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[The Comment Factory] Johann Hari on Chomsky, Hitchens, Iraq, and anarchism » The ...: Arundhatni Roy said “look, I can wait until there is a feminist, pro-gay resistance in Iraq or I can support what’s already there.” I don’t think that is morally justifiable. What’s ironic and horrible actually is that there are parts of Iraqi society that are resisting both the occupation and Islamism - really heroic people - they are resisting the horrendous IMF-ing of the Iraqi economy, they are resisting the mass privatization, the mass unemployment it brings, and they are resisting these crazed Islamists who want to bind women in these burqua’s and so on.

[Today News] Gen. David Petraeus Advises « Today News: Petraeus, a tip commander in chief of U.S. forces in Iraq, told a Senate Armed Services Committee a 45-day postponement in couple drawdowns after Jul would concede commanders to consider conditions in Iraq after a one some-more infantry leave. After a 45 days, Petraeus said, commanders will go upon to consider conditions in Iraq to see when they can repel some-more troops.

[jezblog] j e z b l o g: 3) Clearly understand your larger purpose and commit to it, over and against your personal preferences (thus freeing one to choose acting over reacting) ... and so on and so forth ... some of those activist need to read up on .... John Harris @ June 3, 2010, 5:42 am; Yes its true..... to be pro Saddam is not the same as being anti-war ........ but of course Saddam would still be in power and then Udai would have followed..... the people of Iraq would have continued ...

[truthout] t r u t h o u t | Sean Wilentz | The Worst President in History?: Apart from sharp but temporary upticks that followed the commencement of the Iraq war and the capture of Saddam Hussein, and a recovery during the weeks just before and after his re-election, the Bush trend has been a profile in ....

[Stephen M. Walt] The Critic of My Friend is My Enemy | Stephen M. Walt: Neoconservatives usually portray American and Israeli interests as essentially identical: In their eyes, what is good for Israel is good for the United States and vice versa. This claim makes unconditional U.S. support seem like a good idea, and it also insulates them from the charge that they are promoting Israel's interests over America's.  After all, if the interests of the two states are really one and the same, then by definition there can be no conflict of interest, which means that the "dual loyalty" issue (a term I still don't like) doesn't arise.

[Joyce Horsley] The US Executive Branch - Constitutional Mandate, History, Obama ...: Being Democrat, Republican, or Independent, conservative or liberal, has currently nothing at all to do with being a dedicated American wanting federal and state government based upon the preservation of the sacred principles contained in the U.S. Constitution. Abraham Lincoln, the, supposedly, compassionate President/dictator during the American Civil War, once quipped that, if a small majority of a diverse electorate of people can be convinced that a principle of government is right, even if it is dead wrong and corrupt, the corrupt principle can be lorded over the whole population with impunity.

[Swampland] Latest Column - Swampland - TIME.com: No self-respecting liberal was less than shocked and outraged and some probably required medical care they are so outraged. Of course the title was written by a black columnist at the LA Times who's column blasted White liberals for supporting Obama not because he's black but because he's as whlte culturally (surburban) as they are.

[iTulip.com: The Contrary View of the Markets] The Coming End of the US Foreign Investment Bubble - Janszen: Alan Greenspan said in testimony before the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee June 1999, "But bubbles generally are perceptible only after the fact. To spot a bubble in advance requires a judgment that hundreds of thousands of informed investors have it all wrong." Back in 1929 it was Professor Lawrence, Princeton University who made the obligatory "investors know best" statement, in September 1929, "The consensus of judgment of millions whose valuations function on that admirable market...

[writer's Blog] writer's Blog: At the heart of the West, the aggression against one of the world’s superpowers carried a significant symbolic weight, as the heart of the Western power, the cities of New York and Washington, done by Islamic radicals, with a  majority of the terrorists coming from Saudi Arabia, follow their mission orders from the Al Qaeda terror group based in Afghanistan, were students in Germany, and consummated their attack on American soil. These  neo fundamentalists and radical Islamic elements justify their actions by a literal examination of the Islamic holy book and the final goal of such elements is the design of a new identity for Muslims by utilizing religion and Islamic terms.

[SWJ Blog] Pentagon Rethinking Value of Major Counterinsurgencies (SWJ Blog): The domestic economic crisis and the Obama administration's commitment to withdraw from Iraq and begin drawing down in Afghanistan next year are factors in the change. The biggest spur, however, is a growing recognition that large-scale counterinsurgency battles have high casualty rates for troops and civilians, eat up equipment that must be replaced and rarely end in clear victory or defeat.

[Digital Fingerprint] Digital Fingerprint » Blog Archive » #cmn10, notes, day 2: Thinking about relationships by how close people are to his heart - how much of me am I willing to share before engaging in each relationship, whether personal or business. Facebook - invited to free party, had some of the free nibbles, so don’t complain because it was free.

[Adab-Arz Blog] Adab-Arz Blog : Pakistan: in the Eye of the Storm of Terror: for which for instance, the provocative drone attacks sorties are continually being run by United states to target the innocent even by violating the sovereignty of the Pakistan. This provocation is aimed at creating more terrorists and to instigate and invite them to attack US lead forces and to help build and enhance the given pretext enabling them to prolong the stay in Afghanistan and eventually move in side Pakistan and turn it into another state like Iraq.

[Stephen M. Walt] Why Doing Less Might Enable the US to Do More | Stephen M. Walt: Some Western “experts” like to see this as merely a confident, economically buoyant Turkey’s “re-Ottomanization.” But the virulent anti-Semitism emanating from Erdogan’s fief is nothing to do with the old-time caliphate (where, unlike rebellious Arabs, the Jews were loyal or at least quiescent subjects), and all but undistinguishable from the globalized hyper-Islam successfully seeded around the world by Wahhabist money and so enthusiastically embraced by third-generation Euro-Muslims. Since 9/11, many of us have speculated about Muslim reform, in the Arab world and beyond.

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | "So Let Us Begin Again": You told the American people Iraq was in possession of 26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 500 tons - which is one million pounds - of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent, 30,000 missiles to deliver the stuff, mobile biological weapons labs, al-Qaeda connections to 9/11 and uranium from Niger for use in a robust nuclear weapons program, even though all of that was a lie. You made a joking video about not being able to find any of it.

[Une parole franche] Stanley Hoffmann and Heroic Idealism: from World Disorders to ...: In Gulliver Unbound, Hoffmann takes up the question of the Bush Administration’s changing justifications for its 2003 invasion of Iraq, beginning with the supposed threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the months leading up to the start of hostilities and ending, post facto, in expressions of humanitarian concern: America had removed a vicious dictator who murdered countless of his own citizens. He talks about whether intelligence reports supporting the worst case scenario of Saddam’s WMD may have been directed from the Executive or tried too hard to please the Executive.

[Clusterstock] Who Died And Made BP The King Of The Gulf Of Mexico?: # According to a June 10 CNN video, one of the network's news crews was told by a bird rescue worker that he signed a contract with BP stating that he would not talk to the media. The crew was also turned away by BP contractors working at a bird triage area -- despite having permission from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to enter the facility.

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