This is the first of a three part post on Neoconservatives, democracy, and war. Neoconservatives have gotten our country into unprecedented trouble, and seem intent on expanding the scope of their errors and crimes still further. In their vision of American foreign policy they suffer from three fatal flaws: bad theory, bad judgment, and bad…

In his essay Cogs in the Machine Digby has published one of the best analyses of the relationship of Christian Right leaders such as Pat Robertson and James Dobson, the Republican elite, and rank and file Fundamentalists that I have ever read. A few years ago my own research on the leading Christian right personalities…

In a new ABC story, a Marine has testified under oath to rthe existence of serious abuses at Gitmo. ABC reports: “In a sworn affidavit filed with the Pentagon Inspector General, Sgt. Cerveny says she met several Navy prison guards at a club on the base where, over drinks, they described harsh physical abuse. “‘One…

The Blogosphere has been an excellent source of information and in-depth discussion of issues surrounding the English medical journal Lancet’s report that most likey somewhere in the number of 650,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the US invasion and its aftermath. The American radical right has attempted to deny the this report’s accuracy,…

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