"We must have a foreign policy that is both strong and smart. Yes, the Republicans have been strong, but they haven't been smart. And the policy is one big mess, everyone knows it."
- Senator Chuck Schumer
View Article  George W. and Alcoholism
by Michael O'McCarthy, CounterPunch October 20, 2002
 
My name is Michael O and I am a recovered alcoholic. I am also a progressive political activist. The two are not always compatible. It is a principle of personal recovery from the disease of alcoholism that I will cease fighting anybody or anything in order that I maintain the necessary level of spiritual serenity that keeps me from creating resentments and justifiable anger. Those two emotional states will lead me to drink. They are, as our experience has taught, the two most common emotional causes of relapses.
 
When I indulge ...   more »
View Article  FRONTLINE'S: THE DARK SIDE - The Unasked Question: Why Did You Not Tell The American People?

from the desk of

NPC/Opolitique

National Picture Company

Michael O’McCarthy

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opolitique@aol.com

nationalpicturecompany.com

Frontline’s

THE DARK SIDE

The Unasked Question:

Why Did You Not Tell The American People?

Tuesday, June 20th.’s Frontline PBS broadcast, Dick Cheney and "The Dark Side" exposed the United State’s fabricated intelligence used to go to war against Iraq. In interview after interview the Cheney-Bush manufacture was exposed as it was shaped and then presented to the citizenry and members of the US Congress.

Aside from whatever shock value now left in presenting the truth of the level to which Cheney-Bush lied to and mislead the American people was the absence of citizen responsibility on the part of the   more »

View Article  ROAD KILL COULTER Vs. THE WIDOWS FROM JERSEY

WITCH COULTER Vs. THE WIDOWS FROM JERSEY

By

Michael O'McCarthy

opolitique@aol.com

06-13-06

The real problem with the attack on the integrity of the Jersey Girls’ role in confronting the reality of 9/11 and government role/response, is NOT Coulter’s spewing, hate-driven, propagandistic character assassination. Coulter is being the propaganda savvy operative she is. Oh, and making millions at it using the faux patriotism of the Bush apparatus.

The problem is the short sightedness of the Girl’s political analysis.

The Girls limited their critique of 9/11 to that of the current administration, rather than taking correct and direct aim at a government, ...   more »

View Article  THE AMERICAN RIVER DENIAL IS SELF-CONSTRUCTED

The truth is: YOU, the American citizenry are co-creators of this nightmare! YOU have created the American River Denial as a convenience --- as a passive-aggressive shelter for your cowardice!

Michael O'McCarthy

©

06-11-06

Contrary to the current plaint by Katrina vanden Heuvel, co-editor of THE NATION, it is time to stop placing all the blame on Bush, Cheney, Rummy and the Neo-conservatives and Con-Evangelical gangs for the nightmare of economic and political tyranny befalling our nation!   more »

View Article  WILL BUSH-CHENEY GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT?

A Political Query

by

Michael O'McCarthy

Are we on the apex of a Bush-Cheney denouement?

There appears to be significant insurgent domestic opposition to Bush’s regime.

There appears to be an unraveling of his Globalization by Armed Intervention both in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Empire Concept of the Neo-cons appears to be failing apart.

This poses great questions for the American electorate and especially, the American "opposition," sometimes referred to with not more than a bit of cynical humor, as the American Left.

Here are some of those questions:

Will Bush and Cheney go ...   more »

View Article  Haditha-Abu Grab = Bush's War

Haditha-Abu Grab = Bush's War

By Michael O'McCarthy

opolitique@aol.com

 

"There is a war going on," is the constant Bush cabal rationale for all things undemocratic.

 

The Evangelical Christian, faux cowboy soldier, Bubba Bush, finally has his "bring it on" war brought home: In the face of F-16s, AC-130 Spectre gun ships, Hellfire-Missile-armed Predator drones, and Apache, Cobra, Lynx, and Puma helicopters, drones, and a vast array of armored personnel carriers the resistance has "roadside" bombs made from disparate armaments. This time one of them killed a well-liked Marine Corporal and Bush’s other go to war mantra, "you are either with ...   more »

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