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Whitney: "Iraq Doesn't Exist Anymore"
Znet Article, December, 09 2007
Mike Whitney
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Nir Rosen, author of In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq, has spent more than two years in Iraq reporting on the American occupation, the relationship between Americans and Iraqis, the development of postwar Iraqi re...
Whitney: The Breaking Point
Znet Article, September, 30 2006
Mike Whitney
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It was another bad week in Iraq. While bodies were piling up in the Baghdad morgue and the militia fighting steadily intensified, the Bush administration was hit with a rash of PR scandals that are bound to erode public support for the war. The wo...
Whitney: Afghanistan's Second Intifada
Znet Article, June, 08 2006
Mike Whitney
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“We will continue our jihad until the foreign troops are driven out.†Mullah Hayat Khan George Bush has broken every promise he made to the people of Afghanistan. In 2001 he said he would remove the Taliban, establish order, an...
Whitney: China and the Dollar
Znet Article, January, 09 2006
Mike Whitney
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“It's the death blow to the US dollar,†said Peter Grandich, editor of the Grandich Letter. On Thursday, The People’s Republic of China fired off the first volley in what could turn out to be economic Armageddon. China ...
Whitney: The Guerilla War on Iraqi Oil
Znet Article, January, 04 2006
Mike Whitney
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“Iraqi oil…will be a legitimate and a permanent target of the armed resistance plans to liberate Iraq and defeat the invaders... The armed resistance will use every possible means militarily and technically to prevent the occ...
Whitney: Skirmishes in the Information Wars
Znet Article, January, 03 2006
Mike Whitney
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There are only two weapons in the imperial tool-chest; force and deception. The brutal colonial occupation of Iraq has provided us with a lavish example of the former, but the twin-axel of deception is more abstruse and difficult to pin down. Sure...
Whitney: Chavez and the Crawford Madman
Znet Article, November, 21 2005
Mike Whitney
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Hugo Chavez seems to take great pleasure in tweaking George Bush’s nose. He’s repeatedly called Bush a “terrorist†and disparaged the US as a “terrorist stateâ€. Just last week, Chavez fired off anoth...
Whitney: Drifting towards a Police State
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Mike Whitney
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“Those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid the terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to...
Whitney: Voting in Afghanistan
Znet Article, October, 27 2005
Mike Whitney
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The western media rarely explores the failures of the Afghanistan war. That's unfortunate, because the conflict tells us a great deal about the suicidal direction of American foreign policy. 95% of the American public supported the war in Afgh...
Whitney: Rumsfeld's National Guard
Znet Article, September, 02 2005
Mike Whitney
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"Free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. For suddenly the biggest problem in the world to be looting is really notable." Sec-Def Donald Rumsfeld 4-11-03; comments on the looting of Baghdad The changes that are ...
Whitney: Covering up Napalm in Iraq
Znet Article, June, 28 2005
Mike Whitney
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“You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn'...
Whitney: The Friedman Solution: Reinstate the draft
Znet Article, June, 19 2005
Mike Whitney
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When America’s foremost political pundit and spokesman for the powerful CFR (Council on Foreign Relations), Tom Friedman, says its time to reinstate the draft, we should all pay attention. Friedman’s comments appeared in his June 1...
Whitney: The EU Constitution; savaging national sovereignty
Znet Article, May, 30 2005
Mike Whitney
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The EU constitution is a Trojan horse slapped together by corporate and banking elites with the clear purpose of undermining national sovereignty and accelerating globalization. Thank God the French had the common sense to read the document and vo...
Whitney: Free Jose Padilla
Znet Article, May, 23 2005
Mike Whitney
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May 8 marked the third anniversary of the imprisonment of Jose Padilla. Padilla was apprehended at Chicago’s O’ Hare Airport in 2002 by Federal officers under the shaky “material witness†provision and trundled off ...
Whitney: Tom Friedman: The Imperial Chronicler
Znet Article, May, 15 2005
Mike Whitney
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Tom Friedman is the most popular columnist in the United States. He’s also the voice of the American establishment. From his perch at the CFR (Council of Foreign Relations) he delivers his affable-sounding polemics; spreading a gospel of ...
Whitney: A Tentative Strategy for ending the War
Znet Article, May, 11 2005
Mike Whitney
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The war will only end when support for the war ends at home. We have a new weapon in that struggle; the truth. Let’s use it. “…the intelligence and the facts were being fixed around the policy.†Richard Dearlove; f...
Whitney: Free Speech in the Crosshairs
Znet Article, May, 09 2005
Mike Whitney
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people to peacefully assemble, and to petition the government ...
Whitney: Pope TV and the New World Media
Znet Article, April, 13 2005
Mike Whitney
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The 24 hour a day barrage of coverage about the Pope’s death shows a dramatic shift in the way that news is covered. If a story is inoffensive to the political establishment or if it serves their greater interests (like Schiavo) then it be...
Whitney: Railroading Moussaoui
Znet Article, March, 27 2005
Mike Whitney
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In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by la...
Whitney: Economic Meltdown
Znet Article, March, 17 2005
Mike Whitney
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Don’t look now, but Bush’s house-of-cards economy is about to come crashing to earth. Just yesterday the Commerce Dept announced that the trade deficit soared to an all time high of $665 billion in 2004; a whopping 25% increase fro...
Whitney: The Tools of Tyrants
Znet Article, March, 07 2005
Mike Whitney
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It shouldn’t surprise us that the Supreme Court has decided to take a case about the public displaying of the 10 Commandments, but refused to hear the case of Jose Padilla, the alleged “dirty bomberâ€. On the one hand we hav...
Whitney: Iraq Vs. Tsunami: The Duplicity Of The Media
Znet Article, December, 31 2004
Mike Whitney
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The American media has descended on the Asian tsunami with all the fervor of feral animals in a meat locker. The newspapers and TV’s are plastered with bodies drifting out to sea, battered carcasses strewn along the beach and bloated babi...
Whitney: Falluja and the Disappearing Media
Znet Article, December, 29 2004
Mike Whitney
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“We headed to the area where we live and saw some bodies lying about the streets. I entered my neighbor’s house and found him lying on the ground, nothing left of him but some bones.†Abd al-Rahman Salim, Falluja resident ...
Whitney: Intelligence Reform or Patriot Act 2?
Znet Article, December, 12 2004
Mike Whitney
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“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in an American flag†Huey Long, Senator (D-LA) “The new provision enshrines the principle of arbitrary imprisonment, allowing the president to incarcerate anyone he choose...
Whitney: Savaging the Dollar
Znet Article, December, 08 2004
Mike Whitney
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Make no mistake, the dollar has been pushed from its perch at 30,000 ft and is freefalling to earth at breakneck speed. The ensuing carnage will be catastrophic for both the American people and the world. For all practical purposes the dollar is t...
Whitney: Firebombing Falluja
Znet Article, December, 01 2004
Mike Whitney
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The United States is using napalm in Falluja. So far, the military has denied the allegations, but the proof is mounting. On Nov. 28 The Daily Mirror’s political editor, Paul Gilfeather filed a report stating: “US troops are secret...
Whitney: Barghouti
Znet Article, November, 29 2004
Mike Whitney
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The lame duck Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has been trundled off to Israel, but it has nothing to do with resurrecting the moribund Road Map. And, it certainly doesn’t involve paying his respects to the former elected leader of the Pa...
Whitney: Falluja and the Erosion of American Power
Znet Article, November, 14 2004
Mike Whitney
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“and what will their faces tell them when they look in the mirror when they look on their dressers and see the pieces of metal they were given for killing us in our own homes, in own cities, in our own mosques and churches, what will their...
Whitney: Al Hurrah TV
Znet Article, October, 23 2004
Mike Whitney
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recently opined, “The Iraq conflict is a war of perceptionsâ€. His remark reflects his belief that events can be shaped simply by controlling the flow of information. Rumsfeld has been a major playe...
Whitney: Embalming the Peace Process
Znet Article, October, 15 2004
Mike Whitney
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Israel’s left-leaning newspaper Ha’aretz ran an interview with Sharon’s senior advisor Dov Weinglass that is nothing less than extraordinary. In the interview, Weinglass reveals Israel’s hidden strategy in dealing w...
