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Politics as a Spectator Sport
By Ted Rall
Another year in Iraq, another thousand dead soldiers.
This grim milestone passed as the wasteful nature of
the carnage finally registered with the public; only nine
percent of Americans, "dead-enders" in Rumsfeld-speak,
still think the war was a wonderful idea. Continue
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The Fed’s role in the Housing Crash of ‘07
By Mike Whitney
The American people appear to be oblivious to the economic
hurricane which is expected to touchdown in late 2007.
That’s when $1 trillion in ARMs (Adjustable Rate Mortgages)
will “reset” triggering a massive increase in foreclosures and
plunging the country into a deep recession. Continue
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Claiming the Prize: Bush Surge Aimed at Securing Iraqi Oil
Written by Chris Floyd
American troops will "support" the "pacification effort" with
what Maliki says calls "house-to-house" sweeps of Sunni
areas. There is of course another phrase for this kind of
operation: "ethnic cleansing." Continue
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100,000 mercenaries, the forgotten "Surge"
By Barry Lando
What is striking about the current debate in Washington -
whether to "surge" troops to Iraq and increase the size
of the U.S. Army - is that roughly 100,000 bodies are
missing from the equation: The number of American
forces in Iraq is not 140,000, but more like 240,000.
Continue
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Distracting Congress from the Real War Plan
By Paul Craig Roberts
The Bush administration has recently doubled its aircraft
carrier forces and air power in the Persian Gulf. According
to credible news reports, the Israeli air force has been
making practice runs in preparation for an attack on
Iran. Continue
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Victim owed compensation in CIA case, judge told
By Dene Moore
Patients were put in isolation, tied down or drugged, and
subjected to hours and hours of taped recordings meant
to brainwash them at the behest of the Central Intelligence
Agency. Continue
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In Case You Missed It
Torture Inc. Americas Brutal PrisonsVideo
Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned
By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside
U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?
Continue
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Bush's new strategy - the march of folly
By Robert Fisk
George Bush dare not see these armies of the past, their
ghosts as palpable as the phantoms of the 3,000 Americans
let us forget the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis already
done to death in this obscene war, and those future spirits
of the dead still living amid the 20,000 men and women
whom Bush is now sending to Iraq. Continue
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Neither sanctions nor bombs will end the Iran nuclear crisis
By Roger Howard
If Bush really wants a safer Middle East, he should stop
giving Tehran compelling reasons to acquire nuclear
weapons. Continue
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Who is planning our next war?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
As Americans await Bush's address announcing a "surge"
of 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops to Iraq, we may be
missing the larger picture. The War Party is turning its
attention from Iraq – to Iran. Continue
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Bush's Rush to Armageddon
By Robert Parry
George W. Bush has purged senior military and intelligence
officials who were obstacles to a wider war in the Middle
East, broadening his options for both escalating the conflict
inside Iraq and expanding the fighting to Iran and Syria
with Israel’s help. Continue
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The Headless Horseman of the Apocalypse
By Norman Solomon
Bush can keep riding the madness of militarism at a gallop
unless people on Capitol Hill stop nourishing it with
appropriations. And they won't do that unless we find
effective ways to insist that they cut off funding for the
war. Continue
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Cindy Sheehan: Insanity Surge
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