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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Different Planets by Uri Avnery
Uri Avnery, leading Israeli peace activist, discusses the vast gulf in perception between the Israeli people and the Arab world regarding the recent prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Betancourt Unbound by Mike Whitney
The "Great Escape" level Columbian military's spectacular rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 others is starting to look a little bit more like Jessica Lynch's famous Rambo shootout with the Iraqis. In otherwords, no heroics at all. Reports continue to surface that the Columbian gov't had indeed cut some kind of deal with several FARC members to stage the rescue, although they may also have double-crossed them.

Saturday, July 12, 2008
How Britain Wages War by John Pilger
So much for the myth of the noble, heroic British Army. Aussie author, film-maker and journalist John Pilger exposes the depths of depravity to which Her Majesty's Royal Army has sunk during the Iraqi and Afghan adventures. Is this the last hurrah of the Anglo-Saxon pipe-dream of renewed Empire, shared with the Americans, an Empire run by sadists, racists and criminals?

Friday, July 4, 2008
BBC: 'When John McCain was my captive'
(11 comments) Meet Tran Trong Duyet, who ran the Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War and got to know John McCain so well he still considers him a friend. However, regarding McCain's allegation that he was tortured at Hoa Lo Prison, Tran says it never happened. You be the judge. Who is telling the truth? Before you dismiss Tran, note that several American POWs who were in this same prison also say that McCain was likely never tortured.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
The Myth of 'Weapons-Grade' Enrichment
The utter speciousness of the West's propaganda broadsides against Iran is amazing, amazing in the same way that the propaganda broadsides against Iraq were: complete lies that millions bought uncritically. What it boils down to now is that it is Iran's turn to be put in the barrel and beat on, and any pathetic excuse will do. Civilized Europe, Israel and the US? As civilized as a pack of hyenas in a feeding frenzy.

Friday, June 20, 2008
Remembering the Deliberate Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty
The assault on the Liberty is well docu­mented. With no warning, the Liberty was attacked by successive waves of unmarked jets deploying cannons, rockets and napalm. The attacking jets jammed all of the U.S. communications frequencies, an indication they knew the Liberty was American.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
A Line Not To Be Crossed - Pentagon on Verge of Push into Pakistan
(1 comments) Endless war, the merchants of death's greatest fantasy-dream, and humanity's worst mightmare, becomes a greater reality daily under Bush/Cheney, who actually believe their own BS about the War on Terror. The U.S., psychotically pursuing its anti-Moslem Crusade, is on the verge of plunging into the maelstrom against millions of Pushtun tribesmen, dragging NATO with it. And we used to think Europeans had intelligence.

Sunday, June 15, 2008
John McCain: War Hero or North Vietnam's Go-To Collaborator?
"In the fall of 1967, Navy pilot John McCain was routinely bombing Hanoi from an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea. On October 26, he was trying to level a power plant in a heavily populated area when a surface-to-air missile knocked a wing off his jet. Banged-up John McCain and what was left of the plane splashed into Truc Bach Lake." What happened after that is highly controversial.

Saturday, June 14, 2008
John McCain's Chilling Project for America
John McCain has long been a major player in a radical militaristic group driven by an ideology of global expansionism and dominance attained through perpetual, pre-emptive, unilateral, multiple wars, you know, the Neocons, with an emphasis on Cons.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Obama, Israel and AIPAC by Uri Avnery
After months of a tough and bitter race, Barack Obama has defeated Hillary Clinton. He has wrought a miracle: for the first time in history a black person has become a credible candidate for the presidency of the most powerful country in the world. And what was the first thing he did after his astounding victory? He ran to the Israel lobby, AIPAC, and made a a speech that broke all records for obsequiousness and fawning.

Friday, May 30, 2008
Memo To Corporate Media: Anyone Can Dress Up As An Arab Terrorist & Fake An Al-Qaeda Tape
Nearly four years after Benjamin Vanderford hoodwinked the global media by manufacturing a fake Al-Qaeda beheading tape, America's corporate press whores are once again gearing up to fearmonger about the prospect of mushroom clouds over American cities by instantly ascribing gospel status to a dubious "Al-Qaeda fan" Internet videotape that encourages the use of WMD in a terrorist attack.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Bush 'plans Iran air strike by August'
(2 comments) From Asia Times: The Bush Admin plans to launch an air strike against Iran within the next two months, an informed source tells Asia Times Online, echoing other reports that have surfaced in the media in the United States recently. Two key US senators briefed on the attack planned to go public with their opposition to the move, according to the source, but their projected New York Times op-ed piece has yet to appear.

Saturday, May 24, 2008
CIA Protects Al-Qaeda Group From Extradition
(1 comments) There's nothing more revealing about White House hypocrisy regrading terrorism than to realize it is helping groups to attack Iran declared by the West to be terrorist organizations, groups like MEK, Jundallah and PJAK. This is consistent though, once you realize the White House is projecting its own shadow (Jungian) in its so-called War on Terror. In otherwords, the men in the White House are terrorists, psychologically.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Gorbachev: US could start new Cold War
Mikhail Gorbachev has accused the United States of mounting an imperialist conspiracy against Russia that could push the world into a new Cold War.

Monday, May 5, 2008
Somalia: a Victim of Bush's Recklessness
Because Bush and the whole Neocon movement has a scarcely disguised, visceral hatred of Islam, they throw all reason out the window to leap at any opportunity to kill Moslems. In the case of Somalia, not only the anti-Islamic Neocons, but also the racist Southern-cracker Neocons have a deeply biased motive for breaching international law to push their pogram disquised as the War on Terror: The Moslems there are also black.

Sunday, May 4, 2008
CONTRADICTING PETRAEUS: Iraq says No Hard Evidence of Iran Support for Militia
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq said on Sunday it has no evidence that Iran was supplying militias engaged in fierce street fighting with security forces in Baghdad. ADVERTISEMENT Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said there was no "hard evidence" of involvement by the neighbouring Shiite government of Iran in backing Shiite militiamen in the embattled country.

Friday, May 2, 2008
The Iranian Chessboard: Five Ways to Think About Iran Under the Gun by Pepe Escobar
Pepe Escobar continues to offer an extremely astute analysis of what is going on in and around Iran, especially in light of the relentless propaganda offensive the White House and Pentagon, not to mention Israel, which is literally salivating for Bush to attack Iran, have unleashed to attempt to demonize Iran in the last few days. An attack, Escobar points out, is going to be a disaster for everybody.

Thursday, May 1, 2008
McCain Accused of Accepting Improper Donations from Rothschilds
A US campaign watchdog has accused presumptive Republican president nominee John McCain of violating election laws by accepting campaign contributions from two prominent Londoners.

Friday, April 18, 2008
THE ROVING EYE: My militia is more untouchable than yours, by Pepe Escobar
In a make-believe world where the green, green grass of the "surge" is alive with the sound of music, the George W Bush administration and US counterinsurgency ace General David Petraeus - not to mention presidential candidate Senator John McCain - keep assuring American public opinion the "surge" is working. But back in real life, an Iraq transfixed by no less than 28 militias is burning - again - all over.......

Monday, April 14, 2008
Financial Collapse will End the Occupation by Mike Whitney
It is not going to be our gutless, whore Congress that ends the war in Iraq, nor the military that is waist-deep in blood and gore and spinning around in circles. It will be the collapsing economy with millions of Americans in dire straits wondering why the government is pissing away billions in Iraq while America itself collapses. The myths and fantasies that have sustained the war are coming to an end.

Thursday, April 10, 2008
Evil Iran, the New al-Qaeda, by Pepe Escobar
(2 comments) "Iraq and its costs", a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed by Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), is a formidable piece of propaganda with an overall martial theme: We need war, war, war. The piece, however, is lies, lies, lies.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Water Pipelines Across the US Are Breaking; Repair Costs Put at Nearly $300 Billion
The Plutocracy is impoverishing America with its Imperialist wars and military bases. To further the ambitions and profits of the elitists in America and beyond, the US Treasury is being depleted to the point where our own infrastructure is collapsing due to lack of funds, including our water supply systems. America has become a scorpion stinging itself to death.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Pentagon Releases Memo on Harsh Tactics
The Pentagon made public a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects, saying that President Bush's wartime authority trumps any international ban on torture.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
Winter Soldiers Sound Off by Dahr Jamail
REPORTS FROM THE IRAQI HOLOCAUST: Jason Moon suffers from persistent insomnia as he wrestles with memories of his time in Iraq. "While on our initial convoy into Iraq in early June 2003, we were given a direct order that if any children or civilians got in front of the vehicles in our convoy, we were not to stop, we were not to slow down, we were to keep driving," says the former National Guard and Army Reserve member.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Not Another Lie that Set America up for Hatred of Iraq
One of Bush's and the Establishment's key selling points for despising and attacking Iraq was that murderous Saddam Hussein had tried to "kill his Dad", George Bush Senior. Now there are indications that this too was something cooked up during the Clinton Administration, perhaps by the Kuwaitis. Did Clinton launch attacks based on flase evidence too?

Saturday, March 22, 2008
THE ROVING EYE: IRAQ FIVE YEARS ON: SHOCKED, AWED AND LEFT TO ROT
Future non-biased historians may well regard March 19, 2003, as a crucial mark in the annals of Western imperial arrogance. Five years later, the pre-emptive war celebratory fireworks have turned to dust. For months now Iraq has been an invisible American war. It's seldom on TV. It does not "sell". Thus, it does not exist. (Pepe Escobar on the Iraqi Holocaust)

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Israel hits new Gaza targets after U.S. urges halt
(2 comments) Well, the Spartans are slaughtering the Helots again for daring to struggle for freedom, to use an historical analogy. In otherwords, The rabid Israeli government, murderous and blind, continues to dig a deeper and deeper moral hole for itself with fresh new attacks on the Palestinian people. "But these are all evil terrorists" the Israelis shout, just as the Nazis used to shout about the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. How ironic.

Saturday, February 23, 2008
UK troops accused of executions and torture in Iraq
We have been hearing allegations of torture by the Tommies for some time. If these newest allegations are proven true, so much for the myth of the sophisticated, honorable British soldier, who it seems, might now have become every bit as savage and degenerate as his American counterparts. Let's see, charges of cutting off penises, gouging out eyes, is that all done with a click of the heels and shouts of God save the Queen?

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Seymour Hersh: Syrian Site Attacked by Israel Not Nuclear
There was always something wrong with the Israeli allegation that it had taken out a clandestine Syrian nuclear lab, even though an outrageous Neocon propaganda broadside, led by attack dogs like Charles Krauthammer, was immediately launched. There was never any proof of radioactive contamination or countless other indicators of nuclear activity, so Seymour Hersh has finally taken a good look at this whole deceptive charade.

Friday, February 1, 2008
THE ROVING EYE: The State of the (Iraqi) Union by Pepe Escobar
As Bush continues to rape and destroy Iraq, one Iraqi again speaks out: I say this to the evil Bush - leave my country. We do not need you and your army of darkness. We don't need your planes and tanks. We don't need your policy and your interference. We don't want your democracy and fake freedom. Get out of our land. - Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraqi Shi'ite leader

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
There Is No "War on Terror"
(8 comments) Edward S. Herman and David Peterson have crafted a well-documented piece that lays out the whole fraud of the "War on Terror", the whole bloody sham that cloaks the resurrection from the Undead of "Manifest Destiny", the elitist fantasy to subjugate the planet. Wake up, world, before it is too late.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
The Myth of Sectarianism
The propaganda that if the US leaves Iraq, it will go to Hell in a hand basket, "gains ground, substance, and reality due largely to the ignorance of those ingesting it. The snow job by the corporate media on the issue of sectarianism in Iraq has ensured that the public buys into the line that the Sunni and Shia will dice one another up into little pieces if the occupation ends."

Sunday, December 16, 2007
Red Cross: Israel worsening Palestinian humanitarian crisis
Besides those evil villains Jimmy Carter and Bishop Tutu, yet another vicious anti-Semitic hate-group, the International Committee of the Red Cross, has launched a slanderous attack on that font of moral perfection, Israel, accusing Israel of creating "a deep human crisis, where millions of people (Palestinians) are denied their human dignity. Not once in a while, but every day."

Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Ominous Arctic Melt Worries Experts
Coming on the heels of Al Gore's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize is this dire report: An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even speculated that summer sea ice would be gone in five years. Houston, we have a problem. Global warming is exceeding computer model predictions.

Sunday, December 2, 2007
Bush Handed Blueprint to Seize Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal
How's this for insanity, guaranteed to infuriate almost the entire population of Pakistan (except for Bush's toadies): The man who devised the Bush administration's Iraq troop surge has urged the US to consider sending elite troops to Pakistan to seize its nuclear weapons if the country descends into chaos.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Spinning Mass Murder: Has Pol Pot Bush Surpassed Rwanda's Slaughter?
Dahr Jamail, in his newest post on Iraq, writes how John Pilger recently declared that "The scale of death caused by the British and U.S. governments may well have surpassed that of the Rwanda genocide, making it the biggest single act of mass murder of the late 20th century and the 21st century." Dahr also goes into detail as to how the Pentagon and Bush have obfuscated this holocaust against Iraqi civilians.

Sunday, November 25, 2007
Speaking Truth to Power: Archbishop of Canterbury Condemns Washington
The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that the United States wields its power in a way that is worse than Britain during its imperial heyday. Archbishop Williams claimed that America's attempt to intervene overseas by "clearing the decks" with a "quick burst of violent action" had led to "the worst of all worlds".

Friday, November 16, 2007
Has the Pakistani Army Become Bush's "HO"?
According to the dauntless Eric Margolis, the Pakistani Army is in disarray, reeling from the corruption of its senior officers by the CIA. The loyalty of the army's senior officers has been rented by billions of dollars of secret aid the CIA has funneled through Musharraf. Those who could not be bought were ousted, including Pakistan's most capable military men. Will Pakistan become a Central American Banana Republic now?

Monday, November 12, 2007
Interview with Farooq Tariq, secretary general, Labour Party Pakistan
One element of the secular opposition to Musharraf is the Labour Party of Pakistan, a democratic socialist organization launched in 1997 from various elements of the Pakistani Left. What follows is an exchange conducted over the past couple of days (November 9-10, 2007) between Ron Jacobs of Counterpunch and Farooq Tariq, secretary general of the Party.

Friday, November 9, 2007
ROVING EYE: Bush's Turkey Shoot by Pepe Escobar
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a fine politician, knew even before he set foot in Washington on Monday that President George W Bush could not possibly have anything tangible to offer him on the explosive Turkey vs Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) dossier, apart from Pentagon aerial intelligence passed on to Turkish generals.

Sunday, November 4, 2007
No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear-weapons Program, Experts Say
(1 comments) Despite President Bush's claims that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons that could trigger ''World War III,'' experts in and out of government say there's no conclusive evidence that Tehran has an active nuclear-weapons program.

Saturday, November 3, 2007
ROVING EYE: Double-crossing in Kurdistan
The Turks are demanding the U.S. help them take out the violent PKK, so the White House, which has been blithely ignoring the PKK's attacks on Turkey, suddenly wants to eliminate what they now label the terrorist PKK. Meanwhile Bush and Israel are supporting bloody PJAK attacks inside Iran. The PJAK is the Iranian arm of the PKK. Who will make a citizen's arrest of Bush for enabling what he himself declares a terrorist group?

Saturday, October 27, 2007
ROVING EYE: 'War on Terror' is Now War on Iran
The B*llSh*t out of the White House is so thick now that if everyone in the Bush Cabal was Pinocchio, they would all be impaled on each other's noses after this latest Big Lie. The whole edifice of ludicrous charges against Iran springs from the sordid imaginations of various Neocons with primordial hatred of Iran, because Iran's in solidarity with Israel's victims, Syria, Palestinians and Shiite Lebanese. So they want blood.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
General Claims Bush Gave 'Marching Orders' on Torture at Guantanamo
(1 comments) President Bush gave "marching orders" to Gen. Michael Dunlavey, who asked the Pentagon to approve harsher interrogation methods at Guantanamo, the general claims in documents reported in a new book entitled "Administration of Torture". More than 100,000 pages of newly released government documents demonstrate how US military interrogators "abused, tortured or killed" scores of prisoners rounded up since Sept. 11, 2001.

Monday, October 22, 2007
US intelligence Doesn't Show Syrian Nuke Weapons Program, Officials Say
Allegations that a Syrian envoy admitted during a United Nations meeting Oct. 17 that an Israeli air strike hit a nuclear facility in September are inaccurate and have raised the ire of some in the US intelligence community, who see the Vice President's hand as allegedly being behind the disinformation. Apparently the Father of Lies is weaving a new web of fear and deceit that will rationalize attacks on Syria and Iran.

Sunday, October 21, 2007
No Evidence Iran Arming Taliban: Afghan Minister
The Neocon armies of the night are in a full-court press to propagandize Iran right now as the supply hub for world terrorism. I won't be surprised if they accuse Iran of arming the MEK next, you know, the CIA-sponsored operatives attacking Iran itself. Our ethically compromised military, from Gen Petraeus on down, are basically cherry-picking and falsifying information in one big psyops. So thank God others are speaking out.

Sunday, September 30, 2007
Here Comes the Iran is a Direct Threat Crowd-WATCH OUT
Freedom's Watch, a reactionary propaganda cell of the Neocon War Party, having just helped promote the Surge to Congress, is getting ready to launch a giant con job on Congress and the American people, that Iran is an existential threat. Fool us once shame on you, fool us twice shame on me. TIME TO ATTACK THE ATTACK DOGS.

Friday, September 28, 2007
Iranian University Chancellors Ask Bollinger 10 Questions
(1 comments) Seven chancellors and presidents of Iranian universities and research centers, in a letter addressed to their counterpart in the US Colombia University, denounced Lee Bollinger's insulting words against the Iranian nation and president and invited him to provide responses for 10 questions of the Iranian academicians and intellectuals.

Saturday, September 15, 2007
THE ROVING EYE: Mr Bush, your sheikh is dead
Pepe Escobar has yet another penetrating analysis of the situation in Iraq, particularly in Anbar Province, where he points out that there is still a huge indigenous insurgency against the occupation, much larger than the al Qaeda presence, and that there are a number of players who could have slain Bush's Potemkin Village Chief, Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha.

Friday, September 7, 2007
Iran Hunkering Down as the War-Pimps Prepare to Strike
(1 comments) The ever hustling Pepe Escobar, Asia Times' Roving Eye reporter, has been able to get us a good look at what is going on behind the scenes in Iran, both diplomatically and militarily, while the unhinged Neocon psychotics lather up to rape not one country, but two, both Iran and America, because it is not only Iranians who will suffer grievously, but every day Americans who will pay for this war in rivers of blood and money.

Monday, August 27, 2007
University of Massachusetts Gaian Professor Calls For New 9/11 Investigation
Well-known Professor Lynn Margulis, who has worked closely with famed independent British scientist James Lovelock on developing the planetary Gaia Theory integrating biology, ecology and life sciences in general, which has won greater and greater support in the past few years since Lovelock announced it, is openly calling for a new 9/11 investigation, declaring outright that what happened on 9/11 was a false flag operation.

Friday, August 17, 2007
ASIA TIMES: US steps closer to war with Iran
(2 comments) This is like watching a "B" horror movie. Just when you thought the Blob had been slain, it returns in the form of Dick Cheney, oozing through the sewer pipes, ratcheting up war with Iran again, Dick's ultimate sexual fantasy. Asia Times writer Kaveh Afrasiabi explains why declaring the Republican Guard, an intrinsic part of the Iranian State, a "terrorist" organization is dramatically escalating the prospects of all out war.

Thursday, July 26, 2007
A US Invasion/Incursion into Pakistan is a Catastrophe Waiting to Happen
The indomitable Canadian reporter, Eric Margolis, who has spent time on the Pakistani/Afghan border and has a deep understanding of the Pashtun tribesmen, who number in the millions, openly asks, "Is the US preparing to invade Pakistan"? If the answer is yes, Margolis bluntly states, then stand by to reap the whirlwind, and this on top of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with war against Iran in the wings.

Saturday, July 14, 2007
Has an Islamic Revolution Begun in Pakistan?
(1 comments) The Red Mosque attack is increasingly seen as the opening clash of a budding civil war between the Pakistani Government (and its Western allies) and forces for Islamic revolution now evolving in Pakistan. General Musharaff speaks of "crushing extremists" and has dispatched considerable forces to the Swat Valley. But we have seen how well crushing anybody has worked in both Iraq and Afghanistan. This may be a formula for chaos.

Thursday, February 22, 2007
Democracy Now: Are Fox TV "24" & Jack Bauer Encouraging Torture?
(1 comments) This past fall, Dean of West Point, Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan, along with military and FBI interrogators and representatives of Human Rights First, met with the team behind the hit Fox TV show "24" to ask them to stop using torture, because American soldiers were copying the show's tactics. We speak with two of the delegation's members -- former Army interrogator Tony Lagouranis and David Danzig of Human Rights First.

Thursday, February 22, 2007
Expert Goes On Record: Bin Laden 9/11 Confession Is Bogus
(6 comments) Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University's Religious Studies program and a leading expert on Osama bin Laden, has officially gone on the record saying that he believes the so called "9/11 Confession" tape by bin Laden, released shortly after the attacks, is an outright fake.