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ATTACKING IRAN: I KNOW IT SOUNDS CRAZY, BUT...
"'This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous.' "(Short pause) "'And having said that, all options are on the table.' "Even the White House stenographers felt obliged to note the result: '(Laughter).'" (The Washington Post's Dan Froomkin on George Bush's February 22 press conference) For a ....
LEAVE OUR COUNTRY NOW
We lived through dark days under Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. When the regime fell, people wanted a new life: a life without shackles and terror; a life where we could rebuild our country and enjoy its natural wealth. Instead, our communities have been attacked with chemicals and cluster bombs, and our people tortured, raped and killed in our homes. ....
THE COMING WARS
George W. Bush___s reëlection was not his only victory last fall. The President and his national-security advisers have consolidated control over the military and intelligence communities___ strategic analyses and covert operations to a degree unmatched since the rise of the post-Second World War national-security state. Bush has an aggressive and ....
A GLOBAL GULAG TO HIDE THE WAR ON TERROR’S DIRTY SECRETS
The promise of imminent release for four British detainees held at the notorious US prison at Guantánamo Bay is obviously welcome, but it is only a tiny exception in the surge of bad news from the Bush team on the human rights front. The first few days of the new year have produced two shocking exposures already. One is the revelation that the ....
BRING THE TROOPS HOME
The United States should pull out of Iraq. Already, the United States has lost more than 1,350 soldiers. Already, about 10,000 U.S. soldiers have been wounded, at a rate now of almost 1,000 a month. That is too high a price for us to pay in American blood. Then there are the Iraqi civilians who have died. According to Iraqbodycount.net, as ....
NO ESCAPE FROM DEPENDENCY
When George W. Bush entered the White House in early 2001, the nation was suffering from a severe "energy crisis" brought on by high gasoline prices, regional shortages of natural gas, and rolling blackouts in California. Most notable was the artificial scarcity of natural gas orchestrated by the Enron Corporation in its rapacious drive for mammoth ....
CHINA WIDENS ECONOMIC ROLE IN LATIN AMERICA
SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 19 - The expected arrival here on Friday of President Bush, who personifies for Latin Americans the economic and political power of Washington, is being greeted with an uneasy mix of protests and hopes for greater growth. But while the United States may still regard the region as its backyard, its dominance is no longer unquestioned. ....
CHIRAC INTERVIEWS
The Times ___ London, November 16, 2004 Chirac: Britain cannot be an 'honest broker' between Europe and US BY CHARLES BREMNER The French President reasserts his vision of a separate Europe balancing US influence (EXTRACTS) The French leader, who turns 72 next month, sketched his vision and what he called the ancient Franco-British ....
YELLOW JOURNALISM
Every now and then, an article catches my eye that seems to sum up the worst of Washington-based access journalism ("just the spin, ma'am") in our imperial press. On Friday, the morning of the second presidential debate, just such a piece — Pentagon Sets Steps to Retake Iraq Rebel Sites — made it onto the front-page of my hometown newspaper and I ....
THE OPIATE OF THE ELECTORATE
If your anti-Bush sentiments have turned into electoral passion, then you probably restrained your exhilaration after last Thursday's debate until you got a sense of how it played to the American electorate; which means, how it played in the polls that began to pour out only moments after the event ended. The first "instant" polls seemed to indicate ....
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