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 An Atheist Goes Undercover to Join the Flock of Mad Pastor John Hagee posted by Matt Taibbi via quill, 2008-05-05 09:36:25
The following is an excerpt from Matt Taibbi's new book, "The Great Derangement" (Spiegel and Grau, 2008). (full story)
theology / international
America: ignorance greater problem than disinformation posted by yarra, 2008-05-04 23:56:17
Earlier this year I reported on a retired American high school teacher who hadn’t heard of Richard Perle, a highly influential neo-conservative responsible for much of the trouble in which America now finds itself. Imagine that level of ignorance and you will have little difficulty understanding how demented 'senior' Republicans like John McCain are able to garner support for their race for the Presidency. Social and political ignorance is endemic in the USA. The schoolteacher was not the exception but the rule! (full story)
peace/war / international
  Rich-poor divide no longer a ‘gap’ now a yawning, unbridgeable chasm posted by gan, 2008-05-04 07:52:59
For a very brief period in the second half of the twentieth century, ‘first world’ nations experienced relative equality. The poor could, with immense difficulty, bridge the affluence gap and become wealthy. Today everyone but the cliques and privileged insiders are shut out permanently! The world has returned to the enduring paradigm of privileged elites and everyone else; the access corridors to equity/equality have been shut tight – why share the remaining spoils and perhaps increase competition for the rapidly decreasing commodities and resources of the world? (full story and 2 comments)
social/political / international
 Church, State and Campaign ‘08 posted by Bill Boyarsky via fish, 2008-05-02 09:00:02
When Adolf Hitler came to power, he said, “I am not going to do anything in my lifetime that hasn’t been done by the Roman Church for the past 800 years. I am only going to do it on a greater scale and more efficiently.” (full story)
social/political / international
 Rice's bastard child, Albanian Kosovo posted by peptide, 2008-05-02 01:47:55
The one thing a bastard can never achieve is legitimacy! Regardless of all the efforts of monarchs, peasants, Albanian criminals and U.S. war whores – a bastard is forever ILLEGITIMATE! (full story)
social/political / international
 Robert Gates threatens Iran, ho hum! posted by finch, 2008-05-01 20:22:48
In full view of the Iraqi holocaust and cognisant of the fact that America and Israel are the only expansionist, invasive, plundering, murdering, nations in the world today, let’s call a spade a spade. The criminal USA has deployed another aircraft carrier to the 'Persian' Gulf in a show of force and possibly to prepare for an attack on Iran – China and Russia have no illusions regarding the U.S. military build-up in the region. Uncle Sam may get a bigger shock than anticipated – aggressive warfare comes at great cost though the time of payment may not be immediate! (full story)
peace/war / international
 Spineless Australia hosts largest U.S. spy base outside continental U.S.A posted by Richard Neville via rialator, 2008-04-30 22:34:18
[Pine Gap, American spy base located in central Australia stands as a monument to Australian servility and cowardice. Only one Australian leader took the Americans to task over this secretive installation; he was immediately removed from power by the machinations of the CIA and their conservative Australian allies -- refer to a good Australian history book for the entire account.
Gough Whitlam wished to make Australia a nation in its own right but the Americans would have no one -- including the democratically elected Prime Minister – disturbing their plans and causing trouble in their new post WWII colony.
America replaced the British as the new colonial overlords for CRINGING, infantile Australian governments. To witness TODAY our leaders cowering like the servile dogs they are before the corrupt, inept and mass murdering Americans is truly sickening!
The following story, by Australian journalist, author and activist, Richard Neville, makes for a riveting and sobering read -- FUCK AMERICA, the scourge of the world! Ed.] (full story)
peace/war / international
 Protesters deflate NZ spy base dome posted by Reuters via rialator, 2008-04-30 19:54:30
WELLINGTON, NZ: Peace activists yesterday attacked and deflated a large inflatable globe housing a satellite dish at a top secret New Zealand spy base in protest at US military actions. (full story)
social/political / international
 Will Serbia sell its soul for EU membership? posted by dragan, 2008-04-29 20:09:42
What is the EU really offering Serbia after the ICC acquitted KLA war criminal, Ramush Haradinaj, of heinous war crimes charges? It is now clear western interests seek the dissolution of the Serbian State. The West’s support of known criminals in secessionist Kosovo is additional proof of the lengths to which the West will go to (illegally) secure sovereign Serbian territories. (full story)
social/political / international
Nature signals calamity! posted by Mollie Matteson via rialator, 2008-04-28 20:57:24
[First the honey bees now the bats -- is anyone listening to the most important alarms? Ed.]
BATS have been dying by the thousands recently in the Northeastern United States. No one knows why, and it may be months, perhaps years, before the cause is determined. Meanwhile, scientists predict that this summer there will be a population explosion of insects, which bats normally eat in large quantities. Greater numbers of beetles and moths could mean severe and costly losses for farmers and timber producers. There could also be bigger swarms of mosquitoes and other biting bugs, which will mean more discomfort for all of us. (full story)
miscellaneous / international
 Cheney/Bush/Israel determined to ignite WWIII posted by Peter Chamberlin via reed, 2008-04-28 20:42:24
Judging from the campaign rhetoric coming out of both camps, whoever wins the Oval Office will be inclined to continue the failed military policies in Iraq and to pursue a confrontation with Iran. Apparently it does not matter to either party what will follow those actions, or what these disastrous policies have produced as they played-out in Iraq and Afghanistan. It does not matter who gets elected, whether it is "bomb, bomb Iran" McCain, or "obliterate/massive retaliation" Clinton, nothing will change. (full story)
peace/war / international
 Oz PM sacrifices Aussie lives for U.S. criminal enterprise posted by barra, 2008-04-27 20:37:59
The justification the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, offers families and the Australian public for the needless deaths of our servicemen in Afghanistan is that al-Qaeda attacked ‘his’ ally the USA! Al-Qaeda is Bin Laden’s organisation; they are clearly not Afghanis! The people responsible for actions against western occupation forces in Afghanistan are Afghanis; the same tribal groups that fought Alexander the Great and Imperial Britain. The propaganda offered by western occupation forces to justify wars of plunder, land acquisition and occupation convinces only the feeble minded. None of it justifies the cost – in human lives – of the current occupation. This particularly applies to Australia, which is so far removed from Afghanistan that all attempts at justification meet with sneers and incredulity. (full story)
peace/war / international
 Latin America: the attack on democracy posted by John Pilger via rialator, 2008-04-25 09:20:48
Beyond the sound and fury of its conquest of Iraq and campaign against Iran, the world's dominant power is waging a largely unreported war on another continent - Latin America. Using proxies, Washington aims to restore and reinforce the political control of a privileged group calling itself middle-class, to shift the responsibility for massacres and drug trafficking away from the psychotic regime in Colombia and its mafiosi, and to extinguish hopes raised among Latin America's impoverished majority by the reform governments of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. (full story)
social/political / international
It’s a matter of credibility, literacy and competence posted by krill, 2008-04-24 23:37:54
Prior to responding to the latest gibberish from the White House -- you know, the domicile on the misspelt ‘Capitol’ Hill that houses the leaders of the ONCE most powerful nation on the planet, America! [Now famed for its nose-diving economy, stunningly inaccurate intelligence agencies, illegal activities, expansionist wars of plunder and aggression, torture, illegal detention etc, etc; all brought to you by men and women of unusual intelligence and skill!] (full story and 1 comments)
social/political / international
 Nazi Pope Ignores War/Holocaust posted by Ray McGovern via rialator, 2008-04-23 08:58:34
Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the U.S. last week against a macabre backdrop featuring reports of torture, execution and war. He chose not to notice. (full story)
peace/war / international
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