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  • Blair’s legacy is a reckless adventure that’s wreaked havoc the world over
    8 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The prime minister sealed his fate by signing up in full to a policy now recognised by most Americans as a disaster
    by Jonathan Freedland
    The Americans can’t quite believe it. Getting rid of Tony Blair? Are you Brits crazy? Like Thatcher before him, Blair finds that the acclaim abroad lingers even when there is derision at home. Maggie was a legend in the States when she was shoved aside by the Tories, and the same is true of Blair. When he does his farewell tour - part Sinatra, part (…)

  • Uri Avnery: "Left, But..."
    8 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    I ONCE saw a nice sketch in a political cabaret: on the stage several people were speaking in unconnected sentences, all of which ended with the word "but". For example: "Some of my best friends are Jews, but...", "I have nothing against blacks, but...", "I really detest racism, but..."
    During the recent war, I frequently heard similar phrases: "I am a leftist, but..." These words were invariably - but invariably! - followed by a rightist statement.
    It seems that we have (…)

  • Weldon seeks plan for Iraq withdrawal
    7 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Weldon seeks plan for Iraq withdrawal
    By Alexander Bolton, September 7, 2006
    The second-ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, who is a strong supporter of the U.S. military mission in Iraq, has drafted a resolution that would give military commanders - instead of President Bush or Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld - decision-making authority over when American troops should return home.
    Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), the vice chairman of the Armed Services panel and (…)

  • France rejects "war on terror"
    7 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    France rejects "war on terror"
    Thu Sep 7, 8:27 AM ET
    PARIS (Reuters) - France issued an implicit criticism of U.S. foreign policy on Thursday, rejecting talk of a "war on terror."
    Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, speaking in parliament, expressed these views on global terrorism, while President Jacques Chirac backed France’s claims to the international front rank with a fresh defense of his country’s nuclear arsenal.
    Villepin noted Chirac’s strong opposition to the U.S.-led (…)

  • Imagine if Iran was the US and the US Iran
    7 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Imagine if Iran was the US and the US Iran
    reposted from By Jupiter
    In 1953 a group of Iranians overthrew the democratic American government via a coup orchestrated from the Iranian embassy in Washington. Using covert methods, propaganda broadcasts, bribery, coercion and hired agents to facilitate violence the Iranians were able to install an Iranian friendly American Emperor who then allowed them to extract half the oil in Texas.
    This state of affairs continued until a group of (…)

  • China Backs Iran Against The Great Satan
    7 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    China Backs Iran Against The Great Satan
    Combine China’s recent Iranian energy mega-deal with Vladimir Putin’s new strategic coalition, which includes nuclear-capable Brazil, and it rapidly becomes clear that New York’s "Fortress Americas" fallback initiative is already dead in the water.
    (reposted from Whisky_Joe: Contains lots of info about the Onyx SS-N-26 missile. It’s rumored that Iran has this technology and are now producing a home grown version of this beast. This is one of the (…)

  • Is this what our tax dollars are paying for?!@!!
    7 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is this what our tax dollars are paying for?!@!!
    reposted from Demonskates
    Ive spent a good part of this morning looking through pages of this stuff,this is what we dont see on CNN,this is what is going on in Lebanon.I have always been pro Israel, but after this, im not so sure.The photos in this are EXTREMELY GRAPHIC, if you have a weak constitution you may want to skip this one.
    http://www.thewe.cc/contents/more/archive/atrocities.htm
    when you actually see the effects of this war, (…)

  • The consequences of nuking Iran
    7 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The consequences of nuking Iran
    The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected (…)

  • The Sunburn Missile - The weapon that could defeat the US in the Gulf
    7 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Sunburn Missile - The weapon that could defeat the US in the Gulf
    Iran: A Bridge too Far?
    The weapon that could defeat the US in the Gulf
    A word to the reader: The following paper is so shocking that, after preparing the initial draft, I didn’t want to believe it myself, and resolved to disprove it with more research. However, I only succeeded in turning up more evidence in support of my thesis. And I repeated this cycle of discovery and denial several more times before finally (…)

  • Will Robert Fisk tell us the whole story?
    7 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Will Robert Fisk tell us the whole story? Time For a Champion of Truth to Speak Up
    By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
    Counterpunch
    September 5, 2006
    More than a little uncomfortably, I find myself with a bone to pick with one of our finest champions of humanitarian values and opponents of war. During Israel’s attack on Lebanon this summer, the distinguished British journalist Robert Fisk did sterling work — as might have been expected — debunking some of the main myths that littered the (…)