Stopping the Suicide Bomber By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring We have to condemn with loud voices, open speech and fearless thinking as much the terrorists as the system that spawns them Young men, full of youth's vigor, pumped up and brainwashed by patriotism or...

Battle for God; Battleground Pakistan By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring The killing frenzy in Pakistan has reached a feverish pitch. In a rapidly darkening scarlet hue, the extremists are marching on suicide-bombing, beheading and maiming innocent citizens on their bloody path to their murky goal....

On Romney, Mormonism and Islam By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's speech on December 6th - in which he tried to 'explain'...

The Next Round of Destroying America The questionable firing of Federal Prosecutors by Gonzales (a.k.a. Bush administration) and replacing them with Bush loyalists has brought to light a much deeper manipulation - the placement of a select cadre within the DoJ in civil service positions. Charlie...

Haggard, Bush, and the Unholy Alliance It is very interesting to me what the corporate media is not discussing about Reverend Ted Haggard and the Bush Administration. Rev. Haggard has been accused to seeing a male prostitute over a period of three years, and of purchasing...

Civil War or Genocide In Iraq? All hell has broken loose in Iraq. The bombing of the Askariya shrine in Samarra on February 22, 2005. The shrine is one of the holiest of Shi'ite sites. In the ensuing days, riots, peace marches, and further attacks on...

Why Pat Robertson Isn't Treated As A Terrorist By: John Chuckman America's fundamentalist carnival includes many fascinating acts. Pay your money, and you can watch preachers weeping and screaming, dismissing whole segments of humanity as evil, threatening murder, shaking down congregations for extra donations to named-after-themselves projects, or...

Who Does Pat Robertson Work For? What is a renowned Christian evangelist doing calling for the assassination of the President of Venezuela? Pat Robertson has called for the assassination of Hugo Chavez on his Monday morning "700 Club." "We don't need another $200 billion war to...

Making Death Expedient We have all watched, and even participated in a variety of arguments that seem to be divisive - abortion, stem cell research, euthanasia, the death penalty. The death penalty is (or should be) back in the news. While much of...

Desecrating the Qu'ran - Last Straw or Cultural Divide? Anti-American riots are spreading across the world in response to allegations that a Qur'an was flushed down the toilet as an interrogation technique. The report that started the latest storm of protest and growing violence was a brief piece in...

Canada's Emerging Politics of Destruction By: John Chuckman What would Pierre Trudeau say? He stopped the FLQ dead in its tracks only to have the nation's future now toyed with by selfish, angry children. This is a terrible time to force an election. I don't...

Irony of Ironies - A Theocratic State of Iraq? I'll keep this short. I just have to laugh about purported concerns that Iraq will follow Islamic law (sharia). Here we have Bush and Company who are doing everything in their power to inject Christianity (evangelical) into the government of...

Religion & Politics and How to Corrupt Them Both By: Jack Dalton This article has been removed at the author's request....

America's Imperial Wizard Visits Canada By: John Chuckman [John's pieces appear in Counterpunch, Online Journal, Yellow Times, Media Monitors, Scoop, and many other sites. This was sent as a guest submission to Uncommon Thought. John Chuckman can be reached at JChuckman@mediamonitors.org] We are getting stories...

Come let us reason together By: Jack Dalton "All men having power ought to be mistrusted." James Madison "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may...

God Bless America By: John Chuckman [John's pieces appear in Counterpunch, Online Journal, Yellow Times, Media Monitors, Scoop, and many other sites. This was sent as a guest submission to Uncommon Thought. John Chuckman can be reached at JChuckman@mediamonitors.org "I know of no...

Sociopathic Self-interest Runs in The Family It is not a big secret, though the family and its supporters have said it is fabrication. It's not, but I can hardly wait to see where this story goes - How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power. No,...

The Religious American Unconscious Caught in the Trap of Torture I published an earlier version of this article by Manuel de Diéguez. The original translator - Marilyse Devoyault - has worked in collaboration with others to retranslate this important work. Here is an indexed version of The Religious American Unconscious...

Is Banning Same Sex Marriage Critical to Our National Security? Well, The Joint Intelligence Committee released their report evaluating the Intelligence community in regards to 9-11 and Iraq. There are some fairly uncomplimentary things in that report. Meanwhile the budget appropriations package for Homeland Security sits in the queue behind...

The religious American unconscious caught in the trap of torture Editors Note: Manuel de Diéguez is a French Philospher. Most of his writings are in French, but this piece has been translated into English for our benefit. He has a web site of his works at Manuel de Diéguez...

Apocalyptic belief and foreign policy The Inter-Hemispheric Resource Center has a new spin-off site called Right Web that analyzes the thinking and activities of the far right. There is an excellent article on Right Web that gives and indepth discussion of a Apocalyptic Christian thinking...

The Texas Republican Party Calpundit has an excellent analysis of The New Model Republican Party, in which he details the Texas Republic Party Platform from 2000. Emily at Strangechord has an excellent summary of Calpundit's expose as well, and I recommend reading it as...

Hijacking? For those of you interested in the "Christian" thread in this journal, I came across an interesting article by James Heflin (4/17/03 Valley Advocate) Wonder-working power. In it Heflin details the transformation of the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention...

Spread the "Word?"

Robert Higgs at AlterNet has a new article out ,a href="http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15207" target="_blank">George Bush's faith-based foreign policy> that deserves a read for those of you following this topic.

Christian Soldiers Part III

Does Bush think he has a "divine mandate?"

Onward Christian Soldiers - take 2

Well apparently, more of us are getting a bit concerned about the tone and associations of the Administration. Molly Ivins (an all-time favorite of mine) put out a news/commentary Rabid rightists are Lenninists of today, and then David Greene of the Baltimore Sun chimes in Bush turns increasingly to language of religion.

Onward Christian Solidiers?

Is the Bush administration aiming us towards the "End Times?"