September 2007
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Bush threatened nations that did not back Iraq war: report – Yahoo! News
Bush threatened nations that did not back Iraq war: report – Yahoo! News: Wed Sep 26, 4:04 PM ET MADRID (AFP) – US President George W. Bush threatened nations with retaliation if they did not vote for a UN resolution backing the Iraq war, according to a transcript published Wednesday of a conversation he had Continue reading
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A Critical Juncture for Media Reform
Source: MediaChannel.org [Editor’s note: To join the conversation, go to http://www.freepress.net/actionnetwork/node/83] Welcome to the Free Press Action Network — I will be back tonight, September 27th at 9 pm EST to discuss the state of the U.S. media and why we are at a critical juncture for media reform, as well as answering your questions. Continue reading
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Media Lens: I, (Fascist) Robot – The BBC’s Gavin Esler Lets Rip
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media September 26, 2007 MEDIA ALERT: I, (FASCIST) ROBOT – THE BBC’S GAVIN ESLER LETS RIP In response to our September 18 alert, ‘The Media Ignore Credible Poll Revealing 1.2 Million Violent Deaths In Iraq,’ BBC Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler sent one Media Lens reader Continue reading
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I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your centrifuges down By William Bowles
25 September 2007 “The military option is not the worst option – The worst option is a nuclear Iran.” – Danny Yatom, former Mossad boss L’affaire Iran in its latest incarnation has been going on now for over two years with all kinds of dire threats emanating from the Beltway (and elsewhere eg, Sarkozy’s recent Continue reading
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Security Company Death Squads Timeline by Dirk Adriaensens and Sarah Meyer
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Appropos my piece on mercenaries, this is a very timely analysis Security Company Death Squads Timeline and / or (if link broken) http://tinyurl.com/2b476w There is an uncanny resemblance between the the WW2 Italian Squadristi, Blackwater and the thousands of other “security†forces. SECURITY, OED. “The condition of being protected from or Continue reading
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Russian millionaire thug forces Web hosting company to pull the plug on Craig Murray
Craig Murray, former British ambassador to ‘rogue state’ Uzbekistan who blew the gaff on torture has under pressure from millionaire Uzbeki Alisher Usmanov, had his Website shutdown. “Craig Murray, former United Kingdom Ambassador to Uzbekistan, author of the book, Murder in Samarkand: A British Ambassador’s Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror, and Continue reading
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Blackwaters run deep By William Bowles
24 September, 2007 Mercenary armies are not new. Before conscription most wars were fought with hired hands, often consisting of soldiers from many countries serving under a single flag, so the use of mercenaries in Iraq, Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia (and let us not forget the hired killers who fought under the South African Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Media Ignore Credible Poll Revealing 1.2 Million Violent Deaths In Iraq
The media are not, as is commonly supposed, windows on the world; they are more like paintings or sketches of windows on the world — both the ‘window’ and the ‘reality’ beyond are manufactured corporate products. Continue reading
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M.I.A.’s Kala Representing the World Town By Sukant Chandan
18 September 2007 Not since the days of Punk have we seen commercially successful music feature accents reflecting the actual country and cities in England where artists are from, rather than copying US accents, a trend that has been rejected by cultural genres that have been sprung up spontaneously from the grassroots here such as Continue reading
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Global Cashastrophe By William Bowles
17 September 2007 Question: How many classical economists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Answer: As many as it takes to screw up an economy Never mind global warming, I’ve realised that it’s better to own nothing than owe everything. Apparently those who have (had) their cash in Northern Rock (around £2 billion Continue reading
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Communicating with the ancestors by William Bowles
14 September 2007 Hip-Hop forever I’ve been a fan of hip-hop music ever since it broke out of the Bronx in the late 70s. In those days it is true to say that hip-hop was very much a New York thing reflecting its Black/Hispanic roots in uptown Manhattan and the Bronx. And then there was Continue reading
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Economics 10000001 or the revenge of the Ninjas By William Bowles
12 September 2007 Explaining economics is probably the most difficult thing for any writer to undertake, especially if one’s take on things is not in the mainstream, that is to say, not what they call classical economics, which is another way of saying that capitalism is the only possible system, so it’s interesting to see Continue reading
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Media Lens: Loaded Words: ‘Surge’, ‘Reconstruction’ And ‘Withdrawal’
News media this week are devoting huge swathes of coverage to the report by General David Petraeus, the top US military commander in Iraq, on the impact of the so-called ‘surge’ of US troops. The surge boosted the number of US troops in Iraq earlier this year by 30,000 to 168,000. Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report #49, September 11, 2007 by William Blum
11 September 2007 — Anti-Empire Report The world is very weary of all this and wants to laugh again Okay, Bush ain’t gonna get out of Iraq no matter what anyone says or does short of a) impeachment, b) a lobotomy, or c) one of his daughters setting herself afire in the Oval Office as Continue reading
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Iraq and Oil — Why the mainstream media won’t talk about it By William Bowles
10 September 2007 ‘Order 150 passed in 1987 by Saddam Hussein banned public sector workers from organizing trade unions. Oil Minister Hussein al-Sharistani declared all oil unions illegal in July 2007, using [the same] Ba’ath regime anti-union law'[1] Ever since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the mainstream media have deliberately downplayed the role of Continue reading
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(Yet More) Rumours of War and other tales from Psy-Ops Central by William Bowles
7 September 2007 “Reports that the Bush administration will put Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: It’s either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on the IRGC, maybe within Continue reading
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Thomas Friedman: Hooked on War by Norman Solomon
Reading his “Letter From Baghdad” column in the New York Times on Wednesday, you’d never know that Thomas Friedman has a history of enthusiasm for war. Now he laments that Iraq is bad for the United States — “everyone loves seeing us tied down here” — stuck in the “madness that is Iraq.” And he Continue reading
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Revenge of the Mutt People Joe Bageant
Source: Revenge of the Mutt People by Joe Bageant January 12, 2006 Bred for meanness ‘There are some things so disgusting that only a white man would be willing to do them.’ — Walter Wildshoe, Coeur d’Alene Indian Many years ago I worked at an industrial hog farm owned by the Coeur d’Alene Indian tribe Continue reading
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Book Review: Who said Marx wasn’t Green? By William Bowles
1 September 2007 Book Review: Ecology Against Capitalism by John Bellamy Foster “An ecological approach to the economy is about having enough, not having more.” — John Bellamy Foster “For the first time — nature becomes purely an object for humankind, purely a matter of utility; ceases to be recognized as a power for itself; Continue reading
The New Dark Age 