This summer, Joseph Price, a self-described "country doctor" in Carsonville, Mich., was reading a long article in The Atlantic about Bush's speaking style.

Author James Fallows alluded to Bush's malapropisms and to speculation that Bush had a learning disorder or dyslexia. But those conditions generally manifest themselves in childhood. Furthermore, Fallows wrote, "through his forties Bush was perfectly articulate."

Dr. Price's children happened to have given him a daily tear-off calendar of "Bushisms" for Christmas.

"They are horrible, but they are also diagnostic," Price says. When he read that Bush had spoken clearly and performed well while debating Texas politician Ann Richards in 1994, Price thought: "My God, the only way you can explain that is by being Alzheimer's."

In a letter to be published in The Atlantic's October issue, Price calls presenile dementia "a fairly typical Alzheimer's situation that develops significantly earlier in life. . . .

"President Bush's `mangled' words are a demonstration of what physicians call `confabulation' and are almost specific to the diagnosis of a true dementia."   more »

>By now the whole world knows that America is none of the things that she purports to be; that is, everyone except the Americans.

It is said that America has fifty states but in fact she has fifty-one, Israel being the fifty-first. Perhaps Great Britain could be counted as the fifty-second.

It is ironic that the people who think they are the most free are the most controlled people on earth.

It is equally odd that those who think they are part of the greatest democracy the world has ever known do not participate in a democracy at all; nor do they recognize one when they see it. These facts attest to how thoroughly the American people have been propagandized by the corporate media.

A controlled people have no will of their own. They believe what they are told, and they do what their government tells them to do. They have little intellectual curiosity about the world and rarely, if ever, question authority, much less challenge it.

They have little or no knowledge of their nation’s history, and are a frightened and timid people that have no conception of reality. None are more effectively enslaved than those who think they are free. Americans are slaves to a corrupt system that preys upon them and tells them how well they are treated.   more »

Our rulers do not simply want our labour, they want a labour market - with workers forced to compete for jobs. One consequence is that while capitalists can never fully control migration, they can and do create a hierarchy among workers.

This hierarchy runs from those workers with full legal rights at the top, down through varying degrees of immigration status that make the worker less secure both in their right to live within a territory and their right to work there.

At the bottom of this hierarchy are those “illegal” immigrants whose status removes their legal right to work altogether, opening them up to the worst forms of abuse.

So international migration under capitalism creates a working class in each national territory that is united by its shared experience of exploitation, but divided by race and nationality. This create the potential for both conflict and solidarity within the working class.   more »

The word’s been out on the street for a long time that this president is an idiot -- surrounded by shysters as cunning as the tailors in the Anderson tale. MSNBC could have told us that some years ago.

Instead the political class and the media have maintained a united front in support of the idiotic proposition that 9-11 justifies U.S.-forced regime change in any country that Washington decides to call "terrorist." If it’s an Islamic country targeted by AIPAC, the roar of approval is deafening.

So on the one hand, the task of exposure is done. Those who understand can talk until we’re blue in the face reiterating what is for us the obvious.

But there are so many out there, so exasperatingly dumb, at the mercy of loud-mouthed media buttheads and low-life political disinformation artists such as the congressmen insisting both that Iraqi WMD have been found and that Iran poses a real "strategic threat" to the U.S.   more »

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.   more »

2 SEPTEMBER

Trashing Consumerism

Media Mogul, Haim Saban: Mr. Big in Hollywood's Zionist Lobby

Maureen Dowd: Much Ado About Reading...Bush the Intellectual?

Big Business Cashes in on War and Oil Bonanza

Nasrallah for Prime Minister...of Israel

Bush Foams at the Mouth: Now We're "Appeasers and Fascist Sympathizers"