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Forum Post Kwint: Re: Re: Re: Rebranding the Occupation (The Guardian)

Forum Post, September, 08 2010 Marius Kwint
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Hi JohnIn fairness to the Guardian (as opposed to the Observer), I don't think it's quite true that it was a 'great supporter' of the Iraq invasion of 2003, although it may have assented to the invasion of Afghanistan.  I haven't been able to...

Forum Post Street: Re: Re: Rebranding the Occupation (The Guardian)

Forum Post, September, 05 2010 Paul Street
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Yes, John, I agree on the whole.  I would recommend a recent book by Anthony Dimaggio, When Media Goes to War (Monthly Review 2009) for (among many things) its interesting discussion of contrasts and parallels between British and U.S. journal...

Forum Post Andrews: Re: Rebranding the Occupation (The Guardian)

Forum Post, September, 03 2010 John Andrews
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PaulSeamus Milne is an honourable exception at the Guardian. The Guardian and its sister paper, The Observer, were great supporters of both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Millions of people in this country knew that the Weapons of Mass Destruction...

Forum Post Street: Rebranding the Occupation (The Guardian)

Forum Post, September, 02 2010 Paul Street
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/aug/04/us-iraq-rebranding-occupation Semas Milne;    guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 4 August 2010 21.30 BST The US isn't leaving Iraq, it's rebranding the occupationObama says ...

Forum Post Kershner: impeach all war criminals

Forum Post, August, 22 2010 Harry Kershner

If we all do what you did, i.e., remove our Obama bumper-stickers from our cars, then everything will be okay. Right?Ralph Nader was correct all along. In order for progressives to have any leverage over Democrat corporatists/militarists...

Forum Post Kwint: Why does the sky not collapse?

Forum Post, August, 15 2010 Marius Kwint
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 An excellent reckoning with the current episode of state-sponsored mayhem.  What I have found especially difficult to bear since 2001 is the studious distraction and somnolence of domestic life amid all the terrible acts being perpetrat...

Forum Post Rbluhm44: "1984" Plus 26 = 2010

Forum Post, August, 09 2010 Richard Rbluhm44
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 Erich Fromm wrote in the "Afterword" in my copy of George Orwell's "1984" as follows: "George Orwell's "1984" is the expression of a mood, and it is a warning.  The mood it expresses is that of near de...

Forum Post Moorey: Re: War Crimes

Forum Post, August, 08 2010 Crip Moorey
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[QUOTE]If we do not, we will be complicit in those war crimes.[/QUOTE]You don't, so you are.

Forum Post H.: Re: War Crimes

Forum Post, August, 08 2010 Harry H.
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 What happens to Americans is irrelevant. It is Americans who are inflicting this on other people. If they get hurt in the process, that is the price they pay for their barbarism

Forum Post Hussein: Al-Megrahi, Tony Blair, and GWB

Forum Post, August, 08 2010 Ahmed Hussein
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If we accept Al-Meghrahi's guilt, then, he is a minor mass murderer. The real and no doubt BIG mass murderers are Tony Blair and GWB and their accomplices. Where are they now? The former is working for the UN making millions, travelling as a VIP, ...

Forum Post Nikonov: Hari was one of war-mongers back

Forum Post, August, 07 2010 Alla Nikonov

 Then, calling for aggression against Iraq. Now he is  telling half-truth, trying to rehabilitate himself in a safe manner. The very trial was a sham, it is still very unclear  WHO really did blow out the plane.  

Forum Post Gossett: War Crimes

Forum Post, August, 06 2010 Selwyn Gossett
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The use of uranium-tipped shells - both as a use for otherwise unusable left-over material from nuclear waste and to enhance penetrating ability of said shells - is a war crime, pure and simple.The sad irony is what might it be doing to our own ci...

Forum Post Gossett: Shocked Indeed!

Forum Post, April, 21 2010 Selwyn Gossett
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This is the essence, the reality, minus the 'isms' baggage.Excellent!  I especially like the Casablanca link because I use the very same example all the time!  Whenever someone waves a flag, cites morals, etc., put your hand&nb...

Forum Post Venkat: Re: please resist propaganda

Forum Post, April, 17 2010 Suki Venkat
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Americans have a lot of nuclear fart and they have farted before in Japan,.. India and Pakistan have their own nuclear fart...Americans don't care if Iran does its own fart but the damn nuclear fart doesn't run cars as yet...So the Americans looki...

Forum Post Kane: please resist propaganda

Forum Post, April, 16 2010 Paul Kane
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 You simply assume that Iran is trying to achieve a nuclear weapon.   If you pay as much attention to Iran as you claim, you must know that that almost certainly isn't true.  And you state that Ahmadinejad must be thankful to the US...

Forum Post Nikonov: One more time Cole does NOT

Forum Post, March, 30 2010 Alla Nikonov

question the results of the "election" under USA occupation, even thougth the counting of votes were the most untraspare and  long beyong any plausible explanation. Of course, for him and other supporters of USA imperialism, it is I...

Forum Post Stuart: A question of cost

Forum Post, March, 21 2010 Colin Stuart
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I think you are right that an "enduring" presence is what the generals and the administration want but I do have a question.  Will they be able to afford it in the current debt riddled economy?   How long can this baroque ...

Forum Post Ztofu: Protest

Forum Post, March, 21 2010 Christopher Ztofu
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Why is it that CommonDreams, CounterPunch and Znet  did  not advertise the March 20th anniversary protests? When I recently asked Znet this question, I received a reply stating, "No one sent us anything that I can recall. If ther...

Forum Post Burwell: pt. 2

Forum Post, March, 12 2010 Tom Burwell
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http://www.zcommunications.org/introduction-to-participatory-economics-michael-albert-2-5-by-michael-albert

Forum Post McGehee: well

Forum Post, March, 10 2010 Michael McGehee
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writers like yourself who encouraged people to vote for obama is part of the problem. how was it not predictable beforehand that they would exploit sentiments to get in office and then leave everyone high and dry?another part of the problem i...

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