Commondreams January 28 2007 By George Lakoff * The elimination of Natanz would be a major setback for Iran's nuclear ambitions, but the conventional weapons in the American arsenal could not insure the destruction of facilities under seventy-five feet of earth and rock, especially if they are reinforced with concrete." —Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, April 17, 2006 "The second concern is that if an underground laboratory is deeply buried, that can also confound conventional weapons. But […]
Le Monde Diplomatique - Archives Juillet 2007 Des Caraïbes à l’Afghanistan, en passant par l’Europe Par Hernando Calvo Ospina* Photo:Langley Iran, Chili, Nicaragua… Depuis les annés 1950, les guerres « sales » menées par la Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) défraient régulièrement la chronique et, lorsqu’elles sont révélées, font même parfois scandale aux Etats-Unis. En créant la Fondation nationale pour la démocratie, le président Ronald Reagan a doté Washington d’un outil moins voyant et […]
CounterPunch January 23, 2008 The Empire That Must Be Obeyed What Gives the US the Right to Claim a Moral Monopoly Over the World? "The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction." Five Western military leaders. Photo: Alterinfo I read the statement three times trying to figure out the typo. Then it hit me, the West has now out-Owellled Orwell: The West must nuke other countries in order […]
Dissident Voice January 15th, 2008 What You Won’t Hear from the Big Party Candidates By Ralph Nader Here is a short list of what you won’t hear much of from the front-runners in this presidential primary season. Call them the candidate taboos. Photo: Joëlle Pénochet * You won’t hear a call for a national crackdown on the corporate crime, fraud, and abuse that have robbed trillions of dollars from workers, investors, pension holders, taxpayers and consumers. Among the reformsthat won’t be […]
Mondialisation.ca Un an de majorité démocrate au Congrès: un an de dissimulation et de réaction politique Mercredi soir s´est achevée la première année du Congrès (Chambre des représentants et Sénat) contrôlé par les démocrates. Une année marquée par une capitulation générale devant la politique de l'administration Bush. Sur les principales questions, celles où les électeurs qui ont donné aux démocrates la majorité au Congrès en novembre 2006, attendaient un changement (la guerre en Irak, […]
GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org Seven Candidates For The 2008 Green Nomination Will Be On State Ballots For The Primaries The candidates: Jared Ball, Elaine Brown, Jesse Johnson, Cynthia McKinney, Kent Mesplay, Ralph Nader, Kat Swift WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party will have up to seven candidates for the party's presidential nomination on state ballots for the primary elections in 2008. "The Green Party, in most states where Greens have ballot status, participate in […]
http://www.socialistalternative.org December 17th, 2007 *** Sign the DraftNader.org online petition! *** Statement from the Twin Cities Branches of Socialist Alternative Within the next few months, the Democratic and Republican nominees for president will be decided. Regardless of who wins, the two major presidential candidates will both support continuing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan indefinitely, the expansion of the military by 90,000 more troops, the disastrous for-profit healthcare […]
CounterPunch, Weekend Edition December 22 / 23, 2007 With Democrats Like These, Who Needs Republicans? Politics and Profits: How the Oil Cartel Gets Its Way By RALPH NADER Photo: Joëlle Pénochet (New-York, Sept. 6 th 2004) While many impoverished American families are shivering in the winter cold for lack of money to pay the oil baron their exorbitant price for home heating oil, ex-oil man, George W. Bush sleeps in a warm White House and relishes his defeat of the Congressional attempt to […]
CommondreamsDecember 21, 2007 Reprint from The Independent/UK by Leonard Doyle In the face of violent protests, New Orleans City Council yesterday moved to demolish thousands of low-income houses as the city continues the agonisingly slow process or rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina. Demolition crews will now move in to dismantle the 4,500 brick buildings that generations of poor people lived in. The outburst of violence came amid concerns that the authorities intend to reduce the numbers […]
by Paul Joseph Watson Investigative reporter goes further on last week's revelations Investigative reporter Daniel Estulin has gone further with his bombshell revelation first voiced last week that political insiders are considering a plot to assassinate Ron Paul, today identifying the Neo-Con camp as being behind the potential hit. Republican Candiate Ron Paul Appearing on The Alex Jones Show, Estulin said that his sources for the information were real patriots who love America and are […]
GlobalResearch By Jason Leopold Global Research, December 23, 2007 truthout.org - 2007-12-21 For US Army soldiers entering basic training at Fort Jackson Army base in Columbia, South Carolina, accepting Jesus Christ as their personal savior appears to be as much a part of the nine-week regimen as the vigorous physical and mental exercises the troops must endure. That's the message directed at Fort Jackson soldiers, some of whom appear in photographs in government issued fatigues, holding […]
Commondreams Reprint from Associated Press, December 20, 2007 Analysis: CIA Tape Case Evokes Watergate by Tom Raum Administration officials refuse to shed light on whether White House lawyers talked to the CIA about whether to destroy interrogation videotapes of two terrorism suspects but bristle at questions into the affair and complain about news coverage. That puts the White House in an awkward position. The very vision of White House officials sitting around a table talking about such […]
December 18, 2007 by CommonDreams.org by Paul W. Lovinger When Senator Hillary Clinton voted on October 11, 2002, to turn over to President George W. Bush the power that the Constitution vested in her and congressional colleagues to decide whether or not to wage war - or, quoting House Joint Resolution 114, whether an attack on Iraq was “necessary and appropriate” - she appeared to have a conflict of interest: Photo: lematin.ch/ Her husband, Bill, was of course the former chief of the […]
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