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  • Poem for Hugo Chavez
    21 September 2006

    Hugo Chavez On his address to the UN, Sept. 20, 2006 ( http://www.counterpunch.com/chavez09202006.html )
    Michael D. Morrissey Sept. 21, 2006
    May be redistributed for non-profit purposes, provided copyright is acknowledged. Original place of publication is www.mdmorrissey.info/chavez.
    Your words bring solace to a damaged nation not yours, but mine, a limping giant wounded in its soul by its very leaders, the men you call imperialists and devils, assassins, torturers. We know this too. (…)

  • Hugo Chavez at UN
    20 September 2006

    Fits in perfectly with David Ray Griffin:
    Address to the United Nations
    Rise Up Against the Empire
    By HUGO CHAVEZ
    http://www.counterpunch.com/chavez09202006.html

  • Getting Real About Iraq
    20 September 2006

    The saintly Republican idea about Iraq was to depose a horrendous Nazi-like dictator with whom we were already at war over the "no fly zones," the "oil for food" program, nuclear inspections, and the inconclusive end to the previous war. It seemed perfectly obvious given that we were already at war and that we had just failed to preemptively strike Afghanistan (which appeared to be 1000 times less threatening than Iraq) on 9/10 or earlier. This is a simple point but nevertheless beyond the (…)

  • Prof. Jonathan Turley: “Stop Being a Country of Chumps!”
    20 September 2006

    “Wherever the real power in a government lies, there is the danger of oppression.” - James Madison (1)
    Baltimore, MD - On September 18, 2006, the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) held a very informative program to honor the 219th anniversary of the birth of the U.S. Constitution. One of the featured speakers at the splendid event, entitled “Constitution Day at MICA,” was Professor Jonathan Turley of the George Washington U.’s School of Law, in the District of Columbia. He’s a (…)

  • Bush’s Empty Words to the U.N.
    20 September 2006

    By Robert Parry
    One of the most striking features of George W. Bush’s presidency has been his proclivity to use soaring, idealistic rhetoric that is totally at odds with reality, a tendency that was on display again in his address to the United Nations General Assembly.
    Bush framed his Sept. 19 speech in the context of the U.N.’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “The words of the Universal Declaration are as true today as they were when they were written,” Bush declared.
    But (…)

  • War Is Horrible, but . . .
    20 September 2006

    by Robert Higgs
    Anyone who has done even a little reading about the theory and practice of war, whether in political theory, international relations, theology, history, or common journalistic commentary, has encountered a sentence of the form “war is horrible, but . . . .” In this construction, the phrase that follows the conjunction explains why a certain war was (or now is or someday will be) an action that ought to have been (or ought to be) undertaken notwithstanding its admitted (…)

  • Iraq Removes Chief Judge in Saddam Trial
    20 September 2006

    By SAMEER N. YACOUB and JAMAL HALABY
    BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The chief judge in Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial was replaced Tuesday amid complaints from Shiite and Kurdish officials that he was too soft on the former Iraqi leader, a move that could raise accusations of government interference in the highly sensitive case.
    The government spokesman’s office announced that judge Abdullah al-Amiri was removed but did not say who would take his place or why he was replaced. He was replaced on (…)

  • IMPERIALISM 101 - THE US ADDICION TO WAR, MAYHEM AND MADNESS - PART II
    20 September 2006

    Imperialism 101 - The US Addiction to War, Mayhem and Madness - Part II - by Stephen Lendman part I
    Part I of this article explained that the US was always a warrior, imperial nation, building it in steps and addicted to its madness. First we took it from its original inhabitants; then we expanded it beyond our borders by seizing the half of Mexico we wanted; later we established colonies abroad; and now, our method of choice is to rule the world through compliant leaders in client states (…)

  • Beautiful Interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on MSNBC
    20 September 2006

    Beautiful Interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on MSNBC
    19.9.2006
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14912050/

  • Why the blueprint for maintaining US pre-eminence (PNAC) failed
    19 September 2006

    Why the blueprint for maintaining US pre-eminence (PNAC) failed
    Interrogating 9/11 Five Years On...
    By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
    It has been half a decade since the United States came under an unprecedented coordinated terrorist attack on some of its most prominent symbols of power. First the North, then the South, Towers of the World Trade Centre (WTC) in New York were hit by civilian airplanes. Then even the heart of the US military, the Pentagon, was struck, and finally a civilian (…)