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[moderateobserver_] What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire: It was described early in 1941 by Henry Luce, multi-millionaire owner of Time, Life, and Fortune magazines, as the coming of “The American Century.” The time had arrived, he said, for the United States “to exert upon the world the full impact of our influence, for such purposes as we see fit, and by such means as we see fit.”
[synful musings] Conservatives for Obama?: To see the Iraq War as anything but misguided, unnecessary, and an abject failure is to play into the hands of the fear-mongers who insist that when it comes to national security all Americans (members of Congress included) should defer to the judgment of the executive branch. Only the president, we are told, can “keep us safe.” Seeing the war as the debacle it has become refutes that notion and provides a first step toward restoring a semblance of balance among the three branches of government.
[Hayleybarholomew's Weblog] Spinning Around: yet less apparent to U.S. planners, the majority of Iraqis are Shiite Muslims and therefore likely to use real national independence as an opportunity to form a rough anti-systemic partnership with also oil-rich Iran. Together with Iran, Iraqi Shiites might well inspire Shiite resistance to state power in the Persian GulfвЂâ™s ultimate oil-prize, feudal and arch-repressive Saudi Arabia, home (by the way) to the worldвЂâ™s largest known oil reserves, where “strategicвЂ? petro-imperial considerations have long mandated a deep U.S. partnership with tyranny and dictatorship. As Chomsky recently explained in an important interview, reminding us that U.S. domination of majority-Shiite post-invasion Iraq is intimately related to U.S. domination of the entire Persian Gulf region (home to two-thirds of the worldвЂâ™s known oil reserves) and the rising world-systemic threat (to U.S. planners) of a dynamic new East Asian state capitalism:
[The Moderate Voice] Iraq War to Last Through Two More American Presidential Terms ”¦: in Iraq pile up, Americans aren’t the only ones wondering how long the war will go on. Jean-Claude Kiefer writes for France’s Dernieres Nouvelles d’Alsace, ”˜the United States has been discredited;
[The Political Inquirer] The Iraq War: 4000 Deaths for what?: Eventually, Japan had had enough and attacked Pearl Harbor; we declard war on Japan, which forced Germany and Italy to declare war on the US, thanks to another ill-advised treaty.
[At-Largely] NYT Iraq War Timeline Whitewashes History (Part I: Hans Blix ...: Hans Blix saw his presentation before the Security Council as areport card with which to forceIraq's hand to be more forthcoming with his team of weapons inspectors.In the end, his dedication to the facts, of painting an exhaustive viewof Iraq's cooperation up to that point, over a mere two-month period,left his findings vulnerable to cherry-picking by those, in the Bushadministration and the media, who were beating the war drums. Blixrelated that Iraq had, as of Jan.
[mothanskin.blog-city.com] "The Real Substance Of Hilary's Economic Plans": Invest in U.S. Manufacturing: The Obama comprehensive energy independence and climate change plan will invest in America's highly-skilled manufacturing workforce and manufacturing centers to ensure that American workers have the skills and tools they need to pioneer the first wave of green technologies that will be in high demand throughout the world. Obama will also provide assistance to the domestic auto industry to ensure that new fuel-efficient vehicles are built by American workers.
[Linusfexval's Weblog] 18 August SWJ Op-Ed Roundup: He even calls the “war on terror” “a bumper sticker, not a plan.” Actually, Edwards favors bumper stickers himself, writing, at one point, “we need substance, not slogans.”The only part of EdwardsвЂâ™s essay that struck a chord with me was his endorsement of an expanded nation-building capacity similar to that outlined by Giuliani.
[Kane's China Trade and Investment Weblog] General Liu Yazhou on China, Japan, and the United States: Asia does not furnish the conditions for shoring up the U.S. ambitions…When the Iraq war broke out, Europe saw through the United States’ intention of controlling the center of the world as a prelude to taking control of the European continental plate, and they opposed that war with exceptional vigor - in fact, more vigorously than some of the Arab countries.
[mothanskin.blog-city.com] "John McCain Ain't No Bush Clone": Just two weeks ago, when McCain mistakenly said Iran was training Al Qaeda in Iraq fighters, it was the Connecticut senator who again pulled him aside, gently reminding him that the Iranian regime has been accused of training fellow Shiite extremists, not Sunni Al Qaeda.) For someone who is just an election away from the White House—and who is running on his image as a tested statesman—there remain serious questions about how exactly McCain might behave as president.
[Rgbaldous's Weblog] Good news from Iraq, part 34: During more than a decade of isolation, Iraq lost touch with international accounting standards, international financial reporting standards, and ethical standards for accountants and requirements for typical modern annual reporting for corporations. In order to address these needs, the training of trainers program was developed to improve the skills of Iraqi accountants, strengthen the accounting industry in Iraq and enhance the accountability, transparency and usefulness of financial documents used to make sound business management decisions.”
[Dear Kitty. Some blog] Obama links Iraq war to economic hardship in the USA: Oil industry analysts generally have attributed the surge in oil prices in part to instability in Iraq and uncertainty in the Middle East caused by threats of a conflict between the United States and Iran.
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