If Wishes Were Horses

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By Anwaar Hussain

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If wishes were horses, most Americans would have known that Iraq and Afghanistan are just the latest victims of the colonial behemoth in a continued saga of American imperialism and not any thing else. That throughout its imperialistic expedition, Americans have firmly believed that the United States was God’s chosen nation and, therefore, on course to divine destinies. They would have known Senator Albert J. Beveridge’s speech to Congress that exemplifies this American attitude as nothing else does, “…and thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world…” If wishes were horses. Read more



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Air Force refused to fly weapons to Middle East theater

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By Wayne Madsen, Sept. 24, 2007, Author’s website

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WMR has learned from U.S. and foreign intelligence sources that the B-52 transporting six stealth AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles, each armed with a W-80-1 nuclear warhead, on August 30, were destined for the Middle East via Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

However, elements of the Air Force, supported by U.S. intelligence agency personnel, successfully revealed the ultimate destination of the nuclear weapons and the mission was aborted due to internal opposition within the Air Force and U.S. Intelligence Community. Read more



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America’s Hegemonic Status Slipping Away

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The US is on a path to Economic Armageddon. Shorn of industry, dependent on offshored manufactured goods and services, and deprived of the dollar as reserve currency, the US will become a Third World Country.

By Paul Craig Roberts

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Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan’s memoir has put him in the news these last few days. He has upset Republicans with his comments on various presidents, with George W. Bush getting the brickbats and Clinton the praise, and by saying that Bush’s invasion of Iraq was about oil, not weapons of mass destruction.

Opponents of Bush’s wars welcomed Greenspan’s statement, as it strips the moral pretext away from Bush’s aggression, leaving naked greed unmasked.

It is certainly the case that Iraq was not invaded because of WMD, which the Bush administration knew did not exist. But the oil pretext is also phony. The US could have purchased a lot of oil for the trillion dollars that the Iraq invasion has already cost in out-of-pocket expenses and already incurred future expenses. Read more



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Space - The Next Generation

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By Guy Gugliotta

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Sputnik left Earth a half century ago this month. Now proponents hope to revive the romance of human space exploration.

The space age began on the chill evening of October 4, 1957. Sputnik, a 184-pound (83 kilograms) aluminum sphere tucked into the nose of a Soviet R-7 ballistic missile, streaked skyward from its launchpad near the edge of the Kyzyl Kum desert about a hundred miles (170 kilometers) east of the Aral Sea to become the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. An epoch of exploration and discovery as momentous as any in history had begun. Humans would go on to orbit the Earth, float in space, and-most spectacularly-set foot on the moon.

Just 15 years later it was over-after the last Apollo mission to the moon in December 1972. The space shuttle, a technological marvel at its debut in 1981, has proved to be fragile, expensive, and dangerous. And since it cannot fly beyond low Earth orbit, it has transformed spaceflight into a series of high-tech cruises to nowhere. When Columbia disintegrated over Texas during reentry in 2003, killing all seven of its astronauts, investigators decried the aimlessness of the human spaceflight program. Read more



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Video: University of Florida student tasered for asking John Kerry a question

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Only in the past week 1.5 million hits and 20,000 comments on this one clip alone. University of Florida student Andrew Meyer is Tasered and arrested after asking John Kerry a question at a town hall forum, at the UF Auditorium on Sept. 17, 2007.

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See a longer version here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Qef8oPmag

Read more about the incident from a local source, The Gainville Sun newspaper, at:
http://www.gainesvillesun.com/taser

Another video clip starts a little earlier and show his other perfectly reasonable earlier question about Kerry apparently winning in 2004 and then conceding…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqAVvlyVbag
This one currently has 850,000 hits and 12,000 comments.

As it was shown on MSNBC (wasn’t shown on British media - I wonder why?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCBcOQkUNjI
450,000 hits and 5,600 comments

Other videos show more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CheY0jYXJjY
200,000 hits and over 3,000 comments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaiWCS10C5s
420,000 hits and over 5,000 comments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NWukZhsiBw
300,000 hits and over 5,000 comments.



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Jihad in Pakistan

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Osama bin Laden calls for a “holy war” against Pakistani president 

By Robert Chesal

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The attacks are audacious and deadly, and their aim is loudly proclaimed. Islamist forces who continue to strike political and military targets in Pakistan are fighting a jihad, the ultimate goal of which is to create a new global caliphate: a world ruled by political Islam. Pakistan may seem an easy target now, given the weakness of President Musharraf. But who can topple Islamabad by force? In his latest video message, the third this month, Osama bin Laden has called for a “holy war” against Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf. Although the appeal has been rejected by some Pakistanis as unwanted meddling in internal affairs, it is clear that a jihadist campaign is underway in the country. And lately, it has not been confined to the far-flung frontiers. Read more



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End of Belgium should be a warning to Gordon

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By Boris Johnson 20/09/2007

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At the end of some office crisis, the late, great Bill Deedes had a way of turning to you - if you were lucky enough to have been through the crisis with him - and saying, in his conspiratorial way: “Well, old cock, I think we got through that one all right.” And that, I imagine, is the feeling in Downing Street today. The panic is over, apparently. The queues of frenzied depositors have died away. By the amazing expedient of nationalising Northern Wreck, and by offering unlimited sums of taxpayers’ money to guarantee the liquidity of everyone else, Gordon Brown seems to have contained the damage caused by the first run on the banks since the collapse of Overend and Gurney in 1866. So, before the next building society goes belly up, and before Gordon uses yet more of our dosh to protect the financiers from the consequences of their reckless deals, let me warn the Prime Minister of another crisis on the horizon; a problem that is more pregnant with risk for this country than any collapse of the housing market. Read more



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Bush or bin Laden: Who is More Evil?

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By Ryan Yeomans  

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It is the time of the year once again for Americans to mourn the loss of friends, family members and co-workers and to remember all who died on September 11, 2007. But while most of us hold the anniversary as a reminder of those who have passed and of the dangers that still exist everyday, Osama bin Laden has been spending his time grooming his beard and reading up on current events so that he can release a new video to the public. This year, bin Laden was nice enough to distribute two videos within a week, which together contain over an hour of new material.

The first video, which was released on the Thursday before September 11, contains 47 minutes of Osama speaking about everything from the holocaust to global warming. He praises the 9/11 hijackers and, as usual, suggests that Islam is the only option for savior. He continues by bashing George Bush and lists many interesting statements regarding the world’s current situation. Read more



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“We could have another War of the World”

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by Barry Thorne

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“We could have another War of the World in the making, only this time its headquarters, its focal point, will be the Middle East.” Prof Niall Ferguson. In his latest book, The War of the World, historian Niall Ferguson explains why the twentieth century was the bloodiest in modern history, and why he thinks it could happen again.

The British academic - who combines teaching at Harvard with writing best-selling works of history and making television documentaries - gave a special feature-length interview to Amsterdam Forum. He talks about the three factors (or three ‘E’s) which he thinks were responsible for war in the twentieth century: economic volatility, ethnic disintegration, and most importantly, empires in decline. Niall Ferguson thinks that today, all these factors are relevant to the Middle East. He also defended his views on modern day conflict - arguing that despite the turmoil that has engulfed Iraq since the 2003 invasion, military interventions still make sense in other parts of the world such as Sudan and Zimbabwe. Read more



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Video: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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Naomi Klein talks about her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.

Speaking at a benefit event for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a social justice research institute.
The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world– through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.

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