Category: America

Old herrings

An attack on Tehran would be madness. So don’t rule it out By Robert Fisk, Saturday 04 February 2012 … If Israel really attacks Iran this year, it – and the Americans – will be more dotty than their enemies think. True, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a crackpot, but then so is Avigdor Lieberman, who is …

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Years of mendacity and deceit

Still Britain rattles sabres. Nothing has been learned from Afghanistan By Simon Jenkins, Thursday 2 February 2012 16.00 EST … The Afghan war, the longest in US history, is “scheduled to end” a year early, according to the Pentagon. Wars these days run to electoral timetables. The endgame is couched not as victory, let alone …

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1% nation under God

Why Mitt Romney is ‘not concerned’ about the poor By Amy Goodman, Thursday 2 February 2012 12.53 EST … Although Mitt Romney has yet to win a majority in a Republican primary, he won big in Florida. After he and the pro-Romney Super Pacs flooded the airwaves with millions of dollars’ worth of ads in …

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Intimately backed

Afghanistan: the big lie Guardian editorial, Wednesday 1 February 2012 18.04 EST … Joseph Goebbels said that if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The big lie told repeatedly about the war in Afghanistan is that the international security assistance force (Isaf) and the …

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A movement I love and respect

What the Occupy movement must learn from Sundance By Naomi Wolf, Tuesday 31 January 2012 13.47 EST … So, late last year, I said – to some controversy here – that the violent crackdown against the Occupy movement in the United States represented the first salvos of a civil war initiated by political and allied …

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If we killed them, they must be terrorists

With its deadly drones, the US is fighting a coward’s war By George Monbiot, Monday 30 January 2012 16.00 EST … The ancient Greeks, unlike the Jews or the Christians, invested their gods with human failings. Divine judgment, they believed, was neither flawless nor dispassionate; it was warped by lust, vengeance and self-interest. In the …

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Well, it’s just great to be here!

Mitt Romney: the man behind the perma-smile By Ed Pilkington, Monday 30 January 2012 15.00 EST … “Well, it’s just great to be here!” Mitt Romney says as he bounds on to the stage at a campaign stop in January, just one of hundreds he has made in his epic journey – he hopes – …

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