3rd April, 2009
NATO would be better off if it sought an “immediate disbandment”, renowned American author and political analyst Professor Noam Chomsky says.
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Facing total economic meltdown at home US/UK, spear-heading NATO, have chosen the path of confrontation with the rest of the world, a path which will lead us to the brink of war with Russia and China
Chomsky: NATO should immediately disband
Posted by seumasach on April 3, 2009
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Sudan/Darfur is Test Case for Obama’s “Humanitarian” Aggression
Posted by seumasach on April 3, 2009
Glen Ford
1st April, 2009
Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir had no choice but to expel the western “aid” organizations that had merged with the American propaganda machine aimed at regime change in Khartoum. Obama operatives like UN Ambassador Susan Rice have for years been “eager to blockade Sudan’s ports” and to launch “selective” bombing raids against Sudan. When imperial doctrine claims the right to intervene whenever disasters overtake sovereign countries – and proceeds to create and exacerbate those disasters – then no government is safe against regime change. President Obama “appears to be fine-tuning a ‘humanitarian’ interventionist doctrine that is applicable to any point on the planet.”
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The Logistical Nightmare in Iraq
Posted by smeddum on March 31, 2009
The Logistical Nightmare in Iraq
283 Bases, 170,000 Pieces of Equipment, 140,000 Troops, and an Army of Mercenaries:
By Jeremy Scahill ICH
March 30, 2009 “AlterNet”
— With last week’s announced escalation of the war in Afghanistan, including an Iraq-like “surge” replete with 4,000 more U.S. troops and a sizable increase in private contractors, President Barack Obama blew the lid off of any lingering perceptions that he somehow represents a significant change in how the U.S. conducts its foreign policy. Read the rest of this entry »
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Obama’s War Has the “peace movement” become part of the war machine?
Posted by seumasach on March 31, 2009
29th March, 2009
PR Watch’s John Stauber took on the Obama administration and the “antiwar” movement in a recent series of posts on his blog. I’ve compiled them here:
Afghan Escalation OK with MoveOn, Anti-War Insiders
Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent noted last week that “President Obama’s announcement of an escalation in the American presence in Afghanistan is being met with mostly silence – and even some support – from the most influential liberal groups who opposed the Iraq War. … MoveOn.org … declined to make any public statement about Obama’s Afghan policies in response to my queries. An official close to the group confirmed to me that MoveOn wouldn’t be saying anything in the near term. … Nor will we hear anything from Americans United for Change, which ran $600,000 worth of TV ads against the Iraq War in the summer of 2007. ‘Americans United for Change doesn’t plan to comment on President Obama’s new strategy,’ a spokesperson for the group, Lauren Weiner, just emailed. Jon Soltz, the head of VoteVets … came out in support of Obama’s Afghan strategy in an Op Ed with The Huffington Post. … Liberal groups don’t want to distract from passing Obama’s enormous domestic agenda. … And officials with some of these groups don’t want to lose inside influence with the White House.”
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Breaking with Israel
Posted by smeddum on March 29, 2009
March 27, 2009
A new turn in US foreign policy?
America’s coming confrontation with Israel has been foreshadowed for quite some time by several under-the-radar signals, but the media has been too invested in the “special relationship” narrative to notice, at least until the Obama administration took the reins. In spite of the Bush team’s reputation for being the most pro-Israel White House ever, in the last year or so of the second term they had been moving steadily away from being Israel’s yes-man – for example, by tightening visa restrictions on the entry of Israelis into the US – and this trend culminated in the White House vetoing an Israeli strike on Iran. With the victory of the Israeli far-right in the recent Israeli elections, and thelikelihood that the ultra-nationalist whack-job Avigdor Liebermanwill serve in the new government as foreign minister, US-Israeli relations are headed for a crisis that will test the power of the Israeli lobby as it has never been tested before, and also provide an interesting lesson in the how and why of our foreign policy. Read the rest of this entry »
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Chad Mitchell trio: Johnny I hardly knew ye
Posted by smeddum on March 29, 2009
This version is most unusual as it mixes in pro war song “Johnny comes marching home” . This score does the original song more justice than any I have seen yet.
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NATO attack on Serbia: 1999- 2009 ” there is no humanitarian war “
Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2009
Zivadin Jovanovic, last minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia, interviewed in Belgrade by Vanessa Stojilkovic & Zoran Jevric for InvestigAction http://www.michelcollon.info
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Our Shame
Posted by smeddum on March 21, 2009
By Cindy Sheehan
March 20. 2009 “Information Clearing House” — I remember sitting in my living room, six years ago, watching the “Leader of the Free World” announcing that the United States military had just embarked in “shock and awe” against the country of Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »
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Concerned Africa Scholars’ Jacob Mundy
Posted by smeddum on March 18, 2009
By Stephen Gowans
March 17, 2009
A member of the executive committee of the scholars’ organization that has accused Mahmoud Mamdani of falling for the anti-imperialist rhetoric of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, has volunteered and worked for pro-imperialist organizations and has given briefings to the US State Department and Intelligence Council. (1) Read the rest of this entry »
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Insensibility
Posted by seumasach on March 18, 2009
One of the greatest poems in the English language, written during World War One, on the last day of which Owen was killed. Ostensibly a war poem, it nonetheless has remarkable resonance with those of us who have never known war directly, suggesting that we are more marked than we know by the bloody turmoil of an epoch from which, hopefully, we are now , at last, emerging.
Wilfred Owen
- Happy are men who yet before they are killed
- Can let their veins run cold.
- Whom no compassion fleers
- Or makes their feet
- Sore on the alleys cobbled with their brothers.
- The front line withers,
- But they are troops who fade, not flowers
- For poets’ tearful fooling:
- Men, gaps for filling
- Losses who might have fought
- Longer; but no one bothers.
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Zimbabwe: Taskforce On Sanctions Welcome
Posted by smeddum on March 17, 2009
17 March 2009
Published by the Government of Zimbabwe
editorial
Harare — THE planned setting up of a ministerial taskforce to spearhead the anti-sanctions drive and to seek the normalisation of relations with the European Union is a step in the right direction. Read the rest of this entry »
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