Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
Stephen Gowans
27th September, 2009
The construction of a uranium enrichment facility by Iran outside of Qum, which Tehran notified the International Atomic Energy Agency of days ago, has been seized upon dishonestly by Washington “as a chance to…persuade other countries to support the case for stronger sanctions” against Iran. [1]
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Posted by seumasach on September 26, 2009
Jason Ditz
25th September, 2009
Western leaders reacted with a combination of indignation and outrage todaywhen the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that Iran had informed them it was in the process of constructing a second uranium enrichment facility.
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Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2009
September 9, 2009 (LPAC)– Although several Presidents have had “czars” — a special advisor to the President on a particular issue — President Obama, in a mere 8 months, has far exceeded the use of czars by any previous Administration, having appointed at least 32, the latest being Lazard’s Ron Bloom as “manufacturing” czar. 25 new czar positions were created by Obama.
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Posted by seumasach on August 31, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
1st September, 2009
Dr Abdullah Abdullah, the “modern face” of Afghanistan, is a rare finished product to emerge out of the jihad of the 1980s – a handsome, nattily attired, English-speaking mujahideen spokesman who could evocatively bring to the Western drawing rooms the danger and the thrill of the Hindu Kush.
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Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2009
John V. Walsh
26th August, 2009
Cindy Sheehan will be at Martha’s Vineyard beginning August 25 a short way from Obama’s vacation paradise of the celebrity elite but very far from the Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq where the body bags and cemeteries fill up each day as Obama’s wars rage on. She will remain there from August 25 through August 29 and has issued a call for all peace activists to join her there. For those of us close by in the New England states and in New York City, there would seem to be a special obligation to get to Martha’s Vineyard as soon as we can.
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Posted by seumasach on August 23, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
19th August, 2009
“In a little time [there will be] no middling sort. We shall have a few, and but a very few Lords, and all the rest beggars.” R.L. Bushman
“Rapidly you are dividing into two classes–extreme rich and extreme poor.” “Brutus”
Americans think that they have “freedom and democracy” and that politicians are held accountable by elections. The fact of the matter is that the US is ruled by powerful interest groups who control politicians with campaign contributions. Our real rulers are an oligarchy of financial and military/security interests and AIPAC, which influences US foreign policy for the benefit of Israel.
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Posted by seumasach on August 21, 2009
Cindy Sheehan
21st August, 2009
“And you look at somebody like that (note: me) and you think here’s somebody who’s just trying to find some meaning in her son’s death. And you have to be sympathetic to her. Anybody who has given a son to this country has made an enormous sacrifice, and you have to be sympathetic. But enough already.”
ABC Nightly News Anchor, Charles Gibson August 18, 2009
“Enough already?” Hmmm I don’t know Charlie Gibson and I don’t pay any attention to his career, but I seem to agree with him on this one: “Enough already.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on August 19, 2009
David Michael Green
19th August, 2009
Both President Obama’s health care plan and his presidency are going down the toilet.
This is well, and right, and just as it should be.
Obama is turning out to be a disastrous president, wholly unsuited for the times and our national and global challenges, and his job approval ratings reflect this.
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Posted by seumasach on August 19, 2009
M.K.Bhadrakumar
20th August, 2009
In his distinguished diplomatic career spanning four decades, there is not a trace of record to show that Richard Holbrooke, United States special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, dabbled in energy security issues. His current visit to Pakistan – en route to Afghanistan – has been officially projected as aimed at helping his host country find a way to overcome its electricity shortage.
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Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2009
Ralph Nader
15th August, 2009
Never much of a fighter against abusive corporate power, Barack Obama is making it increasingly clear that right from his start as President, he wanted health insurance reform that received the approval of the giant drug and health insurance industries.
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Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2009
M.K.Bhadrakumar
18th August, 2009
The 19th century Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote in his famous work, On War, “The great uncertainty of all data in war is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not infrequently – like the effect of a fog or moonshine – gives to things exaggerated dimensions and unnatural appearance.” Unsurprisingly, a Clausewitzean war such as the one in the Hindu Kush is often covered in thick fog.
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