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Saturday, April 29, 2006

US Admits Iraq Is Terror 'Cause'

By Tom Baldwin

Report says that 11,000 attacks worldwide shows the war has become driving factor for extremists.

THREE years after its invasion of Iraq the US Administration acknowledged yesterday that the war has become “a cause” for Islamic extremists worldwide and there is a risk of the country becoming a safe haven for terrorists hoping to launch fresh attacks on America.

Posted by Me at 4/29/2006 02:02:00 pm | | Comments

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Mainstream Media Lying By Omission & Complicity In 2.7 million Bush Wars Death Toll - Iran Next?

Decent people are appalled by news reports of an impending US attack on Iran and we might surmise that if it is a prolonged war (cf Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Vietnam and Korea) that millions of people will die, if not from direct violence then from the collateral but equally deadly consequences of war. US Asian wars over the last 55 years have been associated with avoidable mortality totalling about 18 million - but this is IGNORED by racist, lying, Mainstream Media. A more pertinent estimate of what is in store for IRANIANS could come from assessment of war-related avoidable mortality (excess mortality) and infant mortality in post-invasion Iraq and Afghanistan (Iran’s neighbours).

However, it is extraordinary that not only Mainstream Media but also many Alternative Media are still IGNORING the ACTUAL horrendous human cost of violent, racist UK-US democratic imperialism (democratic tyranny, democratic Nazism) in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan - the post-invasion avoidable deaths now total 2.7 million comprising 0.5 million (Occupied Iraq), 1.8 million (Occupied Afghanistan) and 0.4 million (post-2001 opioid drug-related deaths due to Coalition restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry) (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/5489/42/ ).

Whether a child dies VIOLENTLY from bullet or bombs or dies NON-VIOLENTLY from deprivation and avoidable and treatable disease the end result is the same and the culpability the same. Further, as explicitly set out by the Geneva Conventions, the Occupier is responsible for maintaining the health and lives of the Occupied - the Ruler is responsible for the Ruled.

Posted by Me at 4/26/2006 03:49:00 pm | | Comments

A Cornered Administration - Dangerous Times Ahead

By DAVE LINDORFF

The noose is tightening around George Bush and his gang of White House crooks and liars, with prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald reportedly getting closer to an indictment of Karl Rove, and now with the Illinois and California state legislatures considering resolutions that would have those states submit bills of impeachment to the U.S. House of Representatives--an alternative means of bringing an impeachment case against a president when, as now, the sitting members of Congress don't have the courage or conviction to do so themselves.

These are dangerous times, because the Bush family history, and the Rove M.O., are to attack viciously and without restraint when cornered.

At a book signing on Friday at Columbia University, a number of journalists told me they worried that Bush, Rove and Cheney, if they thought they were going to lose the House in November and face serious investigations into their crimes and deceits, would do something treasonous, like launching a war against Iran, or perhaps allowing another major terrorist attack against a U.S. target, so that they could then clamp down further on domestic freedom and ramp up jingoistic support among their wavering base.

Posted by Me at 4/26/2006 03:28:00 pm | | Comments

Bush Says He Tried to Avoid War 'To The Max,' Explains How God Shapes His Foreign Policy...(video)

By E&P Staff

NEW YORK President Bush today said he had tried to avoid war with Iraq "diplomatically to the max."

Speaking to a business group in Irvine, Ca., he admitted mistakes were made in planning for the Iraq invasion, but he defended the troop level, saying "it was the troop level necessary to do the job," and he would commit the same number if given a second chance.

The remarks came as another former general joined seven others who in recent days have called for the resignation of Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, saying he had mismanaged the planning and execution of the war.

Posted by Me at 4/26/2006 03:14:00 pm | | Comments

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Foreign Criminals 'Not Deported'

The home secretary says he "regrets" that 1,023 foreign prisoners have been allowed to walk free when they were meant to be considered for deportation.

They include three murderers and nine rapists, Home Office figures show.

Charles Clarke said he could not say "hand on heart" that they would all be tracked down but said he did not think it was a "resigning matter".

The Lib Dems accused ministers of incompetence. The Tories are demanding Mr Clarke answer to Parliament.

Conservative shadow home secretary David Davis accused Mr Clarke of trying to "smuggle out" the news rather than face MPs' questions.

"At the end of the day it's not good enough to blame officials, frankly it is a issue which affects the safety of the British public," argued Mr Davis.

Posted by Me at 4/25/2006 06:19:00 pm | | Comments


Tyler Drumheller: "The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy." (Photo: CBS)




CIA Spy Speaks Out...(video)

by David Gelber and Joel Bach

When no weapons of mass destruction surfaced in Iraq, President Bush insisted that all those WMD claims before the war were the result of faulty intelligence. But a former top CIA official, Tyler Drumheller — a 26-year veteran of the agency — has decided to do something CIA officials at his level almost never do: Speak out.

He tells correspondent Ed Bradley the real failure was not in the intelligence community but in the White House. He says he saw how the Bush administration, time and again, welcomed intelligence that fit the president's determination to go to war and turned a blind eye to intelligence that did not.

Posted by Me at 4/25/2006 12:50:00 am | | Comments



Thermite Identified As Culprit Of WTC Collapse

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com

A new branch of 9/11 research claims to have identified the cause of the collapse of the twin towers. The photographic and video evidence makes a very strong case for thermite being responsible for the unprecedented implosions of steel framed reinforced buildings on September 11.

This facet was first brought to light during a November 2005 appearance on The Alex Jones Show by Brigham Young University physicist Professor Steven Jones. Jones said that white phosphorous wasn't powerful enough to cause the implosion but that thermite was the likely culprit. Alex Jones's 2005 release Martial Law 9/11 Rise of the Police State highlighted the physical evidence that the towers and Building 7 were brought down with incendiary devices.

Posted by Me at 4/25/2006 12:27:00 am | | Comments

Sunday, April 23, 2006

If Past Is Prologue, George Bush Is Becoming An Increasingly Dangerous President


By JOHN W. DEAN

President George W. Bush's presidency is a disaster - one that's still unfolding. In a mid-2004 column, I argued that, at that point, Bush had already demonstrated that he possessed the least attractive and most troubling traits among those that political scientist James Dave Barber has cataloged in his study of Presidents' personality types.

Now, in early 2006, Bush has continued to sink lower in his public approval ratings, as the result of a series of events that have sapped the public of confidence in its President, and for which he is directly responsible. This Administration goes through scandals like a compulsive eater does candy bars; the wrapper is barely off one before we've moved on to another.

Currently, President Bush is busy reshuffling his staff to reinvigorate his presidency. But if Dr. Barber's work holds true for this president -- as it has for others - the hiring and firing of subordinates will not touch the core problems that have plagued Bush's tenure.

That is because the problems belong to the President - not his staff. And they are problems that go to character, not to strategy.

Posted by Me at 4/23/2006 01:08:00 pm | | Comments

Thursday, April 20, 2006



The Worst President in History?

One of America's leading historians assesses George W. Bush

By SEAN WILENTZ

George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, after which the public might rally around the White House once again, there seems to be little the administration can do to avoid being ranked on the lowest tier of U.S. presidents. And that may be the best-case scenario. Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history.

Posted by Me at 4/20/2006 09:25:00 pm | | Comments

Lock Him Away To Stop The Next War

With his presidency reduced to a mess, George W. Bush may just decide to lash out wildly at Iran, writes Phillip Adams

April 18, 2006
WE cannot wait any longer for the impeachment of George W. Bush. Far more efficient to have Bush certified. There is no need for further debate on his mental state. The US President is bonkers.
Having turned the White House into a madhouse, having taken more lunatic positions on more issues than any head of state since GeorgeIII (are they, perchance, related?). GWB needs a long rest and a change of medication. And it shouldn't be too hard to guide him into a padded cell. Just tell him it's the presidential bomb shelter.

Let's examine the symptoms of his mental decline. First, Bush convinced Americans that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. This is something the poor fool might have believed, given a tenuous grasp of geography, history and political reality. He then began to hallucinate about weapons of mass destruction, despite the evidence of Hans Blix and a multitude of others that there weren't any. And he finally organised a tatty little alliance to join him in the silliest war since Vietnam, one guaranteed to recruit terrorists in unprecedented numbers.

Posted by Me at 4/20/2006 09:21:00 pm | | Comments

When "Diplomacy" Means War

By NORMAN SOLOMON

One of the nation’s leading pollsters, Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center, wrote a few weeks ago that among Americans “there is little potential support for the use of force against Iran.” This month the White House has continued to emphasize that it is committed to seeking a diplomatic solution. Yet the U.S. government is very likely to launch a military attack on Iran within the next year. How can that be?

In the run-up to war, appearances are often deceiving. Official events may seem to be moving in one direction while policymakers are actually headed in another. On their own timetable, White House strategists implement a siege of public opinion that relies on escalating media spin. One administration after another has gone through the motions of staying on a diplomatic track while laying down flagstones on a path to war.

Several days ago President Bush said that “the doctrine of prevention is to work together to prevent the Iranians from having a nuclear weapon” -- and he quickly added that “in this case, it means diplomacy.” On April 12 the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, urged the U.N. Security Council to take “strong steps” in response to Iran’s announcement of progress toward enriching uranium. Bush and Rice were engaged in a timeworn ritual that involves playacting diplomacy before taking military action.

Posted by Me at 4/20/2006 09:18:00 pm | | Comments

President Bush Now Caught In The Tangled Web Of Deception He Spun

By Bill Gallagher

DETROIT -- President George W. Bush's character is diseased. Serial lies spew from his forked tongue as the result of a damaged mind and personality that will not permit him to face the truth. He lies about leaks and leaks about lies.

Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush's shady and cynical servant, refuses to deal with the truth no matter how compelling and overwhelming the facts are. Cheney is the lord of the lies, the Bushevik Beelzebub, now hopelessly caught in his own deceptions and treachery.

We now know they both kept repeating a known lie -- that Iraq had secret trailers used as biological weapons labs -- long after a Pentagon-sponsored fact-finding group unanimously concluded the trailers had nothing whatsoever to do with weapons of any kind.

Posted by Me at 4/20/2006 09:16:00 pm | | Comments

Saturday, April 15, 2006



Charlie Sheen Courageously Challenges 9/11 Orthodoxy On National TV...(video)

By Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones

Over the past month Charlie Sheen's comments on 9/11 have sent shockwaves throughout the media and caused a firestorm of both support and establishment hit pieces. Sheen made history Friday night when he became the first high profile figure to bring serious questions about 9/11 to the forum of the late night talk show.

Posted by Me at 4/15/2006 11:27:00 pm | | Comments

The Death of British Freedom

by John Pilger

People ask: Can this be happening in Britain? Surely not. A centuries-old democratic constitution cannot be swept away. Basic human rights cannot be made abstract. Those who once comforted themselves that a Labor government would never commit such an epic crime in Iraq might now abandon a last delusion, that their freedom is inviolable. If they knew.

The dying of freedom in Britain is not news. The pirouettes of ambition of the prime minister and his political twin, the treasurer, are news, though of minimal public interest. Looking back to the 1930s when social democracies were distracted and powerful cliques imposed their totalitarian ways by stealth and silence, the warning is clear. The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill has already passed its second parliamentary reading without interest to most Labor MPs and court journalists; yet it is utterly totalitarian in scope.

Posted by Me at 4/15/2006 12:15:00 am | | Comments

Thursday, April 13, 2006


Iraq protest officer says US behaved 'like Nazis'

By PETER GRAFF AND SHAN ROSS

AN RAF doctor facing a court-martial for refusing a posting to Iraq said yesterday he believed the United States to be the moral equivalent of Nazi Germany.

Flight Lieutenant Dr Malcolm Kendall-Smith could face an unlimited jail sentence for disobeying an order to go to Iraq last year, and four orders to prepare for his deployment. The case is the first of its kind in Britain over the war in Iraq.

Kendall-Smith made his remarks amid a series of bitter exchanges with David Perry, prosecuting, at a hearing in Aldershot, Hampshire.

Posted by Me at 4/13/2006 05:41:00 pm | | Comments

We're Here For Only A Short While, Let's All Try And Make It A Positive Experience...

Posted by Me at 4/13/2006 01:15:00 pm | | Comments

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