the leaked secret British intelligence document now known as the Downing Street Minutes tells us from back in time to July of 2002, ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Breaking - Water Remains Wet
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 11:56 am | William Rivers Pitt
The sky is up. Water is wet. Fox News is biased towards the Republican party. These are the axioms that define reality in our world. The first two do not get challenged all that much, but the third - the Fox news bias - has been the subject of various ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Exploit the Rift
Thursday, 26 May 2005, 2:44 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Members of the Republican Party's political action corps pride themselves on discipline and adherence to the line. Most of the time they are very good at this, which explains to a degree their ascendancy of late. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Take the Long Way Home
Wednesday, 25 May 2005, 11:40 am | William Rivers Pitt
I'm very tired. I am tired of watching the death toll rise on a daily basis in Iraq. Five more American soldiers died on Sunday, and eight more died today. Thirty-three Iraqi civilians were killed by car bombs on Monday, and another 120 were wounded. ... More >>
Will Pitt: Short Tales from Bizarro World
Friday, 20 May 2005, 1:37 pm | William Rivers Pitt
You know things have gone more than a bit around the bend when it takes a British MP with a hard Scottish brogue to throw a little truth against the walls of the U.S. Senate chamber to see what will stick. George Galloway, accused of profiteering in ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: One of These Days
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 12:12 am | William Rivers Pitt
Whenever I get asked to speak about the media and its role in our world, I always remember something that happened to me in the fall of 2002. My book on Iraq had been out for a few weeks, I was writing for truthout, and I was also carrying a full teaching ... More >>
