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  • The Left, the Enemy of My Enemy, and Liberation: The Case of the Iraqi Resistance
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Factions on the Left have called for "Support for the Iraqi Resistance" and criticized those who don’t endorse the call. For example, at this year’s Left Forum, Anthony Arnove and Tariq Ali debated Stephen Shalom and Joanne Landy on this issue, with the first two arguing for supporting the resistance. Some commentators even refer to this resistance as "freedom fighters in Iraq." My sympathies are with the other side. While one might argue for some abstract "right to resist occupation," what (…)

  • $$$ Your Hard Earned TAX DOLLERS Hard at work! $$$$
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Driverless vehicles prepare to rumble in Mojave Desert PRIMM, Nev. (AP) - A customized Volkswagen SUV created by Stanford University became the first driverless vehicle to cross the finish line Saturday of a $2-million, Pentagon-sponsored robot race across the rugged Mojave Desert.
    A customized red Hummer built by Carnegie Mellon University, dubbed H1ghlander races through the Mojave desert in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) 2005 Grand Challenge robot (…)

  • Binding the Hands of Torturers
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When the Senate voted this week to bring America’s chain of military prison camps under the rule of law, President Bush threatened a veto. The White House explained his objections by saying the measure would bind the government’s hands. Yes, exactly. The rules would finally bind military prisons to democratic values and the standards of behavior recognized by every other civilized nation. They would bind the government to a code of conduct that will help protect those in the nation’s (…)

  • Left Margin : BUSH’S ENTOURAGE
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Carl Bloice
    My good friend - who’s usually right about such things - insists that in this case what is apparent is probably real. The Bush Administration really did appoint Karen Hughes to conduct a campaign to improve the image of our country in the Islamic world. There is no hidden agenda. She’s supposed to go around publicly holding court in places like Saudi Arabia and Turkey, ’listening’ and saying good things about the good people back here at home. Hughes is not carrying secret (…)

  • OPERATION NORTHWOODS: US PLANNED FAKE TERROR ATTACKS ON CITIZENS TO CREATE SUPPORT FOR CUBAN WAR
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From BODY OF SECRETS, James Bamford, Doubleday, 2001, p.82 and following. Scanned and edited by NY Transfer News.
    ...In [Joint Chief’s chair] Lemnitzer’s view, the country would be far better off if the generals could take over. [JFK assassination legend has it some general presided over the fudgy JFK autopsy. —Mk]
    For those military officers who were sitting on the fence, the Kennedy administration’s botched Bay of Pigs invasion was the last straw. "The Bay of Pigs fiasco broke the (…)

  • DC Observations of 9/24/05
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I’ve had a history of staying out of politics. I’ve had a past of not reading the newspaper, of not watching the news, and also of not paying any mind at all to history and how it affects us today. My views have currently been changing, when it struck me as to how selfish and ignorant a stand such as this can be. Our government has been hard at work, not protecting our freedoms, but infringing on them, causing us to lose our rights and liberty’s bit by bit, law after ever restricting law. (…)

  • In case we forget.Reed and weep.
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the councils of government,we must guard against the acquasition of unwarranted influence,whether sought or unsought,by the military industrial complex The potential for the disasterous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
    Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defence with our peaceful methods and goals.(Dwight D.Eisenhower).
    (JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR US TO THINK ABOUT).

  • Pentagon Analyst Pleads Guilty to giving classified info to Israeli official
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A top Pentagon analyst with expertise in the Middle East pleaded guilty Wednesday to giving classified information to an Israeli embassy official and members of a pro- Israel lobbying group.
    Lawrence A. Franklin, 58, said during a plea hearing that he was frustrated with the government and that he had hoped the two members of the lobbying group could use their connections at the National Security Council to influence U.S. policy.
    He also admitted giving classified (…)

  • During War Speech, Bush Calls Himself a ’Tyrant’ and a ’Radical’
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bob Cesca 10.06.2005 During War Speech, Bush Calls Himself a ’Tyrant’ and a ’Radical’
    Bush’s speech today at the National Endowment for Democracy was loaded with what author Mark Crispin Miller has observed as Bush’s pathological tendency for "projectivity."
    "Projectors are those people who consistently attack others for the things they hate most in themselves. When Bush talks about Saddam Hussein, he’s talking about himself . . . What’s significant about Bush’s projectivity is that (…)

  • Iran: Blair begins to fix the intelligence
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it." - US General Douglas MacArthur (One of the most decorated soldiers in the history of the United States military)
    Thu Oct 6th, 2005 at 13:34:40 PDT
    As with Iraq, UK Prime Minister Tony (…)