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Last Updated: Oct 30th, 2006 - 02:18:15 |
Analysis
Reinterpreting Iraq: Propaganda campaign underway
By Ramzy Baroud
To their credit, top US Pentagon officials cautioned
journalists and the public, since the Iraq war�s early days, that the
dissemination of misinformation would be a vital weapon in their war strategy.
Needless to say, they have certainly held true to their word.
Jun 30, 2006, 01:13
Analysis
The end of Net neutrality? Big telecoms want to control the Internet
By Joshua Frank
If you haven't been
following this big story about the future of Net neutrality, I'll try to lay it
out as simply as I can.
Jun 21, 2006, 11:30
Analysis
43 is handling Iraq exactly the way his dad handled Watergate
By Margie Burns
Should any puzzlement exist regarding GWBush�s
handling of the Iraq war, one can turn to history for elucidation. Bush 43 is
handling Iraq exactly the way his father handled Watergate: deny and stonewall
as long as possible; muddy the issues with bogus counter-accusations; exploit
the situation for whatever is exploitable in it; position oneself for future
advantage; then cut bait. Few people today remember that George H. W. Bush, way
back before being CIA director and after being Nixon�s Ambassador to the U.N.,
was head of the Republican National Committee in the early '70s while Watergate
was unspooling. His son apparently absorbed some lessons from the times.
Jun 21, 2006, 11:22
Analysis
The calculus of targeted assassination
By Mike Whitney
Israel doesn�t bother
with low-intensity warfare anymore. It goes straight for the jugular. Day after
day they�ve pounded away at the Palestinian areas barely pausing long enough to
assemble the lies needed to fend off the media.
Jun 19, 2006, 10:41
Analysis
Reflections on the �civil war� in Iraq
By Luciana Bohne
I do not believe that Bush invented the policies that
drive the insanity and aggression of the attack on the ME. He's infected with a
particular virulent strain of aggressive corporatism, but he does not invent
its correlated foreign policy. That policy is one of continuity in US foreign
affairs since 1945 -- and, to be truthful, before -- which is to seize the
prize of the stupendous oil wealth of the region, the motor grease of modern
economies.
Jun 16, 2006, 00:30
Analysis
Profits fall, stores close: Grocery chains and Bush's "Ownership Society"
By Seth Sandronsky
There are too many U.S. grocery chain stores, said
George Whalin, head of Retail Management Consultants, in The Sacramento Bee of
June 7. Call it overcapacity in the grocery industry.
Jun 13, 2006, 00:32
Analysis
Al-Zarqawi, international man of mystery
By Matt McCollow
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, alleged leader of the
al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist group, has reportedly been killed by US
forces�again.
Jun 12, 2006, 00:43
Analysis
Haditha is just one more in a mountain of US war crimes
By Mike Ferner
Please! Would somebody please tell me that the
corporate news media are talking about U.S. war crimes in Iraq besides just the
civilians killed in Haditha.
Jun 6, 2006, 00:46
Analysis
Saudi Arabia and military expenditures: When will the House of Saud feel safe?
By Dr. Abbas Bakhtiar
�Passing over, for
the present, all the evils and mischiefs which monarchy has occasioned in the
world, nothing can more effectually prove its usefulness in a state of civil
government than making it hereditary. Would we make any office hereditary that
required wisdom and abilities to fill it? And where wisdom and abilities are
not necessary, such an office, whatever it may be, is superfluous or
insignificant. Hereditary succession is a burlesque upon monarchy. It puts it
in the most ridiculous light, by presenting it as an office which any child or
idiot may fill. It requires some talent to be a common mechanic; but, to be a
king, requires only the animal figure of man -- a sort of breathing
automaton." [1]
Jun 5, 2006, 00:47
Analysis
God�s ministers are listening; God bless the vice president, secretary of defense and NSTAC
By John Stanton
Ever heard of the National Security Telecommunications
Advisory Committee (NSTAC)? Well, if you haven�t, you�d be smart to research
the innards of the group by visiting ncs.gov/nstac/nstac.html.
May 22, 2006, 00:59
Analysis
The coming financial crises
By Dr. Abbas Bakhtiar
On Wednesday, 17 May,
the Dow Jones plunged 214 points to 11,206 -- its worst point drop since March
2003. The downward trend started two weeks ago and is a warning sign of
troubles ahead.
May 22, 2006, 00:55
Analysis
Appealing to the United States is not very appealing
By William Blum
With his recent letter to
President Bush, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has become part of a long
tradition of Third-World leaders who, under imminent military or political
threat from the United States, communicated with Washington officials in the
hope of removing that threat. Let us hope that Ahmadinejad's effort doesn't
result in the equally traditional outright US rejection.
May 16, 2006, 00:51
Analysis
The last gasp of the dollar; Iran bourse set to open shortly
By
Mike Whitney
Overnight the story of Iran�s proposed oil bourse has
slipped into the mainstream press exposing the real reason behind Washington�s
hostility towards Tehran. Up to this point, analysts have brushed aside the
importance of the upcoming oil-exchange as a "Leftist-Internet"
conspiracy theory unworthy of further consideration. Now, the Associated Press
has clarified the issue showing that an Iran oil bourse "could lead
central bankers around the world to convert some of their dollar reserves into
euros, possibly causing a decline in the dollar�s value". ("Iran wants Oil Market in Euros", Globe and Mail.)
May 8, 2006, 00:17
Analysis
The "New Totalitarianism" now defines a desperate neocon end game
By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
As the Bush/neocon kleptocracy disintegrates in a
toxic cloud of military defeat, economic bankruptcy, environmental disaster and
escalating mega-scandal, its attack on basic American freedoms -- its "New
Totalitarianism" -- has escalated to a desperate new level, including
brutal Soviet-style prosecutions against non-violent dissidents and an all-out
offensive for state secrecy, including an attack on the Internet.
May 2, 2006, 00:34
Analysis
Strike Iran, watch Pakistan and Turkey fall
By
John Stanton
Just
when it seemed unlikely that domestic and international events would unfold to
test an already incompetent US government, along comes the acceleration of the
movement to destroy Iran. That effort has been well documented over the past
few years in scores of articles and position papers from the usual suspects in
the media, think tanks, and the Net. What�s missing in that coverage, though,
is an understanding of the consequences of such an action, or consequence
management in Pentagon parlance.
Apr 25, 2006, 01:51
Analysis
Ending Rumsfeld's reign
By John Peebles
Our current strategy in
Iraq is controlled by a political appointee with no combat experience, who
crushes dissent with Stalinistic vigor and cannot tolerate truth when it conflicts
with political goals.
Apr 24, 2006, 01:45
Analysis
Michael Ledeen's dream, Mohamad ElBaradei's nightmare
By Bill Berkowitz
The drumbeat in some
Washington foreign policy circles for "regime change" in Iran has
striking similarities to the run-up to the Iraq invasion, and is being led by
some of the usual suspects -- like the American Enterprise Institute's Michael
Ledeen.
Apr 21, 2006, 00:50
Analysis
The trouble with big greens
By Joshua Frank
As business and environmental groups attempt to
influence government environmental decisions, only one side consistently comes
out on top.
Apr 18, 2006, 01:18
Analysis
US to Palestinians: Vote, then starve; democracy as instrument of mass control
By James Brooks
On March 15, former World Bank president and current
Quartet Middle East envoy James Wolfensohn warned Congress that unless stepped
up Western aid was delivered to the Palestinian people, cutting off funds to
the Palestinian Authority would result in �chaos in the streets.�
Apr 17, 2006, 01:19
Analysis
Imminent decline of the American empire?
By Ramzy Baroud
The miscalculated policies of the US administration in
the Middle East are quickly depleting the country�s ability to sustain its once
unchallenged global position. Winds of change are blowing everywhere, and there
is little that Washington�s ideologues can do to stop it.
Apr 13, 2006, 13:51
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