Dissent Mag

March 29, 2008 at 09:31:09

The United States military offensive against Iran may have begun with a swiftly escalating series of operations directed against the Mahdi Army, a Shiite militia led by cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, which had been observing a six month old cease-fire.

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* Attacked and took over two countries.

* Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.

* Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.

Note video - “Is Bush an “Idiot”? below the article

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21 March, 2008
Countercurrents.org

In his famous book, The Collapse of British Power (1972), Correlli Barnett reports that in the opening days of World War II Great Britain only had enough gold and foreign exchange to finance war expenditures for a few months. The British turned to the Americans to finance their ability to wage war. Barnett writes that this dependency signaled the end of British power.

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by Mark Zepezauer
Odonian Press

In order to survive, nations need strong intelligence services. But the idea that the CIA is primarily an intelligence-gathering operation is itself one of the agency’s greatest propaganda triumphs.

Despite its name, the Central Intelligence Agency’s main purpose is, and has always been, carrying out covert operations involving economic warfare, rigged elections, assassinations and even genocide.

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Thursday, 6 March 2008, 7:08 pm
Column: Massachusetts School Of Law

Author Michael Parenti Charges

President George W. Bush is “the biggest thug” ever to occupy the White House, writes political scientist Michael Parenti , adding that most post-World War II U.S. presidents have also acted like “thugs.”

Note - Video:” Michael Parenti - Is Bush A Failure?” below the article

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Gwynne Dyer

Thursday, March 27th 2008

“This is the new face of hunger,” said Josetta Sheeran, director of the World Food Programme (WFP), launching an appeal for an extra US$500 million so it could continue supplying food aid to 73 million hungry people this year.

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By Ralph Nader

28 March, 2008
Countercurrents.org

Chairman John Conyers
House Judiciary Committee
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Congress
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Chairman Conyers:

Prominent Constitutional law experts believe President Bush has engaged in at least, five categories of repeated, defiant “high crimes and misdemeanors”, which separately or together would allow Congress to subject the President to impeachment under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution. The sworn oath of members of Congress is to uphold the Constitution. Failure of the members of Congress to pursue impeachment of President Bush is an affront to the founding fathers, the Constitution, and the people of the United States.

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By Joel S. Hirschhorn

28 March, 2008
Countercurrents.org

Whether you see yourself as a truth seeker, patriotic American, independent thinker or voter, or just someone with bad memories of 9/11, you should make an effort to view The Reflecting Pool, a new independent movie. It is not about 9/11. It is about the credibility of the official government story about 9/11. Though a drama, it is based on meticulously researched facts about 9/11 as revealed in the bonus material on the DVD.

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