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 The Life and Times of the 'Agency' posted by Chalmers Johnson via reed, 2007-07-25 18:43:04
The American people may not know it but they have some severe problems with one of their official governmental entities, the Central Intelligence Agency. Because of the almost total secrecy surrounding its activities and the lack of cost accounting on how it spends the money covertly appropriated for it within the defense budget, it is impossible for citizens to know what the CIA's approximately 17,000 employees do with, or for, their share of the yearly $44 billion-$48 billion or more spent on "intelligence." This inability to account for anything at the CIA is, however, only one problem with the Agency and hardly the most serious one either. (full story)
imperialism / international
Trouble in Hedgistan: “Its gonna get a lot worse” posted by Mike Whitney via rialator, 2007-07-22 00:35:21
Two columns of black smoke can be seen rising over Wall Street and disappearing into the ice-blue New York sky. Terrorism? Not quite. The plumes of smoke are all that’s left of two major hedge funds which blew up just weeks ago leaving nothing behind but a few smoldering embers and a mound of black soot. (full story)
miscellaneous / international
Kissinger’s Secret Meeting With Putin posted by Mike Whitney via reed, 2007-07-18 22:33:18
"RAF fighter jets were scrambled to intercept two Russian strategic bombers heading for British airspace yesterday, as the spirit of the Cold War returned to the North Atlantic once again. The incident, described as rare by the RAF, served as a telling metaphor for the stand-off between London and Moscow over the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.” (Times Online, Richard Beeston; “RAF scrambles to intercept Russian bombers, 7-18-07)
"Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.” Niccoló Macchiavelli (full story)
social/political / international
The Semiotics of Racism and Terrorism posted by William Bowles via reed, 2007-07-13 14:20:15
Language is without peer as the most destructive of all Weapons of Mass Destruction, if so used! The obvious examples are Bush and Bin Laden; where would both these murdering criminals be without the Bible and Koran translating into the actions of Wahhabists and Evangelicals – such is the power of Language/text. We encourage everyone to read the following excellent little piece and pursue the discipline. The inaction and tolerance of the masses in the face of appalling holocausts and overt criminality perpetrated by our governments becomes less mysterious if the subliminal power of language is understood. Becoming aware of the operative layers of language inoculates against slave inducing subliminal messaging. [Eds.] (full story)
mass media / international
  ACCC takes 'deceptive' Google to court posted by Mark Schliebs via reed, 2007-07-11 21:15:36
[To Google with biased love:
Industry analysts and IT professionals are extremely familiar with Google’s unfair practices. Google itself advertised the fact that it would toss information freedom and fair play to the wind for a price. The entire free world witnessed Google openly sell its 'integrity' to the communist totalitarian regime of China, proving without doubt that it consciously engages in the most appalling partiality and bias.
We wish the Oz Competition and Consumer Commission all success and we wish Google the justice it deserves.
Cleaves Editorial Committee.] (full story)
injustice/law / international
 Meet an Evangelical, meet a brazen Hypocrite posted by truthdig via reed, 2007-07-08 12:45:45
The former escort who blew the whistle on Ted Haggard’s homosexuality explains why he felt morally compelled to come forward, what the fallout has been and what he feels is the real tragedy of the situation.
Transcript of interview follows: (full story)
theology / international
 Ann Coulter - Typical American Christian posted by Nick Paccione via rialator, 2007-07-07 23:29:03
In 2006 Ann Coulter said "... Christianity fuels everything I write. Being a Christian means that I am called upon to do battle against lies, injustice, cruelty, hypocrisy -- you know, all the virtues in the church of liberalism." (full story)
theology / international
 U.S. and NATO forces kill more civilians than Taliban posted by Laura King via rialator, 2007-07-06 14:23:50
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — After more than five years of increasingly intense warfare, the conflict in Afghanistan reached a grim milestone in the first half of this year: U.S. troops and their NATO allies killed more civilians than insurgents did, according to several independent tallies. The upsurge in deaths at the hands of Western forces has been driven by Taliban tactics as well as by actions of the American military and its allies. (full story)
imperialism / international
 A Farewell to Arms Control posted by Scott Ritter via reed, 2007-07-05 12:26:35
The organization that was at the center of the maelstrom of the Iraqi weapons-of-mass-destruction fiasco, responsible for bringing the world to the brink of war on no fewer than a half-dozen occasions during the 1990s, and then unable to prevent a war in March 2003, has departed the global scene. It left not with a dramatic flair befitting its former status, but rather with barely a whimper, reduced to nothing more than a historical footnote in the grand tragedy that has become Iraq. (full story)
peace/war / international
Al Qaeda in Iraq: Bush's Creation posted by Bill Gallagher via rialator, 2007-07-02 19:09:44
President George W. Bush's political capital is about as low as it can go, with only dead-end Bushists clinging to his failed regime. The erosion of support, however, can actually make the madman even more isolated from reality, arrogant and impetuous. (full story)
peace/war / international
 Criminal Empire: we own the Law posted by ninemsn via yarra, 2007-07-02 09:04:46
[Few would be surprised by the latest news of Bush commuting Libby's sentence. But it does serve to remind the American people what a bunch of submissive shit eaters they really are. What a perfect travesty! Ed.] (full story and 1 comments)
imperialism / international
The rise and rise of Hamas posted by Stephen Zunes, 2007-06-30 01:25:26
Beginning in the early 1980s, with generous funding from the US-backed family dictatorship in Saudi Arabia, the antecedents of Hamas began to emerge through the establishment of schools, health care clinics, social service organizations and other entities which stressed an ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam, which up to that point had not been very common among the Palestinian population. (full story)
peace/war / international
 Subpoenas Sent to White House on Wiretapping posted by James Risen via rialator, 2007-06-27 11:27:28
WASHINGTON, June 27 — The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday issued subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office and the Justice Department after what the panel’s chairman called “stonewalling of the worst kind” of efforts to investigate the National Security Agency’s policy of wiretapping without warrants. (full story and 2 comments)
injustice/law / international
 The Empire of Clowns ... posted by Arthur Silber via reed, 2007-06-26 12:03:54
At this moment in the monstrously bloody course of American Empire, I suppose I might take the sardonically grateful point of view. At least we now have some direct experience of how easy it was for nauseatingly corrupt Roman leaders to impose their will upon the ignorant hordes, and literally to get away with murder. Hell, who needed to "get away" with murder? Bloody, painful, lingering, ungraspably sadistic murder was one of the major entertainments. (full story)
social/political / international
 Murdoch’s Dealings in China: It’s Business, and It’s Personal posted by Joseph Kahn via rialator, 2007-06-25 13:38:02
BEIJING, June 25 — Many big companies have sought to break into the Chinese market over the past two decades, but few of them have been as ardent and unrelenting as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.
Mr. Murdoch has flattered Communist Party leaders and done business with their children. His Fox News network helped China’s leading state broadcaster develop a news Web site. He joined hands with the Communist Youth League, a power base in the ruling party, in a risky television venture, his China managers and advisers say. (full story)
mass media / international
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