Posted on May 18, 2008 by Mike Booth
In a week in which it comes to light that President George W. Bush revealed that God told him to invade Iraq–with all that implies–and former Repulican presidential candidate–and pretender to the vice-presidential slot along with John McCain–Mike Huckabee made a supposedly jocular comment in the middle of a speech to the American Rifle Association [...]
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Posted on May 16, 2008 by Mike Booth
Last March 13-16 some 250 American veterans of the Iraq and Afghan occupations gathered at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, MD for the “Winter Soldier – Iraq and Afghanistan” conference, a replica of a similar event which took place in Detroit in 1971, during the Vietnam War. This recent weekend was devoted to [...]
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Posted on May 14, 2008 by Mike Booth
Asia Times Online published an article on May 10, 2008 entitled “An oil-addicted ex-superpower.” The American author, Michael T. Klare, Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies, makes a chillingly convincing case for the fact that the United States’ massive borrowing to pay for its oil habit has already cost them their [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2008 by Mike Booth
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by Mike Booth
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by Mike Booth
In case you were wondering, here’s how to produce a thoroughly disoriented citizen:
Tell him he’s superior to people from other countries.
Put a gun in his hand.
Flag-wave him to death.
Repeat more, louder lies.
Distract him with hard-core consumption.
Make money his measure of all things.
Make false promises.
Bribe him.
Frighten him.
Isolate him.
Banalize him.
Send his children to war.
Re-engineer the electoral process [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2008 by Mike Booth
Right.
This from today’s Guardian.
These guys are so predictable. I’m constantly reminded of the old saw: “Military intelligence is to intelligence as military music is to music.”
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Posted on April 21, 2008 by Mike Booth
I’m Aghast But Not Surprised
In a bombshell article published yesterday in the NY Times, entitled “Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand,” investigative journalist David Barstow reveals a continuing Pentagon psychological operations (PSYOP) maneuver to disinform the American public through the manipulation of retired senior military [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Mike Booth
Just ran across this fascinating article by Christopher King on the Al Jazeera website. I was impressed not so much by the premise, which is familiar, as by the numbers, which are bruising. If you have ever asked yourself: “When will this American madness end?” you’ll be smitten by this article.
But before [...]
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Posted on April 13, 2008 by Mike Booth
On April 4 I published on this blog a brief article reviewing a couple of events of the Hay Festival Alhambra program in Granada. In it I mentioned the participation of Muslim intellectual and spokesman, Tariq Ramadan, who gave what seemed to me a cogent and reasonable talk on the subject of European [...]
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Are Our Blogs Being Monitored and Manipulated?
On April 4 I published on this blog a brief article reviewing a couple of events of the Hay Festival Alhambra program in Granada. In it I mentioned the participation of Muslim intellectual and spokesman, Tariq Ramadan, who gave what seemed to me a cogent and reasonable talk on the subject of European [...]
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