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Crisis Is Upon Us
Post Date: 2006-09-25 04:18:19 by Burkeman1
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Military experts point out that at a time when generals are calling for more troops for Afghanistan and Iraq, it would be ill-advised for Bush to add Iran to the war theater. Experts note that Iran is well armed with missiles capable of attacking US ships and oil facilities throughout the Middle East and that Iran can direct its Shiite allies in Iraq to assault US troops there and set in motion terrorist actions throughout the Middle East. Diplomatic experts point out that the US is isolated in its desire for war with Iran and has no ally except Israel, thus validating Muslim claims that the US is Israel’s instrument against Muslims in the Middle East. Experts note that military ...
Bush strikes a deal that lets him keep fighting dirty
Post Date: 2006-09-24 15:36:23 by Brian S
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Last Thursday night, in a development barely reported in Britain, any hope of bringing detainees at Guantanamo and in the CIA's 'black' prisons into some kind of acceptable legal framework to protect their human rights suffered a grievous setback. After weeks of wrangling, Congressional opposition to Bush administration plans caved in, leaving the prisoners in a literally hopeless position. At the heart of this story is a deal, hammered out in intensive talks between Vice-President Dick Cheney and his Republican critics, led by Senator John McCain, the former Vietcong prisoner and likely runner in the next presidential election. According to McCain, it 'gives the President the tools he ...
Facing Facts on Iraq
Post Date: 2006-09-24 15:05:35 by Brian S
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While Iraq is a central issue in this year’s election campaigns, there is very little clear talk about what to do, beyond vague recommendations for staying the course or long-term timetables for withdrawal. That is because politicians running for election want to deliver good news, and there is nothing about Iraq — including withdrawal scenarios — that is anything but ominous. In the real Iraq, armed Shiite and Kurdish parties have divided up the eastern two-thirds of the country, leaving Sunni insurgents and American marines to fight over the rest. Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and his “national unity cabinet” stretch out their arms to like-thinking allies ...
Torture Chic: Sign of Decadence
Post Date: 2006-09-24 12:44:42 by Burkeman1
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The great American essayist Albert J. Nock once devoted a long piece to the question of how one knows whether or not one is living in a Dark Age. From inside such an era, of course, the question is not so simple. Historians and propagandists name ages years or even centuries after the fact, but for most of those living at the time it probably didn’t seem like the Middle Ages or the Renaissance or the Reformation, if only because it took a while for the characteristics that would later be seen as defining a given period to become firmly established. However, I believe it is fairly easy to determine that however fully dark the age, we are living in a period of imperial decadence and ...
Freedom's just another word for everything to lose (Bush's War on Freedom)
Post Date: 2006-09-24 12:16:20 by tom007
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Freedom's just another word for everything to lose September 20, 2006 7:00 AM | Rant | 39 Comments .
By DOUG THOMPSON
When you sweep away the hype, the lies and the politics of George W. Bush's so-called "war on terror," you are left with one inescapable conclusion: The President of the United States is at war with freedom.
In Bush's myopic view of the world, freedom is expendable. Freedom has no place in a Presidency where power is everything and the only opinion can be his.
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(Doug Thompson doesn't want his entire article posted)
Dick Cheney, Hugo Chavez and Bill Clinton’s Band
Post Date: 2006-09-24 11:40:16 by jessejane
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There’s so much BS and baloney thrown around about Venezuela that I may be violating some rule of US journalism by providing some facts. Let’s begin with this: 77% of Venezuela’s farmland is owned by 3% of the population, the ‘hacendados.’ I met one of these farmlords in Caracas at an anti-Chavez protest march. Oddest demonstration I’ve ever seen: frosted blondes in high heels clutching designer bags, screeching, “Chavez - dic-ta-dor!” The plantation owner griped about the “socialismo” of Chavez, then jumped into his Jaguar convertible. That week, Chavez himself handed me a copy of the “socialist” manifesto that so ...
The Presidential Three-Year-Old ...Or the worst press conference in history
Post Date: 2006-09-24 04:46:55 by Zipporah
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The Presidential Three-Year-Old By Molly Ivins, AlterNetPosted on September 21, 2006, Printed on September 24, 2006 Is it just me, or was that the worst presidential press conference in history? So I went back and read it over. Of course, in print you don't get the testy tone: I heard it on radio and thought the man was about to blow up -- not just because he was being questioned, which Bush appears to consider an offensive action in the first place, but because people continue to refuse to see things the way he does. How can they be so stupid or malign, he appears to wonder.I ask: How can he be so repetitive, repeatedly using the oldest tactic of a verbal bully -- saying the same thing ...
Israel Calls Iran Its Greatest Threat
Post Date: 2006-09-23 21:57:22 by tom007
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Israel Calls Iran Its Greatest Threat Email this Story Sep 20, 11:09 PM (ET) By NICK WADHAMS (AP) Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni addresses the 61st session of the United Nations General... Full Image UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Israeli foreign minister on Wednesday warned that Iranian leaders pose the biggest threat to the world's values because they "speak proudly" of their wish to destroy Israel and pursue weapons to achieve that objective. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told the annual U.N. General Assembly session that the international community must stand up against Iran, which she claimed is pursuing the weapons to destroy Israel, a reference to its suspect nuclear ...
Kinky for Governor
Post Date: 2006-09-23 11:59:32 by Lod
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God Bless Hugo and the Texas Jewboy
Post Date: 2006-09-23 08:43:19 by JohnGalt
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Americans long ago lost their sense of humor. Oh, it is true, they can guffaw for hours over toilet jokes or Comedy Channel monologues on sexual acts our ancestors had never heard of or jokes about someone else’s ethnic group. Just to be scientific, I did a little research: There are almost as many Google results for “race jokes” and “ethnic jokes” (15,000,000) as for “sex jokes” (21,500,000). But a sense of humor is not like a sneeze or a jerked knee—responses triggered deep in the reptilian recesses of the brain—but an appreciation for the comic side of everyone’s life including our own. Yes, we can all laugh at someone falling down the ...
Unbreak My Heart ,Spanish
Post Date: 2006-09-22 23:07:16 by tom007
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A Tortured Debate
Post Date: 2006-09-22 10:46:16 by Zoroaster
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Published on Thursday, September 21, 2006 by TruthDig A Tortured Debate by Molly Ivins AUSTIN, Texas - Some country is about to have a Senate debate on a bill to legalize torture. How weird is that? I’d like to thank Sens. John McCain, Lindsay Graham—a former military lawyer—and John Warner of Virginia. I will always think fondly of John Warner for this one reason: Forty years ago, this country was involved in an unprovoked and unnecessary war. It ended so badly the vets finally had to hold their own homecoming parade, years after they came home. The only member of Congress who attended was John Warner. A debate on torture. I don’t know—what do you think? I ...
Chavez's entire speech, unfiltered from the neocon corporate media: ( United Nations)
Post Date: 2006-09-21 23:23:05 by tom007
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Chavez's entire speech, unfiltered from the neocon corporate media: "Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read it. Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious American and world intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, and this is one of his most recent books, 'Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States.'" [Holds up book, waves it in front of General Assembly.] "It's an excellent book to help us understand what has been happening in the world throughout the 20th century, and what's happening now, and the greatest threat ...
The Unraveling of the President's 'War on Terrorism'
Post Date: 2006-09-21 11:51:32 by Brian S
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Confronted with a revolt by his own party, the President sunk to new levels of fear-mongering last week. He warned that America’s safety would be imperiled if defiant Republican senators did not approve the administration’s continued use of “enhanced” interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists at secret CIA prisons. The message was clear: America needs to torture others to defend itself. But rhetoric can no longer mask the reality of immorality and mismanagement. Five years after September 11, the President’s global “war on terrorism” has come unraveled. Lawmakers and the public are increasingly recognizing that the administration’s ...
As If Bush Owned The World
Post Date: 2006-09-21 10:42:43 by Ferret Mike
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"A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free." -- Thomas Jefferson The way Hugo Chavez spoke about Bush's appearance before the U.N. General Assembly was chillingly on target. He said aloud what the majority of the international body gathered must have been already thinking. He was, "talking as if he owned the world . . ." Chavez said, "Truly. As the owner of the world." He echoed the words of the Iranian president who, earlier, cast the U.S. as an imperialistic warmonger bent on oppression. "By causing war and conflict," Ahmadinejad said to the assembly, ...
Before You Enlist!
Post Date: 2006-09-21 02:26:14 by Morgana le Fay
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Opponents of Torture Are True Patriots
Post Date: 2006-09-21 02:04:58 by Morgana le Fay
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Naïve citizens may be surprised to learn that some of the most morally upright of our fellow Americans, at least by their own estimation, are also among the most enthusiastic endorsers of the practice of torture. Even more startling than their zeal to abuse detainees—many of whom are innocent of any offense—is their eagerness to exploit those abuses for partisan political advantage. The President has sent legislation to Capitol Hill that would “clarify” the parameters available to those who interrogate prisoners in the war on terrorism. His bill would apparently permit the use of “waterboarding,” which simulates drowning, and “long time ...
Jeff Cohen on the weird and disturbing world of CNN, Fox, and MSNBC
Post Date: 2006-09-21 01:59:00 by Morgana le Fay
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In his new book, Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media (PoliPointPress), Jeff Cohen writes about his years with the cable news channels as a pilgrim who’s returned from a strange and hostile land. The founder of the left-liberal media-watchdog group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), Cohen was invariably miscast. Oddly enough, he calls his stint at Fox his happiest: it was easier to work with out-and-out conservatives than with executives at CNN and MSNBC, who lived in constant fear that they would be accused of liberal bias. Cohen left Fox for what he thought would be a dream job: working as senior producer for his friend and fellow progressive Phil ...
Hostage to Iran Again [The Word Terror is Now Just a Marketing Slogan and Bush is a Drama Queen.]
Post Date: 2006-09-21 01:15:41 by Morgana le Fay
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It was galling to be lectured on ethics, truth, justice, virtue and respect for human rights by a Holocaust-denying, Iraq-meddling, American-hating pipsqueak. A guy who showed up to address the United Nations without bothering to wear a tie, so casual in a disco-looking cream suit and open-necked pink shirt he looked like he would kick back later in Chelsea. If President Bush was bland, oblique and condescending in his U.N. remarks, bypassing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak directly to the people of Iran, the Iranian leader was more blunt — referring to America and Britain disdainfully as “the occupiers.” “Not a day goes by without hundreds of people getting ...
How Bush Failed Jesus and the Return of the Christian Crusade
Post Date: 2006-09-20 01:18:24 by Morgana le Fay
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Why Bush's jumbled logic that Christianity is by "Presidential proclamation" divine, and Islamic beliefs are by utter existence provocative and depraved, has fueled an incendiary front of hatred and racial intolerance under the banners of Christianity and patriotism in America. As the government of the United States ostensibly wages an unbounded and ceaseless war with Islamic religious fundamentalists, our current President, George W. Bush, has proclaimed he senses a "third awakening of religious devotion" within America. This "third awakening" that Bush cloaks, but does not conceal, is the return of Christianity as a crusade. The sheer oddity of pronouncing ...
Why is President Bush so determined to engage in torture?
Post Date: 2006-09-20 00:55:50 by Morgana le Fay
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A lot has been written and said about President Bush’s demand that Congress “clarify” the part of the Geneva Conventions that, in effect, outlaws the use of torture under any circumstances. We know that the world would see this action as a U.S. repudiation of the rules that bind civilized nations. We also know that an extraordinary lineup of former military and intelligence leaders, including Colin Powell, have spoken out against the Bush plan, warning that it would further damage America’s faltering moral standing, and end up endangering U.S. troops. But I haven’t seen much discussion of the underlying question: why is Mr. Bush so determined to engage in ...
Evangelical desires for the Rapture and Bush's Middle East wars
Post Date: 2006-09-20 00:22:13 by Morgana le Fay
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One of the issues which does not get discussed very much at all is the extent to which people who compose the President's "base" -- and even the President himself -- are so obsessed with the Glorious War of Civilizations because they see it as a religious war between Islam and Christianity. Reporters have always been reluctant to ask the President about his religious beliefs -- such as the influence, if any, of end-of-the-world "Rapture" doctrines on his political decisions -- but the issue is pressing given that many evangelicals believe the Rapture is what is driving (and justifying) not just our current, but also future, conflicts in the Middle East: Christian ...
Save us from the politics of behaviour [UK 1984]
Post Date: 2006-09-19 23:51:13 by DuQuoigne
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From spotting ‘problem people’ before they are born to advising dads on how to talk to their sons: government agencies are colonising our private lives. How long before British adults will need a licence to parent their children? Prime minister Tony Blair and his New Labour colleagues seem to believe that the solution to society’s problems lies in getting their hands on the nation’s toddlers before their parents can ruin them. Their focus is on ‘early intervention’ – and for Blair, intervention can never be early enough. He believes it is possible to spot tomorrow’s problem people even before they are born. Weeding out unfit parents through imposing ...
Had Enough?
Post Date: 2006-09-19 22:18:34 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Had Enough?
Americans have a duty to question government
Post Date: 2006-09-19 17:46:40 by Ferret Mike
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The Register-Guard's Sept. 11 editorial about folks questioning the official history of Sept. 11 was headlined "The unbelievers." When did the story of Sept. 11 become a religious one, requiring belief? It is healthy to question an official story that has been used as the constant drumbeat to unconstitutionally unleash the dogs of war and initiate secret and open repression at home, all the while accompanied by a barrage of mistruth, mistakes and misdeeds from a tenuously elected administration. That there are those who question the official story at least shows that our republic may yet still have some life in it, and that because of such dissent, someday, we may actually have ...
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