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Chavez Revamps His Intelligence Services: The Corporate Media React
2008-06-07 23:48:00
by Stephen Lendman Reports keep surfacing about new threats against Hugo Chavez . Given past ones, they can't be taken lightly. Chavez is alerted and reacts accordingly. Case in point: revamping Venezuela's decades old intelligence services. It's long overdue and urgently needed given the Bush administration's tenure winding down and its determination in its remaining months to end the Bolivarian project and crush its participatory democracy. CIA, NED, IRI, USAID and other US elements infest the country and are more active than ever. Subversion is their strategy, and it shows up everywhere. Violence is being encouraged. Opposition groups are recruited and funded. So are members of Venezuela's military. Student groups as well and anti-Chavista candidates for November's mayoral and gubernatorial elections. The dominant media are on board in Venezuela and America. They assail Chavez relentlessly and are on the warpath again after his May 28 announced intellige...
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My Dream Ticket: Barack Obama & Caroline Kennedy
2008-06-07 23:40:00
by Linda Milazzo For nearly her entire 51 years, Caroline Kennedy has been part of the socio-political fabric of this nation. She first captivated America as the tiny daughter of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. She was the delightful little blonde atop her pony Macaroni, and the adoring older sister to precocious brother, John. Caroline Kennedy, throughout her life, has been unceasingly gracious - taking a willing back seat to brother John and mother Jackie - America's perennial Prince and First Lady. And while John Jr. and Jackie were attracting the paparazzi, Caroline was quietly achieving. She graduated from Radcliffe College/Harvard University and Columbia Law School and took the New York and DC bars. While John and Jackie's every move was scrutinized, Caroline created a lower-profile, but highly productive life. She married Ed Schlossberg, had three children, and continued to work supporting and promoting social causes, overseeing foundations and editing and writing boo...
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Saddam's Successor Resurfaces - Addouri Outlines Anti-U.S. Strategy, Tactic
2008-06-07 23:31:00
by Nicola Nasser For the first time since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in April 2003, the deputy of Saddam Hussein, the late President of Iraq, Izzat Ibrahim Addouri has resurfaced, despite a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, in a lengthy interview with Abdel-Azim Manaf, the editor-in-chief of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Mawqif Al-Arabi, not a mainstream, on May 26 to lay out the strategy and tactics of the Iraqi resistance led by the former ruling party, Al-Baath. Addouri's resurface and the resistance strategy he has laid out represent a direct challenge to the U.S. occupying power. Manaf told The Associated Press (AP) he interviewed addouri "on the battlefield." The "dialogue" was conducted "with a commander in his lion's den and among his soldiers," in the "war zone" and on the "combat field while weapons were talking," Manaf said in his introduction. Addouri spoke in his capacity as "the Supreme Commander of the Jihad...
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The New Vagina Dialog
2008-06-07 23:11:00
by Stephen P. Pizzo What's should be more worrisome; who Obama will choose for his VP or who McCain will choose for his Number 2? No contest. It's who McCain picks. And if I were an Obama advisor I would wake up screaming each night in terror that McCain picks his current economic advisor, Carly Fiorina. Such a bold move would pose the single most significant threat to Obama's hopes. In fact, it's such a no-brainer that I'd be surprised if McCain/Florina is not already baked into the cake. Here's why I think so: 1) Millions of Hillary women will still be licking their primary campaign wounds come November. Those hurt feelings will not pass away easily or gracefully. (Dare I use the old -- "Hell hath no fury like women scorned?" Ah, belay that ...) Putting Fiorina on the ticket would help McCain mine a rich vein of feminist anger pervading the Democratic camp. 2) It would be a move Obama would find difficult to counter. Sure he could pick a woman too -- but wh...
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Whiners, Poor Losers and Why Hillary Shouldn't Be Barack's VP
2008-06-07 23:05:00
by Dave Lindorff It’s kind of bizarre reading about supposed “feminists” who are reportedly claiming they’ll vote for McCain rather than Obama, now that “their” candidate, Hillary Clinton, is out of the running for the presidential nomination. First of all, John McCain is clearly the candidate of the anti-abortion crowd, but that’s not the half of it. He’s also the candidate who says Anthony Scalia, John Roberts and Sam Alito are his kind of judges. We’re talking here about guys (yeah, guys) who think a woman’s place is in the home, and who only recently ruled that if she’s discriminated against on the job, and doesn’t learn about it for a decade or more, a woman can’t do anything about it, because the original offense of underpaying her happened more than 180 days ago. McCain is also the guy who, after his wife suffered a serious car crash and became disabled, dumped her for a younger, richer woman. A feminist’s dream, this guy. And how about Hillary Clinton? When she was suppos...
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A New Day Dawning
2008-06-07 23:00:00
by Ernest Partridge And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? - William Butler Yeats The Partridges are feeling insufferably smug these days. Halfway through the Bush regime, we cashed in our stocks, bought our house outright and tore up our mortgage. Though declining in value in this housing market crash, our modest home is our castle and now the bank cannot take it from us. We are completely free of debts. The Toyota Tundra truck, which twice took us to Alaska and on numerous camping trips, is now confined to necessary short hauls. An $85 fill-up last week convinced us that those long trips in the Tundra are luxuries that we can now do without. Last August we bought a Prius and, because we work at home, we have managed to drive it less than 800 miles a month. That amounts to about twenty gallons of gas or, coincidentally, another $85 a month. We can handle that. We are led to believe that i...

Sidney Pollack, Scott McClellan, and the Wars for Oil
2008-06-07 22:56:00
by Bernard Weiner OK, let's connect the dots: The Iraq War & Occupation. Scott McClellan's memoir. The death of film director Sydney Pollack . When I heard about the death of Pollack last week, I happened coincidentally to be rewatching one of his earliest films, from 1971, "Three Days of the Condor." In it, Robert Redford plays a bookish CIA analyst who survives the mass-murder of his entire unit because he was "out to lunch," literally and figuratively. The rest of the movie involves Redford (codename "Condor") staying one step ahead of the assassins sent to get him while he tries desperately to figure out what the hell is going on. All Condor knows is that somehow there's a CIA plot involving areas around the globe where three distinct languages are spoken: Spanish, Dutch and Arabic. By the end of the film, and remember that it was made in 1971, he finally has it figured out: The three regions where those languages are spoken — the Middle...
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President Sarkozy’s One Man Show: A Very Limited Run
2008-06-07 22:51:00
by James Petras French President Sarkozy has twice appeared in the spotlight of the world’s mass media announcing his determination to free French-Colombian dual citizen, Ingrid Betancourt, held captive by the Colombian guerrilla movement, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Peoples Army (FARC-EP). Following in the footsteps of Hugo Chavez’ successful negotiations in late December 2007 and early January 2008 that led to the FARC’s unilateral freeing of 4 captives, Sarkozy announced his determination to become directly involved in freeing Ingrid, even if it meant risking a trip into Colombia’s jungle and climbing its mountains1. After the TV cameras were off, Sarkozy put his Foreign Minister, Bernie Kouchner in charge of negotiations with the FARC by long-distance mobile phone. Kouchner’s background as an ardent supporter of the US war in Iraq (his first trip in office was to fly to Iraq and announce his backing of US troops), a lifetime unconditional supporter of Israel’s w...
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The Anti-Empire Report - a Status Report
2008-06-07 22:35:00
by William Blum There are a number of expressions and slogans associated with the Nazi regime in Germany which have become commonly known in English. "Sieg Heil!" — Victory Hail! "Arbeit macht frei" — Work will make you free. "Denn heute gehört uns Deutschland und morgen die ganze Welt" — Today Germany, tomorrow the world But none perhaps is better known than "Deutschland über alles" — Germany above all. Thus I was taken aback when I happened to come across the website of the United States Air Force — www.airforce.com — and saw on its first page a heading "Above all". Lest you think that this refers simply and innocently to planes high up in the air, this page links to another — www.airforce.com/achangingworld — where "Above all" is repeated even more prominently, with links to sites for "Air Dominance", "Space Dominance", and "Cyber Dominance", each of which in...
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oe Bageant: Breaking The Beer Barrier
2008-06-07 22:25:00
Jby Joe Bageant Here’s my question: Why can’t progressive media ever learn to communicate in redneck and born again bubba? I would guess that a lot of you are thinking, “Why would anybody want to?” One answer is the election of George Bush — but there are many others. For example, a third of all Americans live in the geographic South and over 50% live in the “cultural south,” … which is to say places with white Southern Scots-Irish values … places such as western Pennsylvania, central Missouri and southern Illinois, eastern Connecticut, northern New Hampshire, … and others we never think of as Southern. When you look at people in what has come to be called the red state heartland, most of their values are more or less traditional white Scots-Irish values. Yet, as much talk as there is about these fellow Americans, particularly during election season, most liberal and alternative media never speak to them or for them. And that’s a shame, because when we do that … we...
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Sleeping in Cars in the USA
2008-06-07 22:23:00
by Mike Whitney Look around. The evidence of a withering economy is everywhere. In “good times” consumers shun the canned meat aisle altogether, but no more. Today, Spam sales are soaring; grocery stores can’t keep it on the shelves. Everyone is looking for cheaper ways to feed their families. The Labor Dept. assures us that core-inflation is only 4 per cent, but everybody knows it’s load of malarkey. Food prices are going through the roof. White bread is up 13 percent, bacon is up 7 percent and peanut butter is up 9 percent. Inflation is rampant and there’s no end in sight. The dollar is closing in on the peso and working people are struggling just to get by. The bottom line is that more and more people in “the richest country on earth” are now surviving on processed pig-meat. That says it all. In Santa Barbara parking lots are being converted into hostels so that families that lost their homes in the subprime fiasco can sleep in their cars and not be hassled by the...
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When a Little Dissent Is Too Much
2008-06-06 05:01:00
by Norman Solomon Over the years, once in a great while, I’ve been surprised to cross paths with a journalist at a major TV outlet who actually seems willing and able to go outside the conventional boundaries of media discourse. That’s what happened one day in the fall of 2005 at the Boston headquarters of the CN8 television network, owned and operated by the corporate media giant Comcast. I showed up for an interview about my book "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death." My expectations weren’t very high. After all, I was setting foot in the studios of a large commercial TV channel with wide distribution of its programming in New England and beyond. And Comcast, shall we say, has earned a reputation as a voracious media conglomerate with scant interest in the public interest. I was scheduled to appear on a prime-time nightly show hosted by Barry Nolan, a longtime TV newsman. When the cameras started rolling, it quickly became clear that h...
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Scott McClellan's Residual Affection for Bush (the Psychopath?)
2008-06-06 05:00:00
by Walter C. Uhler After two weeks of great cuisine and culture in Positano and Rome, I returned to the U.S. only to learn that it's still news in my country - the United States of Amnesia — when another insider from the Bush administration admits that President Bush eagerly sought war with Iraq. Indeed, the media are falling over themselves in order to cycle, recycle and spin Scott McClellan's less than startling revelations about warmonger Bush (for whom McClellan retains residual affection). Nevertheless, McClellan deserves credit for his focus on the terrible downside of the "permanent campaign" mentality that afflicts politics in Washington. It goes far to explain why the Bush administration could win elections, but govern so disastrously. However, McClellan's most banal allegation is his charge that "Bush was a leader unable to acknowledge that he got it wrong, unwilling to grow in office by learning from his mistakes — too stubborn to change and grow.&q...
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The Remorseless Algebra of a Deflationary Death Spiral
2008-06-06 04:27:00
by Mike Whitney Look around. The evidence of a withering economy is everywhere. In "good times" consumers shun the canned meat aisle altogether, but no more. Today, Spam sales are soaring; grocery stores can't keep it on the shelves. Everyone is looking for cheaper ways to feed their families. The Labor Dept. assures us that core-inflation is only 4 per cent, but everybody knows it's load of malarkey. Food prices are going through the roof. White bread is up 13 percent, bacon is up 7 percent and peanut butter is up 9 percent. Inflation is rampant and there's no end in sight. The dollar is closing in on the peso and working people are struggling just to get by. The bottom line is that more and more people in "the richest country on earth" are now surviving on processed pig-meat. That says it all. In Santa Barbara parking lots are being converted into hostels so that families that lost their homes in the subprime fiasco can sleep in their cars and not be hass...
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Masculine, feminine or human?
2008-06-06 04:08:00
by Robert Jensen In a guest lecture about masculinity to a college class, I ask the students to generate two lists that might help clarify the concept. For the first, I tell them to imagine themselves as parents whose 12-year-old son asks, “Mommy/daddy, what does is mean to be a man?” The list I write on the board as they respond is not hard to predict: To be a man is to be strong, responsible, loving. Men provide for those around them and care for others. A man weathers tough times and doesn’t give up. When that list is complete, I ask the women to observe while the men answer a second question: When you are in all-male spaces, such as the locker room or a night out with the guys, what do you say to each other about what it means to be a man? How do you define masculinity when there are no women present? The students, both men and women, laugh nervously, knowing the second list will be different from the first. The men fumble a bit at first, as it becomes clear that...
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Bush Vowed US Would "Kill" Anyone Who Interfered in Iraq, Book Claims
2008-06-06 03:59:00
by Jason Leopold President Bush reacted to the deaths of four Blackwater contractors in Fallujah in 2004 by proclaiming in a hastily arranged video conference with officials that the United States would "kill" anyone who threatened to derail the "march to Democracy" in Iraq , according to a new book released last month by the former commander of US soldiers in Iraq. In the book "Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story," Lt. Gen Ricardo Sanchez writes that after the bodies of the four Blackwater contractors were dragged through the streets of Fallujah in 2004 and hung off a bridge Bush became unhinged. In a video conference with national security and military officials Sanchez writes that Bush said, "If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell! This Vietnam stuff, this is not even close. It is a mind-set. We can't send that message. It's an excuse to prepare us for withdrawal.&q...
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Why a Cultural Boycott of Israel is Necessary
2008-06-06 03:58:00
by Remi Kanazi At what point does rhetoric stop and effective action begin? For Palestinians, decades of dialogue and supposed peace overtures have proved fruitless, only serving to protect the status quo: sixty years of continual dispossession, forty years of occupation, and a systematic repudiation of international and humanitarian law. The situation for Palestinians will not improve without constructive movement forward—which rejects collusion with the Israel i government by exercising boycott, divestment and sanctions (known as BDS). During the 1980’s, BDS of South Africa included a cultural boycott whereby musicians and artists from around the world were prohibited from performing in the apartheid state. In addition to internationally supporting the subjugated black population, this policy was instituted to express that no real dialogue—economic, academic, or cultural—could take place in concert with the atrocities of apartheid. With regard to Israel, the implementation of ...
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Desolation in Myanmar
2008-06-06 03:36:00
by Brian McAfee In the aftermath of a major natural disaster, the ongoing tragedy that is playing out in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) is unnecessary and criminal in nature. The military junta, that had initially withheld relief aid from reaching the majority of the population most negatively impacted by the May 2-3 cyclone, have reportedly stolen much of the goods and have blocked some people's access to them. Even today, a month after the cyclone struck, over two million are still homeless and hundreds of children have become orphans without steady caretakers. Early on, a peculiar relationship between the junta, U.S. political figures and business interests became quickly evident. Most notably Senator John McCain's political adviser, Douglas Goodyear, and Doug Davenport, another lobbyist linked to McCain and Myanmar, have played major roles in seedy dealings. Another disturbing connection to the regime is UnoCal, representing another outrageous wrong wherein human rights ...

Eat Your Heart Out Gandhi
2008-06-06 03:33:00
by Jayne Lyn Stahl What might get lost in the ad nauseum mainstream media coverage of the gladiator-style struggle for the Democratic Party presidential nomination is what the Associated Press calls a "landmark treaty" which received a formal thumbs-up on Friday at a meeting, in Dublin, of more than 100 nations, including many of our partners in NATO. Not only does the treaty call for banning munitions cluster designs, but demands the destruction of stockyards within the next ten years. What's more, not only did the U.S. boycott these negotiations, but joined other major manufacturers of cluster bombs, Russia, China, India, Israel and Pakistan, in doing so. Our focus and that of the other munitions' manufacturers was not on how deleterious cluster bombs are, but on their military (i.e. monetary) value. One defense analyst even went so far as to argue that "only countries that don't fight wars" would draft a treaty like this, and say that its value is stri...
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Obama, Clinton and Anger to Burn
2008-06-06 03:26:00
by Norman Solomon In politics, as in so many other aspects of life, anger is a combustible fuel. Affirmed and titrated, it helps us move forward. Suppressed or self-indulged, it’s likely to blow up in our faces. With the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination coming to a close, there’s plenty of anger in the air. And the elements are distinctly flammable. As Bob Herbert wrote in the New York Times on June 3, "the Clinton and Obama partisans spent months fighting bitterly on the toxic terrain of misogyny, racism and religion." Herbert doesn’t spread the blame evenly. And, as an elected Obama delegate to the national convention, I don’t either. But at this stage in the nomination process, the returns of blame aren’t merely diminishing — they’re about to go over a cliff. The anger that’s churning among many Hillary Clinton supporters is deserving of respect. For a long time, she’s been hit by an inexhaustible arsenal of virulent sexism, whether from Tucke...
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TH*NK*NG (SEMANTICS)
2008-06-06 03:17:00
by Fred Cederholm I’ve been thinking about semantics. Actually I’ve been thinking about books, hypothetical contingencies, our financial messes, election 2008, and USA - the United Spinning(s) of America. Semantics are word games. Semantics involve choosing/ using “loaded words and phrases” to bias opinions in favor of your agenda, your objective, and your side. In the alternative, careful word choices undercut your opponent’s position, strategy, and objectives. Accentuate the positive(s) and mitigate the negative(s) are first and foremost the game plan in economics, finance, marketing, and politics! You see the forthcoming “tell-all” by former Presidential Press Secretary, Scott McClellan, that the American Public was mislead to war in Iraq by the Bush Administration and that the American Press/ media dropped the ball in the reporting of the events/ justifications leading up to the invasion on March 19th, 2003 got a great deal of media brouhaha last week. The snips and snibbets...

Location, Location, Re-Location...
2008-06-06 03:13:00
by Carolyn Baker For approximately ten days last month I traveled across the United States from my former home in New Mexico to my new home in Vermont. My journey has been the culmination of years of researching and soul searching in response to the odyssey of my species and the earth community which has now entered an irreversible trajectory of collapse. At the completion of this transition, I feel compelled to clarify a number of issues around my relocation and relocation in general. Obviously, for the past two years on this website I have been talking about relocation as one piece in the complex tapestry of collapse preparation. Therefore, I feel that I owe it to regular readers and subscribers of Truth To Power to let you know that I've taken this enormous step since many of you have relocated long before I did, and many more of you are contemplating doing so. I believe that where we choose to stay or move to is monumentally important in terms of how we prepare ...
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The Mad, Mad, Racist Fantasy World of King George
2008-06-06 03:09:00
by Michael O’McCarthy Let us peek into The Mad, Mad, Racist Fantasy World of King George as he channels Ronald Reagan, John Wayne and Gary Cooper. As noted by Tom Dispatch, the noble virtual pamphleteer Tom Engelhardt in his June 2, 2008 chronicle wherein we see the latest revelation into the "self-will run riot," megalomaniac, mentally ill George W. Bush. A dry drunk – sometimes wet alcoholic, Bush continues to sit, gripping the arms of the chair behind the Presidential desk in the Oval Office looking at the button device that will launch a nuclear war. His is thinking only of victory. Victory and his legacy of democracy – driven into the land of the infidels by armed measure as is necessary. Sometimes he channels Charleston Heston, remaining armed in the face of enemies in the night, clenching those arm rest like dual handled fifty caliber machine guns until they tear his "cold dead hands" from their stocks. Sometimes he relives those moments wh...

Tomgram: William Astore, Militarizing Your Cyberspace
2008-06-06 03:02:00
by Tom Engelhardt Be depressed. Be very depressed. You thought that cyberspace — a term conjured up long ago by that neuromancer, sci-fi author William Gibson — was the last frontier of freedom. Well, think again. If the U.S. Air Force has anything to say about it, cyber-freedom will, in the not so distant future, be just another word for domination. Air Force officials, despite a year-long air surge in Iraq, undoubtedly worry that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates's "next wars" (two, three, many Afghanistans) won't have much room for air glory. Recently, looking for new realms to bomb, it launched itself into cyberspace. The Air Force has now set up its own Cyber Command, redefined the Internet as just more "air space" fit for "cyber-craft," and launched its own Bush-style preemptive strike on the other military services for budgetary control of the same. If that's not enough for you, it's now proposing a massive $30 billion ...
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The Politics of Humanitarian Aid
2008-06-05 18:26:00
by Walter Brasch President Bush was justifiably upset. A cyclone four days earlier had destroyed a large portion of Myanmar, and the country's military junta was still refusing humanitarian aid. "Let the United States come to help you, help the people," Bush pleaded with the junta. "We're prepared to move U.S. Navy assets to help find those who've lost their lives, to help find the missing, to help stabilize the situation," said the President, "but in order to do so, the military junta must allow our disaster assessment teams into the country." With more than 20,000 dead, possibly 40,000 missing, and close to one million homeless, the junta made it clear that it, not the international community, would provide whatever humanitarian aid was necessary. A week before the cyclone hit, President Bush extended sanctions against Myanmar by another year because of what he called that junta's "large-scale repression of the democratic opposition.&q...
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Palestinians Trapped at Crossroads
2008-06-05 17:47:00
by Nicola Nasser Firing home-made primitive rockets at Israeli targets from the Gaza Strip, the mass sweeping through the Palestinian – Egyptian border crossing of Rafah in January and the series of ongoing peaceful demonstrations at Gaza’s crossing points with Israel are not an aggressive demonstration of self-confidence, but more a show of defensive despair and weakness against the tight Israeli military siege, as much as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ threats to resign are passive defensive reaction to the political siege imposed on him by the United States and Israel, who so far fail to deliver on their promises to bring about an agreement to create a Palestinian state by the end of 2008. Given the corruption investigations, which have already heralded either a premiership change or early elections that would lead to a government change in Israel, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is likely nearing the end of his term to join Abbas and US President George W. Bush, whose terms ...
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Candidate McCain: A Risky Choice
2008-06-05 15:15:00
by Rodrigue Tremblay "I believe that the Iraqi people will greet us as liberators." Sen. John McCain, ( March 20, 2003) "As you know, there are al Qaeda operatives that are taken back into Iran, given training as leaders, and they're moving back into Iraq." Sen. John McCain, 2008 presumptive Republican presidential nominee, (In Amman, Jordan, March 18, 2008) "Iran obviously is on the path toward acquiring nuclear weapons." ..."At the end of the day we cannot allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon." Sen. John McCain "Anyone who worries about how long we [the United States]'re in Iraq does not understand the military." Sen. John McCain John McCain will make [Dick] Cheney look like Gandhi." Pat Buchanan, journalist and political figure "McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they [the missiles] get to the gro...
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Untold Truths
2008-06-05 15:00:00
by Paul J. Balles PhD. Few people dig deeply into the evidence of what's actually happening that the Western mainstream media ignores or refuses to cover. Much gets omitted because of media owner biases, and the establishment media dares not present anything that might offend readers, viewers or advertisers. Increasingly large numbers of computer users now look to alternative sources of news and views. That number hasn't yet reached critical mass, however; and when it does, watch out for the attempts to restrict or censor what's available. Here are some examples of the kind of honest reflection in some of the internet sources that operate with integrity and openness. For one thing, in the recent brouhaha over Reverend Wright's sermons, few people have stood up boldly for the Reverend. Many people in America hate Wright, not because he was wrong, but because most Americans can't stand self criticism. To them, America is almost never wrong and never to be damned. ...

Manufactured Reality - Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
2008-06-05 15:00:00
by Peter Chamberlin In order to force a new reality upon any targeted populace, the masters of the universe follow a simple strategy – they immediately make things twice as bad as they intend to keep them, only to take one step back after a short while, so that the new manufactured reality will be easier to accept. This strategy holds constant from the manipulation of oil prices to the military strategy to rule the world by force. In the terror war, nuclear terrorism has become the weapon of both first choice and last resort for American war planners. It was more important to create the impression that nuclear war was imminent than it was to convince the world that we intended to use nuclear weapons as our ace in the hole. The world had to be terrorized into believing that our insane cowboy president was about to unleash nuclear war upon the world, so that it could be held over the people's heads. The world had to be shocked and awed by American military supremacy into submit...
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Clinton's Cyber-Shotgun Wedding
2008-06-05 14:29:00
by Stephen P. Pizzo Last night I understood, first hand, what Michelle Obama meant a few months ago when she said that, for the first time in a long time she was proud of her country. Last night, for the first time in years I was unconditionally proud of my country. This morning the world woke up to learn that one of America's two parties had nominated a person of color -- a little black, a little white, a little brown a little like the world itself. For the first time in a dozen years I didn't have to blush that the world awaking to learn that my President had been caught in the Oval Office with his trousers around his knees, or that my President had authorized torture, or that my president had launched an illegal imperialist war against a country thousands away that was, while annoying as hell, no real threat to the US. It was a very nice, though albeit unfamiliar, feeling. I want more that. A lot more. It was like someone had just applied a soothing ointmen...
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