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Last Updated: Oct 30th, 2006 - 02:18:15 |
Analysis
Iran's new bourse may threaten the dollar
By Linda S. Heard
In 2000, Saddam Hussein announced that his country
would begin pricing its oil in euros. Less than three years later, Iraq was
invaded under the pretext it had an ongoing nuclear weapons programme and an
arsenal of chemical and biological materials.
Jan 24, 2006, 22:08
Analysis
Avoiding a war with Iran
By Mike Whitney
The march to war with Iran is continuing apace despite
skyrocketing gold prices, a jittery oil market, and the unrelenting chaos in
nearby Iraq.
Jan 19, 2006, 00:37
Analysis
The guerilla war for Iraq's oil
By Mike Whitney
A war is raging in Iraq that will determine the
outcome of the present occupation as well as the shape of future conflicts. It
is the war for control of Iraqi oil.
Jan 6, 2006, 01:01
Analysis
Skirmishes in the information wars
By Mike Whitney
There are only two weapons in the imperial tool chest:
force and deception. The brutal colonial occupation of Iraq has provided us
with a lavish example of the former, but the twin-axel of deception is more
abstruse and difficult to pin down. Sure, there's the flagrant propaganda that
floods right-wing radio and political talk shows, but that tells us little
about the state-sponsored disinformation-programs that permeate every area of
American life.
Jan 3, 2006, 15:18
Analysis
Burying the Lancet report . . . and the children
By Nicolas
J S Davies
Over a year ago, an
international team of epidemiologists headed by Les Roberts of Johns Hopkins
School of Public Health completed a "cluster sample survey" of
civilian casualties in Iraq. Its findings contradicted central elements of the
narrative of the war that politicians and journalists had presented to the
American public and the world.
Dec 14, 2005, 01:26
Analysis
The importance of determining Alito's brand of conservatism
By Noah Graubart
President Bush"s nomination of Judge Samuel
Alito to fill Justice Sandra Day O"Connor"s seat on the Supreme Court
has generated a chorus of now-familiar criticisms from Democratic senators,
activists, and journalists alike.
Dec 12, 2005, 01:06
Analysis
9/11 Commission continues cover-up, circles wagons for stumbling empire
By Larry Chin
In a newly issued report
card on "national security", the bipartisan Kean-9/11 Commission
has dutifully reinforced its official cover-up
of 9/11, reinflating the 9/11 "war on terrorism" myth, and
restoking terrorism propaganda and mass fear at the precise moment that the
Bush administration itself is losing its credibililty and sway over the public,
and the flagging US war of conquest is in desperate need of a boost.
Dec 7, 2005, 01:11
Analysis
America's covert war in Iraq
By Mike Whitney
Max Fuller has written the most disturbing and thought
provoking article of the year. In his "Crying Wolf: Media Disinformation and
Death Squads in Occupied Iraq,"(Global Research) Fuller painstakingly
lays out the details and documentation to prove that the United States
intelligence agencies are behind the vast incidents of murder and torture being
carried out in Iraq today. If Fuller's thesis is correct, then the War on
Terror, that mighty engine of imperial carnage, is nothing more than a public
relations scam intended to enlist public support for an unpopular conflict.
Dec 5, 2005, 00:30
Analysis
The Berlin Wall, Panama and Iraq
By Nicolas J S Davies
Is the illegitimate and unconstitutional defense
policy developed by the United States since the end of the Cold War a radical
new departure or part of a familiar pattern of international behavior?
Nov 28, 2005, 13:48
Analysis
The greatest strategic disaster in American history
By Mike Whitney
A few months ago, retired Army Lt. General
William Odom called the war in Iraq, "the greatest strategic disaster in
American history." Since then, he's added to his criticism saying that,
"The army is broken" and "we need a basic strategic change of
direction" or "we're going to pay a higher and higher price over a
longer period of time."
Nov 28, 2005, 13:43
Analysis
Bordering autonomy
By Remi Kanazi
Last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
brokered a deal between Israelis and Palestinians on the Rafah border crossing
which connects the "disengaged" Gaza Strip with the outside world.
Nov 23, 2005, 21:24
Analysis
The first Thanksgiving: Prelude to genocide
By Mary Shaw
As the American Thanksgiving holiday approaches,
our minds wander to idyllic images of Pilgrims and Indians peacefully sharing a
feast in celebration of the fall harvest. This November 24, as we break bread
with our families and friends, let us take some time to reflect on the fate of
Native Americans in the centuries that followed the first Thanksgiving.
Nov 21, 2005, 16:49
Analysis
Latin America says, "No mas," to America's corporatocracy
By Jason Miller
While he may be dead in the corporal
sense, the spirit of Simon Bolivar continues to wage
the struggle for freedom from oppression.
Nov 21, 2005, 16:41
Analysis
World at tipping point; oil peak arrives
By Larry Chin
The American empire is an energy junkie in its death
throes, punching for new veins and final fixes, knowing that the supplies of
its drug of choice -- cheap oil -- are virtually depleted.
Nov 17, 2005, 20:42
Analysis
An Iraq exit strategy, progressivism, and the incorporation of the imperialist lexicon
By B.
J. Sabri
Taking notice of the escalating deaths and
military failure of the United States to subdue the Iraqi armed resistance
after 32 months of a Hitlerian-like occupation, during which the Bush regime
used every weapon imaginable except a nuclear bomb, imperialists across Europe
and the United States began circulating a buzzword for a fictitious withdrawal
from Iraq called, �exit strategy."
Nov 14, 2005, 00:15
Analysis
Normalising genocide
By Ghali Hassan
So far, 2,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed since the
March 2003 illegal and unprovoked U.S. war on Iraq. The number has been
meticulously pronounced and printed in every Western media outlet. What about
the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women and children who have
been needlessly massacred by the combined U.S.-British sanctions and war? It is
a deliberate genocide.
Nov 9, 2005, 01:16
Analysis
Neoconservative disinformation creates a democracy gap
By James Pyland
A number of ideas are currently in circulation in the
US regarding the reasons for the recent electoral failures of the Democratic
Party. In fact, it is not clear to many liberals, progressives, Greens, or
other leftists what any party would do to win against the Republican Party,
which currently controls all three branches of the federal government.
Nov 8, 2005, 00:58
Analysis
The Senate�s closed session: Nothing but a Democratic sham
By Joshua Frank
Oh, what a farce it
was. On Tuesday, the Senate Democrats pulled a rare maneuver, kicked the press
and the public out of their hallowed chambers, slammed the doors, and for three and a half long hours purportedly took the
Republicans to task. The Democrats demanded that the Republicans give them what
was promised: an investigation into the Bush administration�s misuse of
intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq.
Nov 3, 2005, 14:26
Analysis
Anti-Semitism and Arabs
By Ghali Hassan
To
Israel�s friends and supporters of its colonial policy in Palestine,
�anti-Semitism� means any criticism of Israel�s brutal policy against the
Palestinians, and any criticism of Zionism and its racism that continues to
inflict great harm on Arabs and Muslims. The real
victims of today�s Western anti-Semitism are Arabs and Muslims, not Jews.
Nov 1, 2005, 20:20
Analysis
Our greatest criminals are never charged with their greatest crimes
By Robert Higgs
(Independent Institute)�Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has now
relieved, for the moment at least, the suspense about where his prosecutorial
finger was going to point. At Fitzgerald�s request, a grand jury has indicted
Vice President Dick Cheney�s chief of staff I. Lewis �Scooter� Libby on five
counts: one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of making false
statements to FBI investigators, and two counts of perjury.
Nov 1, 2005, 20:09
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