Afghanistan: The Other Criminal War

By Max Kantar

30 May, 2008
Countercurrents.org

As we have recently eclipsed the five year anniversary of the illegal occupation and unlawful aggression in Iraq, there is very little discussion or attention given to the ‘other’ war in Afghanistan. There seems to be widespread acceptance within the United States that our war in Afghanistan is nothing more than a just retaliation for the horrific attacks of September 11th. A closer look may tell us otherwise.

Is Bush Becoming Irrelevant? by Patrick J. Buchanan

May 30, 2008

by Patrick J. Buchanan

After losing both houses of Congress in the 1994 election, Bill Clinton expostulated: The president of the United States is not irrelevant!

On learning his trusted aide from Texas Scott McClellan has denounced as an “unnecessary war” the same Iraq war McClellan defended from the White House podium, George Bush must feel as Clinton did.

U.S. Economy: The Worst is Yet to Come

By Mark Weisbrot, Huffington Post. Posted May 29, 2008.

Nobody can predict exactly where the bottom will be, but it’s clear that we’re not even close to hitting it.

Since the U.S. economy showed positive growth for the last quarter, some commentators in the business press are saying that we are not necessarily going to have a recession, or that if there is one it will be mild. This is a bit like the proverbial story of the man who jumped out of a window 60 floors up, and then said “so far, so good,” as he passed the 30th floor.

Note video - ” CNN Your Money: Talks of Great Depression Coming” below the article

Standing Up Against the War Party

May 30, 2008

by Justin Raimondo

We’ve been doing it since 1995 – but Antiwar.com may not be able to do it for much longer.

One has to wonder at the depths of deception engaged in by this administration when even their own spokesman turns against them. Scott McClellan, in his recent book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, avers that the White House’s effort to sell the Iraq war was “less than honest and candid” – and, more, that the administration’s public pronouncements amounted to a “political propaganda campaign to sell the war to the American people.”

Apocalypse in the Oceans

By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. Posted May 30, 2008.

With 150 dead zones in our oceans, some the size of Ireland, author Taras Grescoe argues that there’s been a massive die out of sea life.

In pictures, on CSI Miami, and to the naked eye the sea looks the same today as it ever did: blue, green or blue-green, rolling in glassy crashing curls, tormented then serene. It will look this way tomorrow, next year, arguably for eternity. No matter what freaks us out on earth, our species takes great comfort in knowing that the sea always looks exactly the same.