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[Hirby.com] Will the war in Iraq benefit the US economy? | News: I dont think this war benefits the United States at all,,,unless America wins and gets total control of the country and keeps the Insurgiance at bay or eradictaes it completely. Once that is done you now have a new mid-eastern alli who will provide you with all the strategic location to spy on Iran and Pakistan,,,,,,OH AND THAT LIGHT SWEET CRUDE STUFF AMERICANS ARE SOO "ADDICTED TO"

[Dahr Jamail's Mideast Dispatches » Dahr Jamail - Independent Reporting from Iraq and the Middle East] Resisting Homophobia in the Military | Dahr Jamail - Independent ...: Five years after his return from Iraq, Key admitted that on some levels his joining the military was an attempt to “sort of heal my internalized homophobia and to hopefully be accepted by my culture, because I never felt accepted by my culture and that was very much tied into the gender paradigm and homophobia. And so I thought to become that thing which is the paradigm of American masculinity: a United States Marine.”

[AlterNet.org] Sgt. Northcutt's Post-Iraq Nightmare: Getting Arrested for Growing ...: And naturally everybody's so hyper-fucking-vigilant that everybody wakes up. (softly) Oh, okay, it's only Sergeant Tolson yelling in his sleep, okay, cool...

[Reason Magazine - Hit & Run] Hit & Run > Barack Hussein Bush - Reason Magazine: Liberals pretty early on began to call for a "devils bargain" with the state to protect individual autonomy from non-state institutions like the community or family or "society" (read On Liberty to see how far back this goes, Mills concern with how social opinion alone can oppress individuality). It further started to think of protecting autonomy from conditions (like poverty and sickness) which might be thought to undermine it.

[The Great Pundit Hunt] Barrett Brown - The Great Pundit Hunt - Non-Prophet Foundations ...: The prediction of future events generally entails extrapolation from current trends, which is a pretty tricky process even when undergone by clear-headed observers and becomes nearly impossible when undergone by nitwit theocrats like Joel Rosenberg - and it becomes absolutely impossible when the nitwit theocrat in question insists on dotting his proposed future narrative with magical explosions, as Rosenberg did recently when he explained to Pat Robertson that “God says He’s going to supernaturally judge Iran, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, these other countries. We’re talking about fire from heaven, a massive earthquake.

[Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org] The fight of their lives | SocialistWorker.org: Though there has been confusion among some antiwar activists about what to next since Barack Obama was elected president, independent journalist Dahr Jamail's The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan begins to lay out the case that veterans who are most affected by the war may be the ones who lead the fight to end it.

[Antiwar.com Original] The More Things Change by Tom Engelhardt -- Antiwar.com: A presidential candidate opposed to the Iraq War is elected and enters the Oval Office. Yet six months later, there are still essentially the same number of troops in Iraq as were there when his predecessor left, the same number, in fact, used in the original .

[Brendan Calling] Brendan Calling » Blog Archive » Health Care: See, This Is What I Mean: Obama has decided that, like so many other things he promised, from filibustering FISA legislation to his promises to the gay community to his reversals on civil liberties and subsequent expansions on states secrets, to his substitution of Bagram for Guantanamo, a public option is not so important after all. He did, after all, take single payer off the table before the table was even set.

[Argue With Everyone Political Forums] The US War Against Iraq =The Destruction of a Civilization.: They openly stated that their top priority was to advance Israel’s agenda, which, in this case, was a US war against Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein, occupy the country, physically divide Iraq, destroy its military and industrial capability and impose a pro-Israel/pro-US puppet regime. If Iraq were ethnically cleansed and divided, as advocated by the ultra-right, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu and the ‘Liberal’ President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and militarist-Zionist, Leslie Gelb, there would be more than several ‘client regimes’.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Where's the Street-wise Hercules to ...: But if we are serious about achieving what I understand to be an appropriate mission in Afghanistan, i.e., do successful counter-insurgency against the Taliban/al Qaeda long enough for a sturdy civil society to take root, and thereby deny them the ability to use Afghanistan to stage destabilizing operations in Pakistan, that’s a very long-term mission that requires (1) a lot of forces, (2) an approach that doesn’t emphasize killing people and breaking stuff as the primary means of achieving the goal, (3) developing a nuanced understanding of the culture and the institutions that are already there, and (4) giving up, for the foreseeable future, on eradicating the opium industry.

[The Raw Story] The Raw Story » Healthcare opponent punches 65-year-old supporter: A 65-year-old man cheering healthcare reform in Miami was punched in the face and knocked to the ground by an opponent of a public health plan, according to a reporter at the scene. The rally took place outside a Great Miami Chamber of Commerce event where Florida Sen.

[Untitled] » Blog Archive » Oh Noes! Pentagon worried about Obama's ...: Monday’s assessment initially was to include troop recommendations, but political concerns prompted White House and Pentagon officials to agree that those recommendations would come later, advisers to McChrystal said. Although the White House took a hands-off approach toward Afghanistan earlier this summer, Pentagon officials said they’re now getting more questions about how many troops might be needed and for how long.

[appletree] appletree » Blog Archive » All About Gordon Brown's 'Iraq War ...: z_post_title="All About Gordon Brown’s ‘Iraq War Inquiry’ Bullshit";z_post_category="Iraq";

[Best Of New Orleans Blog] Q&A with Ethan Brown, author of “Shake the Devil Off” - Part 2: Yes, the Zackery-Addie relationship had all the hallmarks of an abusive relationship a la Sid and Nancy. And after I read the Bookforum review I wrote to my editor and mentioned that Zackery and Addie have always reminded me of a couple who lived on the first floor of a tenement building I lived in in Chinatown in the mid 1990s.

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