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Obviously a no-win situation
I urge you to visit the independent websites that report on events in Iraq. Independent being those not owned by US corporate media, such as CNN, Fox, MSNbc, etc. The independent War and Peace sites a
I urge you to visit the independent websites that report on events in Iraq. Independent being those not owned by US corporate media, such as CNN, Fox, MSNbc, etc. The independent War and Peace sites a
Today, Juan Cole provides solid insight into the "huge" firefight of a couple days ago which supposedly killed over 50 "terrorists". Solid questions that are not answered by the media news reports. Questions we should all have.
In Vietnam, the Pentagon claimed for years to be almost ready to win the war. 30 years later we know they knew then that they were losing. We know they lied to us. We know they covered up incidents that they felt did not aid the war effort. In the end, 57,000+ US soldiers died, untold tens of thousands of Vietnamese died and we got chased out of the country. We are now involved in an absolutely no-win situation in the Middle East. Obviously a no-win situation.
Oh - our military said no US deaths in that firefight. Well, one of the "wounded" soldiers has died. How mutilated and wrecked for the rest of their lives are the other wounded? And we have killed an estimated 8,000 plus Iraqis so far. How many does it take? How many did we say Saddam murdered? At what rate for how many years? Our rate is 16,000 Iraqis a year and we are ahead of the rate of US casualties in the Vietnam war.
And do check the Guardian report on Richard Perle admitting the war was illegally started by the US. Many Bellingham lawyers marched in protest to the war for just this reason months ago. Or do a search on Google News for "Perle war illegal" and see what you find. If you become comfortable doing news searches on Google, you can get some great reports dealing with specific questions.
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Obviously a no-win situation
I urge you to visit the independent websites that report on events in Iraq. Independent being those not owned by US corporate media, such as CNN, Fox, MSNbc, etc. The independent War and Peace sites a
Their Blood is on Bush’s Hands
Here is a link to an excellent Flash-style animation about soldiers dying in Iraq.
Lack of environmental enforcement
of some local developers is plain to see in this photo essay at the Lake Whatcom website. The WA Dept of Ecology has enforcement folks tooling around in their spiffy pickups, but no enforcement for th
Suspicious activity
Today’s Herald has a human interest story about Greg Grant who hired sniper John Muhammad for yard chores a year ago - just a couple weeks before his rampage of killing. This past week, Greg testified
New weekly newspaper - Northwest Independent
- is out and on racks throughout Bellingham and Whatcom County. Pick it up. Give it a chance. It is actually going to try and report local news - city hall and the court house and the issues that affe
The Port has reversed itself
and has hired a private fueling firm for the airport, according to today’s Bham Herald. Remember a couple years ago, summer of 2001, the port terminated Alpha Aviation, saying the Port would run fueli
An analysis of the election results
by Paul de Armond is posted. Paul examines the returns and gives his perspective on what the numbers mean. His is not your conventional approach.
Paul runs the Public Good website and is active
A fun ‘Dean for President’ event
It was all fun, very brief, and is how big things get started. Of course they enjoyed the cake after, even without Dean.
The Northwest Independent News,
a weekly newspaper based in Bellingham, will start publication next Thursday, Nov 20. It will strive to report local news. Amazing. It will be a tabloid and be distributed throughout Whatcom County. Y
We salute our veterans today.
Their intentions were to serve our country and they did as they were told and went where they were sent. Our presidents do not always use them correctly, sometimes using them for adventures that have
Election News
Brett Bonner sent out his concession statement last night, shortly after the auditor posted the final 7,000+ absentee ballots. It shows class by the fellow who waged a positive and forthright campaign
Levys should be for extra programs
Shame on the Bellingham Weekly. Page 3 of today’s paper has “The Slate” with photographs taken at Mark Asmundson’s victory party on Tuesday night. They asked Mark supporters what Brett would do
It is really hard to replace an incumbent
Those not sure just vote for the person in office, preferring a sure thing to an unknown. I give my respect to those who took the challenge and ran against entrenched incumbents. Especially Brett Bonn
Day of our decision.
County Auditor Shirley Forslof will have the election results posted online as soon as or even before the printed copies are brought out her office door to those of us in the courthouse rotunda. First
You would never learn that from the Herald
Sunday’s Herald front page story on the mayor’s race again showed us how to skew reporting to favor your candidate. John Stark does this type of reporting on a regular basis. His story lists controver
For what it is worth,
here are my recommendations for the election.
The basic values that I apply are for elected officials to have honesty and provide open government that is accountable to the citizens. We can all
The huge gap for news in this community
Will be posting election recommendations today. Have not had time for some good posts the past week.
Reliable rumor has it that another weekly newspaper will start publishing in early November
No one in a position of responsibility will touch it
So the Public Disclosure Commission is investigating Foster without any complaint. Yet they pretend to not know of flagrant violations of the PDC laws being committed by Mark Asmundson as Mayor - to w
Another perspective on County elections
I’ve just posted up a commentary by Stephen Trinkaus on all the local elections. He gives the perspective of a liberal activist - one who has participated in the local process and knows what is happen
On the levy, low-cost rentals and the Mayor’s gag order.
Today’s Herald devoted much of the first section of the paper to promoting the levy tax for EMS services, under the guise of reporting the issues. They printed two big graphs showing increases of resp
