Dissent Mag

by William Blum / August 6th, 2008

The New Yorker magazine in its July 14 issue ran a cover cartoon that achieved instant fame. It showed Barack Obama wearing Muslim garb in the Oval Office with a portrait of Osama bin Laden on the wall. Obama is delivering a fist bump to his wife, Michelle, who has an Afro hairdo and an assault rifle slung over her shoulder. An American flag lies burning in the fireplace. The magazine says it’s all satire, a parody of the crazy right-wing fears, rumors, and scare tactics about Obama’s past and ideology.

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Pre-Olympics PsyOp creates Atmosphere of Fear and Insecurity

by Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, August 3, 2008

In the weeks leading up to the Beijing Olympics, an atmosphere of fear and insecurity is unfolding.

China has not only been targeted for its human rights violations, a China based Islamic terrorist organization has announced that it is planning to “create havoc” at the outset of the Olympics.

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The Empire And China

By G. Asgar Mitha

22 July, 2008
Countercurrents.org

An interesting comment in the form of a question was posted on Noam Chomsky’s article “It’s the Oil, Stupid” published on Counter Currents. That question was “What about China?” I answered Jay Janson in the comments section of Chomsky’s article (http://www.countercurrents.org/chomsky100708.htm). That was a very brief comment so I now take the opportunity to elaborate in this article.

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By M K Bhadrakumar

Global Research, July 18, 2008
Asian Times

Last week, the gloves finally came off the Dmitry Medvedev presidency in Russia. It had to happen sooner or later, but few would have expected this soon. It was crystal clear US President George W Bush administered a diplomatic snub to Medvedev on the sidelines of the G8 summit meeting at Hokkaido, Japan.

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by Jack A. Smith / July 16th, 2008

China is being blamed by members of Congress and some labor leaders among others for the loss of good jobs in the United States and our country’s enormous balance of payments (trade) deficit.

Much of the mass media uncritically echoes the views of the economic China bashers on these matters. But the business press, which is more inclined to level with its readers because their money is involved, is more nuanced on the question of jobs, the trade deficit, and the value of China’s currency.1

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Posted: 2008/07/16

By Eric Margolis
(Lew Rockwell)

Pakistan, with 163 million people, and a poorly equipped but very tough 550,000-man army, will offer no easy victories. Those Bush Administration officials who foolishly advocate attacking Pakistan are playing with fire.

The Bush Administration may be preparing to lash out at old ally Pakistan, which Washington now blames for its humiliating failures to crush al-Qaida, capture its elusive leaders, or defeat Taliban resistance forces in Afghanistan.

One is immediately reminded of the Vietnam War when the Pentagon, unable to defeat North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong forces, urged invasion of Cambodia.

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Revelations From Great And Powerful Men

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By Michael C. Ruppert

30 March, 2004
From The Wilderness

Colin Campbell is both an academic and a businessman. Educated at Oxford and holding a Masters degree he has served as a geologist for Oxford University, Texaco, British Petroleum and Amoco (prior to the BP Amoco merger). He has served in executive positions with Shenandoah Oil, Amoco, Fina and was Chairman of the Nordic American Oil Company. He has served as a consultant on oil for the Bulgarian government as well as for Statoil, Mobil, Amerada, Total, Shell, Esso and for the firm Petroconsultants in Geneva. He is the Convener and Editor of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and a Trustee of the Oil Depletion Analysis Center in London.

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