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Friday, June 30, 2006
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Mexico Charges Ex-President in '68 Massacre - New York Times
good news, I was in Mexico City before the slaughter of the the students in 1968 and there should be justice... unless, as the story suggests, this helps conservatives in election sunday....
Mexico Charges Ex-President in '68 Massacre - New York Times
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Thursday, June 29, 2006
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006
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Charles M. Ashley: 'Uncurious George visits Vienna'
Bumbling Bush embarasses....
The Smirking Chimp
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Steven F. Freeman & Joel Bleifuss: 'A call to investigate the 2004 election'
Investigate Now!
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Thursday, June 22, 2006
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The Smirking Chimp - Douglas Yates: 'Bush family history shows a dark past unseen by most'
Bush family has a history of war profiteering, highly relevant, since Cheney and other friends of Bush are currently profiteering in Iraq...
The Smirking Chimp - Douglas Yates: 'Bush family history shows a dark past unseen by most'
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Randolph T. Holhut: 'Where's the outrage over Bush's election fraud?'
stolen election stories just don't get traction...
The Smirking Chimp: "Randolph T. Holhut: 'Where's the outrage over Bush's election fraud?'"
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The Reviews Are In
more evidence that Bush has been a miserable failure in the "war on terrorism..."
The Reviews Are In
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Senate Rejects Troop Pullout
the Dems made a rational and intelligent proposal, hopefully the Repugs will pay in the Fall....
Senate Rejects Troop Pullout
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Monday, June 19, 2006
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Sunday, June 18, 2006
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ZNet |Foreign Policy | The Tripolar Chessboard
US may be losing the real war in Iran-- against China and Russia for control/access to energy sources; another screwup by Bush-Cheney incompetents....
ZNet |Foreign Policy | The Tripolar Chessboard
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Eric Margolis: 'Massacre of civilians was inevitable'
the massacre of civilians has been an inevitable part of Iraq since the beginning.....
The Smirking Chimp
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Bob Herbert: 'Down for the count on Election Day '04'
Kerry should have never capitulated on election day 2004 but forced a count of the vote and a look at all the ugly vote suppression and dirty tricks in Ohio as outlined in the RFK Jr. article, Mark Miller's book, etc
The Smirking Chimp
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Neil Mackay: 'A deserter's story: What happens when the horrors of Iraq become too much for a soldier to bear?'
Iraq is a major tragedy for US troops, thousands have been killed, many maimed and traumatized, 6000 have deserted; the neocons, republican noise machine blowhards and Bush-Cheney war contractors should be sent over for an obligatory month of duty and experiencing the disaster firsthand....
The Smirking Chimp
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TGabriel Kolko: 'Why a global economic deluge looms'
apres nous le deluge.... as economic conditions worsen, Bush and his bandits steal more and more in tax breaks and contracts for his contributers, using big government to enrich his crony capitalists and partners in crime....
The Smirking Chimp: "Gabriel Kolko: 'Why a global economic deluge looms'"
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Les Payne: 'Another escape by Rove the Illusionist'
what's the back story on how Rove seemed to escape the noose? its wrong, though, to present Rove as an illusionist wizard, he's just a smalltime crook able to steal big game by dirty tricks, sort of like Cheney and his friends shooting at game out of the car, sooner or later they'll start shooting each other and maybe Fitz is setting up Rove to be a shooter....
The Smirking Chimp
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U.S. Airstrikes Rise In Afghanistan as Fighting Intensifies
its a Dirty Secret that US messed up in Afghanistan by not putting enough boots on the ground, not bringing in enough allies, and then going into Iraq and that Afghanistan is now another big mess....
U.S. Airstrikes Rise In Afghanistan as Fighting Intensifies
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006
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Monday, June 12, 2006
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Salon.com Politics Zarqawi: Good he's gone
From Salon: "It's great he's dead, but the war will go on
"Zarqawi may be gone, but the conflagration that he set alight continues to burn." This quote in the New York Times from Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism scholar at Rand Corp., nicely sums up the expert reaction to the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: It's a wonderful thing we got him, but the violence in Iraq is likely to continue unabated.
For one thing, Zarqawi's group, Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, wasn't an especially tightly knit organization -- the name covered at least 60 separate terrorism teams that still have the capacity to fight on without Mr. Z in charge. As Hoffman put it, "He has already set in motion powerful forces that won't necessarily stop just because he is dead."
More important is the point the Brookings Institution's Ivo Daalder raises in TPM Cafe: Zarqawi and his group aren't the most important cause of violence in Iraq. "What we have in Iraq today -- and have had for many, many months -- is not a traditional insurgency or even wanton terrorism, but a large-scale sectarian conflict," Daalder points out. "Much of the killing in Iraq today isn't the result of Zarqawi's men, but of Sunni and Shite militias engaged in a big fight for control of neighborhoods, towns, cities, and the resources they control. The vast majority of the 1,400 bodies that showed up in the Baghdad morgue last month (that's right: 1,400 bodies -- or nearly 50 people each and every day!) were killed by militias of one kind or another. The guys responsible for these deaths are not fighting an existing government (which is what an insurgency implies) but they're fighting to determine who governs Iraq and what spoils will fall to which group of Iraqis."
And then there's the other thing, blowback. Zarqawi is dead, but as we pointed out earlier, we didn't need to invade Iraq to get him. And by going into Iraq, how many more Zarqawis did we create?
In a long, timely profile of Zarqawi in the current issue of the Atlantic, one Arab jihadist says young men across the Middle East now dream of fighting the Americans as Zarqawi had. He tells the story of one boy: "He was from Saudi Arabia and had just turned thirteen. I noticed him in the crowd at a recruiting center near the Syrian-Iraqi frontier ... The recruiters refused to take him because he was so young, and he started to cry. I went back later in the day, and this same small guy had sneaked aboard the bus. When they discovered him, he started to shout Allahu Akhbar! -- 'God is most great!' They carried him off. He had $12,000 in his pocket -- expense money his family had given him before he set off. 'Take it all,' he pleaded. 'Please, just let me do jihad.'"
-- Farhad Manjoo
Salon.com Politics War Room | Politics
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Chris Floyd: 'Return to Ishaqi: The Pentagon's shaky self-exoneration'
More Crimes of Empire
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Sunday, June 11, 2006
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Friday, June 09, 2006
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Los Angeles Times: House Vote Is Mixed on Internet
This doesn't look good, House bill sets up situation where corporations can cherry pick communities for development and redline others while creating multitier system violating net neutrality; but as bob mcchesney says below, once people figure out the consequences of Bush Gang bills on Internet they will get angry....
Los Angeles Times: House Vote Is Mixed on Internet
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Thursday, June 08, 2006
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Top Marine 'Gravely Concerned'
there are now investigations of US atrocities in Haditha and Hamdaniya, but how many other such incidents have occurred?
Top Marine 'Gravely Concerned': "Haditha and Hamdaniya"
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Salon.com | George Bush Sr. asked retired general to replace Rumsfeld
Bush Daddy vs. Rumsfeld and the Dumb Son gives Daddy the bird, he's the Decider with a Higher Father to appeal to... Excerpt:
"Former President George H.W. Bush waged a secret campaign over several months early this year to remove Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The elder Bush went so far as to recruit Rumsfeld's potential replacement, personally asking a retired four-star general if he would accept the position, a reliable source close to the general told me. But the former president's effort failed, apparently rebuffed by the current president. When seven retired generals who had been commanders in Iraq demanded Rumsfeld's resignation in April, the younger Bush leapt to his defense. "I'm the decider and I decide what's best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain," he said. His endorsement of Rumsfeld was a rebuke not only to the generals but also to his father.
The elder Bush's intervention was an extraordinary attempt to rescue simultaneously his son, the family legacy and the country. The current president had previously rejected entreaties from party establishment figures to revamp his administration with new appointments. There was no one left to approach him except his father. This effort to pluck George W. from his troubles is the latest episode in a recurrent drama -- from the drunken young man challenging his father to go "mano a mano" on the front lawn of the family home in Kennebunkport, Maine, to the father pulling strings to get the son into the Texas Air National Guard and helping salvage his finances from George W.'s mismanagement of Harken Energy. For the father, parental responsibility never ends. But for the son, rebellion continues. When journalist Bob Woodward asked George W. Bush if he had consulted his father before invading Iraq, he replied, "He is the wrong father to appeal to in terms of strength. There is a higher father that I appeal to."
The former president, a practitioner of foreign policy realism, was intruding on the president's parallel reality. But the realist was trying to shake the fantasist in vain. "The president believes the talking points he's given and repeats on progress in Iraq," a Bush administration national security official told me. Bush redoubles his efforts, projects his firmness, in the conviction that the critics lack his deeper understanding of Iraq that allows him to see through the fog of war to the Green Zone as a city on a hill."
Salon.com | George Bush Sr. asked retired general to replace Rumsfeld
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Thom Hartmann: 'RFK Jr: Taking the stolen election seriously'
a big debate has been unfolding in europe concerning stolen 2004 election since RFK article... let the investigations begin and don't forget GRAND THEFT 2000
The Smirking Chimp
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Thursday, June 01, 2006
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New York Observer:CBS reporter wounded in Iraq
yet another US camera crew came under attack with deadly results in one of the most dangerous wars for US media to cover....
New York Observer
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