Arthur Silber

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A Daily Dose

...of Arthur Silber....He talks about the upcoming attack on Iran and why the Democratic Party will not impeach BushCo... (link fixed, sorry for the confusion)



The Bloodthirsty Murder of Millions

Arthur Silber looks forward and finds horror in our path.


On Racism

Arthur Silber elaborates on racism and Coulter....


Joan Crawford Does Foreign Policy

Arthur Silber compares the NRO's (Hysteria Headquarters) Andrew McCarthy to a type of Joan Crawford hysteria syndrome over the JFK plot...

You're all trying to destroy me! You're all against me, you bastards! You broke my heart, and now you want to kill me! But I won't let you, do you hear me? I won't let you! I'm going to live, damn you, I'm going to LIVE!

At which point, the sobbing, screaming, disheveled, thoroughly pathetic Ms. Crawford falls to the floor in a dead faint, completely undone by her own self-willed and self-created histrionics. It won't play, McCarthy. And what can be entertaining in even a rotten film is not remotely entertaining in life, particularly when lots of people get killed, almost always entirely unnecessarily...read on


Feeling Pain is not a weakness

Arthur Silber:

In the three months after Marine Maj. John Ruocco returned from Iraq feeling numb and depressed, he couldn’t sleep. He had lost weight. He had nightmares. He was distracted and withdrawn from his two young sons.

One night, he promised his wife, Kim, that he would get help. The next morning, he was dead. The 40-year-old Cobra helicopter pilot, based at Camp Pendleton, Calif., had hanged himself...read on


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Can you spare a dime?

Arthur has been dealing with some terrible health and family situations...I'm still working on my "Thank You" post for your kindness with C&L's fundraising drive a few weeks ago, but I wanted to ask you to extend a little generosity for Arthur. I may not always agree with his opinions, but he does offer up some of the most insightful writing on the blog scene today...


C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Maria Callas

 "Lucia Di Lammermoor"

Arthur Silber writes incredible pieces about Callas:

Decades from now, and even in hundreds of years, Callas's art will be remembered by those who search history for the greatest of achievements, and who treasure and guard them as the most precious of rare gems. She will live, when we have been long forgotten...read on


What happens when Bush vetos the bill?

Matt Taibbi asks some good questions...


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Sleepwalking

Arthur Silber:

I suppose I should remind you, since many people appear never to have understood this point despite history's multiple proofs, that war is and has always been the primary and necessary source of the greatest evils committed by governments. All of the Bush administration's major depredations -- its unrelenting assault on civil liberties, including the destruction of the very basis of liberty (an immense evil which the Democrats appear unable and unwilling to correct in the required manner), its profound and probably irreversible damage to America's economy, probably for the rest of our lifetimes and far beyond, to say nothing of the destruction of an entire country that never threatened us and the murder of over half a million innocent human beings -- are founded on war, and war provides the alleged "justification" for the ceaseless train of evils we have witnessed...read on


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Arthur Silber's sister passed on...

I'm so sorry Arthur. My thoughts and prayers are with you....

For My Sister: The Farewell 


6 Steps

Arthur Silber outlines 6 steps to take to help stop BushCO. from attacking Iran....


Combine Our Voices

Arthur asks us to do this right now...


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Anonymous Sources

Arthur Silber finds a great example of how to deal with "propaganda":

It came from KSFR, a public radio station in Santa Fe, N.M. I don't know anything about the station, although I have been to Santa Fe a couple of times. It seems that the surge in "unnamed officials" had finally pushed News Director Bill Dupuy to take action. He wrote that "until further notice, it is the policy of KSFR's news department to ignore and not repeat any wire service or nationally published story" about Iran, North Korea, and other sensitive foreign areas if it quotes an "unnamed" U.S. official...read on


It's the Intelligence, Stupid....

Arthur explains....

Intelligence is misused is still another way. Although the Establishment tries to convince the public that its preparations for war came after the relevant intelligence assessments, this reverses the actual order of events. The decision to go to war comes first, and the intelligence that provides supposed justification for the imminent devastation and death comes second. This is, once again, a truth which is far too uncomfortable for most people to acknowledge...read on


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The Mythology of the "Good Guy" American