5/31/2005
Full-page Anti-AIPAC ad in today's NY Times
Today's New York Times (print edition) has a full-page advertisement on page 5 from the Council for the National Interest Foundation headlined:
AIPAC’s Agenda is Not America’s
The ad is well-done and makes excellent points, including: ISRAEL, STOP SPYING ON AMERICA! I cannot remember an explicit anti-AIPAC ad ever running in a mainstream paper.
The ad is signed by two former Congressmen, Paul Findley (R-Illinois), Paul “Pete”
McCloskey (R-California), and former Senator James Abourezk (D-South Dakota).
AIPAC’s Agenda is Not America’s
The ad is well-done and makes excellent points, including: ISRAEL, STOP SPYING ON AMERICA! I cannot remember an explicit anti-AIPAC ad ever running in a mainstream paper.
The ad is signed by two former Congressmen, Paul Findley (R-Illinois), Paul “Pete”
McCloskey (R-California), and former Senator James Abourezk (D-South Dakota).
Democracy and Populism : Fear and Hatred by John Lukacs
Also, I would take issue with Professor Lukacs’ co-joining of conservatism with the Republican Party. As Paleoconservative Chilton Williamson wrote in his recent book, The Conservative Bookshelf, “Unless we choose to equate conservatism with capitalism and imperialism, it is hard to make the case for the Republican Party being at any time in its history the party of conservatism.” It is yet to be determined how many conservatives will abandon the neoconservative (liberal) dominated Republican Party in future elections. “Fear and hatred” of liberals, such as Senator John F. Kerry, has its limits.
TESTIMONY OF RICHARD K. ARMEY CO-CHAIRMAN FREEDOMWORKS
Good afternoon Mr. Chairman and Members of the commission. I am Dick Armey, former House Majority Leader, and currently Co-Chairman of FreedomWorks, a non-partisan, non-profit grassroots organization with more than 700,000 members that works for lower taxes, less government, and more freedom. Thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the issue of fundamental reform of the U.S. tax code.
5/25/2005
Seven Most Wanted Senate Republicans
Seven Republican senators (along with seven other Democrats) on Monday blocked the nuclear option on judicial nominees--abandoning the GOP leadership in the process. The following list provides their Washington, D.C., contact information.
5/24/2005
Remarks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's Annual Policy Conference - Condoleezza Rice
The United States has focused the world's attention on Iran's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. And along with our allies, we are working to gain full disclosure of Iran's efforts to obtain nuclear weapons. The world must not tolerate any Iranian attempt to develop a nuclear weapon. (Applause.) Nor can it tolerate Iran's efforts to subvert democratic governments through terrorism.
5/23/2005
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5/20/2005
An Interview with Alexander Cockburn - Bill Forman
One of the left's most prominent commentators, Alexander Cockburn possesses a wild iconoclasm that can be as much tonic for the soul as it is toxic to the system. The Irish expat, whose Village Voice columns in the '70s and '80s blazed a trail for contemporary media criticism, continues to expose the hypocrisies of politicians and pundits in his online CounterPunch as well as his biweekly "Beat the Devil" in The Nation magazine. Come next week, on May 20, he'll be offering Sacramentans his thoughts on "How to Change the World in Six Easy Lessons."
Lou Dobbs interviews Pat Buchanan
5/18/2005
Galloway v the US Senate: transcript of statement
New Book Asserts: Before Star Wars, the CIA Used "The Force"
A new book details the United States government's use of “The Force” in defense of national security. "Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate – America's Psychic Espionage Program," by retired military intelligence Major Paul H. Smith (Tor/Forge, 2005) tells us that, unbeknownst to most Star Wars movie fans, the U.S. government began tapping the power of The Force as early as 1972. In that year, the Central Intelligence Agency first contracted with a physicist and his associates at a government think-tank to research and apply remote viewing, a real variety of ESP, to ferret out the secrets of our Cold-War adversaries. The effort continued in secret for nearly a quarter of a century.
Galloway Delivers Scathing Remarks
British Parliament member George Galloway vehemently denies any involvement in the oil-for-food scandal during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
5/15/2005
The Lure of Military Society by Richard K. Betts
“Militarism” will sound harsh to many, hysterical to some, but this superb screed makes a depressingly good case. It is not just another shrill polemic, although it is a polemic in the best sense of the word. Eloquent, wry, sober, deftly cutting, with undertones of anger, sadness, and hope, Bacevich writes like Paul Fussell with a political sensibility. Whatever exaggeration of the problem there may be is just the right amount to drive the point home.
5/11/2005
Rumsfeld Meets Saddam: Transcript of Conversation
The Egyptian magazine al-Usbu', May 2, 2005, published the text of a conversation between Saddam Hussein and US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, which is said to have taken place on Rumsfeld's trip to Baghdad in late April. Rumsfeld, according to the al Usbu' report, visited Saddam Hussein in prison. Al-Usbu' reports that "informed political sources had disclosed the details of the meeting," of which we provide the transcript, translated from the Arabic.
5/10/2005
Former German Defense Minister Confirms CIA Involvement in 9/11: Alex Jones Interviews Andreas Von Buelow
Please understand that this is a transcript made directly from a live radio interview. It may not conform to exeplary standards of grammar. Mr. Von Buelow's first language is German.
5/06/2005
Globalization ideologues have no clothes
The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade by Pietra Rivoli
5/05/2005
Outsourcing: A Greater Threat Than Terrorism
Now comes an important new book, Outsourcing America, published by the American Management Association. The authors, two brothers, Ron and Anil Hira, are experts on the subject. One is a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and the other is professor at Simon Fraser University.
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
5/02/2005
Alex Jones Interview on WING TV by Victor Thorn & Lisa Guliani
Last Friday we ran a parody article which stated that you were going to change the name of your website and radio show to INFOMERCIAL.com. What did you think of it?
The gagging of dissent
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
When the US went to war against Iraq, a majority of people in the US opposed the invasion but their voices, writes Lewis Lapham, “couldn’t make it past the security guards at the White House or CNN” and were muted to faint echoes “in literary journals of modest circulation, in the letters to the editors of the Washington Post or the New York Times, among a scattering of guests on National Public Radio, in the farther reaches of the Internet”.
When the US went to war against Iraq, a majority of people in the US opposed the invasion but their voices, writes Lewis Lapham, “couldn’t make it past the security guards at the White House or CNN” and were muted to faint echoes “in literary journals of modest circulation, in the letters to the editors of the Washington Post or the New York Times, among a scattering of guests on National Public Radio, in the farther reaches of the Internet”.
Truth, History, and Honor Killing by Therese Taylor
In recent years, two best-selling titles have appeared on the subject of honor killing in the Arab world. Norma Khouri's Forbidden Love (also published under the title Honor Lost) and "Souad's" Burned Alive were both published in 2003. In that fateful year, while the international media raced us toward the invasion of Iraq, these books evidently met a public appetite for information about the Middle East.
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Today is the official release date for my new book, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. From the role of the monks (they did much more than just copy manuscripts) to art and architecture, from the university to Western law, from science to charitable work, from international law to economics, the book delves into just how indebted we are as a civilization to the Catholic Church, whether we realize it or not.
5/01/2005
Free Trade Agreement Is a Top U.S. Priority, Rice Declares
The Bush Administration will work closely with governments in the region to win congressional approval of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in joint remarks with President Antonia Saca of El Salvador on April 29.
Enemy of the State by Daniel McCarthy
The closing chapters of Against Leviathan leave the reader hoping that Higgs will soon return to his study of ideology at greater length. But in the meantime, this important and surprisingly readable collection provides an outstanding survey of the aggrandizement of Hobbes’s artificial man. If it isn’t exactly the most essential reading next to the Constitution itself, Against Leviathan is nonetheless the best critique of the relentless expansion of state power —and the perils that growth entails—since Higgs’s own earlier book.
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