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Latest Articles: War, War, War
The Most Inappropriate Bush War Smirk of 2007
Post Date: 2007-12-27 21:36:18 by kiki
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Given 2008's inevitably ramped-up analysis of the Bush Legacy by the very serious traditional media, there's one aspect of the president which, staggeringly though not surprisingly, won't be covered. In fact, it's never been covered to my knowledge. The traditional media has never really challenged the president on his grotesquely inappropriate reactions to serious issues -- especially Iraq. His uncomfortably ridiculous smirks and smiles illustrate his inadequacies as a leader: his fugacious attitude; his vacant stature; and, most strikingly, his apparent inability to grasp the reality of his decisions. It's all right there on the screen -- underlined by those tiny baby ...
4200 mph missle
Post Date: 2007-12-27 20:53:01 by tom007
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Saab Bofors Dynamics has announced three successful tests of an experimental guided missile capable of Mach 5.5 speeds - that's 4200 mph at sea level, for a ground-launched missile, or more than a mile per second. blog post photo The hypervelocity missile (HVM) project has been mentioned very little in the past - Sweden's defense establishment is often very successfully secretive, not talking about technology until it has been demonstrated. In this case, the key breakthrough is the ability to control and steer the missile at high speeds. The challenge is the enormous dynamic pressure, the result of high speeds and low altitude. For example, a very small amount of sideslip generates ...
And The "Show" Goes On...
Post Date: 2007-12-27 17:34:42 by richard9151
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12/27/07 "An Arab Woman Blues" -- -- Conquer, divide, split and fragment. Pit one against the other and one against the same... Yesterday’s foes are today’s friends, and today’s friends are tomorrow’s enemies... And the show goes on... I have been reading extensively about the Sunni Awakening Council, the new Sunni- Kurdish rapprochement, the Sunni–Sunni tensions, the Shia–Shia conflicts... I have also been reading the so-called analyses circulating. A lot of them are bullshit, as usual... They all seem to miss the essential crucial point, the core essence, the crux of the matter and you don’t have to be a wiz in sociology and politics to ...
Russia to set up missile shield for Iran
Post Date: 2007-12-27 15:31:20 by tom007
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Russia to set up missile shield for Iran Vladimir Radyuhin MOSCOW: Russia will set up a massive anti-missile shield in Iran that will virtually guarantee the country against military attacks. Moscow will supply Tehran with the advanced long-range S-300 surface-to-air missile complexes, informed Russian sources said. “Several dozen S-300PMU-1 complexes will be delivered to Iran under a contract signed several years ago,” the Interfax news agency quoted a defence industry source as saying on Wednesday. He said deliveries could start as early as next year. Another Russian defence source told the Kommersant daily that Moscow was planning to sell Iran five batteries of S-300 ...
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan’s main opposition leader, carries terrible risks
Post Date: 2007-12-27 14:14:30 by tom007
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An assassin strikes Dec 27th 2007 From Economist.com The assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan’s main opposition leader, carries terrible risks Reuters HORRIFYING millions of frightened Pakistanis, Benazir Bhutto, the leader of the country’s biggest political party, was assassinated on Thursday December 27th. Her attacker fired gunshots into her car as she was leaving a political rally in Rawalpindi, then exploded a suicide bomb. At least 15 of Miss Bhutto’s followers were also killed. Miss Bhutto had been campaigning in Rawalpindi, the headquarters of Pakistan’s military elite, for an election set for January 8th. It may now be postponed. Pervez Musharraf, the ...
Oil rises above $97 on inventories, Bhutto's death
Post Date: 2007-12-27 12:01:10 by tom007
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Oil rises above $97 on inventories, Bhutto's death By Moming Zhou & Polya Lesova, MarketWatch Last update: 11:46 a.m. EST Dec. 27, 2007 PrintPrint EmailE-mail Subscribe to RSSRSS DisableDisable Live Quotes SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures rose for a fourth day on Thursday to above $97 a barrel after government reports showed U.S. crude inventories fell for a sixth week and as geopolitical tensions escalated after former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. Crude for February delivery advanced $1.33, or 1.4%, to $97.30 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange in late morning trading. Earlier it rose to an intraday high of $97.69 in electronic ...
Full Spectrum Information Warfare
Post Date: 2007-12-27 11:45:01 by robin
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Full Spectrum Information Warfare Information Operation Roadmap Part 1By Brent JessopGlobal Research, December 17, 2007 Knowledge Driven Revolution.com When the US military refers to full spectrum domination, they truly mean full spectrum. Information operations or information warfare is a key part of the military battlespace. Recently, a document entitled Information Operation Roadmap was declassified by the Pentagon because of a Freedom of Information Act request by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. The document was described by the Council on Foreign Relations' website as: "A 2003 Pentagon document previously classified as 'noforn' (not ...
Pakistan's Bhutto assassinated at rally (Bush's Man The Political Murderer, Ron Paul Watch Your Back, The USG Is Criminal Thug)
Post Date: 2007-12-27 10:05:16 by tom007
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Pakistan's Bhutto assassinated at rally By SADAQAT JAN and ZARAR KHAN, Associated Press Writers 1 minute ago RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, aides said. ADVERTISEMENT The death of the 54-year-old charismatic former prime minister threw the campaign for the Jan. 8 parliamentary elections into chaos and created fears of mass protests and violence across the nuclear-armed nation, an important U.S. ally in the war on terrorism. The attacker struck just minutes after Bhutto addressed thousands of supporters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, 8 miles ...
Worst Movie of the Year Brzezinski and Charlie Wilson's War
Post Date: 2007-12-27 02:16:26 by Horse
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Imagine, they made a funny movie about how the US helped turn Afghanistan into a killing field. It's the film "Charlie Wilson's War, a ligthearted look of how a skirt-chasing Congressman and a no-nonsense CIA thug helped bring mountains of weapons and money to the fanatic, women-despising "freedom fighters" who gave us 9/11. It's certainly material for a "laugh riot". To be sure it was the Soviets who did most of the killing. From December 27, 1979 when they overthrew the government of Afghanistan until February of 1989 they ravaged the country. By the war's end there were a million dead Afghans, another 3 million injured, and a whole generation ...
Juan Cole: Top Ten Myths about Iraq 2007
Post Date: 2007-12-26 19:22:10 by robin
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 Top Ten Myths about Iraq 2007 10. Myth: The US public no longer sees Iraq as a central issue in the 2008 presidential campaign.In a recent ABC News/ Washington Post poll, Iraq and the economy were virtually tied among voters nationally, with nearly a quarter of voters in each case saying it was their number one issue. The economy had become more important to them than in previous months (in November only 14% said it was their most pressing concern), but Iraq still rivals it as an issue! 9. Myth: There have been steps toward religious and political reconciliation in Iraq in 2007. Fact: The government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has for the ...
Military family members share public's division on Iraq war, Bush
Post Date: 2007-12-26 13:21:57 by robin
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Military family members share public's division on Iraq war, Bush Polls: Almost half say invasion was a mistake By Gregg Zoroya USA TODAY Close family members of U.S. troops are split on whether the Iraq invasion was a mistake, and 55% disapprove of President Bush's job performance, according to USA TODAY/Gallup Polls focusing on immediate relatives of servicemembers. "They've maxed out on the troops. You've got guys who are over there on their fourth or fifth tours. It's ridiculous," says Jeanette Knowles, 40, of Mountain Home, Idaho, whose brother, Jeff, served a tour in Iraq with the Oregon National Guard. Knowles, who calls herself a Democratic-leaning ...
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade - A Profile in Courage, Honor and Hope
Post Date: 2007-12-26 06:51:44 by Stephen Lendman
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The Abraham Lincoln Brigade - A Profile in Courage, Honor and Hope - by Stephen Lendman The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was an American contingent of about 2800 volunteers who fought on the side of the Second Spanish Republic during the country's 1936 - 1939 Civil War against the fascist Nationalist rebellion under General Francisco Franco. From 1937 through 1938, it aimed to stop international fascism under Hitler and Mussolini that led to WW II. This essay explains who the "Lincolns" were, why they're important, and what their relevance is to America today under George Bush. First a look at the Spanish Civil War and why these Americans fought in it. The war began when ...
New Reports Undercut Claims that Surge Is Working
Post Date: 2007-12-25 23:08:24 by richard9151
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New reporting from Baghdad and Washington has called into question the frequently asserted claim that the military surge in Iraq is working. In particular, journalists are beginning to point out that despite security gains inside the Iraqi capital, there are concrete signs that the "fragile" peace cited by Gen. David Petraeus over the weekend will not hold once the Pentagon begins reducing troops numbers to pre-surge levels. Last week, McClatchy Newspapers published the findings of the Pentagon's most recent quarterly progress report from Iraq. Underscoring the lack of progress in bringing political stability or national reconciliation to Iraq, Reporter Nancy Youssef wrote: ...
The torture tape fingering Bush as a war criminal
Post Date: 2007-12-25 22:52:02 by richard9151
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12/25/07 "The Times" -- - 12/23/07 - -Almost all of the time, the Washington I know and live in is utterly unrelated to the Washington you see in the movies. The government is far more incompetent and amateur than the masterminds of Hollywood darkness. There are no rogue CIA agents engaging in illegal black ops and destroying evidence to protect their political bosses. The kinds of scenario cooked up in Matt Damon’s riveting Bourne series are fantasy compared with the mundane, bureaucratic torpor of the Brussels on the Potomac. And then you read about the case of Abu Zubaydah. He is a seriously bad guy – someone we should all be glad is in custody. A man deeply ...
The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act: A Tutorial in Orwellian Newspeak
Post Date: 2007-12-25 22:50:50 by wudidiz
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The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act: A Tutorial in Orwellian Newspeak by Robert Weitzel “Political language has to consist largely of euphemisms . . . and sheer cloudy vagueness.” - George Orwell H.R 1955: the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 recently passed by the House—a companion bill is in the Senate—is barely one sentence old before its Orwellian moment: It begins, “AN ACT - To prevent homegrown terrorism, and for other purposes.” Those whose pulse did not quicken at “other purposes” have probably not read George Orwell’s essay, “Politics and the English Language,” or they voted for the ...
(another good one) The American Lie Machine
Post Date: 2007-12-25 15:06:38 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Iraqi cardinal urges emigrants to return - Leader of Iraq's Catholics Urges Emigrants to Return in Christmas Message
Post Date: 2007-12-25 13:55:12 by robin
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raqi cardinal urges emigrants to return Leader of Iraq's Catholics Urges Emigrants to Return in Christmas MessageELENA BECATOROSAP NewsDec 24, 2007 15:04 ESTThe spiritual leader of Iraq's Catholics made a Christmas appeal Monday for all those who have fled Iraq to return and help rebuild their shattered homeland, acknowledging that fear still persists even as the country enjoys one of its most peaceful holiday seasons in years. Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, leader of the ancient Chaldean Church, told The Associated Press at his guarded compound in west Baghdad that his message was one of love and charity for everyone. "And for the emigrants to return home, to work for the ...
Fox praises 'Christmas in Fallujah' anti-war song
Post Date: 2007-12-25 13:13:21 by robin
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Fox praises 'Christmas in Fallujah' anti-war song12/24/2007 @ 9:56 am Filed by David Edwards and Muriel Kane Singer Cass Dillion appeared on a special Fox & Friends online segment to perform the song "Christmas in Fallujah," which Billy Joel wrote based on phrases from soldiers' letters. "It's a little controversial," suggested the Fox hosts, pointing to lines like "we came with the Crusaders" and "we are the Legionnaires of Rome." "That's exactly how [the soldiers] felt," Dillon replied. After Dillon left the stage, the hosts concluded the song was really about "how can we show the troops our expressions ...
Inside Iraq's Only Women's Prison - Women And Their Children Held In Jail Because Their Husbands Are Accused Of Terrorism
Post Date: 2007-12-24 23:14:09 by robin
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Inside Iraq's Only Female JailImagine women in prison because their husbands are accused of terrorism. Now imagine their infants and children in prison with them. There is such a place in Iraq, as Elizabeth Palmer reports. (CBS) Imagine women in prison because their husbands are accused of terrorism. Now imagine their infants and children in prison with them. Worst of all, it seems they have no way out. CBS News Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer visited such a place with Iraqi Vice President Tareq al Hashemi, who had come to inspect Iraq's only women's jail. The women prisoners of Khadimiya jail had been waiting a long time for the chance to be heard, some shouting from behind ...
War strain in Iraq may speed troop cuts
Post Date: 2007-12-24 14:23:26 by richard9151
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Mon Dec 24, 3:00 AM ET Washington - The strain of the war in Iraq is increasingly forcing senior Pentagon leaders to be blunter about the military's inability to sustain war operations indefinitely, a shift in tone that may mean more troops come home sooner. The change comes as the security situation in Iraq looks much improved over even six months ago. It also comes under the leadership of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who has welcomed candor from his commanders. As a result, senior leaders have taken advantage of the situation to make a more public case that the military, especially the Army, can no longer afford the luxury of sustained military operations in Iraq. The Pentagon ...
US ignored warnings on security firms in Iraq: report
Post Date: 2007-12-24 13:04:02 by tom007
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US ignored warnings on security firms in Iraq: report 10 hours ago WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US government ignored numerous warnings over the past two years that private security firms in Iraq were operating with little supervision and instead expanded their role, a media report said Monday. Warnings about the risks posed by tens of thousands of US-funded private security guards in Iraq were relayed in writing from defense and legal experts and by senior Iraqi officials, the Washington Post reported, citing US officials, security firms and documents. But the State Department and the Pentagon took no major action to regulate the security companies until guards from Blackwater Worldwide ...
Call to free Iraq's Tariq Aziz
Post Date: 2007-12-24 12:26:31 by tom007
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Call to free Iraq's Tariq Aziz Tariq Aziz (archive image) Tariq Aziz was for many years the face of Iraq around the world The spiritual leader of Iraq's Chaldean Christian community has called on US forces to release Saddam Hussein's ex-deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz. Cardinal Emmanuel Delly made the request in his Christmas message. Mr Aziz, who is himself a Christian, gave himself up to US forces after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 but no charges have been brought against him. He was seen in court last year in his pyjamas, testifying for the defence in the trial of Saddam Hussein. "In terms of Tariq Aziz," Cardinal Delly said, "we have to demand the ...
UN report: Two million Iraqi children face disease, poverty
Post Date: 2007-12-23 16:43:05 by robin
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UN report: Two million Iraqi children face disease, poverty12/21/2007 @ 10:19 am Filed by David Edwards and Adam Doster While violence is slowly subsiding in parts of Iraq, living conditions are still deplorable. According to a new U.N. Children's Fund estimate, two million children in Iraq face the “unrelenting threats of poor nutrition, disease and no school.” “Iraqi children were frequently caught in the crossfire of the conflict this year, with hundreds losing their lives or injured by violence,” the agency said. “Many more had the main wage-earner in their family kidnapped or killed.” UNICEF determined that only 28 percent of Iraqi 17-year-olds ...
Cal-Tv and Waxaudio: G.W. Bush Happy Xmas (War is Over)
Post Date: 2007-12-23 13:50:16 by robin
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G.W. Bush covers John Lennon's Christmas classic: Happy Xmas / War is over. Created by Cal-TV and Waxaudio
Our Little Thatcher: Hillary the Hawk
Post Date: 2007-12-23 06:05:40 by Kamala
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Our Little Thatcher: Hillary the Hawk By PAUL W. LOVINGER When Senator Hillary Clinton voted on October 11, 2002, to turn over to President George W. Bush the power that the Constitution vested in her and congressional colleagues to decide whether or not to wage war - or, quoting House Joint Resolution 114, whether an attack on Iraq was "necessary and appropriate" - she appeared to have a conflict of interest: Her husband, Bill, was of course the former chief of the executive branch. And during her eight years as first lady, Mrs. Clinton never objected to Bill's eight wars, attacks, or interventions: in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Colombia, Haiti, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, and ...
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