[political-research] Fixed: Ellsberg - A Coup Has Occurred - non-ASCII characters replaced

2007-09-27 Thread Mark S Bilk
I've replaced the non-ASCII punctuation characters with their ASCII equivalents. -- Mark http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/092607a.html http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2007/092607a.html 'A Coup Has Occurred' By Daniel Ellsberg September 26, 2007 (Text of a speech delivered September 20,

[political-research] Saddam Offered Exile, But Neo-Cons Unleashed Carnage Anyway

2007-09-27 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Saddam Offered Exile, But Neo-Cons Unleashed Carnage Anyway via infowarsnews at Yahoo! Groups by Paul Joseph Watson on 9/27/07 Saddam Offered Exile, But Neo-Cons Unleashed Carnage Anyway What could have been saved? A trillion dollars, a million

[political-research] Newsweek Senior Editor Says 'Israeli Lobby' Is Shaping U.S. Policy Toward Iran

2007-09-27 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Newsweek Senior Editor Says 'Israeli Lobby' Is Shaping U.S. Policy Toward Iran via Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss on 9/27/07 The greatest achievement so far of Walt Mearsheimer is that they have knocked down a wall in the American discourse: They have

[political-research] Did Bollinger Disgrace Himself in Genuflecting to Lobby?

2007-09-27 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Did Bollinger Disgrace Himself in Genuflecting to Lobby? via Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss on 9/27/07 A number of thoughtful people were shocked by the lengthy hazing Columbia President Lee Bollinger administered to Iran's Ahmadinejad Monday in

[political-research] Saddam Offered Exile, But Neo-Cons Unleashed Carnage Anyway

2007-09-27 Thread bad flash
Hi, anyone can confirm this: Saddam Offered Exile, But Neo-Cons Unleashed Carnage Anyway http://webabuser.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/saddam-offered-exile-but-neo-cons-unleashed-carnage-anyway/ Filed under: 1 http://wordpress.com/tag/1/ --- webabuser @ 3:28 pm Edit This

Re: [political-research] Saddam Offered Exile, But Neo-Cons Unleashed Carnage Anyway

2007-09-27 Thread Sean McBride
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=484162 The story originates from the Daily Mail, and looks legit. bad flash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, anyone can confirm this: Saddam Offered Exile, But Neo-Cons Unleashed Carnage Anyway Filed

[political-research] The fake war on terror

2007-09-27 Thread Sean McBride
[The neocon Global War on Terror is the biggest political fraud and hoax ever to come down the pike.] Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: The fake war on terror via Robert Dreyfuss by Robert Dreyfuss on 9/27/07 Not only haven't there been any acts of terrorism by Muslims in the United

[political-research] More Money Down the Iraq Drain

2007-09-27 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: More Money Down the Iraq Drain (Robert Scheer) via Yahoo! News: Opinion on 9/26/07 Robert Scheer - In for a penny, in for a pound. What the heck -- the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have already soaked up $808 billion, so why quarrel about the Bush

[political-research] An old Zionist dream: the partition of Iraq

2007-09-27 Thread bad flash
*An old Zionist dream: the partition of Iraq* /Gabriele Zamparini, The Cat's Dream/ Finally the Imperial Senate calls for Iraq's partition. / US lawmakers voted Wednesday to split Iraq into a loose federation of sectarian-based regions and urged President George W Bush to press Iraqi leaders

[political-research] The Morgenthau Plan for Germany and the Partitioning of Iraq

2007-09-27 Thread Sean McBride
Check out the Wikipedia entry for the Morgenthau Plan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_plan Sound familiar? Leslie Gelb, the former CFR head and ardent neoconservative, has been one of the key ringleaders of the plan to partition Iraq into three entities. Gelb just wrote an

[political-research] CFR's Hart Suggests False Flag Event For Iran War

2007-09-27 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: CFR's Hart Suggests False Flag Event For Iran War via infowarsnews at Yahoo! Groups by Paul Joseph Watson on 9/27/07 CFR's Hart Suggests False Flag Event For Iran War Tacit warning to Iranian government suggests staged event may be used to ensure

[political-research] Sheldon Drobny: 9/11 pinned on Bin Laden because he is Disney cartoon villain

2007-09-27 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Sheldon Drobny at HuffPo: 9/11 pinned on Bin Laden because he is Disney cartoon villain via 911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related Alternative News by simuvac on 9/27/07 This is the third blog from Sheldon Drobny at Huffington Post

Re: [political-research] Saddam Offered Exile, But Neo-Cons Unleashed Carnage Anyway

2007-09-27 Thread Vigilius Haufniensis
yep, that nearly clinches it. the was wasnt about oil. it was about using the neocons obssessions with israel to prop up the us dollar as world reserve currency. - Original Message - From: Sean McBride To: political-research@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 27,

[political-research] David Bromwich: Hillary Clinton Votes for War Again (HuffingtonPost)

2007-09-27 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: David Bromwich: Hillary Clinton Votes for War Again (HuffingtonPost) via Yahoo! News Search Results for neocon OR neocons OR neoconservative OR neoconservatives OR neoconservatism on 9/27/07 Yesterday she voted to bring the country a serious step

Re: [political-research] Saddam Offered Exile, But Neo-Cons Unleashed Carnage Anyway

2007-09-27 Thread Sean McBride
Martin van Creveld in the Forward, 9/24/2007: Israel, which Ahmadinejad regards as his country’s great enemy, has just carried out what seems to be a very successful strike against an important Syrian installation. And behind Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stands President Bush — the same

[political-research] Robert A. Pape

2007-09-27 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Robert A. Pape via Antiwar.com Blog by Charles Goyette on 9/27/07 Download audio file (2007-09-24robertpape.mp3) Robert A. Pape, professor of political science at the University of Chicago and author of the study Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic

Re: [political-research] Re: Mark Urban on Mideast Politics

2007-09-27 Thread Sean McBride
Instead of wandering off in a vague essay about antisemitism -- a standard tactic in the neocon arsenal: cite The Protocols of the Elders of Zion -- you should ascertain whether or not the neoconservative movement is indeed largely self-financed by Zionist billionaires like Sheldon Adelson,

Re: [political-research] Saddam Offered Exile, But Neo-Cons Unleashed Carnage Anyway

2007-09-27 Thread Sean McBride
You keep looking for rational reasons behind the Iraq War and the behavior of the neoconservatives when the primary reasons are irrational, emotional and messianic. The neocons want to crush, inflict pain on, plunder and destroy all the enemies of their Old Testament ethnic and genocidal cult

[political-research] Re: Mark Urban on Mideast Politics

2007-09-27 Thread LeaNder
Mark Urban has always been a crisp, clear thinker, with his feet on the ground. Why he has continued to hang out in a venue which is hostile to crisp, clear thinking and groundedness in reality and empirical data is a mystery. To be quite honest after reading your list for a while, I did

Re: [political-research] Saddam Offered Exile, But Neo-Cons Unleashed Carnage Anyway

2007-09-27 Thread Vigilius Haufniensis
money and power are much more persuasive as motives than irrational cultism. these are globalized organize crime groups. - Original Message - From: Sean McBride To: political-research@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 7:12 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [political-research] Saddam Offered Exile, But Neo-Cons Unleashed Carnage Anyway

2007-09-27 Thread Vigilius Haufniensis
sean, for all your emphasis on empiricism and evidence, here you break down and refer to irrational messianism as a motive, over power and money. i just dont buy into that. - Original Message - From: Sean McBride To: political-research@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday,

Re: [political-research] Saddam Offered Exile, But Neo-Cons Unleashed Carnage Anyway

2007-09-27 Thread Sean McBride
False dichotomy -- rational and irrational factors are entangled in complex ways in human behavior. Nonrational factors, including ethnic nationalism and religious cultism, have played an enormously important role in human history and continue to do so. Rational predatory tools in the quest