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 U.S. 'bipartisanship' defined
Glenn Greenwald via krill, Saturday, Jun 21 2008, 8:34pm
It's bad enough watching the likes of Steny Hoyer, Rahm Emanuel and a disturbingly disoriented Nancy Pelosi eviscerate the Fourth Amendment, exempt their largest corporate contributors from the rule of law, and endorse the most radical aspects of the Bush lawbreaking regime. But it's downright pathetic to see them try to depict their behavior as some sort of bipartisan "compromise" whereby they won meaningful concessions: (story and 1 image)
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Simon Mann names London tycoon as coup leader
Martin Fletcher via reed, Friday, Jun 20 2008, 10:37am
Simon Mann, the former SAS officer accused of plotting to overthrow the President of Equatorial Guinea, yesterday portrayed a reclusive London-based tycoon as “the Cardinal”, who controlled every aspect of the attempted coup in 2004, and himself as a mere “junior”. (story and 1 image)
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General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes
Warren P. Strobel via reed, Thursday, Jun 19 2008, 9:11am
WASHINGTON — The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing "war crimes" and called for those responsible to be held to account. (story and 1 image)
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 Deals With Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back
Andrew E. Kramer via rialator, Thursday, Jun 19 2008, 8:18am
BAGHDAD — Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power. (story and 1 attached file)
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The Bitter harvest of Bush's economic 'management'
Mike Whitney via reed, Tuesday, Jun 17 2008, 10:11pm
[We have it on good authority that those responsible for the current economic collapse -- insider elites -- are making contingency plans to evade responsibility and future arrest. It is imperative that these corporate criminals are monitored, as they are likely to flee to nations that do not have extradition treaties with the home nation. Maintain tracking of all felons (and war criminals); the peoples' demand for justice must be satisfied! Ed]
The economy is in tatters. Consumer confidence has plummeted, food and energy prices are soaring, and the housing market is experiencing its biggest crash since the Great Depression. Manufacturing is down, unemployment is up, gasoline is topping $4 per gallon, and tent cities are sprouting up throughout the Southwest. If there's a silver lining to this mess; it's not visible from planet earth. (story and 1 image)
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 Addressing America's "Deeper Malignancies"
Walter C. Uhler via reed, Tuesday, Jun 17 2008, 9:20pm
If you want to know what's wrong with the foreign policy establishment in the United States, look no further than Condoleezza Rice's article, "The New American Realism," published in the July/August 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs." Not only has the Council on Foreign Relations spread its pages wide open for an infamous interventionist -- a lying and deceitful enabler of the Bush administration's illegal, immoral unprovoked invasion of Iraq - it also readmitted Ms. Rice without requiring anything resembling a mea culpa for the crimes against humanity that have lowered her, the Bush administration and the United States to the depths of moral disrepute around the world.
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Stating the OBVIOUS!
AAP report via reed, Tuesday, Jun 17 2008, 6:01am
"... lawyers for Dr Haneef said the involvement of Mr Howard's department raised the possibility the former prime minister may have colluded with his immigration minister to create a political storm similar to the Tampa controversy which helped the coalition win the 2001 election." (story and 1 image)
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Lisbon Is Dead
Mike Whitney via reed, Sunday, Jun 15 2008, 12:00am
On Friday, Ireland delivered a knockout punch to European elites and corporatists and shattered their plan for an EU Superstate. The so-called Lisbon Treaty was nothing more than a repackaging of the European Constitution that was defeated by French and Dutch voters in 2005. The treaty was loaded with the typical "democratic" gobbledygook to conceal the vicious neo-liberal policies at its heart. If it had passed, the treaty would have paved the way for greater privatization of public services, diminished workers rights, less state control over trade policies and civil liberties, and an aggressive plan to militarize Europe. Ireland's entire political and corporate class stood foursquare behind the treaty, but the Irish people shrugged off the fear-mongering and bogus promises of prosperity and voted No. The referendum results showed 53.4% voted No, while 46.6% voted Yes. Despite the massive public relations campaign; the vote wasn't even close.
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 A Meeting With Che Guevara
Gajendra Singh via reed, Saturday, Jun 14 2008, 10:50am
Che Guevara;"an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom" -- Nelson Mandela.
Che Guevara is "not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age" -- Jean-Paul Sartre.
"The first thing to note is that in my son's veins flowed the blood of the Irish rebels, the Spanish conquistadors and the Argentinean patriots. Evidently Che inherited some of the features of our restless ancestors. There was something in his nature, which drew him to distant wanderings, dangerous adventures and new ideas. -- Ernesto Guevara Lynch, Che's Father (story and 2 images and 1 attached file)
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Russia fails to secure Kosovo
RIA via goran, Thursday, Jun 12 2008, 11:21am
The Russian circus bear growls but fails to act on its promise to Serbia to ensure territorial integrity regarding Kosovo. If Russia fails to act the cost of losing Kosovo may be greater for Russia than for Serbia. Kosovo remains legally Serbian and at Serbia’s request a joint military base project, involving Russia, China and Serbia could begin immediately. The base would ensure stability in the region, which has been under the illegitimate rule of Albanian organised crime figures and separatists since the NATO bombing.
International law MUST BE OBSERVED. All Albanian criminals masquerading as government ministers must be surrendered to the authorities to ascertain whether war crimes charges could be laid. This issue is not complex, it simply requires ACTION! (story and 3 images)
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Top court allows Guantanamo prisoners' appeals
James Vicini via reed, Thursday, Jun 12 2008, 10:01am
Is it possible the American Constitution, which Bush views as a "piece of paper," retains some meaning? Have the spineless American judiciary finally discovered they have laws to uphold? The most subversive regime in American history remains in office after countless exposures of their crimes. We will reserve our judgement until the flow-on effect occurs. Nevertheless, today's decision re-affirming the right of habeas corpus for ALL detainees is a small step in the right direction. But let's not forget the war criminals in the Whitehouse -- surrender Bush and his fellow felons to the Hague ICC.. Faith restored! Ed.
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Draconian measures to protect 'copyright'
Graeme Philipson via reed, Wednesday, Jun 11 2008, 7:29pm
THE forces of reaction are fighting back. As they often do, they are carrying out their planning in secret, in the knowledge that if more people knew of their activities they would not be allowed to get away with it. The US (surprise, surprise) has circulated a draft "Discussion Paper on a Possible Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" (ACTA) for the next G8 meeting, in Tokyo in July. The full text of the document has been published on Wikileaks (wikileaks.org). (story and 1 comment and 2 attached files)
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Barack O’Bilderberg: Picking the President
Andrew G. Marshall via fleet, Monday, Jun 9 2008, 11:46pm
Sunday, June 8, 2008, marked the last day of this year’s annual Bilderberg meeting, which took place in Chantilly, Virginia. The American Friends of Bilderberg, an American Bilderberg front group, which organizes the American participant list for the annual Bilderberg conference, issued a rare press release this year. It stated that, "The Conference will deal mainly with a nuclear free world, cyber terrorism, Africa, Russia, finance, protectionism, US-EU relations, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Islam and Iran. Approximately 140 participants will attend."1 (story and 1 image)
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U.S. fleet to threaten Latin American sovereignty
Berta Joubert-Ceci via rialator, Sunday, Jun 8 2008, 10:24pm
The U.S. Navy on April 24 announced the return of the Fourth Fleet to the Caribbean, Central America and South America, covering 30 countries in the region. The fleet had operated in those waters beginning in 1943, monitoring German submarines during World War II, and was dismantled in 1950. (story and 1 comment)
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Moyers: 'Journalism in profound crisis'
Bill Moyers via rialator, Saturday, Jun 7 2008, 11:10pm
MINNEAPOLIS -- Today, legendary journalist Bill Moyers electrified an audience of more than 3,500 in Minneapolis, calling the media reform movement "the most significant citizens' movement to emerge in this new century." (story and 1 comment)
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The [American] Empire -- A Status Report
William Blum via fleet, Saturday, Jun 7 2008, 10:18pm
The events of recent years indicate that the world is wising up to and becoming less intimidated by Washington's overarching ambition for world dominance. Latin America is increasingly attempting to escape the empire's clutches. Leaders keenly aware of how US imperialism works and determined to keep it out of their own country are in power in Venezuela, Uruguay, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, and perhaps the latest addition, Paraguay.
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What is NATO Doing in Afghanistan?
Faheem Hussain via rialator, Saturday, Jun 7 2008, 9:26am
What is NATO doing in Afghanistan? What are the true aims of NATO intervention in the region? These are the questions that I mean to address in this article. To understand what is happening in Afghanistan one has to go back to the attack on Yugoslavia by NATO forces in February 1999.
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Israel attack on Iran 'unavoidable'-Olmert deputy
Dan Williams via reed, Thursday, Jun 5 2008, 9:47pm
JERUSALEM, June 6 (Reuters) - An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites looks "unavoidable" given the apparent failure of sanctions to deny Tehran technology with bomb-making potential, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's deputies said on Friday.
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Bernanke's Speech: "It's all China's fault!"
Mike Whitney via rialator, Wednesday, Jun 4 2008, 10:58pm
He's at it again. Bernanke, that is. Yesterday the Fed chief delivered a rambling 45 minute speech at the International Monetary Conference in Barcelona, laying out all the reasons why the Federal Reserve is NOT responsible for the present crisis in the financial markets. Here's what he said:
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America's massive military budget is irrational, costly and dangerous
Robert Scheer via reed, Sunday, Jun 1 2008, 10:49am
What should be the most important issue in this election is one that is rarely, if ever, addressed: Why is U.S. military spending at the highest point, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than at any time since the end of World War II? Why, without a sophisticated military opponent in sight, is the United States spending trillions of dollars on the development of high-tech weapons systems that lost their purpose with the collapse of the Soviet Union two decades ago?
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