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What if Some Country Did This to US Citizens?

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:39:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Think of the uproar it would cause if the tables were turned...

Bush Admin Says it Can Kidnap Foreign Nationals

The Bush administration has asserted it has the right to kidnap foreign nationals wanted for crimes in the United States. In a statement to the Court of Appeal in London, a senior U.S. government lawyer said American law allows for the kidnapping of British citizens. The statement was made in an extradition case of a British entrepreneur wanted in the U.S. for tax evasion and bank fraud.

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This is Unconscionable--USA's holocaust

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:52:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I guess enoungh Amurrikan think this is acceptable enough to let this war go on, including Congress....AAAAARRRRGGHH!

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Holocaust Denial, American Style

Institutionally unwilling to consider America's responsibility for the bloodbath, the traditional media have refused to acknowledge the massive number of Iraqis killed since the invasion.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's flirtation with those who deny the reality of the Nazi genocide has rightly been met with disgust. But another holocaust denial is taking place with little notice: the holocaust in Iraq. The average American believes that 10,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed since the US invasion in March 2003. The most commonly cited figure in the media is 70,000. But the actual number of people who have been killed is most likely more than one million.

This is five times more than the estimates of killings in Darfur and even more than the genocide in Rwanda 13 years ago.

Is Washington responsible for a holocaust in Iraq? That is the question that almost everyone here wants to avoid. So the holocaust is denied

Tags: iraq, iran, usa, death

Blessed are the Peacemakers, Greedy are the Arms Dealers

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:28:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: We export death but expect nations to love us...can we have it both ways. Arms deals should be legislated but who owns Congress?

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

U.S. Is Top Arms Seller to Developing World

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 — The United States maintained its role as the leading supplier of weapons to the developing world in 2006, followed by Russia and Britain, according to a Congressional study to be released Monday. Pakistan, India and Saudi Arabia were the top buyers.

The global arms market is highly competitive, with manufacturing nations seeking both to increase profits and to expand political influence through weapons sales to developing nations, which reached nearly $28.8 billion in 2006.

At the same time, though, Russia continues to nurture an arms-trade relationship that is deeply disturbing to the Bush administration, by signing weapons deals with oil-rich Venezuela and its anti-American leader, Hugo Chávez.

The study makes clear also that the United States has signed weapons-sales agreements with nations whose records on democracy and human rights are subject to official criticism.

Tags: usa, leader, arms, russia, venezuela, middle east

Made Love, Got War

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:11:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This resonates with me to the max...My generation was betrayed before we were born...

Clip Source: www.mediachannel.org

Let’s Face It: The Warfare State Is Part of Us

By Norman Solomon.

The USA’s military spending is now close to $2 billion a day. This fall, the country will begin its seventh year of continuous war, with no end in sight. On the horizon is the very real threat of a massive air assault on Iran. And few in Congress seem willing or able to articulate a rejection of the warfare state.

The warfare state didn’t suddenly arrive in 2001, and it won’t disappear when the current lunatic in the Oval Office moves on.

The warfare state doesn’t come and go. It can’t be defeated on Election Day. Like it or not, it’s at the core of the United States — and it has infiltrated our very being.

The triumph of the warfare state degrades and suppresses us all. Even before the weapons perform as guaranteed.

– Norman Solomon’s book “Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State” will be published in early fall. The foreword is by Daniel Ellsberg. For more information, go to: www.MadeLoveGotWar.com

Tags: usa, mic, war, n.solomon