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William Rivers Pitt: A Day of Chicken-Counting
Friday, 8 September 2006, 12:09 am | William Rivers Pitt
The Labor Day weekend is traditionally considered the starting gun for Congressional midterm races. The work to gain or hold seats has been going on for months, of course, but Labor Day is when everyone is supposed to start paying attention. Only 63 days ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Fascist Appeasers
Monday, 4 September 2006, 11:35 am | William Rivers Pitt
I had jury duty yesterday, and spent the better part of the day sitting on a hard wooden bench in a holding room waiting for the call. I was thrilled and honored to be there, because I am still a sucker for the basics of our system. The Army, the ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Supporting the Troops
Friday, 25 August 2006, 10:29 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address spoke pointedly of caring "for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan," of the solemn responsibility held by this nation to those who served and died in her service. A plaque outside ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: They Called It Katrina
Wednesday, 23 August 2006, 11:15 am | William Rivers Pitt
One year ago tomorrow, on August 23rd, Tropical Depression Twelve formed over the eastern Bahamas. The depression was upgraded to a tropical storm the next day as the energy and winds within intensified. It was the eleventh tropical storm of the ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Conyers Report - An Interview
Sunday, 20 August 2006, 8:28 pm | William Rivers Pitt
When Ned Lamont defeated Joseph Lieberman in the Connecticut primary last week, the prattling mass of GOP talking heads cried with one voice: the vote was evidence that the "Loony Left" had taken over the Democratic Party. It was a good talking point, ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Everything Old Is New
Wednesday, 16 August 2006, 3:02 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Everything old becomes new again, or so the saying goes. Nowhere is this more evident than in the highest reaches of neo-conservative power in Washington, DC. The term itself - "neo-conservative" - is little more than a shortened version of the old ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Frightened
Monday, 14 August 2006, 3:49 pm | William Rivers Pitt
It would have been easy enough, at first blush, to mistake the GOP's reaction to the foiled bombing plot in London as one of joy. The Republicans were, to be sure, pleased enough with the turn of events, simply because the story of narrowly-avoided ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Banking on War
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 5:11 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Only the dead, said Plato, have seen the end of war. As true as this may be, it does beg the question: why? Why is there so much conflict in the world? Why are there so many wars? Ethnic and religious tensions have been casus belli since time out ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Cease-Fire Now
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 9:15 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Sunday's horrific air attack by Israel on the Lebanese village of Qana has radically altered the dynamic of this current conflict. Before the attack, the United States was happy to allow Israel to act with impunity. The Arab League had accused Hezbollah ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Chalabi Factor
Monday, 31 July 2006, 1:22 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Ahmad Chalabi has been many things to many people over the last several years. Officials in Jordan considered him to be a petty criminal, convicting him of 32 counts of bank fraud and sentencing him in absentia to 22 years in prison. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: All Fall Down
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 3:27 pm | William Rivers Pitt
It has come down to this. "Sectarian Break-Up of Iraq Is Now Inevitable, Admit Officials," read the headline from Monday's UK Independent. "'Iraq as a political project is finished,' a senior government official was quoted as saying," continued the report, ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Pin in the Grenade
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 3:23 pm | William Rivers Pitt
There is no way to tell exactly how this Middle East upheaval is going to unfold, and making any sort of prediction is a dangerous game. There are, however, a number of disparate factors threaded through this situation that, if allowed to coalesce, ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Ballad of Dumb George
Sunday, 23 July 2006, 11:53 am | William Rivers Pitt
What's next? Will George go to the United Nations, sit on Kofi Annan's head, and fart like some bratty brother tormenting a sibling? Will the cameras catch him playing penny hockey during Middle East peace negotiations? You can't say it'll never happen. ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Meanwhile, in Iraq ...
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 1:08 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Every network television news program, every cable news station, every newspaper and every news web site has been covering, and will continue to cover, the horrific mayhem unfolding between Israel and Lebanon. Anyone seeking information on that situation ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Cheerleading the Apocalypse
Tuesday, 18 July 2006, 11:40 am | William Rivers Pitt
The fighting between Israel and Lebanon over the course of the last few days presents perhaps the most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis. The leadership of Israel and Hezbollah spend the blood of innocents to prove how very tough they ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: You Are Not Safe
Friday, 14 July 2006, 10:18 am | William Rivers Pitt
So let me get this straight. According to the National Asset Database, a list of key locations requiring anti-terrorism protection and funding compiled by the Department of Homeland Security, the District of Columbia has 416 potential terror targets. ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Minimum Standards
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 10:47 am | William Rivers Pitt
BBC News reported it this way: "All US military detainees, including those at Guantanamo Bay, are to be treated in line with the minimum standards of the Geneva Conventions. The White House announced the shift in policy on Tuesday, almost two weeks after ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: A Day in the Life
Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 3:25 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Upon reading of the astonishing shooting incident in the al-Jihad neighborhood of Baghdad yesterday, I sat down and attempted to imagine, simply, what it must be like to live in that city these days. I tried to imagine what it must be like to be surrounded ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Two Stories Tell the Tale
Friday, 7 July 2006, 1:22 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Two different stories boiled over in the last few days, each of which tells us too many sorry things about where we are as a nation. North Korea flopped several missiles into the Sea of Japan, including one that could reportedly reach the West Coast of ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Example
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 11:22 am | William Rivers Pitt
The Fourth of July is upon us again, and with it comes the inevitable vast, rolling river of patriotic self-congratulation from every corner. Soldiers and veterans will be lionized even as they are sacrificed and ignored, flags will fly, and in cities ... More >>
