The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Saturday, April 01, 2006

News for 04-01-06

04-01-06 - US deserter 'shocked by abuses' A US soldier who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Iraq says he was shocked by alleged atrocities committed by the American military.


04-01-06 - Rice admits multiple Iraq errors the use of force "is not what is on the agenda now" in the stand-off over Iran's nuclear programme - adding that President Bush "never takes any option off the table"


04-01-06 - Lieberman To Join GOP? Lieberman fits the very definition of a neocon. Naturally he supported the war in Iraq.


04-01-06 - Bush Pledges More Mayhem in the Middle East Although this American commitment to fight spans the world, the case of Israel is worth attention because it is so long-standing, explicit, and consequential. Why have American politicians ignored George Washington?s sound advice against close alliance with other states? Does no one read the Farewell Address anymore?


04-01-06 - Iranian militiamen were brought in by Britain


04-01-06 - Bolton Really Is Bonkers Contrary to Bonkers Bolton, the Iranian dossier makes it clear that the IAEA has never uncovered any evidence whatsoever that Iran is now pursuing or has ever pursued a nuclear weapons program.


04-01-06 - Jill Carroll forced to make propaganda video as price of freedom


04-01-06 - Lobby scandal closer to ex Republican leader DeLay A corruption probe in the US Congress entered a new phase with the confessions of Tony Rudy, close to former Republican House leader Tom DeLay and ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.


04-01-06 - Pipes calls war a success I have been called a neoconservative. I don't exactly know how a neoconservative differs from a conservative. I do. The definition can be found here. Simply put, it's the primary allegiance to a nation other than this one, that makes one a neocon.


04-01-06 - J'lem protests equation of Hamas, Israel The protest to Lavrov's comments come against the background of Israeli-Russian tensions stemming both from what Israel considers Russia's tepid position regarding the Iranian nuclear issue and because - along with Turkey - Russia was among the first countries to invite a Hamas delegation to visit following the Palestinian Legislative Council elections.


04-01-06 - No Conflict Between Islam and Democracy, Rice Says SECRETARY RICE: Well, I certainly think that you hear a passion about a number of issues that I think is very important. You hear passion about the plight of the Palestinians and I think everybody recognizes that these are people who live in extraordinarily difficult circumstances and where the President has said that the only answer to stability in the region for both Israel and the Palestinian people is to have a Palestinian state.


04-01-06 - Charlie Sheen Reinvigorates 9/11 Truth Movement


04-01-06 - Keeping It Quiet: The Israel Lobby's Crushing of Dissent So far as I've been able to determine with the help of Google, while the paper and talk about it are all over the Internet, they are missing from the big corporate press as of this writing Which is again, another point of the study itself - the acquiescence of the mainstream American media to the whims of the Israeli lobby.


04-01-06 - Editor hits back over Israel row ..'But when I re-read the piece, I did not see anything that I felt should not have been said. Maybe it is because I am Jewish, but I think I am very alert to anti-Semitism. And I do not think that criticising US foreign policy, or Israel's way of going about influencing it, is anti-Semitic. I just don't see it.' Accusing the LRB of anti-Semitism only proves one of the points of the study. The knee-jerk responses by members of the pro-Israeli community are like clockwork, they are that predictable.

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