By Chris Hedges, Truthdig. Posted August 5, 2008. A war with Iran would ruin our economy and finally kill off our weakened, anemic democracy. An attack on Iran, which Israeli and Bush administration officials appear set to carry out if Iranian uranium enrichment is not halted, would ignite a regional war in the Middle East [...]
Archive for August 5th, 2008
5 Aug
Obama Gets High Marks for New Energy Plan
By Joseph Romm, Huffington Post. Posted August 5, 2008. This is the best energy plan ever put forward by a nominee, especially in comparison to the plan by John “Nothing but Nukes” McCain. Senator Barack Obama has fulfilled the promise of his earlier climate plan with a detailed and comprehensive “New Energy for America” plan. [...]
5 Aug
How News is (Instantly) Manipulated into Partisan “Tactics” Insulating the Bush Administration from Accountability
Marty Kaplan | The Huffington Post.com Ron Suskind’s new book reports that in 2003, the White House ordered the CIA to forge a letter to “prove” that Iraq had a hand in 9/11 and that Saddam was buying yellowcake uranium from Niger for his WMD program with the help of Al Qaeda. When this came [...]
5 Aug
Book claims President Bush ordered forgery to justify Iraq war
Posted: 04:58 PM ET FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty: A new book says President Bush committed an impeachable offense, ordering the CIA to forge a letter to bolster his case for war in Iraq. These explosive charges are contained in a new book, “The Way of the World” by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind. He says [...]
5 Aug
Book says White House ordered forgery
POLITICO By MIKE ALLEN | 8/5/08 11:51 AM EST Updated: 8/5/08 11:51 AM EST A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein. Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday, [...]
5 Aug
June Inflation Drags on Shopper
Drop in Buying Power Has Retailers on Edge Office Depot shoppers Callan Garber, 10, right, and her sister, Lane Barber, 14, left, shops for school supplies at Office Depot in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, July 29, 2008. The Commerce Department reported Monday, Aug. 4, 2008, that consumer spending dipped by 0.2 percent in June, [...]
5 Aug
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
He lived not by lies. August 5, 2008 Washington Post ON FEB. 18, 1974, this newspaper published an essay, ” Live Not by Lies,” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who with his writings and dauntless moral courage had shaken Soviet power as no other individual had done. Written six days earlier, probably hours before the Soviet secret [...]
5 Aug
Stronger Than the Gulag
By Anne Applebaum Tuesday, August 5, 2008; Page A19 Although more than three decades have passed since the winter of 1974, when unbound, hand-typed samizdat versions of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” began circulating in what used to be the Soviet Union, the emotions they stirred remain today. Usually, readers were given only 24 hours [...]
5 Aug
Iraq, Vietnam veterans find common ground
Soldiers have come home from war since Ulysses’ turbulent return to Ithaca — to tearful wives and cranky babies, to brass bands playing… By Kim Murphy Los Angeles Times Larry Criteser, right, a Vietnam veteran from Eugene, Ore., takes part in a homecoming ceremony at Ft. Lewis for members of the Army’s 4th Battalion, 9th [...]
