Dissent Mag

Honorable Exit From Empire

by Patrick J. Buchanan

As any military historian will testify, among the most difficult of maneuvers is the strategic retreat. Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, Lee’s retreat to Appomattox and MacArthur’s retreat from the Yalu come to mind. The British Empire abandoned India in 1947 – and a Muslim-Hindu bloodbath ensued.

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by Eric Walberg / July 23rd, 2008

As the United States election race enters the final stretch, Barack Obama as the candidate promising change is revealing his true colors, much to the despair of anyone actually expecting any change. His recent call to declare Jerusalem the undivided capital of Israel, his denial of Palestinians’’ right of return, and his support for a Bantustan Palestinian “state” which poses no threat to Israel show how completely he has caved in to the Zionist establishment on that issue.

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by Paul Craig Roberts

“On October 21 (194 the Government of Israel took a decision that was to have a lasting and divisive effect on the rights and status of those Arabs who lived within its borders: the official establishment of military government in the areas where most of the inhabitants were Arabs.”
- Martin Gilbert, Israel: A History

I had given up on finding an American with a moral conscience and the courage to go with it and was on the verge of retiring my keyboard when I met the Rev. Thomas L. Are.

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“John Kennedy, Barack Obama and the ‘Triple Evils That Are Interrelated’

by Paul Street

Barack Obama fans are quick to compare their candidate to President John F. Kennedy. In fact, the two are much alike: pro-business, imperial-minded politicians who are undeservedly tagged as progressives by folks who should know better. “JFK inhabited much the same power-serving faux-progressive ideological space in his time as Obama does today.” On foreign policy, Obama supports increased military spending, as did Kennedy. And “just like JFK, Obama has falsely sold this conservative economic agenda as a form of neutral ‘get things done’ pragmatism emphasizing ‘technical expertise’ over and beyond mere ‘ideology.’”

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Agence France-Presse

Published: Tuesday July 22, 2008

Russia may start regular flights by long-range bombers to Cuba in response to US plans to build missile defence sites in Eastern Europe, the newspaper Izvestia reported Monday, quoting an official.

“Such discussions exist,” the unidentified senior Russian air force official was quoted as saying, adding that the measure would be a response to the United States “deploying missile defence systems in Poland and the Czech Republic.”

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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 Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith, The Nation. Posted July 19, 2008.

Why we can’t let the Bush Administration get away with its crimes.

Retired General Antonio Taguba, the officer who led the Army’s investigation into Abu Ghraib, recently wrote in the preface to the new report, Broken laws, Broken Lives:

“There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.”

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Global Exchange, (5/02)

US diplomats like to say that when it comes to the Palestinian-Israeli peace process the US plays the role of ‘an honest broker. “But the US’s massive foreign aid payments to Israel mean that, in fact, the US is taking sides. Israel is the largest recipient of US foreign aid in the world, receiving more than $6 billion annually-or about $8 million every-day. Until the US stops lending its weight to Israel through biased and unfair support, a truly just peace will remain elusive.

Note video - “Israeli shoots Palestinian with hands bound point blank”, “Video Israel Doesn’t Want You to See” and “If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing! VIDEO WAS CENSORED!” below the article

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