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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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Palestine & Lebanon: Watch
The Destruction! (Video)
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Saddam
Hussein: “Thanks For The Memories”, He Was Always Washington’s Man –
Always! (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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September 4, 2006:” John The
Revelator”- Depeche Mode (Music-Video)
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‘Fascist Christ’ - Todd Rundgren
(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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Neither
will admit that Iraq is a disaster. But while their state of denial may
cost votes in Washington and London, on the frontline in the Middle East,
it continues to cost lives.
By Patrick Cockburn – The Independent, London
Published: 05 November 2006
~Excerpt~
"When does the incompetence end
and the crime begin?" asked an appalled German Chancellor in the First
World War when the German army commander said he intended to resume his bloody
and doomed assaults on the French fortress city of Verdun. The same could be said of the disastrous policies of George
Bush and Tony Blair in Iraq. At least 3,000 Iraqis and 100 American soldiers
are dying every month. The failure of the US and Britain at every level in
Iraq is obvious to all. But the White House and Downing Street have lived in
a state of permanent denial. On the Downing Street website are listed 10
"Big Issues" affecting the Prime Minister, but Iraq is not one of
them.
by Paul Craig
Roberts
LewRockwell.com
11.6.06
~Excerpt~
“If Saddam can be sentenced to death for his responsibility in
the killing of 148 Shiites, what about Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Blair’s
responsibility for the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians slaughtered by
Bush’s invasion of Iraq?”
This massive carnage is the direct consequence of an illegal
invasion – a war crime in itself for which Nazi leaders were sentenced to death – that was based on lies and deception. Bush himself admits that
30,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed. Iraq Body Count puts the civilian
deaths at between 45,000 and 50,000. The recent Johns Hopkins University
study published in the peer-reviewed British medical journal, The Lancet
(11 Oct, 2006), puts the Iraqi civilian deaths caused by Bush’s invasion as high as 655,000.
What does
the world think of American hypocrisy when the US government, drowning in the
blood of tens of thousands of its innocent victims, cries "justice" as the president of Iraq is sentenced to death for
killing 148 people for trying to assassinate him?
The verdict
against Saddam was influenced by the propaganda of mass graves uncovered by
the US-led invasion and seized upon as justification for that illegal
invasion. However, as various experts have pointed out, the graves
are those of war dead from the Iraq-Iran war. The US government has responsibility for these deaths
also, as Washington gave aid to
both sides in the
bloody conflict that is believed to have claimed as many as one million lives.
Now that Saddam
Hussein has been held accountable for his crimes, can we look forward to
accountability for George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard
Perle, Douglas Feith, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, John Bolton, Kenneth
Adelman, Michael Rubin, Eliot Cohen, and their propagandists in the media, such as Billy
Kristol, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert Kagan, David Frum, the Wall St
Journal editorial writers, the editors of National Review and the New
York Times, and the Fox "News" talking heads?
Will
accountability be extended to the conservative foundations and think tanks
that financed the neoconservative takeover of the Republican Party and Bush
administration?
Now that the American invasions
of Iraq and Afghanistan have ended in defeat, those most responsible for the
destruction of those two countries, tens of thousands of deaths, and a bill
for US taxpayers in excess of
$2 trillion (according
to Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz) are running from any
responsibility.
Richard Perle, the principle instigator
of the illegal invasions, declared to
Vanity Fair (Nov. 3, 2006): "Huge mistakes were made, and I want to
be very clear on this: They were not made by neoconservatives, who had almost
no voice in what happened." "At the end of the day," Perle
told ABC News’ Karen Mooney (Nov. 4,
2006), "you have to hold the president responsible."
The Bush Administration's Torture
of U.S. Citizen Jose Padilla
By Glenn
Greenwald
Unclaimed Territory
10.10.06
~Excerpt~
The Bush
administration's May, 2002 lawless detention of U.S. citizen Jose Padilla
-- on U.S. soil -- was, as I recounted in my book, the first incident which
really prompted me to begin concluding that things were going terribly awry
in our country. The administration declared Padilla an "enemy
combatant," put him in a military prison, and refused to charge him with
any crime or even allow him access to a lawyer or anyone else. He stayed in a black hole, kept by his own government, for the
next three-a-half-years with no charges of any kind ever asserted
against him and with the administration insisting on the right to detain him
(and any other American citizen) indefinitely -- all based solely on
the secret, unchallengeable say-so of the President that he was an
"enemy combatant."
To this day, I have trouble believing that we have a Government that claims
this power against American citizens and has exercised that power and
aggressively defended it -- and
even more trouble believing that there are so many blindly loyal followers of
that government who defend that conduct. The
outrage that it provokes when thinking about it has not diminished even a small
amount and does not diminish no matter how many times one reads, writes or
speaks about it. It is as profound a
betrayal of the most core American political principles as one can fathom.
Ortega wins
presidential election
AFX-London
11.6.06
Managua - Former revolutionary leader Daniel Ortega won
Nicaragua's presidential election with more than 38 percent of the vote, an
electoral observers' group said on Monday, citing a quick count it conducted.
Ortega had a lead of almost nine points over his closest rival, conservative
Eduardo Montealegre, according to the Ethics and Transparency group, which
deployed 11 000 electoral monitors during Sunday's voting.
Dangerous Insanity
by Charley Reese
LewRockwell.com
10.30.06
~Excerpt~
When the Warsaw Pact was disbanded,
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization also should have been disbanded. After
all, it was just a war alliance against the Soviet Union.
Instead, NATO was
expanded right up to the borders of Russia. The Anti-Ballistic
Missile Treaty was unilaterally abrogated. Other nuclear-disarmament treaties
were tossed in the trash can. Rather than help Russia transition from
communism to a free market, the U.S. sent sharpies who helped the oligarchs
steal most of the country's wealth during the drunken presidency of Boris
Yeltsin.
Furthermore,
NATO's mission changed from a defensive posture to an offensive mission. The
bombing of Serbia, a traditional ally of Russia, was designed to send a
message to Russia; the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade was a
message to Beijing. At the same time, using democracy or terrorism as an
excuse, the U.S. has sought to install governments unfriendly to Russia in
the former Soviet republics and to establish military bases on the perimeter
of the country.
Unfortunately
for the crazies in Washington, the Russians replaced their drunk with a smart
guy, Vladimir Putin. By the way, all the bad-mouthing of Putin is coming from
the oligarchs who fled justice in Russia. They have plenty of money to hire
the best whores in the fields of public relations and journalism to bad-mouth
a Russian leader. who wants to put them in jail where they belong. Of course,
they want regime change – another drunk who would
invite them back to steal what they missed the first time.
The Chinese were not
intimidated, either. Both countries see Bush's anti-missile defense system for what
it really is – an offensive weapon to
be used in conjunction with a nuclear first strike. We couldn't afford a
system to cover the country, but one that might pick off the leftovers after
an American first strike is feasible.
So China
and Russia have come together in a strong, strategic alliance nobody would
have thought possible 20 years ago. It is a military, economic and energy
alliance with one purpose – to frustrate the U.S.
attempt at world dominance.
These neoconservative
crazies are dangerous people. They are sick with the same hubris that brought
down the British Empire. It is one thing to bully Third World countries; it is quite
another to play that game with nuclear powers.
One Asian
former head of intelligence has written that China already has the technology
and weapons to put our aircraft carriers on the bottom of the sea as easily
as sinking a sampan.
The world
doesn't need this madness. Washington needs to be cleansed of these crackpots
before they stupidly unleash a nuclear holocaust. The Russians and Chinese
are among Earth's most brilliant people, and they are not taken in by
political blathering [Washington’s
new(?) Military Space- Dominance doctrine]. It is extremely
dangerous to be doing things that they reasonably can assume is leading to a
strategy of a nuclear first strike.
Russia Refuses to ‘Bargain’ Over Iran Nuclear
Facility
11.5.06
Taipei
Times – Taiwan
Russia will not bargain
at the UN Security Council over its construction of Iran's first nuclear
power station at Bushehr, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said
yesterday, Russian news agencies reported. Lavrov said that European powers
were trying to win Russian support for UN sanctions against Iran in exchange
for allowing Moscow to continue construction of the Bushehr facility -- a key
building block in Iran's controversial nuclear program. "What they say between the lines is: `Support us on
all points and we will allow you to build Bushehr.' We don't need that,"
Lavrov was quoted as saying by Interfax.
Six Arab States Set To Launch Nuclear Programs
11.6.06
The
Australian
The
countries involved were named by the International Atomic Energy Agency as
Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Saudi Arabia. Tunisia and the UAE have also shown
interest. All want to build civilian nuclear power plants, as they and the
Iranians are permitted to under international law. But the rush to nuclear
power has raised Western suspicions that the real intention is to acquire
nuclear technology that could be used to make the first Arab atomic bomb.
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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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