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October 24, 2006
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Saddam Hussein:
“Thanks For The Memories”, He Was Always Washington’s Man – Always! (Video)
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September 9,
2006: “No More Lies! What Really Motivated The 9/11 Hijackers? (Video)
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British MP
George Galloway Speaks Out On Israel, Hezbollah And ‘Zionist State
Terrorism’ (Video)
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Iraq, The
Real Story – BBC Newsnight Report (Video)
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9/11 -
Selective Memory –Parody (Animation)
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 9/11 Vendetta – Past, Present
& Future (Video)
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Don’t
Shut-Up, Stand-Up!
(Video)
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Classic George Carlin Rant – Trenchant and
Profane - Caution,
‘colorful’ Use of Profanity and Much Truth (Spoken)
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Keith Olbermann: The ‘Murder’ of
Habeas Corpus (Video)
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Bush's "Comma" Comment
On Iraq (Video)
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Keith
Olbermann: Military Commissions Act, A Special Comment (Video)
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“Bring ’Em Home” – Bruce Springsteen’s New
Antiwar Anthem (Music-Video)
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‘Fascist Christ’ - Todd Rundgren
(Music-Video)
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September 4,
2006:” John The Revelator”- Depeche Mode (Music-Video)
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‘Right Now…’ (Music-Video)
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Bush-Blair “Endless Love”
–Parody (Music- Video)
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“Mamas Don’t
Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Pages” (Music)
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‘Whatever Happened To Peace On Earth’ – Willy
Nelson’s New Antiwar Anthem (Music)
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BROKEN!!
Iraq, under fire and on the run
Tuesday October 24,
2006
By Patrick Cockburn
Iraq
is in flight. Everywhere inside and outside the country, Iraqis
who once lived in their own houses cower for safety six or seven to a room in
hovels.
Many
go after they have been threatened. Often they leave after receiving an
envelope with a bullet inside and a scrawled note telling them to get out
immediately.
Others
flee after a relative has been killed believing they will be next.
Out of a total population of 26m, there are now 1.6 m
Iraqis who have fled the country and a further 1.5m people displaced within
Iraq according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
In
Jordan alone there are 500,000 Iraqi refugees and a further 450,000 in Syria.
In
Syria alone they are estimated to be arriving at the rate of 40,000 a month.
It is one of the largest long-term population movements
in the Middle East since Israel expelled Palestinians in the late 1940s.
‘’Transatlantic Rift”
Patrick Chappatte, Daily – Geneva
"Le Temps", Sunday - Neue Zurcher Zeitung, weekly - International
Herald Tribune
· Iraq and
Washington’s Hubris (by Ivan Eland – The Independent Institute): The
U.S. military, even after the debacle in Vietnam, disdained learning
how to fight counterinsurgency warfare and
continued to buy costly weapons for a war against a major conventional
adversary that no longer exists. The U.S.
military's reflexive use of heavy firepower, especially air power, has caused
excessive Iraqi casualties and turned the Iraqi
people against the United States.
Recently, increased violence in Baghdad in response to redoubled U.S.
security operations shows that U.S. forces are part of the problem in Iraq,
not the solution. Until it was too late, the United States underemphasized
winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, the most crucial element of
waging successful counterinsurgency warfare.
· Sen. Lindsey Graham –
Republican/SC: “We're on the verge of chaos [Iraq], and the current plan is
not working.” U.S. and Iraqi officials
should be held accountable for the lack of progress, said Graham, a
Republican who is a frequent critic of the administration's policies. Asked
who in particular should be held accountable — Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, perhaps, or the generals leading the war — Graham
said: "All of them. It's their job to come up with a game plan" to
end the violence.
· US troops killed 4 Iraqi firemen ‘by
mistake’: "The
people inside the truck exited quickly and Coalition Forces thought they were
armed. Coalition Forces engaged what they thought were armed insurgents with
small arms fire," it said, adding that all four were killed.
· Gulf Arab
States Are Giving Up on America:
Given the realities of America's quagmire in Iraq, all the suggestions that,
during the second term, the Bush administration became more realistic in its
assessment of the Middle East situation and more sincere in reaching out for
the assistance and input of its allies is simply nonsense. The bottom line is that the US has not changed its policies on the
Arab-Israeli conflict over the past three decades. Under the given circumstances
of domestic American politics, the US will never exert sufficient pressure on
Israel to reach an agreement on the Arab-Israeli conflict, despite the fact
that the outlines of an eventual accord are known to everyone and have been
around for some time; it is land for peace and if presented in the right way,
the Arabs are ready to accept it. But for whatever reason, every US
administration in the past four decades has consistently extended Israel the
benefit of doubt, meaning that it was the Arabs who were uninterested while
Israel that was seeking peace. Yet, what Israel really wants is both peace
and all the land it currently occupies without any tradeoff. It is not rocket
science to understand that this is completely unrealistic and will never lead
to any kind of security.
· US, EU said
arguing over Iran nuclear reactor: A
Russian-built nuclear reactor has become a stumbling
block to an agreement on a proposed package of
U.N. sanctions on Iran, with the United States arguing that Moscow should be forced to halt
work on the project, American officials and
diplomats said on Monday.
· IRAN/CONTRA
REDUX? Convicted Iran-Contra Criminal Oliver North Attacks Nicaragua’s
Front-Running Presidential Candidate Danny Ortega: A poll released Monday showed that Ortega was leading the presidential
race with 34 percent of the vote, compared to 29 percent for Harvard-educated
banker Eduardo Montealegre, backed by the United States. Trailing
were ruling party candidate Jose Rizo and Edmundo Jarquin, a former
Inter-American Development Bank economist also backed by the United States.
· AMERICA
ON-SALE! Mid-Term Election Spending To Set Record $2.6 Billions: The
November 7 congressional race will be the most expensive midterm election
ever, with spending reaching some 2.6 billion dollars, a non-partisan
group that tracks US campaign spending said
What Israel Lobby?
Israeli
Defense Force veteran heading up
new U.S. Air Force Cyberspace command
Wayne Madsen
Report – 10.24.06
Lani
Kass: Israeli Defense Force veteran heading up Air Force Cyberspace warriors.
October 24, 2006 -- US Air Force official's past
raises eyebrows. On December 7, 2005, the US Air Force officially recognized
"cyberspace" as one of its warfare domains -- along with air and
outer space. In early November, Air Force officials will gather in Washington
to form a new US Air Force Command -- the Air Force Cyberspace Command. It
will have authority to launch wars in cyberspace. The new command is largely
the brainchild of Dr. Lani Kass, director of the Air Force Cyberspace Task
Force.
Kass' past has
many US government computer security officials puzzled and concerned. From
1979 to 1981, Kass served as a Major in the Israeli Defense Forces. This was
at a time when Israel was targeting America's most closely held secrets
through its Navy spy, Jonathan Pollard. After her service in the IDF, Kass integrated into the
Washington national security establishment, the private sector serving as an
entree. From 1982 to1985, Kass was Director of the Russian Research
Center at Booz-Allen and Hamilton, Bethesda, Md. (an odd name considering
that Russia was then called the Soviet Union by every national security
entity). From 1985 to 2005, Kass was Professor of Military Strategy and
Operations at National War College at National Defense University in Fort
McNair, Washington.
Kass previously served in the Dick Cheney Defense Department,
having worked from 1992 to 1993 as Special Assistant to the Director,
Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (J-5), Joint Staff at the Pentagon.
She returned to the Pentagon under Defense Secretary William Cohen and
continued to serve under Donald Rumsfeld. From 2000 to 2001, Kass was Senior
Policy Adviser and Special Assistant for Strategic Initiatives to the
Director, Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (J-5) and from January 2006
to the present, she has been the Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff,
U.S. Air Force, and Director of CSAF’s Cyberspace Task Force.
October 23,
2006 -- George W. Bush's Paraguay land deal
Wayne Madsen
Report
October 23, 2006 -- George W. Bush's Paraguay land deal. WMR's
Paraguayan sources have confirmed that George W. Bush recently bought 42,000
hectares (over 100,000 acres) of land in Paraguay's northern
"Chaco" region. The land sits atop huge natural gas reserves,
according to sources in Asuncion. Moreover, the land deal was consummated in
a dinner meeting
between Bush's daughter Jenna and Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte.
Although Jenna, who was in Paraguay under the cover of a 10-day UNICEF trip
to visit child welfare projects, put the Bush family seal of approval on the
land deal, the actual legal papers were worked out by Bush family lawyers and
business representatives. Jenna Bush is supposedly working for UNICEF in Panama
City. A
troubling aspect of the land deal is the role played by James Cason, the US
ambassador to Paraguay, in a private Bush family business venture. Cason is a career Foreign Service
officer whose previous assignment was the
head of the US Interests Section in Havana, where he managed to stir up
tensions between the mission and Cuban
authorities with his anti-Castro
advertisements placed in the windows of the U.S.
offices. Cason also has a long history of cooperating with the Defense
Intelligence Agency in such locations as Honduras, El Salvador, Panama,
Uruguay, and Venezuela. Cason also served as the Guatemala Desk Officer at
the Department of State.
Jenna Bush (right) now acts as
her dad's emissary in Latin America, consummating a land deal in Paraguay.
The Bush land is close to a new U.S. military installation, the Mariscal
Estigarribia Air Base. It is also nearby a huge
tract of land purchased by Sun Myung Moon that
sits astride Latin America's largest water aquifer, the Guarani aquifer.
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An extraordinarily prescient TV interview with General Norman
Schwarzkopf and Robert Gates - Deputy National Security Advisor to Former
President George Bush Sr.
Why Invading Iraq Was A Very Stupid Idea…
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“People should not be afraid of their government.
Governments should be afraid of their people.”
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