Home > Keywords > Politics > Governments

Governments

  • Dying for Good: Tony Blair and the great fight
    29 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ahh, the charming poodle, Tony Blair. How absolutely charming he can be at the podium, with his upperclassman diction and typical British aloofness!
    But when he gets around to speaking to the world press he doesn’t waste any time placing his foot firmly in his mouth and demonstrating his elitist disdain for 3rd world lives.
    Aside from his crass and incredible statements about how he feels "grief" for the dead civilians in Lebanon but still says me "must continue what we’re doing for we (…)

  • Bush And Blair Blowing Bubbles
    29 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    Bush And Blair Blowing Bubbles By SusanUnPC Friday, 28 July 2006 at 14:34
    From Ray Close, via Larry Johnson and posted by SusanUnPC.
    Dear Friends:
    It became very clear during the Bush-Blair press conference on Friday morning, 28 July, that the American and British "formula" to resolve the Lebanon crisis rests on a hallucinatory expectation that several critically important developments can and will take place successfully between now and the time early next week when the U.N. Security (…)

  • HUMINT In History
    29 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    HUMINT In History Posted By SusanUnPC Friday, 28 July 2006 at 15:30
    From Ray Close, via Larry Johnson and posted by SusanUnPC. Ray Close is a former CIA analyst in the Near East division and a member of the steering group for Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity; his recent posts here are "Truth in Simplicity," "From Rasha in Beirut," and "U.S. Policy in Lebanon."
    ........................................................
    Addressed primarily to Chas Freeman, the former U.S. (…)

  • Israel’s War On Lebanon Threatens Political Comeback For Bush
    29 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    Israel’s War On Lebanon Threatens Political Comeback For Bush By Peter Baker, Los Angeles Times-Washington Post 07/28/2006 09:55 PM
    The latest crisis in the Middle East has disrupted US President George W. Bush’s plans domestically and internationally at a sensitive juncture, reopening divisions with allies abroad and jeopardising attempts to restore public confidence at home, according to officials, analysts and diplomats.
    The discord at a conference in Rome on Wednesday over a proposed (…)

  • Mr. Bush Just Doesn’t Get It
    29 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    3 comments

    Mr Bush Just Doesn’t Get It By Khaled Almaeena, Special to Gulf News 07/27/2006 09:25 PM The savage Israeli aggression against Lebanon continues. Emboldened by world silence and powerless apathy in the region, the Israeli war machine is wreaking havoc and raining death and destruction on helpless Lebanese civilians.
    The news that deadly bombs and laser-guided missiles have been given to the Israeli Air Force does not bode well for Lebanon.
    On the diplomatic front, Tel Aviv has also (…)

  • The Truth Of British Premier’s "Urgent Diplomacy"
    29 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    The Truth Of British Premier’s "Urgent Diplomacy" Robert Fisk, The Independent Saturday, 29, July, 2006
    I dropped by the hospital in Marjayoun this week to find a young girl lying in a hospital bed, swathed in bandages, her beauty scarred forever by some familiar wounds; the telltale dark-red holes in her skin made by cluster bombs, the weapon we used in Iraq to such lethal effect and which the Israelis are now using to punish the civilians of southern Lebanon.
    And, of course, it (…)

  • Grey Areas Over The White House
    29 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Grey Areas Over The White House Gulf News Editorial Published: 05/14/2006 12:00 AM
    It may just be that this particular White House is not any good at spying. It could be that it is devious. It may even be a mixture of both, either way it is in a deep political and legal mess.
    Osama Bin Laden remains free while millions of Americans have been spied upon, there are no weapons of mass destruction to justify war on Iraq and the Central Intelligence Agency keeps losing its head. A sorry (…)

  • What Ann Coulter Would Learn If She Actually Studied The Bible
    29 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    What Ann Coulter Would Learn If She Actually Studied The Bible By Celeste Beckendorf July 28, 2006 Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. (…)

  • Letter From An American
    29 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Letter From An American Tariq A. Al-Maeena, close_encounters@gawab.com Saturday, 29, July, 2006 In the wake of the continued war of terror that the Israelis are unleashing on the civilians in Lebanon, aided and abetted with fervor by US President George W. Bush and his administration, I received the following letter from an American mother:
    Dear Mr. Al-Maeena,
    I am deeply saddened by the violent attacks on civilians and the loss of lives of men, women and particularly children in (…)

  • The Facts tha the Iraqi Prime Minister didnot Tell the Congress,
    29 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    We closely watched the speech of the Iraqi prime minister in the congress. Obviously he has chosen phrases and issues that please the congress and make them applause for some time. I am quite sure that most of the congressmen are not aware of the other parts of the scene in Iraq. Some of the gloomy scenes in Iraq are:
    1- The Maliky government and his interior and defense ministers are hopeless and have no control of the violence in Iraq. In Baghdad alone an average of 100 people are killed (…)