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We Are All Torturers Now: WHO DID YOU TORTURE DURING THE WAR, DADDY?

2005-09-29T17:21:51Z

By Ted Rall
Or, We Are All Torturers Now
NEW YORK—Never miss the Saturday paper. Because it's the skimpiest and least-circulated edition of the week, it's the venue of choice for lowballing the stories the government can't completely cover up. September 24's New York Times, for example, contained the bombshell revelation that the U.S. government continues to torture innocent men, women and children in Iraq.
An army captain and two sergeants from the elite 82nd Airborne Division confirm (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, USA, Ted Rall

Treasongate: It's Not Just Karl Rove

2005-07-13T19:02:31Z

Treasongate: It's Not Just Karl Rove Ted Rall July 12, 2005 NEW YORK—Since Karl Rove surfaced last week as the White House official who probably unmasked a covert CIA agent, new developments appear to confirm that the deputy chief of staff and chief Bush political strategist has committed treason: Newsweek has published, and Time has authenticated, a Time reporter's notes about his crucial conversation with Rove. "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two [minutes] (…)

- contributions / Governments, Secret Services, USA, Ted Rall

Rove, worse then bin laden: With friends like Karl, who needs terrorists?

2005-07-05T15:08:24Z

NEW YORK—In war collaborators are more dangerous than enemy forces, for they betray with intimate knowledge in painful detail and demoralize by their cynical example. This explains why, at the end of occupations, the newly liberated exact vengeance upon their treasonous countrymen even they allow foreign troops to conduct an orderly withdrawal.
If, as state-controlled media insists, there is such a creature as a Global War on Terrorism, our enemies are underground Islamist organizations (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, Attack-Terrorism, USA, Ted Rall

Karl Rove: Worse Than Osama Bin Laden

2005-07-04T23:40:54Z

Karl Rove: Worse Than Osama Bin Laden Ted Rall July 04, 2005 NEW YORK—In war collaborators are more dangerous than enemy forces, for they betray with intimate knowledge in painful detail and demoralize by their cynical example. This explains why, at the end of occupations, the newly liberated exact vengeance upon their treasonous countrymen even they allow foreign troops to conduct an orderly withdrawal.
If, as state-controlled media insists, there is such a creature as a Global War on (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, Attack-Terrorism, USA, Ted Rall

Ahead: Six Decades Of Humiliation

2005-06-29T23:45:27Z

Ahead: Six Decades Of Humiliation Ted Rall June 29, 2005 NEW YORK-The world hates us more than ever, according to a new Pew Research poll of 16,000 citizens in 15 countries. Most Canadians think Americans are exceptionally rude. The Chinese say we're violent and greedy. Nearly half of Turks—up from 32 percent a year ago—say they dislike Americans as individuals and America as a nation, according to the survey. Muslims have a "quite negative hostility toward America," says Pew president (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, USA, Ted Rall

Where's Osama? Bush Doesn't Care. Do We?

2005-06-08T15:20:08Z

Where's Osama? Bush Doesn't Care. Do We? Ted Rall May 31, 2005 NEW YORK - It has been one thousand three hundred fifty-two days since George W. Bush promised to find Osama bin Laden, "dead or alive." So where is he? "Not around Afghanistan," U.S.-installed president Hamid Karzai said on May 25. "We'll catch him if he ever comes in here." If not Afghanistan, where? "Well, that we don't know." Pakistani foreign minister Kursheed Kasuri says: "[He] is alive and moving around from place to (…)

- contributions / International, Attack-Terrorism, USA, Ted Rall

Why the World Hates the US

2005-05-26T10:31:29Z

Liberals have their faults, but no one can accuse them of being pigheaded. Two years after left-of-Bush Americans marched against the invasion of Iraq and a year after the Administration admitted it had lied about Saddam's non-existent weapons of mass destruction and ties to Al Qaeda, the sprouting of a few protodemocratic weeds in the microscopically-cracked cement of Arab dictatorship has prompted them to wonder whether the neoconservatives maybe did the right thing after all by going into (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, USA, Ted Rall

Buck Up, The Word Hates Us More Than Ever. Why The Left Was Right After All

2005-03-23T23:09:27Z

Buck Up, The Word Hates Us More Than Ever Why The Left Was Right After All Ted Rall March 22, 2005 NEW YORK-Liberals have their faults, but no one can accuse them of being pigheaded. Two years after left-of-Bush Americans marched against the invasion of Iraq and a year after the Administration admitted it had lied about Saddam's non-existent weapons of mass destruction and ties to Al Qaeda, the sprouting of a few protodemocratic weeds in the microscopically-cracked cement of Arab (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, USA, Ted Rall

BOYCOTT THE MILITARY

2004-07-14T23:55:44Z

by TED RALL
NEW YORK—A haunted young man whose face bears too many lines for his years, jetlagged and limping from a wound sustained in the defense of his country half a world away, emerges from a jetway at San Francisco International Airport. A woman about the same age awaits in the terminal. A peace-sign necklace hanging above a loose floral-print dress billowing about her unshaven legs, the hippie chick scornfully scans his uniform, spits in his face and screams: "Baby killer!" The (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, USA, Ted Rall