Thanks for pressing Rocky Anderson on this issue. I can no longer consider voting for him. Hopefully the Green party candidate will be better on the issue of intervention than is Anderson. In the meantime, I'll be voting for Ron Paul in the Republican primary next month.

Elliott Abrams is truly a monster!

RE: "the essential The Exiled website has an amazing take-down of Foust" ~ A.L.

MY COMMENT: Wunderbar! Better than a delicious seven course meal.
"spite-fueled Waffentwerps" = LOL!!!

RE: " ‘Saleh Played Us’: US Sees 2010 Attack as Trick to Assassinate [Saleh's] Rival"

MY COMMENT: Oops, as Rick Perry might say.

RE: "This is the problem with the war hawks. They fail to see that there is another
way." ~ Glaser

FROM TED RALL, 07/22/10: …Umberto Eco’s 1995 essay Eternal Fascism describes the cult of action for its own sake under fascist regimes and movements: “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”…
SOURCE – http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/22-1

RE: "It’s disturbing there appears to be a fifth column in the Paul campaign." ~ Raimondo

MY COMMENT: Possibly, but appearances can be quite deceptive. I would not put it past members of the press (or someone feeding them) to falsely attribute "doubt" to "his most loyal aides" in an effort to both deprecate the candidate, and also to foment dissension within the campaign. A "twofer", so to speak.

That Amboy Dukes video is a keeper. Thanks!

RE: “We are two countries separated by distance, but united by values. Liberal democracies that seek freedom and peace,” Gillard said.

ISRAEL AND AUSTRALIA'S LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC VALUES:
"Israeli travel ban cuts studies short for Palestinians", By Sheera Frenkel, McClatchy Newspapers, 12/09/11

(excerpt) JERUSALEM — For more than a decade, Emal Abu Aisha has run a women's center in the Gaza Strip that provides women with training and classes to improve their education. But Abu Aisha, 42, said she'd been denied that opportunity herself.
In 2000, a new Israeli policy that banned Palestinians from the Gaza Strip from studying in the West Bank cut short her own education, in gender studies in the West Bank's Birzeit University.
"From that moment till now I wasn't allowed to continue my studies," Abu Aisha said. "As a women's activist I run a center to help women, to teach them. But I can't do the same for myself. I've gone as far as I can and I need more education for myself."
Over the last decade, Israel has adopted a policy of what it calls "separationism" between the Palestinian territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Palestinians who live in Gaza are forbidden from moving to the West Bank, unless they have first-degree relatives suffering from severe illness or are orphans seeking to reunite with their families.
The policy, which has been established through dozens of documents published by Israel's Defense Ministry, argues that allowing Palestinians to travel between the territories — separated by about 30 miles — poses a security risk to Israel.
To many Palestinians, it means being cut off from family, employment or educational opportunities...

ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/12/08/132561/isra...

RE: “We are two countries separated by distance, but united by values. Liberal democracies that seek freedom and peace,” Gillard said.

MORE OF P.M. GILLARD'S LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC VALUES:
"70-year-old Palestinian professor is now a political prisoner", by Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, 12/09/11 

(excerpt) Imagine if an Israeli or Jewish professor, aged 70, was arrested on political grounds. Imagine our State Department's outrage. We related the arrest of Yousef Abdel Haq, a PFLP leader, in an earlier news roundup. I received this photograph and message from Saed Abu-Hijleh, a poet and lecturer in geography in Nablus:
"The arrest of Professor Abdel Haq, on Wednesday, December 7, 2011, aims to silence the voices of Palestinian intellectuals and academics who are struggling to expose the continuous crimes of the Zionist state and who are active on the local and international levels to build solidarity networks that struggle to end Israeli Apartheid in Palestine. Professor Abdel Haq is a lawyer and lecturer of Political Economy at An-Najah National University. He is also one of the main founders and former President of the Palestinian Enlightenment Cultural Center (Tanweer). Professor Abdel Haq is 70 years old and suffers from several chronic illnesses...

SOURCE - http://mondoweiss.net/2011/12/70-year-old-palesti...

RE: “We are two countries separated by distance, but united by values. Liberal democracies that seek freedom and peace,” Gillard said.

GILLARD'S LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC VALUES: "MK Danny Danon: Latest in Racist Legislative Fashion" ~ by Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, 12/05/11

(excerpt) If you want to check on the pulse of Israeli fashion–that is the “fashion” of Israeli racism–you can do no better than study MK Danny Danon’s legislative agenda. I don’t usually write about individual bills since there are so many far-right imbeciles who must have their say and they come up with more nonsense than you can shake a stick at. But for MK Danon, for whom Matan Lurey has developed an apt moniker, ‘MKKK,’ I make an exception.
His new bill would demand that any Israeli seeking any sort of government ID whether a driver’s license, passport, graduation certificate, would have to sign a loyalty oath. The provision is designed to disenfranchise Palestinian Israelis who, Danon presumes, would not do so...

ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011...