By Lisa Pease
December 16, 2009
The film “Invictus” dramatizes the real-world events of 1995, when newly installed South African President Nelson Mandela urged his country to come together behind its rugby team, the Springboks, when South Africa hosted the once-every-four-years Rugby World Cup.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The Risky Supply Line to Afghanistan
By Melvin A. Goodman
December 16, 2009
Logistics will be the key to introducing 30,000 soldiers and Marines into Afghanistan in the next six to seven months and to confronting the Taliban over the next 18 months. This reflects an old saying in the military - amateurs study strategy and professionals study logistics.
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December 16, 2009
Logistics will be the key to introducing 30,000 soldiers and Marines into Afghanistan in the next six to seven months and to confronting the Taliban over the next 18 months. This reflects an old saying in the military - amateurs study strategy and professionals study logistics.
Read on.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Opportunity Lost: Obama in Oslo
By Daniel C. Maguire
December 16, 2009
Whether Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize is not the point. He didn’t. The fact is he got it, and was gifted with the chance of a lifetime to make a classic speech on the politics of peace-making, a speech that in the glare of Nobel could have attained instant biblical standing.
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December 16, 2009
Whether Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize is not the point. He didn’t. The fact is he got it, and was gifted with the chance of a lifetime to make a classic speech on the politics of peace-making, a speech that in the glare of Nobel could have attained instant biblical standing.
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How Banks Fleece the Unemployed
By Barbara Koeppel
December 16, 2009
Just when you thought the big banks had maxed out their chutzpah account, think again.
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December 16, 2009
Just when you thought the big banks had maxed out their chutzpah account, think again.
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Getting Realistic about Afghanistan
By Ivan Eland
December 15, 2009
One of the reasons why most counterinsurgency campaigns fail is that they’re run by foreign occupiers who don’t know the culture of the invaded country.
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December 15, 2009
One of the reasons why most counterinsurgency campaigns fail is that they’re run by foreign occupiers who don’t know the culture of the invaded country.
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Is Joe Lieberman Protecting Israel?
By Robert Parry
December 15, 2009
Sen. Joe Lieberman’s latest threat to scuttle health-care reform – vowing to join a Republican filibuster to block an over-55 buy-in to Medicare, a proposal that he has long championed – is raising questions about his motives. But no one is mentioning the unmentionable, the cause that has come to define Lieberman’s career: Israel.
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December 15, 2009
Sen. Joe Lieberman’s latest threat to scuttle health-care reform – vowing to join a Republican filibuster to block an over-55 buy-in to Medicare, a proposal that he has long championed – is raising questions about his motives. But no one is mentioning the unmentionable, the cause that has come to define Lieberman’s career: Israel.
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Vanunu and Israel's Undeclared Nukes
By Eileen Fleming
December 14, 2009
Mordechai Vanunu was released from Ashkelon prison to open air captivity in east Jerusalem on April 21, 2004, after 18 years, mostly all in solitary confinement.
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December 14, 2009
Mordechai Vanunu was released from Ashkelon prison to open air captivity in east Jerusalem on April 21, 2004, after 18 years, mostly all in solitary confinement.
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Prosecuting Bush's Poodle
By David Swanson
December 14, 2009
December 14, 2009
Compare Tony Blair's latest confession to mass murder with Bush's.
Can Obama Face the 'Unspeakable'?
By Lisa Pease
December 14, 2009
If there’s one book I wish President Obama would read over the holidays, it would be JFK and the Unspeakable.
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December 14, 2009
If there’s one book I wish President Obama would read over the holidays, it would be JFK and the Unspeakable.
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Obama's Dirty War
By Douglas Valentine
December 13, 2009
In his Nobel Peace Prize speech, President Barack Obama declared “we’re in Afghanistan to prevent a cancer from spreading throughout that country.” The phrasing signals that his war escalation will follow the dictates of what the CIA calls political and psychological warfare, the cornerstones of counterinsurgency.
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December 13, 2009
In his Nobel Peace Prize speech, President Barack Obama declared “we’re in Afghanistan to prevent a cancer from spreading throughout that country.” The phrasing signals that his war escalation will follow the dictates of what the CIA calls political and psychological warfare, the cornerstones of counterinsurgency.
Read on.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
ACLU Blasts Obama on Bush's Crimes
By Jason Leopold
December 12, 2009
December 12, 2009
Despite Barack Obama’s high-minded words about “just wars” and human rights – most recently in his Nobel Peace Prize speech – the U.S. President has shielded officials from George W. Bush’s administration from accountability for torture and other war crimes, prompting stern rebukes from leading advocates of civil liberties.
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The Land Mines Obama Won't Touch
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
December 11, 2009
December 11, 2009
Many people are troubled that Barack Obama flew to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize so soon after escalating the war in Afghanistan. He is now more than doubling the number of troops there when George W. Bush left office.
'Whatever Mistakes We Have Made'
By Nicolas J S Davies
December 11, 2009
The history of war has long included that of politicians who justify war in the name of peace.
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December 11, 2009
The history of war has long included that of politicians who justify war in the name of peace.
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Jesus and Prometheus
By the Rev. Howard Bess
December 11, 2009
December 11, 2009
There is no story that has captured the imagination of western civilization quite like the story of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
The Propaganda Success of the 'Surge'
By William Blum
December 10, 2009
They don't always use the word "surge," but that's what they mean.
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December 10, 2009
They don't always use the word "surge," but that's what they mean.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Being Jay Bybee
By David Swanson
December 9, 2009
It's Oct. 23, 2002, and you're Jay Bybee, the man in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel in the United States Department of Justice. John Yoo and a bunch of other lawyers -- willing to claim that absolutely anything is legal -- work for you.
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December 9, 2009
It's Oct. 23, 2002, and you're Jay Bybee, the man in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel in the United States Department of Justice. John Yoo and a bunch of other lawyers -- willing to claim that absolutely anything is legal -- work for you.
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Pinochet's Mad Scientist
By Samuel Blixen
December 9, 2009 (Originally Posted January 13, 1999)
On Nov. 15, 1992, a terrified scientist -- trapped inside a white bungalow in the Uruguayan beach town of Parque del Plata -- broke a window to escape. Chubby, in his mid-40s, the man struggled through the opening.
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December 9, 2009 (Originally Posted January 13, 1999)
On Nov. 15, 1992, a terrified scientist -- trapped inside a white bungalow in the Uruguayan beach town of Parque del Plata -- broke a window to escape. Chubby, in his mid-40s, the man struggled through the opening.
Read on.
Why Journalist Gary Webb Died
By Robert Parry
December 9, 2009
December 9, 2009
Five years ago, a tragedy occurred in American journalism: Investigative reporter Gary Webb – who had been ostracized by his own colleagues for forcing a spotlight back onto an ugly government scandal they wanted to ignore – was driven to commit suicide. But the tragedy had a deeper meaning.
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Gates Dissembles on Afghan History
By Robert Parry
December 8, 2009
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who last week was hailed in the Washington Post as someone “incapable of dissembling,” dissembled to a gullible press corps about the history of U.S. dealings with Afghanistan while en route to that country on Monday.
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December 8, 2009
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who last week was hailed in the Washington Post as someone “incapable of dissembling,” dissembled to a gullible press corps about the history of U.S. dealings with Afghanistan while en route to that country on Monday.
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Monday, December 07, 2009
Ray McGovern's Letter to Bob Parry
By Ray McGovern
December 7, 2009
At the end of a year that began with such hope, I am struck at how easy it would be to be discouraged.
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December 7, 2009
At the end of a year that began with such hope, I am struck at how easy it would be to be discouraged.
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