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Thursday, August 14, 2008
The Caucasus -Washington Risks nuclear war by miscalculation
F William Engdahl's analysis of the background to the brief war in the Caucasus - which, given the Bush/Cheney decision to use the US military to transport «humanitarian aid» to Georgia, may yet escalate out of hand - and the possible consequences for us all if the US drives the conflict further is perhaps the best I've yet seen. The risks humanity runs here are on a par with - indeed, may even exceed those of a war with Iran.

Sunday, February 10, 2008
Bob Herbert on US presidential candidates
Mr Herbert is spot on in pointing out that the three remaining mainstream candidates are running, not on what they want to do, but on what (their strategists and managers tell us) they are. Unfortunately, he chooses here to ignore the war(s) in which the US is presently engaged. How can one get the people of the US back to work, with a (US) trillion dollar Pentagon monkey on the country's back ?... Henri