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[Market buzz] Excellent article about US dollar and Oil: The US cannot cope even now with the much smaller Iraqi insurgency. Perhaps the US will feed into the Sunni v Shiite conflict and turn it into a wider Middle-East civil-war.
[News Hounds] Dick Morris Wants To Start War Against Iran To Help McCain Get Elected: Morris now claimed he was not advocating starting a war for political gain. Then, apparently forgetting that he’s an American, Morris said, “If you are Israel, and you are only concerned about Israel, it’s what you’re in business for, and you have an option of attacking in December or attacking in October or September, and attacking in September and October would bring, may help defeat somebody who you regard as squishy soft on his commitment to you, and help elect somebody who you regard as hard as nails in his commitment to you, you take the action that helps you.”
[Dropping estrogen levels can lead to hot estrogens.] This is NOT the G Force we all saw as Larry: McCain on Iraq, Iran and his faith. That’s why it’s refreshing to see some of the front runner campaigns show off some humor in their email memos both morning and weekly to the press.
[Docudharma - Front Page] Docudharma Times Sunday July 27: How one careless phone call ended Radovan Karadzic's liberty Iran executes 29 in jail hangings Turkish warplanes bomb PKK targets in Iraq In Zimbabwe Talks, Who Will Get the Real Power? Key to feeding Africa called better farming .
[EZ READING MONEY MATTERS] Tear Down That US Deficit Wall Of Red Ink!: The decision before us is whether to demand accountability for one of the gravest injustices imaginable. The decision before us is whether Congress will stand up to tell future presidents that America has seen the last of these injustices, not the first," he said.
[Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies] Common Ground News Bulletin 15-21 July 2008: Twelve years after Quwatli’s statement, Syria decided to write off its parliamentary system for the sake of union with Egypt in 1958. In his justification, Syrian Foreign Minister Salah al-Din al-Bitar reminded his government that when independence from the French was being discussed in 1936, the Syrian negotiating team had not raised the issue of the annexed districts to Lebanon “because we believed that one day, at a certain point in history, we would be re-united with all of Lebanon.
[Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead] Mullahs’ Oil: Furthermore, many countries in Asia and Europe, but also the United States, have managed to get around the sanctions by working with middlemen and companies close to the IRI, mostly in the Persian Gulf region. It seems that such sanctions do not put an end to business dealings with the IRI and the new sanctions do not seem to convince the IRI to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
[mccainkeatingfive.com] John McCain: A History of Corruption: An entire group of Republicans believed McCain would stand up to Bush and instead were let down as this “hero” helped take away our rights and start an illegal, immoral war, then push hard for a second war.
[WORLD WATCH] RETURN TO THE COLD WAR IS IT?: Then, in 1998, during the debates over the Iraq Liberation Act and intervention in Kosovo, McCain and his chief of staff, Mark Salter, began working closely with the neoconservatives around The Weekly Standard and the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), including William Kristol, Robert Kagan, Marshall Wittmann, Randy Scheunemann, Gary Schmitt, Max Boot, and Daniel McKivergan. These neoconservatives were different from the first generation of former leftists who had opposed Jimmy Carter’s universal emphasis on human rights and had backed Ronald Reagan’s aggressive anti-communism.
[SWJ Blog] 28 July SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that his country had dramatically expanded the number of machines at its disposal producing enriched uranium, defying international demands for the country to halt the production of nuclear material. But the hard-line leader, quoted by official and semi-official media, also appeared to suggest that Iran might be willing to stop adding more centrifuges, a condition for preliminary talks to end the diplomatic standoff over Iran's nuclear program.
[Russia Blog] Russia's Ambassador to NATO Speaks Out in DC: “Insurmountable barriers” would emerge between Russia and Ukraine or Russia and Georgia if Kyiv or Tbilisi joined NATO: these moves “will not bring any stability to our relationship””everything will deteriorate.” Later, he stated that U.S. efforts to expand NATO, which came up short at the Bucharest summit, seemed to be designed “to reshape the map of Europe, and in particular Eastern Europe.” Moreover, he said, multiple references to no outside country having a veto over NATO Membership Action Plans for Ukraine and Georgia seem to many in Russia to be a deliberate slap at Moscow. While Washington and other NATO capitals profess interest in partnership, he continued, the West’s actions do not live up to this rhetoric because the U.S. and its allies are essentially telling the Kremlin to keep quiet when it believes Russian interests are affected.
[SWJ Blog] 20 July SWJ News, Op-Ed, Blog and Events Roundup: Also in the past two days, the president agreed for the first time to set a "time horizon" for withdrawing troops from Iraq, and authorized Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to join North Korean diplomats at six-party talks about ending that country's nuclear weapons program. The maneuvers underscore how much the Bush administration has changed since 2002, when the president proclaimed Iraq, Iran and North Korea to be an "axis of evil." Now Bush is pushing forward with diplomatic gestures toward Iran and North Korea while breaking with a long-held position on troop withdrawals in the interest of harmony with the Iraqi government.
[×_____// Ñ‚ н e - w Ñ Î¹ Ñ‚ e Ñ ' s - в ι sc Ï… ι Ñ‚ ¬.//] Why Oil is not the reason for War: Major oil companies, along with many other non-military transnational corporations, have lobbied both the Clinton and Bush administrations in support of changing the aggressive, militaristic U.S. policy toward countries like Iran, Iraq and Libya in favor of establishing normal, non-confrontational trade and diplomatic relations. Such efforts at normalization of trade and diplomatic relations, however, have failed time and again precisely because Wolfowitz and his cohorts, working through AIPAC and other war-mongering think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Project for the New American Century (PNAC), and Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) oppose them.
[Untitled] Russia’s case against NATO: Even if we assume Iran is ready to produce these missiles, wouldn’t it be more logical to deploy defenses in Turkey, Bulgaria or Iraq? Yet Washington persists in reiterating its arguments, which gives us grounds to believe we are not being told the whole truth.
[Ikhlas] Oil and the USD: But worse for the US, China and India have already stated they are very interested in the new Iranian Oil Bourse. If there is a tactical-nuclear strike on - deja-vu - `weapons of mass destruction' in Iran, who would bet against a certain Oil Exchange and more, being bombed too?
[from the desk of Tim Blair http://timjblair.spaces.live.com Military-Veterans-Media News blog: Seattle, Washington US] vvaw.org: Reality Bites Back Why the US Won't Attack Iran By Tom Engelhardt 10/07/08 "Tomgram" -- - It's been on the minds of antiwar activists and war critics since 2003. And little wonder.
[Pakistan Ledger: Unbiased World news & views] US needs 400000 soldiers in Afghanistan to quell the growing rebellion: On 24th July 2008, at International Institute of Strategic Studies in London I asked, Pakistani Foreign Minister HE Shah Mahmood Qureshi, ”˜Foreign Minister your democratic government’s sole motto seems to be, ”˜Visit US before US visits you’ because you just came from the USA and Prime Minister Gilani is going to USA too. On the other hand, ”˜If US want to (visit) invade Pakistan’s tribal areas (FATA) then “SO BE IT”.
[燕雀安知鸿鹄之志哉] Saddam Hussein executed in Iraq: Concerned that the execution could inciteviolence, United States forces were placed on stepped-up alert andIraqi officials suggested that the daily curfews here might beextended throughout the weekend. Even as the executions appearedinevitable, many were skeptical or disbelieving that the noosecould drop around Mr.
[Tribe.net: Year 2012] Re: Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran: Stir in a string of new military bases the U.S. has been building within miles of the Iranian border, the repeated crescendos of U.S. military charges about Iranian-supplied weapons killing American soldiers in Iraq, and the revelation by Seymour Hersh, our premier investigative reporter, that, late last year, the Bush administration launched ”” with the support of the Democratic leadership in Congress ”” a $400 million covert program “designed to destabilize [Iran’s] religious leadership,” including cross-border activities by U.S. Special Operations Forces and a low-level war of terror through surrogates in regions where Baluchi and Ahwazi Arab minorities are strongest. (Precedents for this terror campaign include previous CIA-run campaigns in Afghanistan in the 1980s, using car bombs and even camel bombs against the Russians, and in Iraq in the 1990s, using car bombs and other explosives in an attempt to destabilize Saddam Hussein’s regime.)
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