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 Bush's plan to spend away the terror posted by Simon Tisdall via rialator, 2007-10-23 23:22:15
Planned US spending on the "global war on terror" is set to rise sharply in the coming year despite claims by President George Bush that al-Qaida is on the run in Iraq. A funding request sent to Congress this week seeks $196.4bn (£95.8bn) for counter-terrorism in 2007-8, $25bn up on this year. The Pentagon's separate budget request amounts to an additional $481.4bn. (full story)
peace/war / international
Outsourcing Government posted by Naomi Klein via reed, 2007-10-23 22:35:50
"We didn't want to get stuck with a lemon." That's what Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said to a House committee last month. He was referring to the "virtual fence" planned for the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada. If the entire project goes as badly as the 28-mile prototype, it could turn out to be one of the most expensive lemons in history, projected to cost $8 billion by 2011. (full story)
social/political / international
  Watada: What's a (thoughtful) lieutenant to do? posted by Dean Paton via rialator, 2007-10-19 14:04:31
OCT 5 2007 -- Let's assume Lt. Col. John Head, the Army judge who presided over the first court-martial of Lt. Ehren Watada last February, used impeccable legal reasoning when he denied Watada the right to insist that the war in Iraq is illegal -- which, the young soldier says, makes it his sworn duty to protect the Constitution by refusing to fight in such a war. (full story and 1 comments)
peace/war / international
 The Putin Touch posted by staff report WSJ via reed, 2007-10-16 12:57:35
Mr. Putin's message to Condoleezza Rice and Bob Gates: "Of course, we can some time in the future decide that some anti-missile defense should be established somewhere on the moon," said Mr. Putin, with more sarcasm than wit. (full story and 1 comments)
peace/war / international
 Former Top General in Iraq Faults Bush Administration posted by David S. Cloud via reed, 2007-10-12 23:41:25
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12— In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top American commander called the Bush administration’s handling of the war incompetent and warned that the United States was “living a nightmare with no end in sight.” (full story)
peace/war / international
 Lt. Watada retrial halted! posted by staff report via rialator, 2007-10-07 00:19:22
By Mike Barber, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. October 5, 2007
A federal judge in Tacoma has delayed the court-martial of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, a Fort Lewis Army officer to refuse to deploy to Iraq. In a rare intervention of a civilian court in the military justice system, U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin H. Settle granted the emergency stay shortly before close of business Friday. Watada's trial, slated to begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday, is now postponed until at least Oct. 26, the judge ruled. (full story)
peace/war / international
 Climate Change and Entire Landscapes on the Move posted by Stephen Leahy via reed, 2007-10-05 23:37:56
BROOKLIN, Canada - The hot breath of global warming has now touched some of the coldest northern regions of world, turning the frozen landscape into mush as temperatures soar 15 degrees C. above normal. Entire hillsides, sometimes more than a kilometre long, simply let go and slid like a vast green carpet into valleys and rivers on Melville Island in Canada’s northwest Arctic region of Nunavut this summer, says Scott Lamoureux of Queens University in Canada and leader of one the of International Polar Year projects. (full story)
environment / international
Loaded Language and Loaded Guns posted by Charles Sullivan via rialator, 2007-10-03 22:33:39
One can no longer understand US governmental policy on the basis of conventional language or traditional wisdom. Language itself and its long-established meanings were long ago twisted and distorted in order to deceive the people. Now war is peace and terror and occupation is liberation. In order to make sense of what is happening, it is important to understand everything within the context of a specific economic philosophy, and the distorted capitalist system that spawned it. (full story)
social/political / international
The [U.S.] Administration’s plan for Iran posted by Seymour M. Hersh via reed, 2007-10-01 14:40:28
The New Yorker -- October 8, 2007 -- In a series of public statements in recent months, President Bush and members of his Administration have redefined the war in Iraq, to an increasing degree, as a strategic battle between the United States and Iran. “Shia extremists, backed by Iran, are training Iraqis to carry out attacks on our forces and the Iraqi people,” Bush told the national convention of the American Legion in August. “The attacks on our bases and our troops by Iranian-supplied munitions have increased. . . The Iranian regime must halt these actions. And, until it does, I will take actions necessary to protect our troops.” He then concluded, to applause, “I have authorized our military commanders in Iraq to confront Tehran’s murderous activities.” (full story)
peace/war / international
 Bush Makes Mockery of UN Declaration of Human Rights in NY Speech posted by Matthew Rothschild via rialator, 2007-09-26 18:16:08
At his speech to the UN, Bush had the audacity to invoke the Universal Declaration of Human Rights several times, despite the fact that he’s been violating it over and over again. (full story and 1 comments)
human rights / international
Fears of dollar collapse as Saudis take fright posted by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard via rialator, 2007-09-20 13:05:02
Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest rates in lockstep with the US Federal Reserve for the first time, signalling that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom is preparing to break the dollar currency peg in a move that risks setting off a stampede out of the dollar across the Middle East. (full story)
social/political / international
 Google Wants to Track Your Medical History -- And Your Genome posted by Jesse Reynolds via reed, 2007-09-19 23:51:44
In a recent review of 23 internet companies by a consumer watchdog group, Privacy International, Google was the only one to receive the lowest grade, reserved for those with "comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy." (full story)
social/political / international
 Failing banks, toxic bonds and mortgage laundering posted by Mike Whitney via rialator, 2007-09-17 20:03:05
“The entire global financial structure is becoming uncontrollable in crucial ways that its nominal leaders never expected, and instability is its hallmark. The scope and operation of international financial markets, their “architecture”, as establishment experts describe it, has evolved haphazardly and its regulation is inefficient — indeed, almost nonexistent. Banks do not understand the chain of exposure and who owns what: senior financial regulators and bankers now admit this.” Gabriel Kolko “An Economy of Buccaneers and Fantacists” (full story and 1 comments)
social/political / international
 Greenspan admits Iraq was about oil, as deaths put at 1.2m posted by Peter Beaumont and Joanna Walters via rialator, 2007-09-15 21:54:27
The man once regarded as the world's most powerful banker has bluntly declared that the Iraq war was 'largely' about oil. Appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1987 and retired last year after serving four presidents, Alan Greenspan has been the leading Republican economist for a generation and his utterings instantly moved world markets. (full story and 2 comments)
imperialism / international
Phase III of Bush's War posted by Pat Buchanan via rialator, 2007-09-05 11:43:10
If you ever doubted the destructive and paralysing power of DISUNITY, read on! For the want of a modicum of commitment a world was plunged into chaos and conflict. This message is not for our 'leaders' it is for the people who are able to override any government on the planet if they so wish!
None of us need to learn that principles of harmony, peace and UNITY offer our only chance for survival on this planet. The brutish logic of beasts, 'might is right,' would result in annihilation in today's world. If you doubt it remain divided, powerless and alienated and watch social conditions continue to deteriorate worldwide!
We are One or we are nothing! [Ed.] (full story)
peace/war / international
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