Keith Olbermann interviews Jonathan Turley on London mayor Boris Johnson’s warning that if Bush comes to Europe to flog his ‘memoirs’, he might be arrested. Johnson, a Tory (conservative), wrote in the Daily Telegraph last week, ‘ It is not yet clear whether George W Bush is planning to cross the Atlantic to flog us […]
Archives for November 2010
“Don’t Touch My Junk”: The Rap Video
Mike Adams at NaturalNews.com has a rap video on the intrusiveness of the new TSA inspections at airports. It is based on the protest of passenger John Tyner’s protest of being searched up his inner thigh. This text will be replaced by the player
Southern Afghans Have Never Heard of 9/11
An opinion survey carried out in Helmand and Kandahar provinces showed that 92% of the Afghan respondents (1000 men) had never heard of 9/11. Most Americans are ambivalent about the Afghanistan War precisely because it is hard to dismiss the argument that the September 11 attacks were planned out there in some of 40 terrorist […]
Juppe: Afghanistan a ‘Trap’; NATO stuck There Past 2014
At the NATO summit in Lisbon, it is expected to be announced that although 2014 is the target date by which NATO and US troops would withdraw, in fact a NATO contingent will be in the country thereafter in some capacity. Although this prospect is said to mollify Afghan elites around Karzai who fear being […]
Jon Stewart on the Rachel Maddow Show
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Cleopatra: A Power to be Reckoned With
This article about Cleopatra in the Smithsonian Magazine questions the image of her in subsequent Western literature as a mere seductress. The author argues that she was a canny and powerful monarch, a savvy street fighter, and a great queen in her own right, who presided over one of the more prosperous and powerful countries […]
Bush-Cheney Use of Torture Derails Ghailani Prosecution
This is how George W. Bush and Dick Cheney got Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, suspected of involvement in the bombing of two US embassies in East Africa in 1998, off hundreds of murder charges: They had him tortured. Ghailani was convicted Wednesday of conspiracy to damage US government property, for which he could well face life […]
Afvietnam
Los Angeles Times, November 17, 2010: “As NATO leaders meet in Lisbon this weekend, the U.S. is expected to endorse a plan for slow withdrawal and gradually handing over security responsibility by 2014.“: “At a summit in Lisbon this weekend, Obama and other NATO leaders will endorse a plan to gradually turn combat responsibility over […]
Allawi Predicts new Iraqi Government will Fall Quickly
Iyad Allawi in London is throwing cold water on the idea that a stable Iraqi government is now being formed. According to Reuters he is saying that the original power-sharing formula (presumably the one worked out with the Americans Nov. 6) has collapsed and is “dead.” He told Reuters, “The formula for power sharing has […]
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