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Bugliosi
Testifies Before Congress: "Bush Guilty of First-Degree Murder” (Video) |
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Charlie
Savage reports for The New York Times: "Felons are asking President Bush
for pardons and commutations at historic levels as he nears his final months
in office, a time when many other presidents have granted a flurry of
clemency requests.... As the administration wrestles with the cascade of
petitions, some lawyers and law professors are raising a related question:
Will Mr. Bush grant pre-emptive pardons to officials involved in
controversial counterterrorism programs?" Continue… |
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Michael
Regan reports for Truthout.org: “In May of
2002, the United States Army invaded E3, the annual video game convention
held in Los Angeles. At the city's Convention Center, young game enthusiasts
mixed with camouflaged soldiers, Humvees and a small tank parked near the
entrance. Thundering helicopter sound effects drew the curious to the Army's
interactive display, where a giant video screen flashed the words
"Empower yourself. Defend America ... You will be a soldier." Continue… |
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CENTCOM:
America’s the Name, Intimidation’s the Game Robert Higgs Comments for LewRockwell.com: “How can a government that maintains more than 800 military facilities in more than 140 different foreign countries be anything other
than an imperial power? The hundreds
of thousands of troops who operate those bases
and conduct operations from them, not to mention the approximately 125,000
sailors and Marines aboard the U.S. warships that cruise the oceans, are not
going door to door selling Girl Scout cookies. United States of America is
the name; intimidation is the game. Of course, the kingpins who control this massive machinery of
coercion never describe it in such terms. In their lexis, American motives
and actions are invariably noble. Listening to these bigwigs describe what
the U.S. forces abroad are doing, you would never suspect that they seek
anything but ‘regional stability,’ ‘security,’ ‘deterrence of potential
regional aggressors,’ and ‘economic development and cooperation among
nations.’ Inasmuch as hardly anybody favors instability, insecurity,
international aggression, economic retrogression, and mutual strife among
nations, the U.S. objectives, and hence the actions taken in their
furtherance, would appear to be indisputably laudable. Yet, from time to time, a U.S. leader lets slip an expression so
revealing that it warrants a thousand times greater weight than the vague,
mealy-mouthed banalities they routinely dispense. I came across such a
statement recently. In seeking funds in 2007 for construction of a $62
million ammunition storage facility at Bagram Air Base, Admiral William J. Fallon, then the commander of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM),
referred to Bagram as ‘the centerpiece for the
CENTCOM Master Plan for future access to and operations in Central Asia.’ Pause
to savor this phrase for a moment; let it roll around in your mind: CENTCOM Master Plan for
future access to and operations in Central Asia. What an intriguing
expression! What dramatic images of future U.S. military actions it evokes!
But can those actions be anything other than the very sort that empires
undertake? Ask yourself: why does the U.S. military anticipate conducting
operations in Central Asia, a region that lies thousands of miles from the
United States and comprises countries that lack either the capacity or the
intention to seriously harm Americans who mind their own business in their
own national territory? Indeed, what is the U.S. military doing in Central
Asia in the first place? Have you ever heard of ‘the
Great Game’? Continue… |
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The Veiled Face of Washington’s “Diplomacy”: You need
Uncle Sam, Iraq told |
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Get Out of Afghanistan Too |
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Paul
Craig Roberts: Facing The Facts About Israel Paul Craig Roberts writes: “I had given up on finding an American
with a moral conscience and the courage to go with it and was on the verge of
retiring my keyboard when I met the Rev. Thomas L. Are.
Rev. Are is a Presbyterian pastor who used to tell his Atlanta,
Georgia, congregation: "I am a Zionist." Like most Americans, Rev.
Are had been seduced by Israeli propaganda and helped to spread the
propaganda among his congregation.
Around 1990 Rev. Are had an awakening for which he credits the
Christian Canon of St. George's Cathedral in Jerusalem and author Marc Ellis,
co-editor of the book, Beyond Occupation.
Realizing that his ignorance of the situation on the ground had
made him complicit in great crimes, Rev. Are wrote a book hoping to save
others from his mistake and perhaps in part to make amends, Israeli Peace Palestinian Justice,
published in Canada in 1994.
Rev. Are researched his subject and wrote a brave book. Keep in
mind that 1994 was long prior to Walt and Mearsheimer's recent book,
which exposed the power of the Israel Lobby and its ability to control the
explanation Americans receive about the "Israeli-Palestinian
conflict."
Rev. Are begins with an account of Israel's opening attack on
the Palestinians, an event which took place before most Americans alive today
were born. He quotes the distinguished British historian, Arnold J. Toynbee: "The
treatment of the Palestinian Arabs in 1947 (and 1948) was as morally
indefensible as the slaughter of six million Jews by the Nazis. Though nor
comparable in quantity to the crimes of the Nazis, it was comparable in
quality." Continue… |
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More
Than 100,000 Detainees Released Under Iraq Pardon Law Aswat al-Iraq (Voices of Iraq)
reports: ‘The number of detainees released under the general amnesty law,
launched by the government in February, reached more than 100,000, the higher
judicial council said on Tuesday.
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“Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful
and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure
wind.” ~George Orwell~
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