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Latest Articles: Editorial
Buchanan: Why U.S. Is Now Impotent In Middle East
Post Date: 2006-12-05 11:14:54 by Brian S
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Posted: December 5, 2006 During last summer's Israeli-Hezbollah war, Condi Rice assured us that we were witnessing the "birth pangs of a new Middle East." Condi may be right. But that new Middle East appears to be one in which U.S. influence is visibly waning and America is on the way out. Consider the returns from November. Bush's war was repudiated in a Democratic triumph. Our NATO allies begged off sending more troops to Afghanistan to fight the resurgent Taliban. After a leaked White House memo insulted him as ignorant or incompetent, Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stiffed Bush by refusing to join him and the king of Jordan for dinner. Cheney was ...
Has He Started Talking to the Walls? [Is out of touch Bush insane or just incompetent?]
Post Date: 2006-12-05 01:07:22 by Morgana le Fay
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It turns out we’ve been reading the wrong Bob Woodward book to understand what’s going on with President Bush. The text we should be consulting instead is “The Final Days,” the Woodward-Bernstein account of Richard Nixon talking to the portraits on the White House walls while Watergate demolished his presidency. As Mr. Bush has ricocheted from Vietnam to Latvia to Jordan in recent weeks, we’ve witnessed the troubling behavior of a president who isn’t merely in a state of denial but is completely untethered from reality. It’s not that he can’t handle the truth about Iraq. He doesn’t know what the truth is. The most startling example was his ...
A Noble, Necessary And Winnable War
Post Date: 2006-12-04 18:56:17 by Brian S
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December 4, 2006 The recent assassination of Pierre Gemayel, a leading pro-Western Christian politician in Lebanon, has all the earmarks of an Hezbollah-Iranian operation carried out with or without Syrian help. Iran is now pouring millions of dollars into Lebanon to rebuild Hezbollah's military strength, and is also financing Hamas in Gaza. Iran considers the pro-Western Christians of Lebanon as much an enemy as Israel, and she may very well ignite another civil war to finally bring the Christians under Muslim domination. In other words, what happens there is going to have a serious impact on American security one way or another. All of which brings us to the war in Iraq. Much of ...
A Split in the GOP Tent [The most solidly red states in the nation tend also to be the most reliant on federal handouts...]
Post Date: 2006-12-04 11:39:53 by Morgana le Fay
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Republicans are good at reinvention. They have appealed to voters' dark side (Nixon's Southern strategy) as well as to their sunny side (Reagan's "Morning in America"). They have skipped from anti-government populism (Newt Gingrich and the leave-us-alone coalition) to big-government machine politics (the alliance with corporate lobbyists known as the K Street Project). Through all these transformations, the GOP has sustained its big-tent coalition. The question in the wake of its election thumpin' is whether the tent will split. You can see this possibility in " Liberaltarians," an essay in the New Republic by Brink Lindsey, the director of research at ...
What the Democrats Must Do
Post Date: 2006-12-04 10:18:24 by tom007
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What the Democrats Must Do Mandate for the new majority: Curb the president's power to torture by Nat Hentoff November 26th, 2006 10:42 PM In both their outsourcing of interrogation and the use of enhanced methods, CIA officers knew torture was involved. . . . From the beginning, the White House was fully aware of everything that was happening. —Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program (St. Martin's Press) by Stephen Grey, contributor to CNN, CBS's "60 Minutes," The New York Times. We can be confident that our program remains—as it always has been—fully compliant with U.S. law, the Constitution, and our international obligations. ...
Motive and Precedent in the Gemayel Assassination
Post Date: 2006-12-04 08:06:28 by Eoghan
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In the aftermath of Pierre Gemayel's assassination the Guardian raises a key question: "cui bono" (who benefits)? The paper's answer is typical of the mainstream media response to the event which remains confined in its scope to the usual suspects. [1] While there is ample speculation about who might benefit, the context provided only emphasizes a Syrian (and Hizbullah) motive and avoids mention of possible benefits to any other party -- Israel or the March 14 Alliance for instance. As far as the media is concerned, Gemayel was anti-Syrian, hence a Syrian motive and with its alleged precedent of political murder further investigation is unnecessary. To point out the ...
Move Over, Hoover [Washington Post: Bush Worst President in History?]
Post Date: 2006-12-03 20:54:48 by Morgana le Fay
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Shortly after Thanksgiving I had dinner in California with Ronald Reagan's best biographer, Lou Cannon. Like many historians these days, we discussed whether George W. Bush is, conceivably, the worst U.S. president ever. Cannon bristled at the idea. Bush has two more years to leave his mark, he argued. What if there is a news flash that U.S. Special Forces have killed Osama bin Laden or that North Korea has renounced its nuclear program? What if a decade from now Iraq is a democracy and a statue of Bush is erected on Firdaus Square where that famously toppled one of Saddam Hussein once stood? There is wisdom in Cannon's prudence. Clearly it's dangerous for historians to wield ...
He's The Worst Ever [Washington Post Editorial Rates Bush Worst President in History.]
Post Date: 2006-12-03 20:52:31 by Morgana le Fay
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Ever since 1948, when Harvard professor Arthur Schlesinger Sr. asked 55 historians to rank U.S. presidents on a scale from "great" to "failure," such polls have been a favorite pastime for those of us who study the American past. Changes in presidential rankings reflect shifts in how we view history. When the first poll was taken, the Reconstruction era that followed the Civil War was regarded as a time of corruption and misgovernment caused by granting black men the right to vote. As a result, President Andrew Johnson, a fervent white supremacist who opposed efforts to extend basic rights to former slaves, was rated "near great." Today, by contrast, scholars ...
In bed with Russophobes
Post Date: 2006-12-03 19:44:32 by Eoghan
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The Litvinenko murder is being used by neocons in their campaign against Putin's national revival Three weeks on, we are still no closer to knowing who was responsible for the death of the former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko. The use of polonium 210 as a murder weapon could point in entirely opposite directions. It might suggest that the killing was carried out on behalf of the Russian security service as a public warning to others who might think of betraying it. But it could also be read as an attempt by President Putin's rich and powerful enemies to discredit the Russian government internationally. Whatever the truth, it has been seized upon across Europe and the US to ...
Mister Death Squad Goes To Washington
Post Date: 2006-12-03 17:47:38 by Brian S
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Welcome to the final Byzantine round of the Machiavellian Iraqi war games in Washington. Making his triumphant appearance today is none other than Abdelaziz Al-Hakim – the wise one. He’s a veteran player who survived four years of preliminary elimination rounds to qualify for the final phase of what is turning out to be a truly Olympian imperial project. Behold Hakim’s resplendent clerical robes. You can always spot the players who’ve spent a lifetime training for their roles on history’s stage. No one doubts that this ‘man of the cloth’ will pass the drug screening tests. This late in the game, we can only hope that our designated team captain resists ...
Go Webb Go
Post Date: 2006-12-03 11:27:44 by Morgana le Fay
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Is it too soon for a “Webb for President” bandwagon? Of course it is. But Webb’s landslide win in a Southern state—well, make that a pre-recount third of a percentage-point win carved from big margins in the Washington suburbs—has transformed him instantly into a commodity of interest for the Democrats, as was former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner before him. A national audience will now become aware of the Webb paradox: the qualities that make him most compelling are the very ones that make him not a particularly smooth or natural politician. Despite Webb’s impressive military background, it’s not as if he commanded armies in a winning war. No one will offer ...
The Voice of the White House 1 December
Post Date: 2006-12-02 14:54:05 by Eoghan
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“The main topic of conversation both here in the White House and inside the Beltway is the looming disaster in Iraq. In spite of what Tony Snow and Bush say, Iraq is deep in a vicious civil war between two bitter religious enemies; the Sunnis and the Shiites. Anyone who reads the National Geographic is aware of these ancient and bloody feuds but apparently Bush and his Likud friends were not when they created a huge disaster by removing Hussein and his control over both sides. In the first place, Bush was determined to have his war for as number of reasons. The first was to give the finger to his father , the second to please his oilmen family friends by grabbing control over the ...
Paul Craig Roberts: Is President Bush Sane?
Post Date: 2006-12-01 23:38:21 by Morgana le Fay
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Tens of millions of Americans want President George W. Bush to be impeached for the lies and deceit he used to launch an illegal war and for violating his oath of office to uphold the US Constitution. Millions of other Americans want Bush turned over to the war crimes tribunal at the Hague. The true fate that awaits Bush is psychiatric incarceration. The president of the United States is so deep into denial that he is no longer among the sane. Delusion still rules Bush three weeks after the American people repudiated him and his catastrophic war in elections that delivered both House and Senate to the Democrats in the hope that control over Congress would give the opposition party the ...
Follow up on the Robbery - tom 007
Post Date: 2006-12-01 23:22:31 by tom007
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Our shop got robbed yesterday at 9:13 pm. A small amount of money was lost ($800) from the cash register. Four young black males rushed into our store, two with two drawn semiauto pistols pointing at the head of our clerk, Steve. He was fooling around on the net (as I do when I can), and was a few feet away from the Panic Button that dials the Alarm company, and then they call the cops. They told him to "freeze" and he did so, thank God. They really were looking for the keys to the safe in the back, but after three minutes, gave it up and left - leaving our store in shambles. Took the money in the register,that they could have made themselves doing an honest days wages. The ...
Economic Storm Signals
Post Date: 2006-12-01 23:16:06 by Morgana le Fay
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Dr. Krugman takes a closer look at the state of the American economy after 6 years of Republican malfeasance. The Bush Gang wants to do for our economic well being what they have done for our standing in the eyes of the rest of the world. --The New York Times, December 1, 2006 “It’s tough to make predictions,” Yogi Berra is supposed to have said, “especially about the future.” Actually, his remark makes perfect sense to economists, who sometimes have trouble making predictions about the present. And this is one of those times. We’re now two-thirds of the way through the fourth quarter of 2006, so you might think we’d already know how the quarter is ...
Buchanan: The War Of All Against All
Post Date: 2006-12-01 11:22:56 by Brian S
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A few days back, the "Today" show, speaking for NBC News, declared Iraq a "civil war," and said the network and CNBC and MSNBC would henceforth use that term to describe it. President Bush and White House press secretary Tony Snow angrily objected. A civil war, said Snow, is when two identifiable armed forces war with each other for control of a government and nation. And Iraq is not that. Contradicting Snow and the president are most journalists and Colin Powell. Speaking in Dubai, Powell declared, "I would call it a civil war ... because I like to face reality," a smart slap across the face of the president who made him secretary of state by a soldier who ...
Our Liquor Store just got Robbed by four Men with Pistols
Post Date: 2006-12-01 02:36:07 by tom007
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Well Crapolla.
Got a phone call from our manager saying we had been robbed. He had to drive home to make tha call as the robbers ripped out all the phone lines in the store.
Four armed African men, with masks and bandanas burst into our store pointing pistols at our clerks's head at 9:22 tonite. Did I mention FOUR???
One jumped over the counter, another ran around the counter, the other pulled all the bottles off the shelves he could and one seemed to watch the door.
A real mess they made of the shop. On cash register smashed on the floor, bottles everywhere. (Not one broke thanks to Allah)
All of our friends and worker somehow heard of the event and showed up, as well as ...
Bush's utter failure in Iraq (A Reichwinger's take on the Iraq War now- too funny) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-11-30 15:44:00 by Burkeman1
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It's time to acknowledge the truth. President Bush's policies in Iraq have been an utter failure. I say this as someone who supported the invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein – and as someone who still believes these were noble and morally right endeavors. When we undertook the decision to invade Iraq, there were good reasons to do so: - Saddam Hussein was an ally and supporter of Islamic terrorists, including al-Qaida; - Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant responsible for unimaginable torture, repression of his own people and a war in the Middle East that killed more than 1 million; - Saddam Hussein refused to disclose where his stockpiles of chemical and ...
The Limbaugh doctrine: "Just blow the place up" (Rush Brings Liberty to Iraq) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-11-30 08:15:50 by tom007
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The Limbaugh doctrine: "Just blow the place up" The next time George W. Bush or Dick Cheney juices the numbers for Rush Limbaugh by appearing on his show for an interview, somebody ought to ask whether the Bush administration endorses the Middle East plan El Rushbo unveiled Monday. After Jordan's King Abdullah warned over the weekend that the Middle East could see three civil wars raging simultaneously in 2007, Limbaugh said Monday: "All right, well, let's just have them. Let's just have the civil wars and let the crumbs crumble and the cookie crumble where -- because I'm fed up with this." Media Matters has the extended excerpt. The short version of ...
2,000 Year Old Computer Yields Her Secrets (The Ancient Brass Gear Mystery)
Post Date: 2006-11-30 08:00:41 by tom007
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2,000 Year Old Computer Yields Her Secrets Topic: Innovations _42325395_back_gears203250 An Anglo-Greek team of scientists has revealed what they consider the true workings of the Antikythera mechanism, a 2,000 year-old analog computer recovered from a Mediterranean shipwreck over a century ago. The new model, produced following exhaustive research into new fragments discovered in 2005 on the sea bed near Crete, will be described in the next issue of Nature magazine. The answer: it's a "moon computer," as the BBC put it, used to calculate the astronomical cycles of heavenly bodies. This wasn't unexpected, and confirms currently-prevailing beliefs, but as is always the ...
A Sneak Peek at a Fractured Web, Internet censorship is spreading and becoming more sophisticated across the planet [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-11-30 07:45:53 by tom007
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A Sneak Peek at a Fractured Web * Chinese Blogger Slams Microsoft * Progress Report for Net Censors By Mark Anderson| Also by this reporter 02:00 AM Nov, 13, 2006 CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- Internet censorship is spreading and becoming more sophisticated across the planet, even as users develop savvier ways around it, according to early results in the first-ever comprehensive global survey of internet censorship. The internet watchdog organization OpenNet Initiative is compiling a year's worth of data gathered by nearly 50 cyberlaw, free-speech and network experts across as many countries, whose governments are known internet filterers. The study systematically tested if, when, ...
The Path from WTC I to WTC II (Jack Cashill)
Post Date: 2006-11-30 06:51:13 by tom007
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The Path from WTC I to WTC II Posted: November 30, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern This is Part 1 of a two-part series. Look for Part 2 tomorrow. TWA Flight 800 is the Rosetta Stone of 9-11. If we can accurately decipher the destruction of that plane July 17, 1996, we will be able to interpret the larger events of Sept. 11. I appreciate the patience of those who have followed this effort, which is essentially a work in progress. Since we have begun this journey on the pages of WorldNetDaily, I have heard from hundreds, if not thousands, of aviation professionals, eyewitnesses and family members, many of whom have contributed to our collective understanding. Needless to say, this journey could not ...
The Hope of November 2006
Post Date: 2006-11-29 08:39:11 by Zoroaster
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The Hope of November 2006 by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. DIGG THIS At some point in the days following the November election, it became conventional wisdom that the Republicans lost control of the House because of the war. That is also said to be the reason that President Bush's poll numbers have sunk lower than Clinton's ever were, and are tending towards Nixon-level depths. Can we take a moment to observe how remarkable this "conventional wisdom" truly is, and why it matters? I would like to explain why the results should make us optimistic about the prospects for liberty, even under the current system of politics, which seems so rigged ...
Israel - The Country That Wouldn't Grow Up
Post Date: 2006-11-28 20:19:16 by tom007
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Israel - The Country That Wouldn't Grow Up By Tony Judt 05-05-2006 By the age of 58 a country - like a man - should have achieved a certain maturity. After nearly six decades of existence we know, for good and for bad, who we are, what we have done and how we appear to others, warts and all. We acknowledge, however reluctantly and privately, our mistakes and our shortcomings. And though we still harbor the occasional illusion about ourselves and our prospects, we are wise enough to recognize that these are indeed for the most part just that: illusions. In short, we are adults. But the State of Israel remains curiously (and among Western-style democracies, uniquely) immature. The ...
"It is the Zionist and Evangelistic Fundamentalists who threaten our nation, Not Islam, Arabs, or Muslims"
Post Date: 2006-11-28 10:52:41 by Brian S
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"Israel’s policies toward the Arabs since its foundation has been divide and conquer while serving as the “arsonist” to ensure a weakened destabilized region." The Honorable Senator Chuck Hagel U.S. Senate Washington D.C. Dear Senator Hagel: I have long admired your courage of heart and mind, your wise independence, and rational approach to our national interest first and foremost. Our nation needs your foresight and thus my hope that you'd run for President. Sir; you’re thoroughly familiar with the history of our MidEast Policy that for domestic purposes has implanted and supported an artificially created "Jewish" only state in ...
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