tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32249492011-04-22T00:22:31.187-04:00THE MASSES ARE ASSES the only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by infinity<br> is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity - voltairethe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1148564381390097142006-05-25T09:34:00.000-04:002006-05-25T09:39:41.400-04:00The Secret is OutUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel's U.N. ambassador, in unusually blunt comments, criticized Russia, China and Qatar on Monday for disappointing the Jewish state in their role as U.N. Security Council members this year.But Ambassador Dan Gillerman, addressing a New York meeting of B'nai B'rith International, a Jewish humanitarian organization, heaped praise on U.S. Ambassador the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1147383769506967092006-05-11T17:32:00.000-04:002006-05-11T17:47:43.783-04:00The Conservative Nanny State:How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get RicherThe key flaw in the stance that most progressives have taken on economic issues is that they have accepted a framing whereby conservatives are assumed to support market outcomes, while progressives want to rely on the government. This framing leads progressives to futilely lash out against markets, rather the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1146688766561142032006-05-03T14:52:00.000-04:002006-05-04T03:02:23.210-04:00Stephen Colbert hosting the White House Correspondent DinnerStephen Colbert, with a stone-faced Bush seated to his right, consistently went for the jugular with offerings like:"I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq."and"Let's review the rules. Here's how it works. The president makes the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1145905891295242282006-04-24T15:06:00.000-04:002006-04-24T15:20:05.653-04:00imf meeting opec says producers not to blame for high oil pricesQatar's oil minister blamed high oil prices on 'horrible' speculation and 'geopolitics' rather than any shortage of supplies.'This frenzy is fabricated by speculators who are taking advantage of it in the most horrible way,' Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiya told reporters.'If you can stop the politicians from making negative statements, the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1145433782118359202006-04-19T03:32:00.000-04:002006-04-19T04:20:30.096-04:00Bush won't exclude iran nuke strikeThe United States on Tuesday failed to secure international support for targeted sanctions against Iran and President George W. Bush refused to rule out nuclear strikes if diplomacy failed to curb the Islamic Republic's atomic ambitions. [...]Raising the price of Brent crude to a record $72.64 a barrel on Tuesday - scaremongers, liars and serial killers push forthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1144963924991319122006-04-13T17:28:00.000-04:002006-04-14T01:34:48.110-04:00Lets Roll!There's something about the cockpit voice recording the Moussaui jury heard that doesn't quite sound right. Universal Studios will undoubtedly clear all this up later this month.the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1144939701863494652006-04-13T10:37:00.000-04:002006-04-14T08:56:38.356-04:00"fool me once"Uncle Chutzpah and his willing executioners-the media, UN and coalition of the cowardly and bribed-have isolated Iran and set her up for possible destabilization and aggression. One wouldn't think this possible given the remarkable parallels in argument and (phony) evidence in this case and that of the failed aggression in Iraq, but the power of the aggressor and subservience of thethe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1143716098145904282006-03-30T05:09:00.000-05:002006-05-05T04:04:47.860-04:00canada helps israel give starvation another tryCanada has ended all relations with the new Palestinian government, Ottawa announced Wednesday. "Not a red cent to Hamas," Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said on CBC's Inside Politics. "This is a terrorist organization."Hamas members were sworn in as the Palestinian cabinet on Wednesday. Hamas replaced Fatah as the dominant Palestinian the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1143481491394427492006-03-27T12:25:00.000-05:002006-03-28T11:26:07.340-05:00reinforcing the mainstream narrativeConfessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui took the witness stand in his own defense for the first time Monday, testifying that he was never intended to be one of the Sept. 11, 2001 airplane hijackers. Moussaoui pleaded guilty in April "because everybody used to refer to me as the 20th hijacker and it was a bit of fun"...Although Moussaoui stated that hethe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1143257762803629972006-03-24T22:35:00.000-05:002006-03-25T04:46:52.746-05:00Frustrated with the UN Security Council, the U.S. tries to break the impasse on Iran:russia spied for saddam in war - pentagon reportRussia funnelled intelligence on American troop movements in Iraq to Saddam Hussein during the early days of the war, according to documents contained in a Pentagon report released last night...the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1142804403884767492006-03-19T16:33:00.000-05:002006-03-21T19:43:07.256-05:00free markets, democracy and other rhetorical devicesThe juxtaposition of Goldman Sachs reporting record-breaking profits on the same day that the U.S. Commerce Dept. reported record-breaking current account deficits is a good indication of who benefits most from the current global speculative finance system.Eventually, corporate America, strongly influenced, via the CEO stock option linkage, by the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1066099846233944922003-10-13T22:50:00.000-04:002003-10-13T22:50:45.666-04:00Israel's attack is a lethal step towards war in Middle East
Beirut. Israel received the Green Light. It came from what is called the Syria Accountability Act, moving through the United States Congress with the help of Israel's supporters, that will impose sanctions on Damascus for its supposed enthusiasm for "terrorism" and occupation of Lebanon.
Speaker after speaker in the past week has been the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1066099384886213762003-10-13T22:43:00.000-04:002003-10-13T22:43:04.423-04:00Dominance and its Dilemmas*
By The past year has been a momentous one in world affairs. In the normal rhythm, the pattern was set in September, a month marked by several important and closely related events. The most powerful state in history announced a new National Security Strategy asserting that it will maintain global hegemony permanently: any challenge will be blocked by force, the the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1066099123604327742003-10-13T22:38:00.000-04:002003-10-13T22:38:43.210-04:00UN estimate for rebuilding Iraq half that of Bush's—where's the money going?
Basic reconstruction in Iraq next year would cost less than half the amount requested by the Bush administration from the US Congress, according to a joint report prepared by the United Nations and World Bank. The report estimates that $9 billion are needed for reconstruction in Iraq in 2004. The report was released thethe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1066086152634952462003-10-13T19:02:00.000-04:002003-10-13T19:06:36.903-04:00The Iraqi Ledger
Quotes to mark the six-month anniversary of the fall of Baghdad
L. Paul Bremmer, American overseer of Iraq, "defiantly":
"I am optimistic. We have made an enormous amount of progress in six months, more than I think anyone could have safely predicted."
An Iraqi businessman, "acidly":
"They claimed that we were smart enough to build weapons of mass destruction capable of the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065404773507091182003-10-05T21:46:00.000-04:002003-10-05T21:46:13.170-04:00Justice Department Dealt Major Blow in Moussaoui Case
The Justice Department was dealt a major setback yesterday in its prosecution of suspected Al Qaida member Zacarias Moussaoui. A federal judge barred prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the case and barred the government from attempting to link Moussaoui to the Sept. 11 attacks. The judge, Leonie Brinkema ruled that it would be the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065404727555041222003-10-05T21:45:00.000-04:002003-10-05T21:45:27.233-04:00Attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq increase
Attacks on U.S.-led forces in Iraq have escalated over the past several months, and insurgents are now launching an average of 17 assaults a day against patrols, convoys and bases, an analysis of coalition security reports shows. The data also show insurgents are using more sophisticated tactics and weapons.
There were few attacks against coalition forcesthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065403434535925062003-10-05T21:23:00.000-04:002003-10-05T21:23:54.420-04:00Blair 'Knew Iraq Had No WMD'
TONY BLAIR privately conceded two weeks before the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein did not have any usable weapons of mass destruction, Robin Cook, the former foreign secretary, reveals today.
John Scarlett, chairman of the joint intelligence committee (JIC), also "assented" that Saddam had no such weapons, says Cook.
His revelations, taken from a diary that he keptthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065401527410258442003-10-05T20:52:00.000-04:002003-10-05T21:36:41.193-04:00Hail Protesting Pilots
The recent refusal of 27 high-ranking Israeli Air Force officials to follow a superiors orders to attack Palestinian civilians is a significant rebuke to the Israeli government's policy of "targeted liquidations.''
What makes the pilots decision particularly important is that their declaration of refusal was signed by one general, two colonels, nine lieutenant colonelsthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065399457232261412003-10-05T20:17:00.000-04:002003-10-05T20:17:37.190-04:00Jobless Recovery?
Shouldn’t people’s ability to find work be central to any economy? Isn’t the point of an economy all about fulfilling human needs, one of which is meaningful work? Not according to today’s monetarist economists who only three years ago were warning of the dangers of the unemployment rate dropping below four percent. Then the business community and their economists were fearful the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065168918531486742003-10-03T04:15:00.000-04:002003-10-03T04:15:18.473-04:00An Occupied Country
It has become clear, very quickly, that Iraq is not a liberated country, but an occupied country.
We became familiar with the term "occupied country" during World War II. We talked of German-occupied France, German-occupied Europe. And after the war we spoke of Soviet-occupied Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Eastern Europe. It was the Nazis, the Soviets, who occupied other the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065168615289115702003-10-03T04:10:00.000-04:002003-10-03T04:10:15.290-04:00xymphora
While I suppose it is fun to use the Wilson/Plame/Rove situation to attack the Bushites, and the incident may create a short-term partisan advantage for those opposed to the junta, and it would be very nice to see Rove do the perp walk, Cryptome has a much deeper truth:
"The idiot furor over naming Valerie Plame as a CIA officer, and the CIA's phony call for an investigation, should the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065155507237425702003-10-03T00:31:00.000-04:002003-10-03T00:31:47.083-04:00Get Your War On
the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065155276841960812003-10-03T00:27:00.000-04:002003-10-03T00:32:58.566-04:00Own a Piece of Iraq
How U.S. Gvt. Officials Are Leaving Public Office To Cash In On Iraq
President Bush’s campaign manager in 2000, Joe Allbaugh, has set up a new private business firm in Washington and Iraq to advise companies that want to do business in Iraq including companies who are seeking government contracts.
Until March, Allbaugh served as the director of the Federal Emergency the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065148105633252152003-10-02T22:28:00.000-04:002003-10-03T00:28:47.756-04:00Another Falsehood on Iraq Goes Unchallenged
On a weekend when the Bush administration's pre-war intelligence on Iraq was a major topic on the Sunday talkshows, Secretary of State Colin Powell re-circulated a false story about United Nations weapons inspectors being kicked out of Iraq in 1998. Some major media outlets let Powell's comments pass without comment or correction.
On ABC's This Week the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065146717036945692003-10-02T22:05:00.000-04:002003-10-02T22:05:17.093-04:00US Cuts Military Aid to Friendly Nations
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration today cut over $89 million in military aid to 32 friendly countries because they refused to exempt U.S. citizens and soldiers from the jurisdiction of the new International Criminal Court (ICC)--the world's first permanent tribunal to prosecute the perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1065139707760172192003-10-02T20:08:00.000-04:002003-10-02T20:10:30.490-04:00Hidden In Plain Sight
Media Misses Gap Between Bush And Reality
"That is a lie." - The mainstream news organizations could have used that phrase in many a story about George W. Bush.
When he said the estate tax forced families to sell their farms. When he said he only got to know Kenneth Lay after becoming governor. When he said that budget deficits were the result of 9/11. When he said he the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1064455374043889902003-09-24T22:02:00.000-04:002003-09-24T22:03:17.996-04:00When is a Terrorist not a Terrorist?
Imagine this scenario. A bomb is found at the home of a prominent Foreign Ministry official currently engaged in delicate international negotiations. The bomb is linked to a series of recent threats and attempted attacks on public buildings, all believed to have been carried out by the same political group. In one case, explosives were found outside a bank inthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1064455280206585132003-09-24T22:01:00.000-04:002003-09-24T22:05:49.120-04:00Bolivia's Gas War
A new cycle of conflict has developed in Bolivia as worker unions, coca farmers and ordinary citizens unite to prevent the sale of the nation's gas reserves to the United States through a Chilean port. In a country whose economic identity has been strongly shaped by U.S. pressure in the war on drugs and IMF structural adjustments, The Gas War is the most recent case where thethe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1064454471615487822003-09-24T21:47:00.000-04:002003-10-02T19:37:09.080-04:00Norman Finkelstein Calls Alan Dershowitz's New Book On Israel a "Hoax"
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: You raise that issue then I'll address it then returning to the substantive issues of your book.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ: First tell me why I shouldn't be teaching at Harvard.
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: On page 207 of your book you say that to deliberately misinform, miseducate, and misdirect students is a the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1064377142064018472003-09-24T00:19:00.000-04:002003-09-24T00:25:40.860-04:00Cheney Justifies Invasion Of Iraq In First Televised Interview in Six Months
In his first televised interview in six months Vice President Dick Cheney went on the offensive to justify the Bush Administration’s invasion of Iraq. In a lengthy interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, Cheney portrayed Iraq as “the geographic base” for the September 11th attacks. In attempting to sell the reasons for thethe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1064376701907372992003-09-24T00:11:00.000-04:002003-09-24T00:26:54.106-04:00Richard Perle vs Medea Benjamin
MEDEA BENJAMIN: It's been six months since this occupation, and even the Iraqis who welcomed the U.S. with open arms and were so happy to get rid of Saddam Hussein are now extremely bitter and angry. The resentment will only grow unless the U.S. turns this over to a legitimate authority, which is the United Nations, which will have a quick time line for Iraqi selfthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1064375759993011312003-09-23T23:55:00.000-04:002003-09-24T00:12:15.603-04:00Mastermind reveals Sept. 11 plot started in 1996
Washington — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, has told American interrogators that he first discussed the plot with Osama bin Laden in 1996 and that the original plan called for hijacking five commercial jets on each U.S. coast before it was modified several times, according to interrogation reports reviewed by The the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1064374139029666352003-09-23T23:28:00.000-04:002003-09-23T23:28:58.750-04:00US-Backed Council Bars Arab Media
BAGHDAD -- Freedom of speech campaigners have condemned US-appointed authorities in Iraq for banning television stations Aljazeera and al- Arabiya.
Iraq's Governing Council said on Tuesday the stations were prohibited from covering official activities in Iraq for two weeks.
It said the action was taken as a warning to broadcasters who incite anti-US violence.the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1064373777474840782003-09-23T23:22:00.000-04:002003-09-23T23:22:57.270-04:00Annan Challenges U.S. Doctrine of Preventive Action
UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned President Bush that his doctrine of preemptive military intervention posed a fundamental challenge to the United Nations and could lead to a global free-for-all.
In a speech to be delivered shortly before Bush addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, Annan declared that the Iraq the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1064185214721095562003-09-21T19:00:00.000-04:002003-09-21T19:00:14.873-04:009/11/01: Where Was George?
September 11 is often said to be the defining moment in the Bush presidency, even of modern history. How strange, therefore, that Bush's behavior that morning--along with that of his Administration--is almost never examined in any detail. This is all the more incredible when one considers the fact that 9/11 is among the most exhaustively chronicled days in human the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063661078592469372003-09-15T17:24:00.000-04:002003-09-15T17:24:38.633-04:00Israel May Kill Arafat, Deputy PM Says
The Israeli government is considering killing Yasser Arafat as one of the means to carry out its threat to "remove" him as an obstacle to peace, Israel's deputy prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said yesterday.
The statement was immediately denounced by the Palestinian leadership, which said it was the thinking of the mafia, not a government.
It also the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063660823225695262003-09-15T17:17:00.000-04:002003-09-15T18:18:48.553-04:00Scottie & Me (formerly known as Ari & I)
White House Press Briefing with Scott McLellan - Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Russell Mokhiber: I've got two things.
A group of family members of victims of September 11th have gotten together in a group called Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. And they, over the past year, have written to the President four times asking for a meeting. They want him, the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063659755158900392003-09-15T16:51:00.000-04:002003-09-15T18:23:40.676-04:00WTO Talks Collapse Amid Rift Between Rich and Poor Nations
The world trade talks collapse yesterday amid sharp differences between rich and poor nations, perhaps as stark as the differences between the resort Cancun for international tourists and the real Cancun. The talks were aimed at freeing world trade and lifting millions out of poverty.
The collapse of the talks comes as a major blow to the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063397873927656732003-09-12T16:17:00.000-04:002003-09-12T16:17:53.963-04:00AfterMath: Unanswered Questions From 9-11
In this investigative documentary, Former Inspector General of the Dept. of Transportation and attorney Mary Schiavo, UC Professor Emeritus Peter Dale Scott, author and professor Michel Chossudovsky, From the Wilderness' Mike Ruppert, and author Nafeez Ahmed, among others, raise critical, unresolved questions surrounding the tragedy of September 11. the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063393290214283102003-09-12T14:44:00.000-04:002003-09-12T16:49:44.286-04:00WTO'S Big Show
[WTO] negotiations are snarled around two key issues: U.S. - EU agricultural subsidies and pharmaceutical industry patents on vital drugs for AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and 20 other life-threatening diseases.
Since the round in Doha, Qatar, U.S. president George W. Bush, who raises millions in political contributions from pharmaceutical giants, has been adamant about not the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063390538667014612003-09-12T14:04:00.000-04:002003-09-12T16:11:20.996-04:00Building a Mighty Ghetto State
"First of All This Wall Must Fall"
This slogan was born spontaneously, opposite the Wall in Kalkiliya, at the place where it becomes a fence and turns east, penetrating deep into Palestinian territory. On the other side of the wall the Palestinians were demonstrating. We were looking for a short rhyme to broadcast by megaphone. A common effort brought forth the the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063302730897547662003-09-11T13:52:00.000-04:002003-09-11T13:52:10.770-04:00From a 9/11 Widow's review of DC 9/11: Time of Crisis:
It is understandable that so little time is actually devoted to the president's true actions on the morning of 9/11. Because to show the entire 23 minutes from 9:03 to 9:25 a.m., when President Bush, in reality, remained seated and listening to "second grade story-hour" while people like my husband were burning alive inside the World Trade the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063301082257075502003-09-11T13:24:00.000-04:002003-09-11T14:07:10.410-04:00September 11: After two years, cover-up begins to unravel
Today marks the second anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. After two years, little more has been revealed publicly about the circumstances that led to the deaths of 3,000 innocent people than was known the day after the planes struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. As the result of a concerted attempt by the Bush the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063299244409054132003-09-11T12:54:00.000-04:002003-09-12T14:02:42.656-04:00Bin Laden strikes at America at the moment we are entering a world depression...it is the most fragile moment in the West. For someone who does not wish us well that was brilliantly timed.
- GORE VIDAL on Osama Bin Laden's uncanny sense of timing
And right on cue:
New Purported Bin Laden Tape Raises Fear of New Attacks
(CNN) -- On the eve of the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063221841492258852003-09-10T15:24:00.000-04:002003-09-11T14:06:38.903-04:00Howard Dean and Joseph Lieberman Clash Over U.S.-Israeli Relations
Last night, at a debate among the Democratic presidential candidates sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean and Conn. Senator Joseph Lieberman clashed over Dean’s recent comment that the U.S. should not take sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dean backed his statement up last the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063208997540157452003-09-10T11:49:00.000-04:002003-09-10T11:51:17.450-04:00France and Germany Seek Full UN Control Over Iraq
France and Germany will back the new UN resolution on Iraq sought by President George Bush only if the proposal gives the UN full political rule over the country. The countries have also demanded a clear programme for returning power to Iraqis.
The high price sought by the French suggests that Mr Bush is going to struggle to win UN agreement the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063174946236630442003-09-10T02:22:00.000-04:002003-09-10T02:39:21.820-04:00Hijacked 9/11 Flights and Military Bases
MediaLab has merged a map of the 9/11 planes' flightpaths with a map of military bases in those areas. The flights went through some of the most heavily militarized parts of the country, yet nothing could be done to stop them?the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063173592670384012003-09-10T01:59:00.000-04:002003-09-10T15:26:34.003-04:009/11 - Foreign Policy Perpetual Motion Machine
We went into Iraq to eliminate Saddam's stock of weapons of mass destruction, to depose a reckless strongman at the heart of a vital region, and to overawe unfriendly regimes on the country's borders. Agree or not, those were the prime stated reasons. Now we've got a deteriorating security situation and a palpably botched plan for reconstruction. the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063172667534279542003-09-10T01:44:00.000-04:002003-09-11T12:45:55.950-04:00Israel Must End Its Policy of Closures and Restriction of Movement
"Israel must put an end to the imposition of disproportionate and discriminatory restrictions on Palestinians' movement in the Occupied Territories which have crippled the Palestinian economy and caused widespread poverty, unemployment and increasing health problems," Amnesty International said in a report published today.
the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063171734693987192003-09-10T01:28:00.000-04:002003-09-10T01:28:54.730-04:00Why Was Baghdad Looted?
Heavy suspicion remains that failure of the US to protect heritage sites, more than negligence, was a deliberate oversight designed as a kind of cultural 'shock and awe' that would devastate a sense of shared culture among Iraqis, leaving a blank page for the imprint of the US occupying force and the reconstruction to follow. If proven, this would be cultural genocide notthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063169922534829332003-09-10T00:58:00.000-04:002003-09-10T10:38:54.566-04:00Journalist or Terrorist?
MILES O'BRIEN, (CNN Anchor): All right, first of all, let's talk about this particular journalist and this particular network. Tayssir Alouni, I don't know him personally. You know him by reputation. And certainly, you know about Al-Jazeera. Lots of allegations there about their sympathies. Is it surprising to you to hear about these allegations, nonetheless?
ERIC the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063088578502626482003-09-09T02:22:00.000-04:002003-09-09T03:28:51.036-04:00Think of a wonderful thought...
From Donald Rumsfeld:
Mr. Rumsfeld did not mention any of the domestic critics by name. But he suggested that those who have been critical of the administration’s handling of the war in Iraq and its aftermath might be encouraging American foes to believe that the United States might one day walk away from the effort, as it has in past conflicts.
From Christopherthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063086668205295682003-09-09T01:51:00.000-04:002003-09-09T02:24:29.883-04:0078% of Bush's Postwar Spending Plan Is for Military
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 — President Bush's $87 billion request for postwar costs is heavily weighted to maintaining military operations, with $65.5 billion directed to the armed forces, $15 billion toward rebuilding Iraq and $5 billion toward building its security forces, and $800 million to new spending for civilian programs in Afghanistan, the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063082665312533742003-09-09T00:44:00.000-04:002003-09-09T00:50:46.330-04:00Rogue Nation
(via Resist Them)
1) In December 2001, the United States officially withdrew from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, gutting the landmark agreement-the first time in the nuclear era that the US renounced a major arms control accord.
2) 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention ratified by 144 nations including the United States. In July 2001 the US walked out of a London the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063082034945719452003-09-09T00:33:00.000-04:002003-09-09T00:34:26.273-04:00Former U.S. Envoy Challenges Bush on N. Korea
Prospects are "grim" for a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis unless the United States engages in a sustained bilateral dialogue with Pyongyang, former U.S. negotiator Charles L. "Jack" Pritchard said on Monday.
In his first public comments since resigning from the Bush administration three weeks ago on the eve of six-party the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063081269498978072003-09-09T00:21:00.000-04:002003-09-09T00:21:09.526-04:00Rumsfeld's Fall From 'Grace'
Rumsfeld has been the main voice behind refusing to negotiate with North Korea. Notably, while Rummy was on vacation in August, Powell and his assistant at the State Department, Richard Armitage, took the opportunity to argue their case with the President. In the end, Bush gave in and agreed to do what should have been done months ago: offer North Korea economic aidthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1063022210923450762003-09-08T07:56:00.000-04:002003-09-08T16:01:36.586-04:00Text of George W Bush's Speech on Iraq
Good evening. I have asked for this time to keep you informed of America's actions in the war on terror. Nearly two years ago, following deadly attacks on our country.
[yadda, yadda, yadda]
I will soon submit to Congress a request for 87 billion dollars.
[yadda, yadda, yadda]
We've been tested these past 24 months, and the dangers have not passed. Yet the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1062960807073099372003-09-07T14:53:00.000-04:002003-09-07T14:53:27.146-04:00Bush Seeks An Exit Strategy As War Threatens His Career
George Bush will attempt tonight to convince the American people that he has a workable 'exit strategy' to free his forces from the rapidly souring conflict in Iraq, as Britain prepares to send in thousands more troops to reinforce the faltering coalition effort.
Frantic negotiations continued this weekend in New York to secure a United the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1062959610049219052003-09-07T14:33:00.000-04:002003-09-07T14:54:40.643-04:00This War on Terrorism is Bogus
The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination
Massive attention has now been given - and rightly so - to the reasons why Britain went to war against Iraq. But far too little attention has focused on why the US went to war, and that throws light on British motives too. The conventional explanation is that after the Twin the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1062959506783400712003-09-07T14:31:00.000-04:002003-09-07T14:55:04.520-04:00Report: Mossad In Iraq for Anti-Terror Efforts
According to a report in the Arab-language Al-Hayat newspaper, a delegation from the Israeli intelligence service, the Mossad, visited Baghdad last month in order to coordinate its anti-terrorism efforts with U.S. forces in Iraq.
Basing its report on comments made by an anonymous Kurdish official, the newspaper claimed that the delegation carried the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1062959056006768952003-09-07T14:24:00.000-04:002003-09-07T14:27:43.863-04:00Democratic Presidential Debate
Part II: Iraq & Foreign Policy
RAY SUAREZ: Congressman Kucinich, some of those allies that the two earlier speakers (Howard Dean and Richard Gephardt) have referred to have already said that the current resolution that's circulating doesn't go far enough. Can we keep American civil administration and American military administration as it currently exists and the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1062955537515130782003-09-07T13:25:00.000-04:002003-09-07T13:56:23.403-04:00Abbas Steps Down, Dealing Big Blow to U.S. Peace Plan
Mahmoud Abbas submitted his resignation as Palestinian prime minister today, and Israel tried to kill the spiritual leader and founder of Hamas with an airstrike in Gaza City, as the Bush administration's drive for Middle East peace appeared in danger of disintegrating.
Some associates of Mr. Abbas held out the hope that, by provoking what the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1062775796257375722003-09-05T11:29:00.000-04:002003-09-05T11:29:56.276-04:00Bin Laden Family Allowed 9/11 Leave
The bin Laden family were granted extraordinary White House privileges to fly out of U.S. airspace following the attacks of Sept. 11th, 2001.
Former White House counter terrorism expert Richard Clarke told Vanity Fair the Bush administration decided to allow a group of Saudis to fly out of U.S. airspace just after Sept. 11-- a time when access to the United the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1062774267004738992003-09-05T11:04:00.000-04:002003-09-05T11:04:27.060-04:00Joints Chief Of Staff Criticize White House War Planning
A secret internal report by the Joint Chiefs of Staff criticizes the Bush administration for failing to adequately plan for the reconstruction and policing of Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein and for failing to predict that a guerilla war would emerge.
The report titled "Operation Iraqi Freedom Strategic Lessons Learned" was the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1062772539553601812003-09-05T10:35:00.000-04:002003-09-05T10:36:20.723-04:00Right to Return of Palestinian Refugees
One of the basic tenets of Zionism involves taking the land of Palestine and getting rid of its people. This tenet was realised by all possible means: expulsion, massacres, closures, house demolitions, starvation, harassment and other means made possible by the great imbalance of power between the occupier and the occupied. This is called "ethnic the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1062771816265707372003-09-05T10:23:00.000-04:002003-09-05T10:23:36.306-04:00Overpaying the Pentagon
How we can meet our security needs for less than $500 billion
When George Bush Senior's administration decided that the end of the Cold War made it safe to reduce the defense budget and the size of our armed forces, many neoconservatives and defense hawks, some of whom were serving in that administration, argued against the move. They wanted the United States to maintain the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1062767678445982182003-09-05T09:14:00.000-04:002003-09-05T10:24:01.296-04:00The Dollar Crisis
During the 30 years since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods International Monetary System, the global economy has been flooded with dollar liquidity. International reserves are one of the best measures of that liquidity. During the quasi-gold standard Bretton Woods era, international reserves expanded only slowly. For example, total international reserves increased by only 55%the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1062601324652145402003-09-03T11:02:00.000-04:002003-09-03T11:02:04.600-04:00The Worst of Times
The world is beginning to look like France, a few years before the Revolution. There are no reliable wealth statistics from that time, but the disparities are unlikely to have been greater than they are today. The wealthiest 5% of the world's people now earn 114 times as much as the poorest 5%. The 500 richest people on earth now own $1.54 trillion - more than the entire grossthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1062600289084353362003-09-03T10:44:00.000-04:002003-09-03T11:03:22.063-04:00Not Just Warmer: It's the Hottest for 2,000 years
The earth is warmer now than it has been at any time in the past 2,000 years, the most comprehensive study of climatic history has revealed. Confirming the worst fears of environmental scientists, the newly published findings are a blow to sceptics who maintain that global warming is part of the natural climatic cycle rather than a consequence ofthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1062598244333827102003-09-03T10:10:00.000-04:002003-09-03T11:04:02.490-04:00The Mini-Empire Tool Kit
The Marriott Hotel in Jakarta was still burning when Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia's Co-ordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs, explained the implications of the day's attack. "Those who criticize about human rights being breached must understand that all the bombing victims are more important than any human-rights issue."
In a sentence, we got the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1062595219051344372003-09-03T09:20:00.000-04:002003-09-03T10:47:08.600-04:00U.S. Checking Possibility of Pumping Oil From Northern Iraq to Haifa
The United States has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa. The request came in a telegram last week from a senior Pentagon official to a top Foreign Ministry official in Jerusalem.
The Prime Minister's Office, which views the pipeline to Haifa as a "bonus" the U.S. the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1061939702923414192003-08-26T19:15:00.000-04:002003-08-26T19:19:33.863-04:00Terror allegations against 19 men termed 'garbage'
Allegations that 19 young men behaved like terrorists and are a danger to national security are "absolute garbage," lawyers said yesterday as officials revealed the identities of the mostly Pakistani suspects.
The men, aged 18 to 33, were rounded up in predawn immigration raids around Toronto earlier this month. Authorities allege that many of the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1061870336687602132003-08-25T23:58:00.000-04:002003-08-25T23:58:56.530-04:00Regulation-Haters Spreading More Lies
We don’t yet know the precise cause of the blackout, and perhaps we never will. But we now can say with certainty what we may only have suspected before: The people running our government and our energy industry believe that Americans are fools, because otherwise they wouldn’t dare to conduct politics and business as they do.
For many years, the the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1061830496098451642003-08-25T12:54:00.000-04:002003-08-25T12:54:55.983-04:00US crime hits 30-year low
Crime in the United States fell last year to the lowest level since records started being compiled 30 years ago, the US Justice Department has said.
About 23 million violent and property crimes were reported in 2002, compared with some 44 million in 1973, according to the annual survey by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
The decline was seen in every category of the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1061824374020590932003-08-25T11:12:00.000-04:002003-08-25T11:16:45.953-04:00Xymphora
One of the mysteries about the current mess in Iraq is the identity of the people involved in the resistance against the occupation, and in particular, the UN bombing. It is fairly clear that no one really has the slightest idea as to who these people might be, and a major part of the reason for this is that the Iraqi people are doing all they can to shelter the operations of the the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1061784702612298932003-08-25T00:11:00.000-04:002003-08-25T11:03:13.063-04:00Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush
In mid-June, F.B.I. director Robert Mueller III and several senior agents in the bureau received a group of about 20 visitors in a briefing room of the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. The director himself narrated a PowerPoint presentation that summarized the numbers of agents and leads and evidence he and his people had collected in the 18-month course ofthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1061781226038703312003-08-24T23:13:00.000-04:002003-08-25T21:42:09.590-04:00Car Bomb Destroys UN HQ in Baghdad, 20 Die; We Talk To A Survivor
The United Nations headquarters in Baghdad has been destroyed by a truck bomb killing 20 people in one of the deadliest attacks ever directed at the United Nations. Among the dead was Sergio Viera de Mello, the top UN official in Baghdad. Dozens were also wounded.
The explosion happened at about 4:30 in the afternoon yesterday the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1060196794865569532003-08-06T15:06:00.000-04:002003-08-25T21:44:21.920-04:00The Living Myths About Nuclear Murder
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
At 1:45 a.m. on August 6, 1945, a US B-29 bomber, named Enola Gay, took off from Tinian Island in the Mariana Islands. It carried the world's second atomic bomb, the first having been detonated three weeks earlier at a US test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The Enola Gay carried one atomic bomb, with an enriched uranium the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1060193469835732642003-08-06T14:11:00.000-04:002003-08-06T14:11:09.850-04:00US Wants Saddam, But Dead - Not Alive
The Bush administration will be delighted not to put Saddam on public trial. Dead dictators tell no tales.
The White House would much prefer to display a bullet-riddled Saddam as a trophy to divert mounting criticism over U.S. casualties in Iraq and the litany of falsehoods it used to drive America to war. If put on public trial, Saddam would have a fieldthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1060192740273251932003-08-06T13:59:00.000-04:002003-08-06T13:59:00.270-04:00What Was Behind the Pentagon's Betting Parlor?
What was behind the Pentagon’s screwball scheme to establish an online futures market for acts of terrorism? The $8 million betting parlor was scuttled only three days before its scheduled debut on August 1. Was it just a one-time fluke? If so, it raises questions about who is running the Pentagon. If it was part of a pattern, then it raises some the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1060190768585715632003-08-06T13:26:00.000-04:002003-08-06T13:26:08.636-04:00Stealing The Internet
Ever stop to wonder what is really happening to the Internet these days?
The crackdown by the music industry on illegal downloading tells just part of the story. Even with the dot-com bust, the digital boom is here, as high-speed connections, faster processors and new wireless devices increasingly become part of life. But the thousands of lawsuits are not just about the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1060190284769514792003-08-06T13:18:00.000-04:002003-08-06T13:18:04.906-04:00US reporter tells of life in Aceh
The military crackdown in the troubled Indonesian province of Aceh is not going as well as Indonesian officials claim, according to a US journalist recently deported from the province. "The picture that I have is somewhat different to that on Indonesian TV," William Nessen told the BBC's World Today programme. "It was almost as if I was in a different place," hethe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1060182574883226452003-08-06T11:09:00.000-04:002003-08-06T13:08:19.753-04:00Double Standard
Big business welcomes globalization -- but only when big business benefits.
Item: The House passes legislation allowing consumers to import cheaper drugs from Canada.
Item: IBM plans to move thousands of computer programming jobs to India.
Question: Aren't both events logical consequences of globalization of commerce?
Answer: Not if you're big business, which loves moving the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1060181041524379022003-08-06T10:44:00.000-04:002003-08-25T21:43:07.630-04:00Bush's oil move backfires
In a dream ending for the chapter of history being written now in Iraq, neo-conservatives fantasised before the war about a privatised, pro-American Iraqi oil industry. This would have access to the world's second largest hydrocarbon reserves and produce so much oil that Saudi Arabia, in charge of Opec, would lose its grip on petrol prices.
The world would then be the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1060180009001255282003-08-06T10:26:00.000-04:002003-08-06T10:30:12.383-04:00Death marches at double in Iraq but US public unaware
United States military casualties in Iraq are running at more than twice the number most Americans have been led to believe they are. The public is largely unaware of a high number of accidents, suicides and other non-combat deaths.
Since May 1, when President George Bush called an end to combat operations, 52 of his troops have been killedthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1060019491939689902003-08-04T13:51:00.000-04:002003-08-05T13:10:52.846-04:00Hopeless
Did Bob Hope ever say anything funny?
To be paralyzingly, painfully, hopelessly unfunny is not a particular defect or shortcoming in, say, a cable repair man or a Supreme Court justice or a Navy Seal. These jobs can be performed humorlessly with no loss of efficiency or impact. But to be paralyzingly, painfully, hopelessly unfunny is a serious drawback, even lapse, in a comedian. And the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1060011694052834842003-08-04T11:41:00.000-04:002003-08-04T11:41:34.113-04:00Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?
This presidential credibility crisis is only the most recent one in our history, some far more important than others. For most Americans, taking responsibility for a lie means that they are ready to accept punishment for their sins. Punishment is meted out and all can get on with their lives. Ask two who did not take responsibility for the error of their ways: the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1059943594530248072003-08-03T16:46:00.000-04:002003-08-03T21:14:01.383-04:00Former Green Party President Candidate Ralph Nader Gives His First Major Address on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
...Until that balance of power is restored by the United States in that equation over there, no matter what words you hear from administration officials, and they're getting a bit hackney, they're going nowhere. They're going nowhere because one side has too much military power the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1059822177693133702003-08-02T07:02:00.000-04:002003-08-02T07:02:57.750-04:00Why the US fears Cuba
Hostility to the Castro regime doesn't stem from its failings, but from its achievements
Bush is, of course, only the latest of 10 successive US presidents who have openly sought to overthrow the Cuban government and Batista's heirs in Florida have long plotted a triumphant return to reclaim their farms, factories and bordellos - closed or expropriated by Castro, Che the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1059818718599874502003-08-02T06:05:00.000-04:002003-08-02T06:51:35.893-04:00US Debates Bid to Kill Hussein and Avoid Trial
Trying Hussein before an Iraqi or international criminal court would present an opportunity to hold the Ba'ath Party regime accountable for its repression and murder of thousands of people over the past three decades.
But as US troops step up the hunt for Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit, the prospect of an open trial that puts him on a public the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1059756660357497742003-08-01T12:51:00.000-04:002003-08-10T06:03:36.143-04:00"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."
- Joseph Roux
Goodbye Jon...we love you too.the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1059723740951916942003-08-01T03:42:00.000-04:002003-08-01T04:23:26.753-04:00The Lunatic Fringe of Capitalism
If anyone even suggested publicly the idea of putting a bounty on the head of a Bush Administration official you can bet they'd at least be jailed on felony charges promptly. Yet incredibly, the Bush administration initiated (and then cancelled in the face of immediate opposition) a scheme that would have provided financial incentives for would-be terrorists to the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1059671107312414932003-07-31T13:05:00.000-04:002003-07-31T15:19:25.756-04:00Scottie & Me (formerly known as Ari & I)
White House Press Briefing with Scott McLellan - Tuesday, July 29, 2003
Russell Mokhiber: Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Defense Secretary, said last week this: “I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq.” And I was wondering if the President agrees with that?
Scott McLellan: We've made our views very clear in terms of the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1059659946848531902003-07-31T09:59:00.000-04:002003-08-01T03:11:14.163-04:00Pentagon Cancels Terrorism Betting Plan
WASHINGTON - Under fire from all sides, the Pentagon on Tuesday dropped plans for a futures market that would have allowed traders to profit from accurate predictions on terrorism, assassinations and other events in the Middle East.
Republicans said they knew nothing about the program and would never have approved it. They called the head of the Pentagonthe masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1059569340491826502003-07-30T08:49:00.000-04:002003-07-31T09:47:30.063-04:00Memo Warns Of New Plots To Hijack Jets
Terrorists operating in teams of five may be plotting suicide missions to hijack commercial airliners on the East Coast, Europe or Australia this summer, possibly using "common items carried by travelers, such as cameras, modified as weapons," according to an urgent memo sent last weekend to all U.S. airlines and airport security managers.
The "the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1059562091882915012003-07-30T06:48:00.000-04:002003-07-30T08:20:03.513-04:00Sharon Tells Bush Israel Won't Halt Its 'Fence' Project
WASHINGTON, July 29 — Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel today rebuffed pressure from President Bush to halt construction of a security fence on the West Bank and called on Mr. Bush to persuade Palestinian leaders to do more to dismantle terrorist organizations.
After meeting with Mr. Sharon at the White House, Mr. Bush said his the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1059554279224766802003-07-30T04:37:00.000-04:002003-07-30T06:46:24.696-04:00The Stage Is Set For Ethnic Cleansing
It seems that for Abu Mazen, talking to George Bush is like trying to nail jello to a tree. Real dialogue is certainly not going to happen, nor does anyone expect it to, this week in Washington, or anywhere else for that matter. Why would Bush, the funder of Israeli atrocities, Sharon's moral support, and international war monger, suddenly become the honest the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1059548992115243632003-07-30T03:09:00.000-04:002003-07-30T03:16:11.040-04:00CommonSense Interview: Noam Chomsky
CommonSense: You have made an analogy between the conflict in Palestine and apartheid South Africa - do you think universities should respond to Israel in the same way they did to South Africa? Specifically, do you think universities should divest from companies doing business in Israel?
Chomsky: The circumstances aren't identical. With South Africa, the the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224949.post-1059547006583421342003-07-30T02:36:00.000-04:002003-07-30T02:47:02.740-04:00Leave No Millionaire Behind
For the past two years I have listened carefully to the President, his chief advisors, and the neo-conservative right. All of it has reminded me of a passage in The Heart of Darkness. Joseph Conrad put it this way:
"Their talk was the talk of sordid buccaneers: it was reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage; there was not an the masses are assesnoreply@blogger.com