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Special Comment
War,
Economy Can't Be Decoupled
(Excerpt)
“What is the importance of the war in Iraq relative to other
current issues? This is a question I am often asked, especially as Americans
continue to become increasingly aware that something is very wrong with the
economy. The difficulty with the way the question is often asked relates to the
perception that we are somehow able to divide such issues, or to isolate the
cost of war into arbitrarily defined areas such as national security or
international relations. War is an all-encompassing governmental activity. The impact of war on our ability to defend ourselves from
future attack, and upon America's standing in the world, is only a mere
fraction of the total overall effect that war has on our nation and the
policies of its government.”
VIDEO: Washington’s Disastrous Foreign Policy - America
and Islam After Iraq
A speech and video presentation by Michael
Scheuer, Author and former Head of the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s bin-Laden Unit
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: The Hard Choice – Obama and the fall
into Tyranny
“As articles by John
Pilger, Alexander Cockburn, and Uri Avnery make clear, by groveling before the Israel Lobby Obama has
dispelled any hope that his presidency would make a difference. Obama told the
Lobby that in order to protect Israel he would use all the powers of the
presidency to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon. As in the case
of Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction,” the conclusion whether or not
Iran is making a nuclear weapon will be determined by propaganda and not by
fact. Therefore, there is no difference between Bush, McCain, Obama, and the
Lobby with regard to the Middle East.As Israel has several hundred nuclear
weapons, and a modern air force and missiles supplied by the US, the idea that
Israel needs American protection from Iran is a fantasy. All Israel needs
to do in order to be safe and to live in peace is to stop stealing the West
Bank and to drop its designs on southern Lebanon. Obama is too smart not
to know that US foreign policy has been Shanghaied by the Lobby not in order to
protect innocent Israel but to enable Israel’s territorial expansion.”
Reporters Say Networks Block War Reports
Lara Logan, chief foreign correspondent, CBS news: “If I were to
watch the news that you hear [view] here in the United States, I would just
blow my brains out because it would drive me nuts.”
ERIC MARGOLIS: The March to Folly on the Afghan Border
The Single Most Popular Youtube Video Ever
Iran: Stop nukes by bombing oil
wells, neocons suggest
Why attack Iran's nuclear facilities
when striking their oil infrastructure would be much more effective in the
scope of a US-led preventive war? Sure, oil prices might skyrocket and the
world economy might collapse. But, hey, that's the price you pay for security.
Such a scenario is not a nightmare or an outtake from a remake of Stanley
Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove," but part of a serious recommendation
made by two neoconservatives in case sanctions fail to persuade Iran to abandon
its enrichment of uranium. In a July report titled "The Last Resort: Consequences of
Preventive Military Action Against Iran," scholars Patrick Clawson and
Michael Eisenstadt advocate military strategies that would ultimately
discourage Tehran from pursuing any future non-civilian nuclear activities.
Arch-NEOCON BILL KRISTOL: Bush Might
Bomb Iran If He 'Thinks Senator Obama's Going to Win'
On Fox News Sunday this morning, Weekly Standard editor Bill
Kristol said that President [sic] Bush is more likely to attack Iran if he
believes Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is going to be elected. However, "if the
president thought John McCain was going to be the next president, he would
think it more appropriate to let the next president make that decision than do
it on his way out," Kristol said, reinforcing the fact that McCain is
offering a third Bush term on Iran... Host Chris Wallace then asked if Kristol
was suggesting that Bush might "launch a military strike" before or
after the election: WALLACE: So, you're suggesting that he might in fact, if
Obama's going to win the election, either before or after the election, launch
a military strike? KRISTOL: I don’t know. I mean, I think he would worry about
it...
Britain Admits Using Thermobaric
Weapons in Afghanistan
Vice-president
of German Parliament urges withdrawal of US nuclear arms from Europe
Leaked Israeli Drill Seen as
US Pressure on Iran
Egypt says Hamas phones bugged by Israel
Fighting rages in north Lebanon for second day, 9
reported dead
US, Iraqi Crackdown Meets No
Sadrist Resistance
Iraq Courts Order 20,000 Freed
Under Amnesty
In
First, U.S. Court Rejects Military's Gitmo Ruling
DeWayne Wickham: Before Iraq inks a deal with Washington, a little U.S.
history
Iraq to award oil contracts to
foreign firms
22 Jun 2008-Iraq will award contracts to 41 foreign oil firms in a
bid to boost production that could give multinationals a potentially lucrative
foothold in huge but underdeveloped oil fields, an official said on Sunday.
"We chose 35 companies of international standard, according to their
finances, environment and experience, and we granted them permission to extract
oil," oil ministry spokesman Asim Jihad told AFP.
Secret Pentagon Funding Near All-Time High
SWAT Teams Run Amok, Kill Civilians Onstar Will Shut Down Your Vehicle If Stolen (or
whatever) - Video GEORGE CARLIN Comedic Icon
Dead at 71 Years Classic Carlin Videos Caution: Trenchant, Irreverent &
Profanity “Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful
and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure
wind.” ~George Orwell~ PERSPECTIVE HE'S BACK! Ross
Perot Sponsors New Public Interest Website Don’t “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran!” Video Saddam
Hussein – “Thanks for the Memories” Video
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