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Antiwar.com Original Articles : Ten Years After Iraq War, Neo-Cons Struggle to Hold Republicans

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:33:02 +0000

The Neo-Cons have a new party girl: Kelly Ayotte of NH. Go to the 3:45 mark of her CPAC speech. It's enough to make Lindsay Graham jealous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embe...

Broadsnark : About Me

Tue, 2 Oct 2012 00:08:03 +0000

As a suggestion, might want to add these Wendy McElroy sites to your blog roll. :) Rock on, Sister! http://wendymcelroy.com/news.php http://www.ifeminists.com/e107_plugins/enews/enew...

Broadsnark : My Uterus Hates Elections

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 23:38:06 +0000

I should also add that there's no way in hell I would vote for either of the two warmongering corporate scumbags being offered up this year. The 3rd party candidates have their own flaws as well. The only reason I will vote is to honor the sacrifices of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton with a protest vote of None of The Above.... I'll sleep better at night knowing so.

Broadsnark : My Uterus Hates Elections

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 23:01:10 +0000

Five anti-abortion Republican presidents since RvW passed.... and what changed? Wedge issues get them every time and the political class wins, regardless. Four More Wars! Drones 2012!

Antiwar.com Original Articles : The Reinvention of David Frum

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:38:53 +0000

You mean like John Yoo working at Berkeley?

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Obama vs. Romney: Two Shades of Nay

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:01:12 +0000

Members of Congress? The Obama Administration? These people are drunk. "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." ~ HL Mencken

Center for a Stateless Society : Which Side Are You On?

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:19:25 +0000

I'm not going to choose a 'side' if the entire Occupy movement turns out to be nothing more than a statist argument over *who* gets to hold the government's gun...

Big Hollywood : 'View' Crew: National Opt-Out Day No Better Than a Terrorist Attack

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:23:07 +0000

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security....Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic German’ could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head." -An excerpt from They Thought They Were Free http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928...

Big Hollywood : 'View' Crew: National Opt-Out Day No Better Than a Terrorist Attack

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 05:10:16 +0000

"People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being." -Vaclav Havel

Sonoran Weekly Review : Anarchists Organize To Disrupt Tea Party Events

Tue, 6 Apr 2010 20:30:49 +0000

Interesting that the original 'story' was pulled and a new statement issued. Anyone who knows anything about real anarchist philosophy knows that this story was bogus all along. I truly think it was an attempt by an agent provocateur to pit Tea Party folks against anarchists - who ideologically have much more in common than most people are aware of. Beware, there are 'divide and conquer' forces at work behind the scenes. See the update http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=inews-... My recent post Nor'easter #8

Antiwar.com Blog : Antiwar.com's Angela Keaton on Fox News's 'Freedom Watch'

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:15:34 +0000

Not to worry, Jay. I appreciate you not dismissing this information. For all of our sakes, as a country, we need more and more people to be made aware of the truth. Because the truth is not even close to what we've been told. Please DO look into the info I provided and beyond. Granted, the more you learn about it, the more all the official lies start to unravel. It's like one giant multi-layered onion. No one will spoon feed it to you and the mainstream media stopped reporting real news years ago.... you have to learn it on your own. It's taken me years to get this far. I've simply planted the seeds with you and hopefully you will want to share what you find out with others and they will start their journeys too. This only happens one person at the time. And I have to say thank you, Jay...you've made my day! ~Tippy

Antiwar.com Blog : Antiwar.com's Angela Keaton on Fox News's 'Freedom Watch'

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:16:36 +0000

Also Jay, if you want to grasp an understanding and background of the lies you were fed for the first Gulf War, I would highly suggest this well sourced article: http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-consp.htm "On September 11, 1990, Bush also told a joint session of Congress that "following negotiations and promises by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein not to use force, a powerful army invaded its trusting and much weaker neighbor, Kuwait. Within three days, 120,000 troops with 850 tanks had poured into Kuwait and moved south to threaten Saudi Arabia. It was then I decided to act to check that aggression." However, according to Jean Heller of the St. Petersburg Times (of Florida), the facts just weren't as Bush claimed. Satellite photographs taken by the Soviet Union on the precise day Bush addressed Congress failed to show any evidence of Iraqi troops in Kuwait or massing along the Kuwait-Saudi Arabian border. While the Pentagon was claiming as many as 250,000 Iraqi troops in Kuwait, it refused to provide evidence that would contradict the Soviet satellite photos. U.S. forces, encampments, aircraft, camouflaged equipment dumps, staging areas and tracks across the desert can easily be seen. But as Peter Zimmerman, formerly of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the Reagan Administration, and a former image specialist for the Defense Intelligence Agency, who analyzed the photographs for the St. Petersburg Times said: We didn't find anything of that sort [i.e. comparable to the U.S. buildup] anywhere in Kuwait. We don't see any tent cities, we don't see congregations of tanks, we can't see troop concentrations, and the main Kuwaiti air base appears deserted. It's five weeks after the invasion, and from what we can see, the Iraqi air force hasn't flown a single fighter to the most strategic air base in Kuwait. There is no infrastructure to support large numbers of people. They have to use toilets, or the functional equivalent. They have to have food.... But where is it? "

Antiwar.com Blog : Antiwar.com's Angela Keaton on Fox News's 'Freedom Watch'

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:03:42 +0000

@ Jay_ Young Okay I'll try to correct you, briefly, since I've done my homework on the root causes of terrorism. Look no further than your own government's actions for the last 60+ years to the peoples of the world. Specifically, those citizens (like you), who have become so afraid of ‘terrorists’ which are nothing more than a creation by the hands of our own government, need foreign policy history. Not only did the US gov’t fund and train what later became al Qaeda, they also funded the creation of the Taliban via the Pakistani ISI. This is historic record, but it’s like there is a 30 year time frame lack of citizen awareness of US involvement in this process that led to 9/11. No one understands or will look at this; it’s just lost in memory. [Specifically Operation Cyclone.] If you look at history, you can even see the wheels come off the bus of this covert gov’t plan gone awry under the Clinton administration in redacted documents in the National Security Archives where the Pakistani ISI ‘loses control’ of the Taliban. Guess what, Jay? We paid for all of this with our tax dollars. Terrorists are nothing more than covert agency plans gone awry. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB227/ I’m not making this stuff up. Research Zbigniew Brzezinski, William Casey and Charlie Wilson’s roles in all of this. Even Benazir Bhutto told GHW Bush that we were creating a Frankenstein. This ‘Muslim threat’ is our own doing. Get it? Even Zbig has no regrets saying, “What’s a few stirred up Muslims?” all the while pumping in billions of US tax dollars to fund these radical madrassas, hence the problem…. What happened between 1976-1992 is the key here. It goes way deeper than the Wiki, but this should get you started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone And if you want to know where the Iran hostility comes from, take a peek at this, while you're at it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_ajax

Antiwar.com Original Articles : The Song Remains the Same

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:02:14 +0000

"It’s not a coincidence that 15 of the 19 hijackers in the 9/11 terrorist attacks were Saudi." and "To be sure, Iraq was a war of choice, whereas Afghanistan was a necessary response to 9/11." This is an erroneous perpetuation of the "Official Story". I suggest researching the fact (as has been reported) that many of the supposed hijackers identities were stolen, so neither you nor I know who the real hijackers were. I also suggest reading up on Operation Able Danger (and the subsequent destruction of this data) and the testimonies of Lt. Col. Anthony Schaffer, Curt Weldon, Sibel Edmunds, Coleen Rowley and others. Not to mention that the FBI's Most Wanted page for Osama bin Laden fails to charge him with the crime of 9/11 due to lack of evidence. And before she was assassinated, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said in an interview with David Frost that Omar Sheikh had murdered ObL....and this declaration was NOT even followed up on in the interview??? How bizarre! What about Lee Hamilton NOT following up on Norman Minetta's testimony of Cheney's "Do the orders still stand?" What orders??? There's too many gaping holes to blindly believe that 19 hijackers committed the crime of 9/11. And to paul, as you may well know, the Bush doctrine is nothing more than a rehash of the '92 Wolfowitz doctrine. It falls right into place with PNAC's need for a "New Pearl Harbor" in "Rebuilding America's Defenses" Sept. 2000, & Cheney's Energy Task Force Oil Maps from March, 2001, and PNAC's '98 letter to Clinton telling him to take out Saddam...