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The Zionist Power Configuration In America And Israel’s War with Iran
By James Petras
www.countercurrents.org/petras180708.htm
Intellectuals silently complicit with the main purveyors of war for Israel are abdicating their responsibility to speak truth to power – in this case Zionist power. At some point intellectual abdication becomes co-responsibility for a Middle East catastrophe. To continue to masquerade as ‘war critics’ while ignoring the central role of the Zionist Power Configuration makes pundits like Chomsky, Moyers and Powers and their acolytes irrelevant to the anti-war struggle. They are part of the problem, not part of the solution
We Need A War Plan
By Peter Chamberlin
www.countercurrents.org/chamberlin180708.htm
We will not sever the umbilical cord connecting America to the Zionist state by mere words. If the people of this country cannot be convinced to take to the streets by the thousands then no other force on earth will deflect the coming storm that is sure to precede Bush’s exit. Nothing can convince me that W and Dickhead will go silently into the night, without unleashing hell on earth upon the Middle East region and economic collapse and the ensuing martial law upon this country
Middle East Democracy: Blowback Through The Looking Glass
By Robert Weitzel
www.countercurrents.org/weitzel180708.htm
Uncle Sam’s foreign policy in the Middle East has created Alice’s contrary world where “what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would.” It is a world filled with the “sort of memory” that always works forward to become the stuff of nightmares and the roost for returning chickens
Too Old And Brain-Dead
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
www.countercurrents.org/joel180708.htm
In the over half a century that I have been politically engaged I have never seen such an unqualified presidential candidate as John McCain
Torture As Official US Policy
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman180708.htm
Post-9/11, torture has been official US policy under George Bush – authorized at the highest levels of government. Evidence of its systematic practice continues to surface
Drought And Israeli Policy Threaten West Bank Water Security
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman180708A.htm
Fresh water is precious everywhere but especially in one of the driest, hottest places on earth – the Middle East. It’s why it’s a strategic resource and the reason countries like Israel do everything possible to secure a reliable supply
Unrest Surfaces In Fallujah Again
By Ali al-Fadhily & Dahr Jamail
www.countercurrents.org/jamail180708.htm
Security has collapsed again in Fallujah, despite U.S. military claims. Local militias supported by U.S. forces claim to have “cleansed” the city, 70 km to the west of Baghdad, of all insurgency. But the sudden resignation of the city’s chief of police, Colonel Fayssal al-Zoba’i, has appeared as one recent sign of growing unrest
Bush Hides ‘Plame-Gate’ Testimony
By Jason Leopold
www.countercurrents.org/leopold180708.htm
In the latest twist in the “Plame-gate” scandal, President George W. Bush has asserted executive privilege to block release of Vice President Dick Cheney’s interview with a special prosecutor about possible criminal violations in the leaking of a CIA officer’s covert identity
Land Allotment And Amarnath Shrine
By Ram Puniyani
www.countercurrents.org/puniyani20708.htm
Jammu and Kashmir has been one of the regions of the country mired in different types of troubles all through. To add to the painful situation, the issue of land allotment to Amarnath shrine and later reversal of this decision has worsened the harmony, which is eluding the region
15 July, 2008
You Can’t Tell A Magazine By Its Cover
By Kevin Zeese
www.countercurrents.org/zeese150608.htm
The New Yorker Magazine, cover that will soon be a right wing tee shirt – a cartoon of Obama in Arab garb, Michelle as a AK47 toting revolutionary, the U.S. flag burning in their fire place and Osama bin Laden’s photo hanging on the wall – is getting all the attention. But the more important article for those wanting to understand Obama is on the inside
Iran Shows Its Cards
By Scott Ritter
www.countercurrents.org/ritter150708.htm
The Bush administration has shrugged off the Iranian military display as yet another example of how irresponsible the government in Tehran is. But the Pentagon for one has had to sit up and pay attention. For some time now, the admirals commanding the U.S. Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf have maintained that they have the ability to keep the Strait of Hormuz open. But the fact is, the only way the United States could guarantee that the strait remained open would be to launch a massive pre-emptive military strike that swept the Iranian coast clear of the deadly Chinese-made surface-to-surface missiles that Iran would use to sink cargo ships in the strategic lane
Don’t Expect The Democrats
To Stop An Attack On Iran!
By Timothy V. Gatto
www.countercurrents.org/gatto150708.htm
The answer to avoiding more bloodshed and horror as missiles tear into Iranian nuclear reactors filled with nuclear fuel and contaminating large areas of Iran while getting into the atmosphere and doing environmental damage to the entire planet is up to the American people. Citizens of America can no longer accept the premise that the Democrats or any other political party will stop the future carnage in the Middle East
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