Sidney Blumenthal - openDemocracy (Page 3)

Rupert Murdochs debasing taste

Rupert Murdoch's suppression of OJ Simpson's hypothetical confession of double murder, If I Did It, after contracting, printing and distributing 400,000 copies of it, as

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 29 Nov 2006

The Republican implosion

The cultural crack-up of conservatism preceded the final political result. For weeks before election-day, prominent figures on the right threw themselves into their culture war only to be left in

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 15 Nov 2006

Bush's choice, Baker's move

The post-mid-term-election politics over Iraq have already begun. Many serious factors weigh on President Bush's mind as he speaks about his quagmire. Besides the state of the war

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 1 Nov 2006

The Bob Woodward version

As soon as President Bush finished the first-year commemoration of Hurricane Katrina he turned to the fifth-year anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in order to restore his

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 17 Oct 2006

A state of denial

President Bush's first response to the report in the New York Times on 24 September 2006 was to ridicule it for having "guessed" that the classified

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 3 Oct 2006

Neocon fantasy, Iraqi reality

On the fifth anniversary of 11 September 2001, President Bush delivered the culmination of yet another series of speeches on Iraq and the war on terror. For more than a

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 19 Sep 2006

A pattern of calamity: 9/11, Katrina, Iraq

President Bush declared a national day of remembrance on 29 August, the day of Hurricane Katrina's landfall - not on 2 September, the day the federal government finally

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 5 Sep 2006

Bush's field theory of fear

On 14 August 2006, the day the ceasefire was imposed ending Israel's war in Lebanon against Hizbollah, and just days after police in London arrested a group of

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 22 Aug 2006

Bush's axis of failure

The United States's National Security Agency (NSA) is providing signal intelligence to Israel to monitor whether Syria and Iran are supplying new armaments to Hizbollah as it fires

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 8 Aug 2006

The infallible president

President Bush's first veto marks the first time he has lost control of the Republican Congress. But it is significant for more than that. Until now he had

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 25 Jul 2006

The rule of law vs the war paradigm

The Supreme Court ruling in the case of Hamdan v Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, et al., on 29 June 2006 did far more than settle the limited question of

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 11 Jul 2006

The war for us

On the night of 12 June 2006, shortly after Karl Rove received an email from his lawyer Robert Luskin informing him he would not be indicted by special prosecutor Patrick

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 27 Jun 2006