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Assessing the Peace Movement
A Splintered Antiwar MovementBy JOHN WALSH The roster of speakers for the UFPJ demonstration in Washington D.C. on January 27 speaks volumes. The key was not so much who was included but who was not. The list of speakers certainly … Continue reading
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Indicting the Mealy State Mouthpiece
Propaganda ExtravaganzaPublished on Monday, February 12, 2007.Source: AtLargely So I have spent a good deal of this evening reading the accounts of the “highly” secretive, “ultra-classified” and “on monumental background” Iran briefing that the White House orchestrated today, just in … Continue reading
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More About the Iranian Mortar Shells
Neocon Flubs Keep On Rolling: Iran Does Not Manufacture 81MM Mortar ShellsMonday February 12th 2007, 12:37 pm Pentagon carelessness fabricating bogus “evidence” against Iran is really quite stupendous. As I wrote here yesterday, the 81mm mortar shell offered up to … Continue reading
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The Cold, Hard Facts, Episode XVII
From Born at the Crest of the Empire Thought for the Day Four years ago in the press for the war with Iraq, the Bush administration maintained that the Iraqis had the technological, machining, and engineering capability to indigenously produce … Continue reading
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There Are Those Who Don’t Get It
Killers in the Classroom2/11/07By Dr. June Scorza Terpstrajuneterpstra.com During a heated debate in a class I teach on social justice, several US Marines who had done tours in Iraq told me that they had “sacrificed” by “serving” in Iraq so … Continue reading
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Quagmire is Understated
How the US is doing Iran’s killing in IraqBy Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily NAJAF, Iraq – New evidence is emerging on the ground of an Iranian hand in growing violence within Iraq, but not necessarily as the US claims … Continue reading
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Flogging the US Superiority Myth
Remarkable how quickly Gates has fallen into the mystic world populated by the BushCo cabal. It is as an opium den, with thick smoke and windowless cubbies where each person smokes himself into oblivion, never seeing or understanding the reality … Continue reading
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The Monday Movie – The Power of Nightmares
1. The Neocons – Ideology and Fantasy (part 1 of 14)
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Crassnerd Questions the "Iranian" Mortar Rounds
Iranians Operatives Use English Language to Make US Look Like Chumps BBC Reporters Taken In At First The weapons were reportedly made after the fall of Saddam Hussein Green Zone, Baghdad(Feb 12 2007) Paul Crassnerd, WtFNS BBC reporters called to … Continue reading
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In Case You Missed It
A road map out of IraqBy Zbigniew Brzezinski U.S. leadership is being tested in the Mideast. We might fail unless we change direction. 02/11/07 “Los Angeles Times’ — – THE WAR IN IRAQ is a historic strategic and moral calamity … Continue reading
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We Need to Stop This Madness
An “Existential” Conflict: Charging Iran with “Genocide” Before Nuking ItBy GARY LEUPP 02/10/07 “Counterpunch” — – In a very interesting analysis last month, the former chief of staff of the Russian Army, Gen. Leonid Ivashov, predicted a U.S. nuclear strike … Continue reading
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