Author: btchakir

Glenn Greenwald made a definitive statement in Salon in an post he wrote on Tom Friedman:”Terrorism” is probably the single most elastic and easily manipulated term in our political lexicon.  Who the...

We all breathed a sigh of relief after Bush had his final Press Conference. After eight years of thinking that it was our President who was screwing up everything, he made it clear that it was other folks and that he leaves...

Did anyone see Joe Klein’s article this week, “The Bush Administration’s Most Despicable Act”? In it he speaks of Bush signing the memorandum in 2002 which said that the Third Geneva Convention, treatment...

Did you read the “Sock Puppet” article on the Save The Internet Blog? It’s a really good argument for preserving Net Neutrality and not letting a couple of giant corporations take control of the Internet....

This story in Britain’s “The Independent” should be read by all who support what Israel is doing in Gaza. I’m printing a couple of clips here, but the whole story is worth reading.Don’t get me...