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By PATRICK COCKBURN
The Duke of Wellington, warning hawkish politicians in Britain against ill-considered military intervention abroad, once said: "Great nations do not have small wars." He meant that supposedly limited conflicts can inflict terrible damage on powerful states. Having seen what a small war in Spain had done to Napoleon, he knew what he was talking about.
The war in Iraq is now joining the Boer War in 1899 and the Suez crisis in 1956 as ill-considered ventures that have (…)

By Bradley Graham
COLORADO SPRINGS — The U.S. military has devised its first-ever war plans for guarding against and responding to terrorist attacks in the United States, envisioning 15 potential crisis scenarios and anticipating several simultaneous strikes around the country, according to officers who drafted the plans.
The classified plans, developed here at Northern Command headquarters, outline a variety of possible roles for quick-reaction forces estimated at as many as 3,000 (…)

CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush, noting that lots of people want to talk to the president and "it’s also important for me to go on with my life," on Saturday defended his decision not to meet with the grieving mom of a soldier killed in Iraq.
Bush said he is aware of the anti-war sentiments of Cindy Sheehan and others who have joined her protest near the Bush ranch.
"But whether it be here or in Washington or anywhere else, there’s somebody who has got something to say to the president, (…)

by Cindy Sheehan
It is not often that, I, Cindy Sheehan is at a loss for words. I will try and describe today, though. It was the most incredible, fantastic, fabulous, amazing, powerful, miraculous event I have ever been apart of. I was so humbled and honored at the outpouring of love and support that arrived in Camp Casey today.
It was a busy morning of interviews and problem solving. I had interviews with some network shows and a photo shoot for the Vanity Fair article. Almost all of (…)

by FRANK RICH
LIKE the Japanese soldier marooned on an island for years after V-J Day, President Bush may be the last person in the country to learn that for Americans, if not Iraqis, the war in Iraq is over. "We will stay the course," he insistently tells us from his Texas ranch. What do you mean we, white man?
A president can’t stay the course when his own citizens (let alone his own allies) won’t stay with him. The approval rate for Mr. Bush’s handling of Iraq plunged to 34 percent in (…)

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Welcome to Talk Nation Radio produced in New England at WHUS Storrs.
Talk Nation.org for news and discussion on politics, human rights, and the environment.
I’m Dori Smith
Our guest today is
Stephen Soldz of Roslindale Neighbors for Peace and Justice.
He describes himself as a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, and social activist, and while teaching at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis he also finds time to write and perform research duties on a web page he (…)

"Majorities of both Sunni Arabs (82%) and Shiites (69%)
Favor U.S. forces withdrawing either immediately or after
an elected government is in place."
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.... Zogby Poll
The crowd responded by chanting: "Yes, yes to elections! No, no to occupation!"
"What our religious leadership is doing today is at the heart of its mandate," cleric Faras al-Tatrasani, 36, said. "We are http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/... demanding democracy. And that’s what (…)

Why not Cindy Sheehan? The CIA thinks they can rendition anyone, anywhere. A CIA agent, under arrest warrant in Europe, is on the lam. We reveal where he probably is for the first time, plus many other new details. Call this story the "Theory of Everything" about the the War on Terrorism and the Iran-Contra affair if you like, but it is basically a crime story. When arrested, Robert Seldon Lady could lay bare the Niger-nukes forgery thousands of American troops have died over. He is (…)

Through the veneer that is Washington, with its grand monuments to great men, its hallowed halls of history, its monolithic structures of governance, its corridors of power, its seats of wealth and effervescent illumination as the reincarnation of ancient Rome, can we, if we dare look upon the vision emanating from its shallow pools, see the manifestation of what America, and by consequence Americans, has become. To see inside the capital of modern day Democracy, Freedom, Liberty, Manifest (…)

OUTING BUSH
August 13, 2005
By Peter Fredson
Like many people, I spent part of the past 5 years trying to decipher the complexities of the collective mind of George W. Bush. I have collected gigabytes of files concerning his activities, propensities, quotations, quirks, speeches, gaffes, emotions, ego-trips, prayers, threats, disdain, swaggering, smirking, and ties to influential individuals.
I have linked some of Bush’s ties to Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, (…)