Tag: politics
member name: Olga M.
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January 19, 2007 08:29 AM EST --
Okay, it's now unfolding. Before the Iraqis even knew about it, a new oil law was drafted by an American oil company called Bearing Point. A representative has been quietly working in the US . . .
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January 19, 2007 10:26 AM EST --
According to this article and a book written by Jesselyn Radack "The Canary in the Coalmine: Blowing the Whistle in the Case of the American Taliban," torture of detainees first . . .
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February 03, 2007 11:31 PM EST --
Are we all going to stand around like gaping idiots while we wait to see him pull off his next trick??
"No one has done more to expand Iran’s power in the region than George . . .
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January 20, 2007 10:56 PM EST --
Since US credibility has been undermined by the use of torture and detention without trial, the European Union must now fill the void on global leadership of human rights. The . . .
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January 22, 2007 02:44 PM EST --
What Congress is planning to do now is pass a bill that would make them complicit
in nuclear war crimes if they did not stop the administration's intent to attack Iran. It would make . . .
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November 07, 2006 12:38 AM EST --
Something has not felt right to me about the Sadam verdict. The timing seems wrong, rushed, as though human life is less important than making a political show. Yes, he disrespected life but we as a civilized . . .
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January 10, 2007 01:48 PM EST --
Once again we are bombing the pulp out of innocent civilians in Somalia who just happen to live in one more part of the world that we own. I guess today it was reported that one "bad guy" . . .
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January 18, 2007 02:26 PM EST --
When we couldn't find Osama in Afghanistan we were told it was all Sadaam's fault for 911. That distracted our attention and got us hopped up for "victory in Iraq". Now that a civil war . . .
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February 27, 2007 12:55 PM EST --
Here is a concern I can share with even the people who are salivating for another war. Maybe they will stop long enough to at least consider the consequences of attacking Iran when the . . .
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March 02, 2007 09:29 PM EST --
According to Chalmers Johnson in Nemesis - The Last Days of the American Republic here is a list of the glaringly obvious signs that we stand at a precarious point . . .
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November 06, 2006 02:54 PM EST --
I just got this alert from Countercurrents in my e-mail:
http://www.countercurrents.org/us-weiner071106.htm
It says that massive automatic calls are being put out to areas associated with the Demo vote, . . .
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January 02, 2007 03:59 PM EST --
All this time we have been brainwashed into accepting the loss of thousands of lives and billions of dollars because we are trying to "quell sectarian unrest" and "unify Iraq". Oh really? . . .
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October 06, 2006 07:01 AM EDT --
I found two articles just now which grabbed me, because they are similar in their message, and that message is close to my heart. The first one talks about how there is so much coverage and outrage over . . .
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October 27, 2006 08:16 PM EDT --
I just got this video in my e-mail from some guy named Glen Beck:
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"Last night on TV we ran a new video essay called "The Real Story: Iraq"
and we've . . .
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January 06, 2007 04:41 PM EST --
“Iran has denied that it seeks to build atomic weapons, saying its nuclear program is limited to the generation of electricity, a stance Larijani reiterated.” . . .
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January 09, 2007 11:08 AM EST --
I am just about to stop making any kind of political commentary because first of all, the issues are so close to my heart that they hurt and second, I can’t keep wading through all . . .
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January 22, 2007 02:56 PM EST --
"If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 3rd American President . . .
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February 15, 2007 12:48 AM EST --
I just read an article about how Iran is going to suspend its nuclear enrichment. I am glad that there is some negotiating going on, (from THEIR side at least) but now I am thinking about how frustrated . . .
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February 20, 2007 04:43 PM EST --
"The decision to attack Iran would be the equivalent of setting off an advanced IED directly under the main highway of what's left of global order."
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=164164 . . .
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February 23, 2007 01:28 PM EST --
I watched a good video about the insurgency and got a better understanding of what comprises it, along with the sad realization that our poor soldiers don't have . . .
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