Whom the GOP really serves / By Steven Jonas

February 28 2009 by oliverMiau in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT |No Comments

One of Ronald Reagan’s first acts on his first full day in office, January 21, 1981, was to completely shut down the alternate/renewable energy program that Jimmy Carter established in the late 1970s

A New Afghanistan Nightmare Commences / By Ramzy Baroud

February 28 2009 by ishmael27 in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, IMPERIALISM, U.S. POLITICIANS |1 Comment

Unlike the unpopular war in Iraq, Afghanistan was widely viewed in the US as a moral war, based on the logic that since al-Qaeda was responsible for the September 11 terrorist attacks, and since the group is hosted by an equally militant Taliban government, both groups must pay. So far, the people of Afghanistan have paid many times over the price expected.

A New Afghanistan Nightmare Commences / By Ramzy Baroud

February 27 2009 by helsingfors in AMERICAN BRAINWASH, IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT |4 Comments

Brutish, primitive Afghanistan has been the tomb of many a colonialist enterprise, but the American imperialists never learn from history, and their eyes are set on the Central Asian oil riches… 2/20/09 | [print_link] When US envoy to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke met with Afghanistan’s ‘democratically’ installed President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on February 14, he [...]

Whom the GOP Serves / By Steven Jonas

February 27 2009 by helsingfors in AMERICAN BRAINWASH |No Comments

The Reagans at the zenith of their popularity. Few rightwing charlatans can match Ronald Reagan for hypocrisy, no small feat in a field crammed with mean-spirited phonies.  Dateline: 2/18/09 | [print_link] Simulposted with Buzzflash One of Ronald Reagan’s first acts on his first full day in office, January 21, 1981, was to completely shut down the [...]

Senator James Inhofe: Top Terrorist Threat to Planet Earth

February 27 2009 by helsingfors in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT |No Comments

By Steve Best  // Dateline: thomaspainescorner on February 20, 2009 | [print_link] “With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.”— Senator James Inhofe From humble beginnings as Tulsa mayor [...]

The Gaza Tragedy Continues / Reports By M. Shahid Alam & Kathy Kelly

February 26 2009 by Greanville Patrice in AMERICAN BRAINWASH, IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT |No Comments

A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery ||| New analyses of a human tragedy of horrendous proportions by correspondents M. Shahid Alam & Kathy Kelly  ||| Editor’s note: To recap: It’s six weeks now since the “nation’s paper of record,” The New York Times, borrowing a page from Fox News’s “fair and balanced” Shawn & [...]

ICONS AND GEO-POLITICS or MUST RUSSIA BAIL OUT UKRAINE?

February 26 2009 by helsingfors in FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT |1 Comment

“A Very European Story” By Gaither Stewart | [print_link] Symbols and objects held sacred by a whole people form a more powerful protective barrier than the highest of walls. Even the Great Wall of China was more a scarecrow than a real barrier to Mongol invaders. In that figurative sense I have imagined here the Russian [...]

Some inconvenient truths from the Cold War years / By Steven Jonas

February 25 2009 by 39paTrivolensis in AMERICAN BRAINWASH |1 Comment

Soviet soldiers embrace after breaking the siege on Leningrad, which cost 900,000 lives.  MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA (PART 2) | [print_link] Too True to be Good:  Some inconvenient truths from the Cold War years.  Russia’s decisive military action against Georgia in response to Saakashvili’s deluded attempt to retake by force the breakaway region of South Ossetia, [...]

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