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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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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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The Anti-Empire Report #48: Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life by William Blum
August 10, 2007 Source: http://members.aol.com/bblum6/aer48.htm Separation of oil and state On several occasions I’ve been presented with the argument that contrary to widespread opinion in the anti-war movement and on the left, oil was not really a factor in the the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq. The argument’s key, perhaps sole, point is… Continue reading
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Failing to make the right connections By William Bowles
7 August 2007 I’m torn, really torn between trying to keep up with the deceptions the corporate press keep feeding us and wanting to ignore the entire sorry mess completely, but well you know how it is, almost without exception, everyday there’s a story that grabs my attention because it represents all that’s wrong with… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 