Author: mike

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Carlyle Group – Deny Everything

I wrote about them back in 2001, but the Evil Gnomes running the Carlyle Group still deny everything: We’re not,” he nearly shouts, “that well connected!” Behind him is a picture of Rubenstein on...

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Bad News From Palestine

Undercover Israeli special forces shot dead four Palestinians including a young girl during an ambush in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Tuesday, local witnesses and medics said. They said plainclothes Israelis fired...

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Origins of Regime Change in Iraq

The Carnegie Endowment have really come through with a detailed round-up tracing how the colonialist big willy fantasies of a few renegade die-hard neocons in the mid-90s have now become a very terrible reality...

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So Many War Criminals

Barbara sent me a good analysis of exactly what the Geneva Conventions require of their signatory nations. I note that this is one international treaty that the Bush Gang have not yet withdrawn the...

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Precision Bombing

2’000 lb. JDAM bombs. If all goes 100% as planned (the bomb does not fall outside of its specified margin of error of 13 meters, and the GPS guidance system is not foiled by...

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Clear Channel Sponsoring Pro-War Rallies

Clear Channel, the Borg-like media & propaganda conglomerate that controls most of the radio and billboard advertising in the US (and also ensures that radio playlists are such terrible, homogenized soma-like pap), is sponsoring...

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Watching TV… Update

we start counting the hours from the moment one of the news channels report that the B52s have left their airfield. It takes them around 6 hours to get to Iraq. On the first...

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From Belfast to Baghdad via Basra

British forces left behind to staff the checkpoints, control the roads and occupy the cities here in southern Iraq say the military campaign for them has taken on the feel of a Belfast-style guerrilla...

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Wind and Sand

I liked Dvorak’s take on how lame and tame is the coverage by the “embedded” journos… Anchor: Jim, what’s going on there? Jim: We’re moving north. It’s windy and sand is blowing. Anchor: So...