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August 2006



COLLATERAL CALAMITY IN LEBANON

Tuesday, 29 August 2006 1:58 P GMT-07
The Israeli bombing of the Jiyeh power plant neat Beirut, Lebanon, has created an environmental disaster of almost unprecedented proportions. Another act that will be casually dismissed as unintended "collateral damage."

AFGANISTAN AFTERMATH

Monday, 28 August 2006 4:13 P GMT-07
A lot of attention has been paid to documenting the Bush gang's failures and incompetency in Iraq. Not much is said or written about Afganistan, which is looking every bit as much of a quagmire and dismal failure.

VENGEANCE IS WEAKNESS

Tuesday, 22 August 2006 2:32 P GMT-07
Democracy is not spread by military aggression and "... however good it might feel, indulging in vengeance is weakness, not strength, and harms your cause more than that of your enemy."

THE REAL THREAT TO AMERICA

Sunday, 20 August 2006 4:06 P GMT-07
Our democracy, Jim Hightower reminds us, "is not a given.... it is always fragile, always under assault by governmental and corporate elites trying to seize more power and wealth for their own interests." This, not terrorism, is the real threat to

A HAND NEEDED, NOT A SHOVE

Sunday, 20 August 2006 3:08 P GMT-07
The entire neocon vision of re-making the Middle East into a pro-American, pro-Israeli political and economic bastion has been, from the start, a pipe dream -- and a dangerous one at that as we have learned. 

MORE PROPAGANDA THAN PLOT?

Wednesday, 16 August 2006 8:10 A GMT-07
Shortly after posting yesterday's blog I saw this.  If true, it confirms my suspicion about the "UK terror plot" and the strange smell emanating from it that my nose detected. It looks suspiciously more like propaganda than plot.

PANIC AS POLICY

Tuesday, 15 August 2006 5:04 P GMT-07
The arrest OF 24 British citizens for plotting suicide missions against U.S. bound airliners is being hailed by the Bushies gang and the mainstream media hail as a great coup in the "war on terror." Again the Bushies will use panic as policy.

THE DRUG OF MILITARISM

Saturday, 12 August 2006 4:11 P GMT-07
Robert Scheer laments Israel's dependence on "the drug of militarism," and how the U.S. government has encouraged that dependence. It has led to "a false escape from the difficult accommodations needed to bring peace to the Middle East.

CREATING CHAOS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Saturday, 12 August 2006 3:20 P GMT-07
Bush administration policies are spreading chaos throughout the Middle East and it is rapidly spiraling out of control.

TRASHING OUR VALUES

Tuesday, 8 August 2006 9:35 A GMT-07
Republicans like to pretend that they are the upholders of American values.  Far from upholding traditional American values, Republicans have instead been systematically trashing them, moving us along the dark road to tyranny.

THEY ARE EXPENDABLE

Friday, 4 August 2006 12:41 P GMT-07
"Misdirected violence alienates those we are claiming to protect, plays into the hands of insurgents, advancing their cause and undercutting ours. It undermines the campaign to win hearts and minds, suggesting... that Iraqi civilians are expendable.
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"US" VERSUS "THEM"

Tuesday, 1 August 2006 4:14 P GMT-07
It's fashionable to view "us" as the "good guys" and "them" as purely "evil." In reality the practice of barbarism takes a variety of forms and no one is exempt.