Israel’s Iranian Solution: “Iran’s citizens should be starved” Israeli Officials Say

by Scott Creighton Just ahead of the Parliamentary Elections in Iran, Israel is once again stepping up their terrorist rhetoric in order to send another frightening message to the people of that sovereign nation. Israeli officials have openly called for a starvation campaign against the civilian population of Iran in order to stop them from [...]

Tearing Down the Walls in Baghdad While BiBi Gets Bitch-slapped

by Scott Creighton You gotta love it All across the world people are saying no more. In Baghdad, they are tearing down those concrete walls that you and I paid to have installed to keep the people of Iraq from the neoliberal ”Green Zone” which OCCUPIES their capital. McDonald’s and Burger King thrive in the relative calm [...]

Fresh protests hit Iraqi cities

Reports of deaths as thousands turn out to demand better service delivery and jobs from government. from Al Jazeera English Violent protests have taken place at various locations in Iraq, with anti-government protesters rallying against corruption, poor basic services and high unemployment. In Basra, the country’s second largest city, about 1,000 people rallied on Friday, [...]

Iraqi defector ‘Curveball’ admits to WMD lies that led to war

(So everyone admits it was all a lie now. Rumsfeld admits it, curveball admits it… everyone but Fox News and 99% of it’s audience.) from Raw Story An Iraqi defector, codenamed Curveball, who allegedly helped convince the Bush administration that Saddam Hussein had a secret stash of biological and chemical weapons, has admitted for the [...]

Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich

by Chris Hedges, Truthdig … The moratorium on anti-war protests in 2004 was designed to help elect the Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry. It was a foolish and humiliating concession. Kerry snapped to salute like a windup doll when he was nominated. He talked endlessly about victory in Iraq. He assured the country that [...]

Understanding the Global Free Market Wars: The IMF and Iraq

Next Stage Of US Occupation – Economic Colonization of Iraq Led By The IMF Half a Million Displaced Iraqis Face Grim Future In Squalid Squatter Camps  and it will get worse.

The Picture

by David Glenn Cox, Open Salon I want you to look very closely at this picture and try and keep it in your minds eye. This was a perfectly healthy twenty two-year-old young man who in the service of his country got half of his head blown off. I think that’s important, I think that’s [...]

Our Special Brand of “Democracy” in Iraq

by Scott Creighton 499 potential candidates have been striken from the ballots for the upcoming March 7th ”elections” in Iraq. Why? Because they were alledged to have ties to the now defunct and illegal Baath Party. You see, the Baath Party was primarily a socialist political organization and having them around in positions of power wouldn’t be helpful [...]

The Eight Year Plan: Part 1

by Scott Creighton( reposted from June 19th 2008) I would like you to think about this objectively; not as an American or a Republican or a veteran. Just look at the sequence of events over the past 7 1/2 years, the full term of the Bush Administration, as one would review any long term business model performance [...]

9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Georgia, Iran, and Pakistan; The Vulcan’s Path to The Caspian Sea Basin

by Scott Creighton (reposted from Aug. 10th 2008) One of the first things this administration did was meet with Dick Cheney’s Energy Task Force in early 2001. Those meetings were kept secret and they have refused to disclose who was actually there, and what was discussed. We all know that. “The Washington Post reported on November [...]

Biden warns of ‘hard road ahead’ as he visits Iraq (… as Iraqi civilians burn U.S. Flags)

by A. MacMillan, Yahoo News Vice President Joe Biden on Friday warned Iraqi officials that Washington would politically disengage if sectarian and ethnic strife resumed as he warned of a “hard road ahead”. “The president (Barack Obama) and I appreciate that Iraq has traveled a great distance over the past year but there is a [...]

Colbert’s Iraq War Propaganda

by Scott Creighton It’s a “happy,happy, joy,joy” war for Stephen Colbert now that Obama’s in charge. This week he is staging his show in Iraq; entertaining the troops and generally making them feel better about a bad situation. Gotta give him credit for that. But unfortunately, that isn’t why he’s doing it. Team DLC Obama™ [...]

Hold Your Applause

by Chris Hedges, Truthdig Did they play Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world in the prison corridors of Abu Ghraib, Bagram air base, Guantanamo or the dozens of secret sites where we hold thousands of Muslims around the world? Did it echo off the walls of the crowded morgues filled with the mutilated bodies [...]

Jeremy Scahill: “Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama”

(Go watch the video of the Democracy Now interview, here. It’s very good stuff…) “Jeremy Scahill reports the Obama administration is continuing to use a notorious military police unit at Guantanamo that regularly brutalizes unarmed prisoners, including gang-beating them, breaking their bones, gouging their eyes and dousing them with chemicals. This force, officially known as [...]

Hillary Clinton Says that the Recent Bombings in Iraq, Killing of Hundreds of Civilians, Shows that Iraq is “going in the right direction…”

by Scott Creighton “Since the economic policy was extremely unpopular among the most numerous of the population, it had to be implemented by force.”  Archdiocese of San Paulo There was a time when at least half of our government was sane. I can remember it. Kinda. In the wake of a 148 dead Iraqi civilians [...]