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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
Warmonger Rationale
Post Date: 2006-12-13 08:50:35 by continental op
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"Essentially states are class-stratified political units that maintain a monopoly of deadly force 51; a monopoly institutionalized as permanent police and military forces," writes anthropologist Lawrence H. Keeley in his book, War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage. The state's "monopoly of deadly force" means that we hang a man who kills in order to steal a wallet but throw a parade for a leader who successfully kills 500,000 in order to steal the resources of another land. Whether it's for land, gold, diamonds or oil, there's nothing new about using state violence to rob others of their wealth. "Both nonstate social groups and ...
'Sock It to the Left!': The Rise of the Spite Right
Post Date: 2006-12-13 08:47:47 by continental op
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Of those not there, most who know of the incident probably do so from Jerome Tuccille's It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand. At the 1969 Young Americans for Freedom convention in St. Louis, one faction 51; the libertarians 51; opposed the U.S. government's orchestration of both the war in Vietnam and suppression here at home (including the nexus thereof: conscription). Their slogan: "Sock it to the State!" They were met (fiercely) by another faction 51; the "traditionalists" (with the actual tradition never identified) 51; who opposed that opposition. Their cry? "Sock it to the Left!" This political drama flashed in the warder of my brain when something ...
John LeBoutillier - The Iraq Crisis [G.W. Bush is arrogant, bullying, cocky, ignorant, and wrong-headed]
Post Date: 2006-12-10 15:36:10 by TLBSHOW
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4) The President's father, when he broke down on Monday at a ceremony for his son, Jeb, the outgoing governor of Florida, was actually releasing years of pent-up emotion about his oldest son's massive failure in Iraq. Bush 41 is no fool. He knows that his obstinate son has severely damaged America and American interests worldwide for years to come. (Not to mention the Bush brand is greatly devalued, too.) All this emotion came tumbling out. Yes, he loves his son, but he also knows what an embarrassment W has become. It repeats a life-long pattern: Given everything by Mom and Dad, the oldest son repeatedly screws up, but never pays a price for these mistakes. He fails up the ...
If Bush Lied About WMD, So Did These Democrats!
Post Date: 2006-12-08 22:19:12 by alwaysontheright
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Now that the bipartisan Iraq Study Group has issued it's report, there seems to a pandemic of "selective amnesia" among Democrats concerning the genesis of the Iraq war. As recounted in a previous column, when the question of using military force against Iraq was put before the U.S. Congress, 110 Democrats supported the 2002 Joint Resolution, which authorized President Bush to act as he ultimately did. Perri Nelson, writing about that earlier column, hit the nail on the head with the following comment: "So they're going to examine the faulty pre-war intelligence. I think that's a wonderful idea, provided they go back far enough. Maybe then we'll find ...
Illinois Terrorist Should Have Waited a Month
Post Date: 2006-12-08 18:50:04 by alwaysontheright
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Derrick Shareef, a Muslim, has got to be one of the most unfortunate terrorists running loose in America. Twenty-two year old Shareef, from Rockford, Ill., was taken into custody after a plot to blow up a Chicago shopping mall was thwarted by the FBI’s Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Force. Go here: Special-Agent-in-Charge Robert Grant said: “Once the threat Shareef posed was detected by the Joint Terrorism Task Force, his activities and movements were under constant surveillance and there was no imminent risk to the public.” Shareef appears to lack the high-technology sophistication and abundant funding that many Islamofascists are noted for. He also seems to lack ...
A Young Marine Speaks Out
Post Date: 2006-12-08 17:07:49 by A K A Stone
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A Young Marine Speaks Out by Philip Martin by Philip Martin DIGG THIS I'm sick and tired of this patriotic, nationalistic and fascist crap. I stood through a memorial service today for a young Marine that was killed in Iraq back in April. During this memorial a number of people spoke about the guy and about his sacrifice for the country. How do you justify 'sacrificing' your life for a war which is not only illegal, but is being prosecuted to the extent where the only thing keeping us there is one man's power, and his ego. A recent Marine Corps intelligence report that was leaked said that the war in the al-Anbar province is unwinnable. It said that there was nothing we ...
Surveilled Brits Reduced to the Sum of Their Profiled Parts?
Post Date: 2006-12-07 08:10:29 by A K A Stone
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The barrage of invasive police state measures of surveillance have, of course, been ongoing with the pace of technology. Yet, in the UK the eyes and ears piecing together a total 'electronic footprint' has accelerated furiously-- and with a frightening sense of inevitable entrapment. BRITS NOW STAND COMPLETELY SURROUNDED... The entire citizenry are now surrounded by nearly omnipresent surveillance by way of 4.2 million+ cameras in the streets of London, some of which now have microphones to eavesdrop on conversations and even speakers to shout back at individuals in an effort embarrass and correct behaviour. Not to mention a phasing in of face-scanning cameras and other monstrous ...
Big Box Swindle: The Fight to Reclaim America from Retail Giants
Post Date: 2006-12-07 07:49:26 by A K A Stone
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Big Box Swindle: The Fight to Reclaim America from Retail Giants By Stacy Mitchell, AlterNet Posted on December 7, 2006, Printed on December 7, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/45166/ [Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Stacy Mitchell's new book, Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses (Beacon Press, 2006).] To Beat Wal-Mart We Need to Shed Our Consumer Identity Citizens groups are waging a growing number of successful campaigns against big-box retailers. They are winning victories in places as far-flung as Damariscotta, Maine, a coastal village where two stay-at-home moms ignited an uprising this ...
Ten Reasons To Impeach The President
Post Date: 2006-12-06 10:55:32 by A K A Stone
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The act of writing up Articles of Impeachment is not difficult. You just write them on a piece of paper," -US Rep. McKinney (D-GA) Remember what Bill Clinton was impeached for when reading the following ten reasons why George W Bush should be impeached: North American Union, Amnesty program, Killing sovereignty The open plan to merge the US with Mexico and Canada and create a Pan American Union has long been a Globalist brainchild but its very real and prescient implementation on behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations has finally been reported on by mainstream news outlets. The framework on which the American Union is being pegged is the NAFTA Super Highway, a four ...
Bush Won't Change Course; It's His Failure
Post Date: 2006-12-04 23:35:01 by A K A Stone
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After a weekend when we lost another ten soldiers in Iraq, David Sanger’s analysis in today’s Times concludes that despite all the smoke signals and rhetoric from the White House lately, the truth is that Bush’s “Go Long” strategy will be in reality “stay the course.” Sanger states that putting more advisors and trainers into the country while taking other steps that should have been done years ago (redeploy to the borders, bases, and nearby countries; regional conferences; and direct talks with internal and external opponents) may all come too late. Bush’s stubbornness and refusal to admit he needed to change course means this war, these deaths, and ...
The End of the Bush Dynasty
Post Date: 2006-12-04 23:26:02 by A K A Stone
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The Bush family has been characterized in various ways including the Bush dynasty, crime family or syndicate. George Bush is just the latest in a line of unsavory characters but clearly the bad or worst seed and, in the eyes of most honest observers, the least worthy of an unworthy lot. He was supposed to be the latest in the Bush family line chosen to lay another golden egg for the dynasty but turned out instead to be an ugly duckling who's just been an embarrassment and much worse because of the course he chose and his rigid ideological obstinacy to change even in the face of failure. The Bush family considers itself among the special chosen ones if based only on its royal heritage. ...
Did George W. Bush Kill JFK?
Post Date: 2006-11-25 11:40:49 by Mudboy Slim
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This week marks the 43rd anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination by a pro-Castro Marxist moonbat in Dallas, Tex. Well, that’s if you believe little things like photographs, eyewitnesses, spousal testimony, ballistics, fingerprints, personal history, the suspect’s pattern of assassination attempts, motive, opportunity, and an incriminating flight complete with cop killing. For the rest of America, especially the tinfoil hat crowd, this week is the 43rd anniversary of JFK being killed by Castro, right-wing extremists opposed to Castro, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, the mafia, the Soviets, the Elks’ Lodge, magic bullets, the second gunman, the third ...
GOP strays from G-O-D
Post Date: 2006-11-24 22:28:57 by TLBSHOW
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GOP strays from G-O-D Moral decline brings election defeat By ROY MOORE Published on: 11/23/06 Much has been said and written about the losses suffered by the Republican Party in both houses of Congress in the recent election. While some place blame on President Bush's policy of "staying" the course in the war in Iraq, the real reason for the success of the Democratic Party is that many Republicans have "strayed from" the course of conservative Christian leadership exemplified by President Ronald Reagan. Reagan's adherence to conservative principles and moral virtue helped the Republican Party end nearly 40 years of Democratic control of Congress, but those ...
To Hell with Centrism: We Must Reclaim the Inspired Edge
Post Date: 2006-11-16 07:34:25 by A K A Stone
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"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act". --George Orwell "I don't want to be part of your revolution if I can't dance." --Emma Goldman Rumsfeld is gone. Mehlman is gone. Delay is gone. Yet -- let's not have our progressives' version of a strutting on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier moment. Because our mission has not been accomplished. For those who haven't noticed: While we were busy with other concerns, many of our rights and liberties went missing. Moreover, along with them, have went or are going fast: our planet's polar ice caps; accountability of the corporate sector (our nation's true power brokers); as well as, ...
Olbermann Links Domestic Terrorism to 'Right Wing Blogs,' Malkin, Ingraham, Coulter
Post Date: 2006-11-15 23:23:14 by TLBSHOW
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Olbermann Links Domestic Terrorism to 'Right Wing Blogs,' Malkin, Ingraham, Coulter Posted by Brad Wilmouth on November 15, 2006 - 01:33. On Tuesday's Countdown, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann devoted an entire segment (video available on Countdown Web site) to discussing links between a man arrested for domestic terrorism and "far right-wing blogs," describing the man as a "gushing online admirer" of conservative commentators Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, and Ann Coulter, as the Countdown host suggested conservatives had inspired the man to commit terrorism. Olbermann also compared past actions by Malkin (see Malkin's blog for details) to "the King Henry thing ...
Jim Webb's War
Post Date: 2006-11-15 11:20:34 by A K A Stone
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Senator Allen of Virginia attempted one of the oddest, clumsiest, and least effective political tactics in recent years — distributing excerpts from various books of his opponent, James Webb, that are replete with graphic sexual imagery and rude language. The books were novels. Voters, recognizing the passages as works of fiction, dismissed the allegations. Mr. Webb won and delivered the Senate to the Democrats. Mr. Allen focused on the wrong writings. Even as Mr. Webb trumpeted his most recent book, a 2004 work of nonfiction, "Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America," Mr. Webb's critics largely left the book untouched. While both David Brooks of the New York ...
EULA La Vista, Baby
Post Date: 2006-11-10 23:07:06 by A K A Stone
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There have been a lot of concerns about the end-user license agreement for Windows Vista. For instance, once you agree to the license you are not allowed to publish benchmark results without Microsoft's permission, and you can't install Vista on a virtual machine unless you shell out for the pricier version. Well, I've taken a good look at the license agreement -- I had insomnia -- and I've discovered some clauses that will freeze your blood, curl your hair, and do your nails. Windows Rules: You must agree that the operating system rules. It is suggested, but not required, that you also agree that it rocks. Similarly, you may not access or make use of any feature or application of the ...
Oh, the (Lack of) Humanity
Post Date: 2006-11-10 22:56:16 by A K A Stone
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Slipped a homeless guy a buck the other day. After he mumbled off down the street, my companion sniffed her disapproval: "It only encourages them, you know. And he'll just use it for drugs or alcohol." I had looked him squarely in his gimlet eye. I could smell his breath. Safe to say she was right. "Who the hell cares what he uses it for?" I said. "If it kills the pain for a few hours, I'm happy to help." The do-gooders call this "enabling" and in their simple, black-and-white world this can do the poor street addict nothing but harm. I'll agree it does him little good. But in the moment it took me to fish a dollar from my pocket, press it into his ...
Minuteman Party?? - FORM A NEW MINUTEMAN PARTY!! Who's on board to get this started?
Post Date: 2006-11-10 19:15:59 by TLBSHOW
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We have the image: Minuteman We have the issue: Illegal Alien invasion / borders are not enforced We have the passion: ALL Americans want border security We already have impassioned citizens across the country ready for a new party, ready for someone to do SOMETHING about this issue. Political parties cannot be drawn up on an ideological plan. They are created in resonse to an issue the current parties WON'T address, and due to parties who DON'T listen to their constituents. Parties are formed out of Frustration, Anger, and determination. We have ALL the ingredients, and more. All that is left to do is to FORM A NEW MINUTEMAN PARTY!! Who's on board to get this started? We may as ...
The Wreck of the War Party
Post Date: 2006-11-10 12:50:09 by A K A Stone
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The Wreck of the War Party Doug Bandow The wild, drunken neocon joyride is over. After running as the candidate of national restraint and humility, George W. Bush metamorphosed into a modern Alexander the Great, promising to bring civilization and democracy to both the known and unknown worlds. He mobilized popular support for war in Iraq by manipulating dubious intelligence and spinning idyllic fantasies. The Republicans increased their congressional majorities by demonizing their critics, suggesting that opposition equaled defeatism and treason. The results were GOP victories in 2002 and 2004. But like a classic Ponzi scheme, the Republican political scam eventually had to end. For a ...
Thanks for Nothing, G.W. Bush!
Post Date: 2006-11-08 10:46:47 by alwaysontheright
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As conservatives survey the battlefield of American politics the morning of November 8, it is not a pretty sight. The nation’s capitol has fallen into the hands of those who would rather switch than fight, except when it comes to big government, higher taxes, abortion, illegal immigration, and socialism. The man most responsible for the smoldering ruins of conservatism is President G.W. Bush. From the war in Iraq to his complete abandonment of Republican principles on all issues except lower taxes, G.W. Bush has been a complete disaster for the conservative movement. Of all of Bush’s wrongheaded notions, his foolish policy on border security and illegal immigration has been ...
Is This the Best America Can Do?
Post Date: 2006-11-07 01:47:40 by alwaysontheright
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John W. Lillpop No personal offense intended, but would you really turn American homeland security over to this woman? Would you trust her to prevent another 9/11? Would you trust her for anything but a referral to a cheap plastic surgeon? Think before you vote!
Your Final Predictions For Election Day Results who wins the house and senate tuesday?
Post Date: 2006-11-05 16:20:15 by TLBSHOW
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ok folks show your stuff here flamers
we are winning
Post Date: 2006-11-04 12:35:55 by TLBSHOW
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On Sept. 11, 2001, we, the people of the United States, were attacked on our own soil. Nearly 3,000 fellow Americans were murdered on our own land. Three hundred forty- three police and firefighters were killed doing their job, trying to save others. This was the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil in the history of our nation. Have we forgotten the U.S. Marines killed in Beirut, the airmen killed in the Khobar Towers attack in Saudi Arabia, the sailors in the USS Cole, and all the others in the Pentagon, Pennsylvania and the World Trade Centers? We did not start this war - terrorists did. But since Sept. 11 we have taken the fight to the enemy, on their home turf. We have lost 2,800 ...
Erik Rush - If I were Al-Qaeda, I'd strike now
Post Date: 2006-11-04 12:19:18 by TLBSHOW
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Once again, credit where credit is due: This column is the result of a conversation with a friend with whom I often discuss geopolitics — and an exceptionally creepy waking experience I had. This may be one of the weirdest pieces I've written; let's just hope for our sakes that weird is all it is. Ever wake up with a popular song in your head? Maybe you heard it the night before, or went to sleep with the television on, or it was playing on the clock radio that woke you on a given morning? Well, I can't recall any of the above, but I awoke this morning with the following verse in my head: "If you're going to San-fran-cisco, Be sure to wear some radiation gear..." Like I ...
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