Author Archives: RagBlog

America’s Armageddonites Push for More WarBy Jon Basil Utley, Foreign Policy in Focus Some fundamentalist evangelicals have moved from forecasting Armageddon to actually trying to bring it about. Utopian fantasies have long transfixed the human race. Yet today a much … Continue reading →

Tomgram: Michael Schwartz, Iraq Policy Floating on a Sea of Oil History… phooey! Or, more mildly, Americans traditionally aren’t much interested in it and the media largely don’t have time for it either. For one thing, the past is often … Continue reading →

Iraq scraps oil deal; Russia threatens to retaliateBy ANDREW E. KRAMER, NEW YORK TIMES BAGHDAD — Guided by American legal advisers, the Iraqi government has canceled a controversial development contract with the Russian company Lukoil for a vast oil field … Continue reading →

What It Will Take to Build a Sustainable U.S.By Kenny Ausubel, AlterNet. Posted November 1, 2007. We must imagine a new way of life in order to avoid the devastating environmental crises that face humanity, argues the visionary founder of … Continue reading →

Let’s Face It: The Warfare State Is Part of UsBy Norman Solomon, Nov 3, 2007, 03:00 The USA’s military spending is now close to $2 billion a day. This fall, the country will begin its seventh year of continuous war, … Continue reading →

Robot Nationby Linh Dinh / November 3rd, 2007 America’s national pastime is not really baseball but football. Unlike baseball, which is equally popular in Japan, Taiwan and many Latin American countries, no one else shares America’s pigskin passion, a sport … Continue reading →

Congressional Shame and Duplicityby Stephen Lendman, November 03, 2007 The latest October Reuters/Zogby Index shows record low approval ratings for George Bush and Congress – 24% for the president that looks almost giddy compared to the bottom-scraping 11% level for … Continue reading →

It occurs to us that this debacle was guaranteed with the election of Junior and Darth. Even if there had been no Iraq war (a laughable thought in retrospect), this scandal would still have occurred. Privatising government guarantees the corruption … Continue reading →

They Met The ResistanceBy Mike Ferner Meeting Resistance, portrays a side of the Iraqi insurgency President Bush doesn’t want the world to see. 11/02/07 “ICH ” — – On one of those beautiful, fall Sunday mornings that can make you … Continue reading →

Behind the Facade of IncompetenceBy Charles Sullivan 11/02/07 “ICH” — — It is clear that the US media moguls would have us believe that the catastrophic invasion and occupation of Iraq was a sincere effort to promote freedom and democracy … Continue reading →

US Bombed Syria: ReportBy JPOST.COM STAFF USAF Struck Syrian “Nuclear” Site 11/02/07 “JPost” — — The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the Al-Jazeera Web site reported Friday. The Web site quoted Israeli … Continue reading →

Rice to Face Subpoena in Espionage CaseBy MATT APUZZO, AP, Posted: 2007-11-02 16:56:43 WASHINGTON (AP) – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and some of President Bush’s top foreign policy advisers must testify about their conversations with pro-Israel lobbyists, a federal … Continue reading →