Archive for June, 2008

McCain lost five U.S. Navy aircraft

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain

Navy pilot John Sidney McCain III should have never been allowed to graduate from the U.S. Navy flight school. He was a below average student and a lousy pilot. Had his father and grandfather not been famous four star U.S. Navy admirals, McCain III would have never been allowed in [...]

Preparing the Battlefield

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

The New Yorker

The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran.

by Seymour M. Hersh July 7, 2008

Operations outside the knowledge and control of commanders have eroded “the coherence of military strategy,” one general says.

ate last year, Congress agree to a request from Presiden Bush to fund a major escalation o covert [...]

Iran-Contra’s ‘Lost Chapter’

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Consortium News

By Robert Parry (A Special Report)

June 30, 2008

As historians ponder George W. Bush’s disastrous presidency, they may wonder how Republicans perfected a propaganda system that could fool tens of millions of Americans, intimidate Democrats, and transform the vaunted Washington press corps from watchdogs to lapdogs.

To understand this extraordinary development, historians might want to look [...]

The End of the Anglo-American Empire?

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

The Market Oracle

By: Richard_C_Cook

Much of the world’s history over the last century has been dominated by the United States. But by the turn of the millennium in 2000-2001, the “American Century” had begun to descend into a chamber of horrors.

The years since then have been marked by the huge financial bubbles engineered by the U.S. [...]

Welcome Home, Soldier: Now Shut Up

Friday, June 27th, 2008

RINF.COM

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

By Paul Rockwell | There are two kinds of courage in war - physical courage and moral courage. Physical courage is very common on the battlefield. Men and women on both sides risk their lives, place their own bodies in harm’s way. Moral courage, however, is quite rare. According to Chris Hedges, [...]

We must halt White House push for war with Iran while we still can

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Asheville Citizen-Times

Dr. Don Richardson

Given the reckless history of the Bush administration, it is not hard to believe that an attack against Iran is imminent, especially since President Bush and Vice President Cheney now have less than 240 days to finish their term.

The Jerusalem Post quoted a senior member of the president’s entourage after Bush addressed [...]

The Democratic Capitulation on Telecom Immunity

Friday, June 20th, 2008

MWC News

by Jacob G. Hornberger

Not surprisingly, the Democratic-controlled Congress has once again capitulated to the president, this time agreeing to a “compromise” bill that grants immunity to telecom companies that knowingly and intentionally broke the law that prohibited them from sharing confidential information about their customers with the government.

Outraged customers sued the companies for damages, [...]