3/31/2005
Scott Ritter: Neocons as Parasites by Larisa Alexandrovna
This is the third of Raw Story's series of conversations with former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter. In the first installment, Ritter spoke about the situations as regards weapons in Iraq, Iran and Russia. In the second, Ritter enumerated what he saw as the failings of the U.S. intelligence operation, calling the CIA 'terminally ill.'
American foreign policy firmly in neocon hands: former US ambassador - MARTIN INDYK interview
I think that Hezbollah will have the upper hand because… not so much in electoral terms because it's constrained in terms of the number of seats it can win, but because the removal of the Syrian forces will leave Hezbollah as the most powerful military force in the country and the best organised political force in the country, with by far the smartest and most charismatic leader.
3/30/2005
Representative Cynthia McKinney Grills Rumsfeld On Dyncorp Sex Rings, Missing Pentagon Trillions & 9/11 Wargames
Here is a Video of Representative Cynthia McKinney's Exchange on the House Hearing on FY06 Dept. of DefenseBudget, March 11th, 2005.
Watch how McKinney asks questions about Dyncorp slave rings, the 3 trillion missing from the pentagon and the 911 wargames.
Watch how McKinney asks questions about Dyncorp slave rings, the 3 trillion missing from the pentagon and the 911 wargames.
3/29/2005
Bob Barr and Friends Strike Back At Patriot Act - Interview by William Fisher
The coalition includes Americans for Tax Reform, the American Conservative Union (ACLU), the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Policy Center, the Citizens' Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, the Eagle Forum, and the Second Amendment Foundation.
Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on the Bush Administration, Civil Disobedience and the Eternal Fires of Hell by Mira Ptacin
Therefore they're not very concerned about nuclear arms control but more seriously who believe that Israel must be in control of a greater Israel, from the Nile to the Euphrates, as promised in the bible, in order for their Messiah to return. And therefore, that Likud's policy and Sharon's policy of holding on to the West Bank is absolutely essential and has to be expanded. That's a disastrous influence on our foreign policy and it's a very big influence.
3/28/2005
The Nickel Rant by Edgar J. Steele
I'm running a trial with what I call "Nickel Rant" sound files (because they are precisely 5 minutes long), available for download or streaming listening from my web site: www.ConspiracyPenPal.com. I will put one of these rants up about once a week. I grant permission for anybody to use them in rebroadcast, either live or archived on the Internet, either copied or linked directly to my web site, profit and nonprofit alike, so long as they are used in their entirety. In fact, I encourage radio show hosts to use them freely. If I have fun with them and you find them useful, then I will continue them.
3/27/2005
AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TORPEDOES SHARON?
American Ambassador Kurtzer Said There Is No U.S. Understanding That Israel Will Maintain Settlement Blocs On West Bank’
‘Sharon Government Will Fall After Gaza Withdrawal;
Palestinians Will Then Launch New Wave Of Terrorism’
‘Iranians Should Understand That U.S. Will Launch Missile Strike
Against Nuclear Sites Unless Teheran Halts Nuclear Weapons Program’
‘Sharon Government Will Fall After Gaza Withdrawal;
Palestinians Will Then Launch New Wave Of Terrorism’
‘Iranians Should Understand That U.S. Will Launch Missile Strike
Against Nuclear Sites Unless Teheran Halts Nuclear Weapons Program’
3/25/2005
American nationalism - Timothy Snyder
Lieven’s book oscillates between present and past, seeking to argue that American nationalism is part of a general trend of the modern world, while identifying its particular features. The author crosses the divides that Americans avoid: blue states to red states, North to South, secular to religious, Catholic to Protestant, mainstream Protestant to evangelical. He finds an American nationalism rooted in European beliefs that preceded emigration, hardened at the frontier by ruthless violence, and yet spared the horrors of total war.
3/24/2005
Who Invented the 1980s? by Philip Jenkins
In awarding Reagan the palm as "inventor" of the 1980s, Troy exaggerates the ability of any president to overcome underlying circumstances and trends. In support of this argument, we might point to the more general success of "Reaganite" policies and movements around the world, in nations not subject to that particular administration—not least in Thatcher's Britain. Such parallels surely suggest that more widespread global trends were in progress, whether economic, cultural, or demographic.
In short, Gil Troy has written a valuable and enjoyable book; but I reject his subtitle.
In short, Gil Troy has written a valuable and enjoyable book; but I reject his subtitle.
3/22/2005
Kevin MacDonald's 'The Culture of Critique' Reviewed by Stanley Hornbeck
In The Culture of Critique, Kevin MacDonald advances a carefully researched but extremely controversial thesis: that certain 20th century intellectual movements – largely established and led by Jews – have changed European societies in fundamental ways and destroyed the confidence of Western man. He claims that these movements were designed, consciously or unconsciously, to advance Jewish interests even though they were presented to non-Jews as universalistic and even utopian. He concludes that the increasing dominance of these ideas has had profound political and social consequences that benefited Jews but caused great harm to gentile societies. This analysis, which he makes with considerable force, is an unusual indictment of a people generally thought to be more sinned against than sinning.
Dispatches of War: A Dozen Questions for Dahr Jamail by Douglas Herman
Recently Dahr Jamail returned from Iraq. A working journalist with an uncanny knack for allowing the average Iraqi to speak and be heard, for putting his reporter's ear to the ground and his finger on the pulse of that country, Dahr agreed to answer a dozen questions for STR.
3/21/2005
Interview with "Unembedded" Journalist Dahr Jamail
Paul K. Jameson speaks with Dahr Jamil "Without a doubt the pentagon is lying everyday"
THE DOLLAR CRISIS: CAUSES CONSEQUENCES CURES
INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD DUNCAN
3/20/2005
A Factually Correct Guide for Max Boot by Thomas E. Woods Jr
Boot’s review appeared in the online version of the neoconservative Weekly Standard. Mind you, the print version of the Weekly Standard had already reviewed the book favorably. Reviewer James W. Haley Jr. said that my book “is ultimately about truth” and is one that “everyone interested in American history should have in his library.” “It is not surprising,” he observed, “that a history guide written by a professor with an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a doctorate from Columbia made it onto the New York Times bestseller list. What is surprising—refreshingly so—is that a text that challenges the liberal canon has so resonated with the American public.”
3/16/2005
Former UN weapons inspector, who worked with CIA, sees "terminally ill" intel operation
Raw Story - Scott Ritter Interview
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3/11/2005
The New World Order - BEN JEAPES
Ben Jeapes new book, The New World Order, is one of those rousing, entertaining science fiction romps that also manages to make some intriguing philosophical points along the way. Written primarily with older teens in mind, this alternate history merges the bloody history of 17th century England with a tale of alien invasion and a conflicted father-son relationship, giving readers an often sparkling mixture of masterful alien generals, Oliver Cromwell, Cavaliers, machine guns, floating airships, and multiple layers of religious warfare.
America First!: Its History, Culture, and Politics - Bill Kauffman - review by Arthur M. Schiesinger, Jr
America went wrong, in his view, when Lincoln crushed "the localist Confederate rebellion," and it went further astray when Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt took charge in the twentieth century: "Our pious canting imperialism, the favoring of big over small business, the bloating of the executive branch, the centralization of power in Washington, permanent involvement in the affairs of Europe, conscription, confiscatory taxation--the cousins Roosevelt hammered gilt nails in our collective coffin."
The Damnable Modern Passport by Paul Boytinck
John Torpey. The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Right. The Feds have plans for you. In the future, if they get their way, you will own a high-tech passport full of promise. It will be compact. The machine-readable data it contains will be unique and impossible to forge. The machines charged with reading it will be infallible and never suffer breakdowns. The old photo-based passport will be a thing of the past. The new passport will mean progress beyond your wildest dreams. The country, once vulnerable to malcontents, innumerable illegals, mafiosi, terrorists, brooding novelists and other such vermin, will be made safe once and forever and for all time.
Right. The Feds have plans for you. In the future, if they get their way, you will own a high-tech passport full of promise. It will be compact. The machine-readable data it contains will be unique and impossible to forge. The machines charged with reading it will be infallible and never suffer breakdowns. The old photo-based passport will be a thing of the past. The new passport will mean progress beyond your wildest dreams. The country, once vulnerable to malcontents, innumerable illegals, mafiosi, terrorists, brooding novelists and other such vermin, will be made safe once and forever and for all time.
3/10/2005
Plus Ca Change . . . A Template for the U.S. War in Iraq by Robert Higgs
The composition of a coherent historical narrative is no easy task. Fortunately, the aspiring historian of the current U.S. war in Iraq can draw upon earlier narratives to ease the burden, merely substituting a word here and there in order to make the text accord with the specific names and places that are now pertinent. As the following illustrative statements show, however, basic patterns tend to persist, so one need not suffer through a protracted new search for how a particular war has come to be fought. My textual changes to apply the model to the present war appear in brackets.
3/07/2005
We’re Freaking Doomed! by the Mogambo Guru
In the cartoon, we see a bearded lunatic at the door of an office, and he is holding a sign that reads, "The end is near." There are two guys in the office looking at him, and one of them says, "The scary part is, he's our C.F.O." Hahaha!
Now change that to The Mogambo holding the sign, and the two guys in the office are Alan Greenspan and one of his soul-dead zombies. When you undertake that mental exercise, you will know exactly how I feel about what is happening, because this is always what happens at the end of long booms fueled by excess creation of credit and money . . .
Now change that to The Mogambo holding the sign, and the two guys in the office are Alan Greenspan and one of his soul-dead zombies. When you undertake that mental exercise, you will know exactly how I feel about what is happening, because this is always what happens at the end of long booms fueled by excess creation of credit and money . . .
Mendacity on the Potomac by Steven LaTulippe
For Greenspan to turn around and begin preaching about the need for higher savings and less spending is too much for even the most cynical libertarian to bear. It’s like having the town arsonist begin lecturing the public on the virtues of fire safety.
PAGLIA WARNS INTERNET: ONLY ART LASTS
"In our voracious 24-hour news cycles, we're rafting down the roaring river of media. It's exciting and exhilarating, but it's good to remember that SOME things last--and they're in art!"
So boldly declares authorprofessorcritic Camille Paglia, on the eve of launching her new work: BREAK BLOW BURN.
"Poets must remember their calling and take stage again!"
So boldly declares authorprofessorcritic Camille Paglia, on the eve of launching her new work: BREAK BLOW BURN.
"Poets must remember their calling and take stage again!"
An Interview with Fadi K. Agha on Lebanon by GARY LEUPP
Mr. Fadi K. Agha is a foreign policy adviser to Lebanese President Emile Lahoud. I conducted the following interview with him via email following the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri and the resignation of his successor, Omar Karami. The capitalizations/emphases are his, and this is completely unedited.
3/04/2005
HUMAN EVENTS Interview: Rep. Ryan: Let's Totally Transform Social Security
HUMAN EVENTS editors Terence Jeffrey, Allan Ryskind and Robert Bluey recently discussed the plan with Ryan.
3/03/2005
On The Conservative Bookshelf by Kelly Jane Torrance
I do not envy the task that faced Chilton Williamson, Jr. For his recent The Conservative Bookshelf: Essential Works That Impact Today's Conservative Thinkers (Citadel Press), Williamson was charged with selecting fifty works from 4,000 years of thought--and ranking them. It was a difficult, and controversial, job.
A Loosening Grip Q&A with Farid Ghadry by Kathryn Jean Lopez
Farid Ghadry is no stranger to Lebanon, where his family emigrated to when he was ten years old, or to the Syrian Baathists in his homeland. Born in Syria, Farid Ghadry, is president of the Reform Party of Syria, "a US-based opposition party" of pro-democracy Syrians.
3/02/2005
The Lost Crusade by Benjamin Schwarz
Empire" is once again a fashionable term of opprobrium deployed by domestic opponents of American foreign policy. This compendium of anti-imperialist expression from the Founders to the present is often illuminating but, frustratingly, obscures as much as it elucidates. John Nichols, The Nation's Washington correspondent, admires the late William Appleman Williams, that insightful if often gaseous New Left diplomatic historian, who always urged those on the left to learn from conservatives.
The Push for War - Anatol Lieven
The most surprising thing about the Bush Administration's plan to invade Iraq is not that it is destructive of international order; or wicked, when we consider the role the US (and Britain) have played, and continue to play, in the Middle East; or opposed by the great majority of the international community; or seemingly contrary to some of the basic needs of the war against terrorism. It is all of these things, but they are of no great concern to the hardline nationalists in the Administration. This group has suffered at least a temporary check as a result of the British insistence on UN involvement, and Saddam Hussein's agreement to weapons inspections. They are, however, still determined on war - and their power within the Administration and in the US security policy world means that they are very likely to get their way. Even the Washington Post has joined the radical rightist media in supporting war.
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