Putting Out The Call!
Archive for September, 2009
The Lying Game
Sep 30th
By John Pilger
In 2001, the Observer in London published a series of reports that claimed an Iraqi connection to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being manufactured as a weapon of mass destruction. It was all false. Supplied by US intelligence and Iraqi exiles, planted stories in the British and US media helped George Bush and Tony Blair to launch an illegal invasion which caused, according to the most recent study, 1.3 million deaths.
Something similar is happening over Iran: the same syncopation of government and media revelations, the same manufacture of a sense of crisis. Showdown looms with Iran over secret nuclear plant, declared the Guardian on 26 September. Showdown is the theme. High noon. The clock ticking. Good versus evil. Add a smooth new US president who has put paid to the Bush years. An immediate echo is the notorious Guardian front page of 22 May 2007: Iran’s secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq. Based on unsubstantiated claims by the Pentagon, the writer Simon Tisdall presented as fact an Iranian plan to wage war on, and defeat, US forces in Iraq by September of that year a demonstrable falsehood for which there has been no retraction.
The Corporate Takeover Is Nigh!!!
Sep 17th
NEW CHANNEL:
http://www.youtube.com/THEPUNKPATRIOT
ACTION LINK:
http://dontgetrolled.org
LYING CORPORATE CRONIES:
http://www.citizensunited.org/
Let It Burn
Sep 6th
That seems to be the attitude of California officials.
Putting out massive wildfires is child’s play – if you
use the right technology.
The technology exists.
Why aren’t they using it?
Winners Lose
Sep 4th
War commands debate on its own terms
By ROBERT C. KOEHLER
September 3, 2009 “Tribune Media Services” — The situation in Afghanistan is serious. We’re getting out-governed by an enemy so ruthless it’s bringing services to a desperate people ignored by the legitimate government we installed.
But our eight-year quagmire . . . excuse me, war . . . can still be won, says Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in that country, who recently completed a review of the situation: Success, he commented, is achievable and demands a revised implementation strategy, commitment and resolve, and increased unity of effort.?
Before I salute crisply and shout “yes, sir!” I’d like to quote from an essay by Robert E. Draper called “Keys to Real Success , Going Beyond Winning and Losing in Business With a Positive Attitude.” I’m stuck, see, on the concept of “winning” this war, because human intelligence has mostly moved beyond this concept in every area of life except international relations, which remains a multi-trillion-dollar global bastion of Bronze Age thinking.
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