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  Condi Rice: busy war whore posted by peptide, 2008-08-22 02:49:12
Armed with American slogans, metaphors, outright lies and palettes of US ‘toilet paper’ money for ‘aid/loans’ (bribes) US Secretary of State, Condi Rice, has never moved so fast! One minute Georgia, then Warsaw, Prague, Brussels then Baghdad at blistering pace! Rice has demonstrated -- if nothing else -- that she is able to move as fast on her feet as on her knees! (full story and 2 comments)
social/political / international
 At what cost the LIES we tolerate? posted by finch, 2008-08-20 04:27:46
Few societies today believe in their governments, in fact most people view their governments as criminal! Few people trust or believe their political leaders especially in view of the implausible explanations offered for highly questionable events such as 9/11, Iraq WMD and the anthrax letters. We all remember Colin Powell's academy award winning performance at the UN, which resulted in a shift of opinion in favour of pre-emptive war. Today we know EVERYTHING Powell said was a LIE yet we tolerate it! Should we then expect a person like Cheney to desist from his loathsome criminal activities? (full story)
social/political / international
Reality Bites ['merika] Again posted by J. H. Kunstler via dingo, 2008-08-19 08:43:08
The feeble American response to Russia's assertion of power in the Caucasus of Central Asia was appropriate, since our claims of influence in that part of the world are laughable. The US had taken advantage of temporary confusion in Russia, during the ten-year-long post-Soviet-collapse interval, and set up a client government in Georgia, complete with military advisors, sales of weapons, and even the promise of club membership in the western alliance known as NATO. These blandishments were all in the service of the Baku-to-Ceyhan oil pipeline, which was designed specifically to drain the oil region around the Caspian Basin with an outlet on the Mediterranean, avoiding unfriendly nations all along the way. (full story)
social/political / international
 Government cover-up and the Anthrax attacks posted by Tom Engelhardt via rialator, 2008-08-18 21:46:05
And yet, by the end of 2001, it had become clear that, despite the accompanying letters, the anthrax in those envelopes was from a domestically produced strain. It was neither from the backlands of Afghanistan nor from Baghdad, but -- almost certainly -- from our own military bio-weapons labs. At that point, the anthrax killings essentially vanished… Poof!... while 9/11 only gained traction as the singular event of our times. (full story)
peace/war / international
 Regress report on Bush-Cheney regime posted by budgie, 2008-08-18 09:30:57
No need to remind the American public the economy is in RECESSION; the Georgian distraction hasn’t succeeded with the savvy US public, has it? The Fed continues to print (unpegged) toilet paper money that you will soon be able to paper your walls with. The Iraq success story needs no embellishment; Bush’s boys couldn’t have done a better service for Iran by gifting it Iraq. Iraqi Shia have steadily removed minority Sunis from positions of power, while consolidating their own power base, effectively annexing Iraq to Iran. Even the puppet PM Maliki, has demanded that occupation forces withdraw from his nation. (full story)
social/political / international
 Your own private ‘Crawford’ (Texas) posted by quin, 2008-08-17 00:10:03
G W Bush cut a very lonely/ALIENATED figure at a press conference at his ranch in Crawford, Texas today. Like a demented parrot he continued to repeat “demands” that Russia withdraw from ‘sovereign’ Georgian territory, all the while completely unaware that his ‘demands’ inadvertently attract attention to the hundreds of (UNWANTED) U.S. military bases throughout the world! (full story)
peace/war / international
Rice demands immediate Russian withdrawal from Georgia posted by Kingfisher, 2008-08-16 06:10:44
[It hurts doesn’t it?] We are all apt to overlook glaring indicators during frantic media bombardments of mis/disinformation, especially the one currently raging over Georgia’s unprovoked attack on South Ossetia. But note the tone of desperation in the media today! The measured and calculated propaganda campaigns delivered during the illegal Balkan and Iraq interventions are gone; they have been replaced by a truly mindless, disjointed rhetoric punctuated with hysterical simian screeching from Georgia and Texas. (full story)
peace/war / international
 Serbian FM leaves for New York to present draft resolution on Kosovo posted by Yan via quin, 2008-08-14 10:31:17
BELGRADE, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic left for New York Thursday to present a draft resolution challenging Kosovo's independence.
Jeremic will submit a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly seeking an opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) about the legality of Kosovo's secession from Serbia, said a foreign ministry statement. (full story)
injustice/law / international
Historic Aussie Battle remembered posted by major mitchell, 2008-08-14 05:02:40
Long Tan is without doubt one of the bravest and most heroic battles in WORLD history. There were 300 Spartans bathed in myth and then there were 160 real Aussie fighting men of extraordinary valour and bravery. A handful of Aussie troops fought approximately 1600 North Vietnamese Regulars and WON the battle. (full story)
peace/war / national
 Headline: “Rice warns Russia of int'l isolation” posted by barra, 2008-08-14 03:36:30
Secretary of State and presidential fellatrice, Condoleezza Rice, has excelled in more ways than one this week. First, let’s establish hard reality; the cesspool of American spin, propaganda and flagrant LIES associated with the Georgian fiasco is a clear indication of desperation in the ranks of the Bush administration -- which is unravelling at speed since the GROSS MISCALCULATION of urging Georgian (lunatic) President, Saakashvili, to mount a military strike on civilians in South Ossetia. (full story)
peace/war / international
 Keep your eye on the tactical Pipeline-Oil wars posted by dingo, 2008-08-13 03:06:17
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, today rightly dismissed Georgian president, Saakashvili, as a “lunatic” and “bastard terrorist” after Georgia’s unprovoked attack on South Ossetia -- which resulted in thousands of civilian deaths. Callous US/NATO strategists, utilising a very reluctant Saakashvili, intentionally targeted innocent Ossetian civilians, but why? The Georgian president’s life in now in danger from furious Georgians AND WESTERN FORCES who would stand to gain in the propaganda war if Saakashvili were assassinated and the murder blamed on Russia! (full story and 1 comments)
peace/war / international
 Orchestrated wars: three times is one time too many! posted by finn, 2008-08-11 22:28:07
The ILLEGAL unprovoked, U.S. backed attack on civilian targets in South Ossetia by Georgian forces is now an extremely familiar strategy. First used to great effect in recent times on Yugoslavia, then Iraq – LIES, provocation, response, escalation, destabilisation then FRAGMENTATION, U.S. bases and occupation forces – modern imperialist method in other words. (full story and 1 comments)
peace/war / international
 War in the Caucasus posted by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky via rialator, 2008-08-10 22:58:21
During the night of August 7, coinciding with the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, Georgia's president Saakashvili ordered an all-out military attack on Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia.
The aerial bombardments and ground attacks were largely directed against civilian targets including residential areas, hospitals and the university. The provincial capital Tskhinvali was destroyed. The attacks resulted in some 1500 civilian deaths, according to both Russian and Western sources. "The air and artillery bombardment left the provincial capital without water, food, electricity and gas. Horrified civilians crawled out of the basements into the streets as fighting eased, looking for supplies." (AP, August 9, 2008). According to reports, some 34,000 people from South Ossetia have fled to Russia. (Deseret Morning News, Salt Lake City, August 10, 2008) (full story)
peace/war / international
NATO provoked aggression in Georgia posted by major mitchell, 2008-08-09 21:27:50
Russia has finally responded to NATO/US attempts to encircle and compromise its defences. After promising to support its traditional ally Serbia, regarding the illegal secession of Kosovo, and failing to do anything but whimper, the Western orchestrated secession occurred. Russia rightly became the laughing stock of the developed world and was thereafter perceived to be a vacillating, timid and weak State -- a fallen superpower! Has the situation changed this week with Russian military intervention in South Ossetia? I think not, and professional opinion seems to support this view. (full story and 3 comments)
peace/war / international
 America-China: social d/Evolution posted by Kwang zi, 2008-08-08 23:10:51
As America pursues totalitarian methods with a vengeance, domestic spying, legalised torture, illegal detention, and denial of a raft of human rights, China steadily evolves into a more liberal society. Noticeably absent from the opening ceremony/spectacle of the Olympic games in Beijing was any reference to the last totalitarian, despotic emperor of China, Mao Zedong. A truly surprising but intentional omission in the dramatic opening display that touched on important periods/events in China’s history. (full story and 1 comments)
social/political / international
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