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A Lasting Settlement?

George Bush, as we know, does not come from that rich and valiant tradition, of which Kosciuscko was part, and which is so vibrant in the American body politic of today. When it came to Palestine, George Bush chose his side from the moment he took office, and has confirmed his position at every opportunity over the last seven years - and there have been many...

Why Don’t You Bomb Yourself And Save Us All

"President Bush had tears in his eyes during an hour-long tour of Israel’s Holocaust Memorial on Friday and told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the U.S. should have bombed Auschwitz to halt the killing" This is what the president Bush said today at the end of his formal visit to Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial...

Welcome, Mr President, to the misery you’ve created

"The Guardian"" -- It is a well-deserved irony for George Bush that his first presidential visit to Israel coincided this week with the storm of excitement produced by the unexpected outcome of the two New Hampshire primaries. Nothing could better highlight the irrelevance of the final year of the Bush presidency...

CIA Reveals: We Said In 1974 That Israel Had Nuclear Weapons

"Haaretz" -- The Central Intelligence Agency, backed by bodies including the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Defense Intelligence Agency, determined in August 1974 that Israel had nuclear "weapons in being," a "small number" of which it "produced and stockpiled."..

Is a Palestinian State A Real Threat To The State Of Israel?

Israel: Is The Fourth Largest Military In the World - What Does It Have To Fear From A Palestinian State? ..

Consuming Our Way to Unhappiness

Everywhere we turn lately, ads -- holiday, post-holiday, and year-end -- have been encouraging us to shop in a concerted and somewhat desperate effort to salvage the economy. But where does all the stuff we’re buying actually come from? ..

A Slave Government

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Bernanke Finds his Voice

On Thursday, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke gave the keynote address on the state of the economy and financial markets at a luncheon in Washington, DC. The tone of the speech was decidedly somber and could have easily been accompanied by a funereal dirge and 8 black-suited pall bearers...

Gulf Shenanigans: No Laughing Matter

When the Tonkin Gulf incident took place in early August 1964, I was a journeyman CIA analyst in what Condoleezza Rice refers to as “the bowels of the agency.”..

States within the USA need to rebel

Bush & his Bandits have been watching too much FOX Television. Someone needs to tell George that he’s not living an episode of “24,” and that his view of a national threat is being influenced by believing in too many of his own skewed fantasies about national security...

Preparations for War with Iran?

Why would Bush go to the Mideast now? It is likely he went to nail down commitments from the Israelis and acquiescence from the Saudis prior to a planned attack on Iran...

Bush says US, allies must confront Iran

President Bush said Sunday that Iran is threatening the security of the world, and that the United States and Arab allies must join together to confront the danger "before it’s too late." ..

Iraqi Children Pay Heavy Price of War

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has painted a dramatic picture of the situation of children in Iraq and warned that increased assistance is needed to improve their dire situation. ..

Iraqi Children Pay Heavy Price of War

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has painted a dramatic picture of the situation of children in Iraq and warned that increased assistance is needed to improve their dire situation. ..

The War on Democracy

’The War on Democracy’ is John Pilger’s first major film for the cinema - in a career that has produced more than 55 television documentaries. Set in Latin America and the US, it explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. ..

Straight Talk

Americans still pretend they brought Democracy to Iraq.Keep on deluding yourselves folks. Had I been in charge of your Education, I would grant you free PHD’s in Deceit, Duplicity and Denial...

The Myth Of Sectarianism

IF THE U.S. leaves Iraq, the violent sectarianism between the Sunni and Shia will worsen. This is what Republicans and Democrats alike will have us believe. This key piece of rhetoric is used to justify the continuance of the occupation of Iraq...

UN says about 151,000 Iraqis killed by war since 2003

The World Health Organization said Wednesday a large-scale household survey showed an estimated 151,000 Iraqis were violently killed since the US-led invasion of their country in March 2003 to the middle of 2006...

How Many Kids Will The US Kill In 2008?

I seem to have been demonstrating against American racism, imperialism, wars and mass murder all my adult life from the Vietnam era of the 1960s and 1970s onwards. Back in the 1960s decent people chanted “Hay, hay LBJ, how many kids will you kill today?” (LBJ being US President Lyndon Baines Johnson who presided over the Indochina War - 13 million excess deaths in total - from the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) in 1963 to the accession of President Richard Nix..

Education is Ignorance

DAVID BARSAMIAN: One of the heroes of the current right-wing revival... is Adam Smith. You’ve done some pretty impressive research on Smith that has excavated... a lot of information that’s not coming out. You’ve often quoted him describing the "vile maxim of the masters of mankind: all for ourselves and nothing for other people."..