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"What We Are Seeing Is the Fall of America"

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:40:20 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: Harold Bloom speaks...

Harold Bloom, Yale literature professor and cultural critic, is one of America's most prominent and provocative intellectuals.

Speaking at his home in New Haven where he is recovering from a recent health scare, a pale and weak Bloom seems to have symbolically embodied what he calls the "poor state of the nation."

"I am 77 years old and I have never seen this country in such a bad state. It is madness. What we are seeing is the fall of the Roman Empire, only now it is the fall of America, the glory of our Empire. This war is what Parthia was to Rome.

"We have caused a monstrous mess. We don't even count killed Iraqis. God knows how many Iraqi women, children and men have been killed by our accidental shootings, which we are such experts at, or by other Iraqis. No, 'Benito Bush' (Bloom's pet name for President George Bush) deserves, if we had a functioning civil law in the world, to be condemned for crimes against humanity. Bush is ultimately responsible for this war," Bloom says

Tags: iraq war, united states, middle east, chaos, war

Exploiting the power of visualization.

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:12:34 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: infosthetics.com

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a slick infographical (& quite ~~provocational~~ provocative) movie discussing some of the US political issues involved in the Iraq war.

looks visually similar to the more recent google master plan.

you are all quite correct in that the movie does not show any quantitative data, but uses an 'infographical' style for illustrative purposes.

I guess I should have made that more clear in the description. however, I wanted to show this example for its use of infographics (style) as a way of propaganda, exploiting the power of visualization.

infosthetics . 24 February 2007

Tags: visualization, politics, us, usa, infographic, movie, google video, iraq, war, propaganda

Powell spills it about Bush / Iraq

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:40:43 GMT

clipped by: BobbyRutan
clipper's remarks: Al-Qaeda, Powell asserted, was only 10% of the problem in Iraq and Nouri al-Maliki, its prime minister, lacked the political will to establish an effective government. After a promising start to the surge at the beginning of the year, 453 unidentified corpses were found on the streets of Baghdad last month, 41% more than the 321 bodies found in January, according to unofficial Iraqi health ministry statistics.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

THE former American secretary of state Colin Powell has revealed that he spent 2½ hours vainly trying to persuade President George W Bush not to invade Iraq and believes today’s conflict cannot be resolved by US forces.

“I tried to avoid this war,” Powell said at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. “I took him through the consequences of going into an Arab country and becoming the occupiers.

Powell has become increasingly outspoken about the level of violence in Iraq, which he believes is in a state of civil war. “The civil war will ultimately be resolved by a test of arms,” he said. “It’s not going to be pretty to watch, but I don’t know any way to avoid it. It is happening now.”

He added: “It is not a civil war that can be put down or solved by the armed forces of the United States.” All the military could do, Powell suggested, was put “a heavier lid on this pot of boiling sectarian stew”

Shi’ites will ultimately prevail

they are determined not to be ruled again by the Sunnis

Tags: iran, iraq, war, terror, bush, powell, cheney, politics, election, islam

Nobody died when Clinton lied

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:37:31 GMT

clipped by: bobbyelliott

Clip Source: www.freewayblogger.com

Tags: clinton, lie, lies, lied, died, nobody, bush, war, iraq, death

Bush Setting Up America For War With Iran

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:36:12 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Senior American intelligence and defence officials believe that President George W Bush and his inner circle are taking steps to place America on the path to war with Iran, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt.

Pentagon planners have developed a list of up to 2,000 bombing targets in Iran, amid growing fears among serving officers that diplomatic efforts to slow Iran's nuclear weapons programme are doomed to fail.

Pentagon and CIA officers say they believe that the White House has begun a carefully calibrated programme of escalation that could lead to a military showdown with Iran.

Now it has emerged that Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, who has been pushing for a diplomatic solution, is prepared to settle her differences with Vice-President Dick Cheney and sanction military action.

Tags: don't, say, i, didn't, clip, it

Baghdad Burning, a blog from an Iraqi girl.

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:28:40 GMT

clipped by: Dazey
clipper's remarks: This is a must-read for anyone concerned with what is going on in Iraq. It's an honest accounting of events in Baghdad, written by a young woman who lives there.

Clip Source: riverbendblog.blogspot.com

Baghdad Burning

End of Another Year...

You know your country is in trouble when:

The UN has to open a special branch just to keep track of the chaos and bloodshed, UNAMI.

Abovementioned branch cannot be run from your country.

The politicians who worked to put your country in this sorry state can no longer be found inside of, or anywhere near, its borders.

The only thing the US and Iran can agree about is the deteriorating state of your nation.

An 8-year war and 13-year blockade are looking like the country's 'Golden Years'.

Your country is purportedly 'selling' 2 million barrels of oil a day, but you are standing in line for 4 hours for black market gasoline for the generator.

For every 5 hours of no electricity, you get one hour of public electricity and then the government announces it's going to cut back on providing that hour.

Politicians who supported the war spend tv time debating whether it is 'sectarian bloodshed' or 'civil war'.

People consider themselves lucky if they can actually identify the corpse of the relative that's been missing for two weeks.

A day in the life of the average Iraqi has been reduced to identifying corpses, avoiding car bombs and attempting to keep track of which family members have been detained, which ones have been exiled and which ones have been abducted.

Tags: war, iraq, blog, antiwar

Bush Outlaws All War Protest In USA

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:33:48 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: I can't believe it. I'm not good at legal speak so I am not sure what to make of this. Go to the site and read the rest or just google the title of the article and find out more. If anyone has any idea if this in any way can be true, please say so.

"(ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order

Clip Source: winnipeg.indymedia.org

Bush Outlaws All War Protest In United States

July 19, 2007

In one of his most chilling moves to date against his own citizens, the American War Leader has issued a sweeping order this week outlawing all forms of protest against the Iraq war.

President Bush enacted into US law an ‘Executive Order’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order_%28United_States%29 on July

17th titled "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq", http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html

According to Russian legal experts, the greatest concern to the American people are the underlying provisions of this new law, and which, they state, are written ‘so broadly’ as to outlaw all forms of protest against the war.

the insertion of the word ‘services ’ has broad, and catastrophic, consequences

any act deemed by their government to be against the Iraqi war is, in fact, supporting the ‘enemy’

Tags: war, iraq, usa, bush, dictatorship, omg, free speech, mca, terrorism, tyranny

WW1 photos - unusual

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:24:01 GMT

clipped by: righthand

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Senegalese soldiers have found billets in a shack

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

A group of Spahis, Algerian soldiers

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

North-African soldiers

In total the French colonies donated 587,000 soldiers to the warfare

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Impetuous Algerians

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Operating Room

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Horse Shoe

ilitary smithy in the Netherlands

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Austrian prisoners-of-war, Russia, 1915

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

On a handcar outside Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk railway, Russia, 1915.

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Parade

The Australian Light Horse Brigade on parade in a Palestinian desert, 1918.

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

A soldier of the Australian Light Horse Brigade gathers anemones

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Camel Ambulances

Another Palestine picture

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

A welcome stop for the Imperial Camel Corps

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

You can almost hear the sound of this French gun

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

French soldiers on bivouac near a shallow stream

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Wounded Brother

Frères d'Armes, brothers in arms, is the text on this French postcard

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Flying Pig

Anzac soldiers

loading a trench mortar

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Heavy Fight

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

A German Feld Lazaret (field hospital)

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

One-handed

English prisoners-of-war at work

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

A Belgian woman is cooking for the soldiers during a pause in the fighting

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Ambush

Clip Source: greatwar.nl

Spy

Tags: war, history, photos, ww1

List of Bush and Cheney's Impeachable Offences

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:22:07 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Can Bush's Cabal choose NOT to leave office, if another terror strike occurred? Can Bush in any way, shape or form, refuse to step down in 2008?? Does anyone know?

Clip Source: www.thepeoplesvoice.org

Never before has there been such a compelling case for impeachment and removal from office of the president and vice-president of the United States.

Bush and Cheney have committed the most serious crimes known to law and history.

The many individual members of Congress, state legislatures and city councils calling for impeachment have cited a long list of other potential impeachable offences:

Why would it be worth impeaching Bush and Cheney at this late date?

America is turning fascist, seeking war and not peace and losing its moral authority in the world.

Bush and Cheney are lawless, dangerous men with war in their hearts.

it wouldn't be surprising that they went for it by orchestrating another 9/11 type of disaster rather than leaving office after 2008. Could their contracting Halliburton to erect hundreds of interment camps throughout the US be a forewarning?

Also, impeachment now would make future leaders think twice about taking a similar lawless and dictatorial path

Tags: bush, cheney, pnac, halliburton, war, terrorism, neoconservatism, impeachment

Who Will Cry For Innocent Iraqis?

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:40:45 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Half of Iraq's population are children. Children! Who can condone dropping bombs on babies and tormenting children, no matter how "noble" they may think the cause? Who can know of Iraq's suffering and still proudly wave the flag, droning off hollow words of security, democracy and freedom? How can anyone, anyone keep supporting this terrible murderous war? How??

Clip Source: www.fpif.org

Half of Iraq's population of 27 million are children. UNICEF data show that nearly one-fifth of Iraqis are children under the age of five. These children are the most vulnerable members of Iraqi society. Twenty five percent of Iraqi children are malnourished and one in ten is acutely malnourished.

A USA Today report indicates that 70 percent of Iraqi children suffer from symptoms of traumatic stress syndrome manifested in psychiatric and psychological symptoms. These children daily witness death and destruction in their neighborhood.

Caught in the middle of a multi-sided war, these children are being killed daily as collateral damage

children -- not soldiers, not terrorists, and not insurgents.

Iraqi children scrounging in the garbage for food or going into prostitution to survive.

It's time for that to stop.

start seeing the war through Iraqi eyes as well.

start shedding tears for Iraqis and work together to protect the children and put an end to this senseless war.

Tags: iraq, war, children, genocide, and for what? oil? security? nationalism? shame!

America not at war...photo

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:45:22 GMT

clipped by: jatfla
clipper's remarks: Posted at my favorite news forum.

Clip Source: www.lucianne.com

Tags: iraq, military, photography

Mutiny among USA Generals? Revolt over Iran?

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:59:56 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: "KOLKO: Many in the US military think Bush and Cheney are out of control. They are rebelling against Bush and Cheney. Washington Post reporter Dana Priest recently said in an interview that she believed the US military would revolt and refuse to fly missions against Iran if the White House issued such orders.

"CENTCOM commander Admiral Fallon reportedly thwarted Cheney's wish to sent a third additional aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf. One paper wrote that he "vowed privately there would be no war against Iran as long as he was chief of CENTCOM."

"Lt. Gen. Wright, in charge of US forces in Japan, told AP last week that the Iraq war had weakened American forces in the face of any potential conflict with China. He was quoted as saying, "Are we in trouble? It depends on the scenario. But you have to be concerned about the small number of our forces and the age of our forces."

...Spiegel

Mutiny in the ranks - at the top!!!

Clip Source: www.spiegel.de

'Many in the US Military Think Bush and Cheney Are Out of Control'

In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, the Amsterdam-based military historian Gabriel Kolko talks about the prospect of war with Iran and argues that many in the US military now view the White House as being 'out of control.'

The American military is stretched to the limit. They are losing both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Everything is being sacrificed for these wars: money, equipment in Asia, American military power globally, etc

Where and how can they fight yet another?

The Pentagon is short of money for procurement, and that is what so many people in the military bureaucracy live for.

More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.

IEDs, which cost so little to make, are defeating a military which spends billions of dollars per month. IEDS are so adaptable that each new strategy developed by the

The Israelis were also never quite able to counter IEDs

Many in the US military think Bush and Cheney are out of control

Tags: usa, iraq, mutiny, military

Bush's America: LESS Safe, LESS Free.

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:43:34 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: In a new book, "Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror," law professors David Cole and Jules Lobel argue that the problem lies in the aggressive "preventive paradigm" the Bush administration adopted in the wake of 9/11.

Clip Source: www.truthout.org

new book, "Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror," law professors David Cole and Jules Lobel argue that the problem lies in the aggressive "preventive paradigm" the Bush administration adopted in the wake of 9/11

"While the 'preventive paradigm' can point to few gains in our security, it has come at great cost to our ideals. In the name of preemptive security, the administration has undertaken torture, indefinite detention without trial, extraordinary renditions, disappearances into CIA 'black sites,' warrantless wiretapping of American citizens, and an illegal and disastrous war in Iraq."

have compromised the most basic commitments of the rule of law

have actually impeded our efforts to bring known terrorists to trial, limited our long-term options for security, sparked anti-American resentment and terrorist recruitment, and undermined relations even with our closest allies

has garnered few terrorists and actually made us less safe

treat the rule of law as an asset

Tags: usa, terrorism, war

935 Lies, That Led A Nation To War

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:31:47 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Wow. This doesn't even count the deliberate lies since 2003. And how many people have died because of it? More than 935, is for damn sure.

Clip Source: blogs.usatoday.com

Study: Bush, others 'methodically propagated' false info before Iraq war

In a report that is sure to evoke passionate responses from supporters and opponents of the Iraq war, two nonprofit groups have concluded that President Bush and his top advisers made nearly a thousand false statements between 2001 and 2003.

President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials

made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Nearly five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, an exhaustive examination of the record shows that the statements were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion

The Associated Press says a White House spokesman wouldn't comment on these conclusions. "The actions taken in 2003 were based on the collective judgment of intelligence agencies around the world," spokesman Scott Stanzel tells the wire service.

Tags: neoconservatism, war, crimes, usa

George Carlin - We Like War

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:55:17 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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