Just shut up. That’s the new foreign policy line of our masters. When Senator Edward Kennedy dubbed Iraq "George Bush’s Vietnam", US Secretary of State Colin Powell told him to be "a little more restrained and careful" in his comments. I recall that when the US commenced its bombing of Afghanistan, the White House spokesman claimed that some journalists were "asking questions that the American people wouldn’t want asked". Back in the early 1980s, when I reported on the Iranian (…)
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Shut Up, War Critics
15 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Iraq will never be sorted out until Mr Blair and President Bush admit their mistakes
14 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Independent
Robin Cook The coalition needs to find a model of reconstruction that gives priority to jobs in Iraq over profits in Texas. IT is almost exactly a year since a triumphalist President Bush in combat fatigues swooped on to the deck of an aircraft carrier to announce that "major combat operations" were over in Iraq. Yet for the past week television bulletins have been carrying violent images from Iraq that look suspiciously like major combat operations. Conquering Iraq (…) -
Only an ’uptick’ in violence
6 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
http://www.dawn.com/2004/04/04/op.htm#2
What has happened to the ’Coalition Provisional Authority’, also known as the occupying power? Things are getting worse, much worse in Iraq. Last week’s horrors proved that.
Yet just a day earlier, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, America’s deputy director of military operations, assured us that there was only an "uptick" in violence in Iraq . Not a sudden wave of violence, mark you, not a down-to-earth increase, not even a "spike" in violence - (…) -
Demonstrate Globally, Organize Locally
22 March 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Future Hope column
It was a definite "up" to be on the streets of Manhattan yesterday with 100,000 or so sisters and brothers marching for peace, justice and a new world, knowing that, as it turned out, upwards of 2 million of us were demonstrating together around the U.S. and the world. Our movement needs days like March 20th, 2004.
And we will need an even bigger and more powerful "World Says No to Bush" international day of action on August 29th, the day before the opening of the (…) -
US Plan for Global Domination Tops Project Censored’s...
22 September 2003 par (Open-Publishing)
US Plan for Global Domination Tops Project Censored’s Annual List
By Kari Lydersen, AlterNet September 17, 2003
We know a lot more now about the dangers and disasters of U.S. empire building in Iraq - the ongoing bloodshed on the ground, expansion of terrorist activities, the huge budget busting costs of occupation, the stretching and undermining of the military, and the increased sense of fear and insecurity that many Americans feel as a result of the invasion and its potential for (…) -
America’s Crumbling Authority
25 August 2003 par (Open-Publishing)
UN Attack Underlines America’s Crumbling Authority And Shows It Can Not Guarantee The Safety Of Any One
Robert Fisk
08/20/03: What UN member would ever contemplate sending peace-keeping troops to Iraq now? The men who are attacking America’s occupation army are ruthless, but they are not stupid. They know that President George Bush is getting desperate, that he will do anything - that he may even go to the dreaded Security Council for help - to reduce US military losses in Iraq. But (…)