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  Who's Sordid Now?
September 30, 2003
  Cronyism is an important factor in our Iraqi debacle. It's not just that reconstruction is much more expensive than it should be. The really important thing is that cronyism is warping policy: by treating contracts as prizes to be handed to their friends, administration officials are delaying Iraq's recovery, with potentially catastrophic consequences.
 
   
 
  Kennedy Lashes Out on Iraq by Carl Hulse
September 27, 2003
  On the Senate floor, he said, "The tragedy is that our troops are paying with their lives because the administration failed to prepare a plan to win the peace."     New York Times
 
   
 
  Bunker Busters: A Whole New Nuclear Ballgame Greenpeace.org
September 23, 2003
  On September 16, Bush got his way when the US Senate voted to allow research into smaller nuclear weapons that could be used in battlefield situations. The so-called "bunker buster" mini-nukes would, in theory, be used to destroy command and control bunkers buried deep underground.
 
   
 
  The Most Important Book Since 9/11 by Anthony Gregory
September 16, 2003
  Anyone interested in the War on Terrorism must read James Bovard's newest book:
Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil.
 
   
 
  Bush Would Use Mini-nukes, Prof Warns by Dave Zweifel
September 16, 2003
  Is George Bush the most dangerous president in U.S. history?
If you ask Professor John Swomley, he is.
Swomley, who teaches Christian ethics at the St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, has authored an indictment of the Bush administration's foreign policy that includes actual plans to use nuclear bombs as pre-emptive weapons.
 
   
 
  The Usable Nuke Strikes Back  
by Brice Smith
September 14, 2003
  Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Science For Democratic Action Vol 14
This excellent explains the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) which is one of
the fundamental documents behind US Nuclear Policy today.
The Bad Old Days covers the evolution of US Nuclear Policy from 1945 on.
 
   
 
  A Modern Fairy Tale
September 12, 2003

Someone asked me why I didn’t write anything yesterday mentioning September 11. I’ll be perfectly honest- I had forgotten about it until around 2 pm.
I woke up to no electricity, washed up and went into the kitchen to help out with breakfast.

   
   
  THIS WAR ON TERRORISM IS BOGUS by Michael Meacher
September 6, 2003
  The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination.
Massive attention has now been given - and rightly so - to the reasons why Britain went to war against Iraq. But far too little attention has focused on why the US went to war, and that throws light on British motives too.
 
   
 
  Comment by Larry Ross
August 28, 2003
  US Launching New-Look Military Strike Force by Tony Perry
August 22, 2003
  In another sign of what military officials call the "transformation" of the U.S. military, seven Navy ships are set to depart today for the western Pacific carrying 2,200 combat Marines, more than 100 Tomahawk missiles and a squadron of helicopters and vertical-lift Harrier attack planes.
 
   
 
  Edwards AFB-NASA/DOD/Weapons Tests, Flight Tests, Missile Defense
August 27, 2003
  "I know that your Keep Space for Peace Week event will be just as beautiful as in past times."
ALERT:http://www.edwards.af.mil/oh_2003 where EAFB will display war aircraft and weapons Oct 25 weekend
 
   
 
  US abandoning 'defence posture' -- Richard Butler ABC News
August 26, 2003
  Newly-appointed Tasmanian governor and former weapons inspector Richard Butler says the US administration believes it can operate outside the rules when it comes to weapons of mass destruction because it is the world's only superpower.
 
   
 
  Comment by Larry Ross
August 22, 2003
  Armageddon by Morgan Strong
October 19, 2002
  Despite what is unfolding before us, the majority of this country's honest, freedom-loving people seem ever less interested in knowing, and ever more inclined toward believing that what we're being shown and what we're being told and what is being carried out in our name, is truth.
I'd rather know than believe. Five words, penned by a paragon of thought, they have stayed in my memory and my own humble thoughts since I first encountered them several years ago. For me, the words leapt from the pages of Carl Sagan's masterpiece of reason entitled, The Demon Haunted World.
 
   
 
  Uncurious George by Dom Stasi
August 14, 2003
  Despite what is unfolding before us, the majority of this country's honest, freedom-loving people seem ever less interested in knowing, and ever more inclined toward believing that what we're being shown and what we're being told and what is being carried out in our name, is truth.
I'd rather know than believe. Five words, penned by a paragon of thought, they have stayed in my memory and my own humble thoughts since I first encountered them several years ago. For me, the words leapt from the pages of Carl Sagan's masterpiece of reason entitled, The Demon Haunted World.
 
   
 
  New US Plans Blur the Nuclear Boundaries  by Reuven Pedatzur
August 13, 2003
  ....it seems that the satirical figure of Strangelove, trying to pressure the American president into using nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union, is the model for the policymakers around George Bush.
 
   
 
  Sleepwalking To Extinction    by George Monbiot
August 11, 2003
  Comment by Larry Ross
  Something about the human mind appears to prevent us from grasping the reality of climate change.
We live in a dreamworld. With a small, rational part of the brain, we recognise that our existence is governed by material realities, and that, as those realities change, so will our lives.
 
   
 
  The Silent Genocide from America by Mohammed Daud Miraki
August 11, 2003
  All they don't tell you about D.U. Weapons
  When Bush jr. said, "we will smoke them out…" he lived up to his promise, making life an unattainable reality for the unborn and unsustainable reality for the living sentencing the Afghan people and
their future generations to a predetermined death sentence.
 
   
 
  Comment by Larry Ross
August 11, 2003
  America is a Religion
by George Monbiot
  US leaders now see themselves as priests, with a divine mission to rid the world of its demons.
 
   
 
  Congressional Report: No 9/11-Iraq Link
by William M. Arkin
July 24, 2003
  ...Once it was determined that the inquiry would be made public they fought very hard to keep huge portions of it classified. In fact, even now, huge portions remain extremely secret.
http://www.warblogging.com/
 
   
 
  PENTAGON PLANNING TO WIN NUCLEAR WAR
by William M. Arkin
July 6, 2003
   A New Nuclear Age; Planners design technology to withstand the apocalypse!
SOUTH POMFRET, Vt. - The Pentagon's Nuclear Posture Review, approved by President Bush in January 2002, outlined steps the U.S. should take to ensure its future ability to "defeat any aggressor." Included was a mandate for an "assured, survivable and enduring" communications network, one that would remain functional even after a full-scale nuclear attack.
 
   
 

  US-Based Missiles to Have Global Reach
by Julian Borger
July 2, 2003
  Allies to become less important as new generation of weapons enables America to strike anywhere from its own territory.
The Pentagon is planning a new generation of weapons, including huge hypersonic drones and bombs dropped from space, that will allow the US to strike its enemies at lightning speed from its own territory.
 
   
 
  US-based missiles to cover world
by Julian Borger
July 1, 2003
  America to build super weapons.
The Pentagon is planning a new generation of weapons, including huge   hypersonic drones and bombs dropped from space, that will allow the    US to strike its enemies at lightning speed from its own territory.     The Guardian
 
   
 

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