The Guerrilla Campaign

Jafarzadeh and the Downing Street Dossier Redux by Kurt nimmo Global Research, January 30, 2007 kurtnimmo.com http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=NIM20070130&articleId=4637 Is it possible we are stupid enough to fall for it again? "US officials in Baghdad and Washington are expected to unveil a secret intelligence 'dossier' this week detailing evidence of Iran's alleged complicity in attacks on American troops in Iraq. The move, uncomfortably echoing Downing Street's dossier debacle in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, is one more sign that the Bush administration is building a case for war," reports the Guardian. Not to worry, declares Nicholas Burns, the senior diplomat in charge of Iran policy and, hardly coincidentally, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Order of St. John, the latter run by the ruling houses of Europe, headed until his death by the former SS official, Prince Bernhard of the Netherla...

"My thought was nepotism," Fleischer said . "Somebody got a job because of a family member's position." Fascinating, isn’t it? I guess little ari didn’t notice all the bush administration’s kids working for the government. powell’s kid, cheney’s kid, scalia’s kid, etc.

The Reality Behind Iran War Rhetoric Written by Chris Floyd Monday, 29 January 2007 http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1011&Itemid=135 Nuclear plans in chaos as Iran leader flounders ( Observer ) Excerpts: Iran's efforts to produce highly enriched uranium, the material used to make nuclear bombs, are in chaos and the country is still years from mastering the required technology. Iran's uranium enrichment programme has been plagued by constant technical problems, lack of access to outside technology and knowhow, and a failure to master the complex production-engineering processes involved. The country denies developing weapons, saying its pursuit of uranium enrichment is for energy purposes. Despite Iran being presented as an urgent threat to nuclear non-proliferation and regional and world peace - in particular by an increasingly bellicose Israel and its closest ally, the US - a number of Western diplomats and technical experts ...

Climate change could lead to terrorism, security experts warn Irony alert: as President Bush dwells on terrorism while barely acknowledging climate change, it turns out that climate change may lead to terrorism. The consequences of global warming could aggravate the already-ridiculous divide between the haves and have-nots, put 30 million people at risk of famine and disease, and create eco-refugees with a propensity for radical action, said experts attending a climate-change and security conference in London. "Those who are short of food, those who are short of water, those who can't move to countries where it looks as if everything is marvelous are going to be people who are going to adopt desperate measures to try and make their point," says former British U.N. Ambassador Sir Crispin Tickell, whose name knows no equal. Consider: the role of drought and scarce resources in the escalating violence in Rwanda and Darfur, and a 2002 "letter to the American people"...

Bush's father complains of news media "hostility" Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:37 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's father accused the news media of "personal animosity" toward his son and said he found the criticism so unrelenting he sometimes talked back to his television set. "It's one thing to have an adversarial ... relationship -- hard-hitting journalism -- it's another when the journalists' rhetoric goes beyond skepticism and goes over the line into overt, unrelenting hostility and personal animosity," former President George Bush said. The elder Bush, the 41st U.S. president, had a relatively collegial relationship with the press but things turned sour during his losing 1992 re-election campaign. He got so fed up with media coverage that supporters at the time circulated hats with the slogan "Annoy the Media -- Re-Elect Bush." "I won't get too personal here -- but this antipathy got worse after the...

by Stephen Lendman On December 28, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias delivered his annual "greeting speech" to the National Armed Forces (FAN) and announced the operating license of TV station Radio Caracas Television (known as RCTV) broadcasting on VHF Channel 2 won't be renewed when it expires on May 27, 2007. The station played a leading role, along with the other four major commercial private television channels in the country controlling 90% of the TV market, in instigating and supporting the 2002 aborted two-day coup against President Chavez. Later in the year they acted together again in similar fashion as an active participant in the economically destructive 2002-03 main trade union confederation (CTV) - chamber of commerce (Fedecameras) lockout and industry-wide oil strike that included sabotage against the state oil company PDVSA costing it overall an estimated $14 billion in lost revenue and damage. A collaborative alliance of the five media "majors...

Bush’s State of the Union speech highlights crisis of US ruling elite By Bill Van Auken 24 January 2007 World Socialist Web Site http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jan2007/unio-j24.shtml President George W. Bush’s sixth State of the Union address was delivered Wednesday in an atmosphere of crisis and demoralization gripping not only his own Republican administration, but the entire American political establishment. The media made much of Bush having for the first time to address a Democratic-led Congress, but the prevailing mood was not so much political confrontation as general bewilderment and apprehension, with the two parties confronting a military and political debacle in Iraq in which they are both fully implicated. A president who, as multiple polls released this week have underscored, is the most despised occupant of the White House since Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate crisis, was treated to repeated standing ovations led by the new “Madam Speaker” of the House of ...

by Mary Pitt 1/24/06 Does anyone else even remember the little ditty about the poor guy who could blow only one note on his musical instrument? I was reminded of it when I heard the President making his suggestion about his "solution" to the problem of health care in America. He recommended providing tax cuts so that people could privately buy the exhorbitant product that is offered by the insurance corporations! That would cure all our problems, right? Wrong! If the average American worker were to find it possible to keep the premiums flowing all year, they would already be doing it! The prospect of being able to deduct it once a year and reduce their tax bill by, perhaps, twenty per cent, would be tantamount to trying to save a dehydrating steer with a cup of water and an eye-dropper. This is the one note that the Republicans know how to blow. Got a problem? Tax cuts will fix it! When Health Care Savings Accounts were established, allowing people to "set aside" fu...

By Sheila Samples 1/23/06 "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." -- Ayn Rand, The Nature of Government I have no desire to get embroiled in the current tangled debate on immigration, either legal or illegal. However, I have watched with interest the intense campaign for President Bush first to intervene in the trial of two border patrol agents accused of shooting a suspected Mexican drug dealer as he fled, and then to pardon the agents for the crime after they were convicted. CNN's Lou Dobbs has led the crusade against illegal immigration for the past several years, and seems to be in the camp that believes if you're an immigrant and you're illegal, the gloves come off. You deserve what you get. I agree with Dobbs that our borders must b...

This is really not the time to be nice the shopdrop card march on Washington, D.C., Sat., January 27

by MERIP; Mid East Report; January 20, 2007 How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? That haunting question, posed by John Kerry to Congress when he was a discharged Navy lieutenant in 1971, helped to slow, and eventually stop, a pointless, unpopular war in Vietnam. That question, in part because Kerry declined to pose it anew when he was a presidential candidate in 2004, has yet to slow the unpopular war in Iraq, if anything a more massive US strategic blunder than the Southeast Asian venture. But the question unmistakably haunts the senators who shuffle before the cameras to defend or denounce the planned "surge" of 21,500 additional American soldiers into Iraq as part of the White House's latest ploy to postpone defeat. The only politician who can dodge the burdensome query is President George W. Bush himself, who effectively announced again on January 10 that his successor will be the one scrambling to answer -- and to ameliorate the anarchy the U...

by Stephen Lendman 1/18/07 With all the customary pomp and pageantry accompanying the occasion, the 110th nominally (first time in 12 years) Democrat-led Congress convened on Capitol Hill on January 4. It was done much the same as in earlier years except for the first time ever a woman took the gavel after being elected Speaker of the House in a final vote known weeks in advance killing any suspense about its outcome. New House Speaker California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi called it "an historic moment for the Congress" which it was but only with respect to the gender of the Speaker, not for what significant policies can be expected over the next two years as this writer explained in an earlier article on November 13 titled New Faces, Same Agenda. The article suggested the political firmament shook briefly on November 7 leading some in the country to hope a new day on Capitol Hill had arrived with the Democrats now in charge ready to bring with them some long-delayed substant...

by Mary Pitt It's time to whip out the old show biz cliche and do what public figures have done for decades to satisfy the paying customers and confound the critics. The Republicans are holding their fat bellies as they chuckle and challenge the Democrats with such remarks as, "If you don't like the way the Iraq war is going, come up with a better plan," and, "The Democrats need to come up with a balanced budget." It seems that what is in order is a rompin' stompin' double feature that will simply blow them away. We could start with the balanced budget. According to David C. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, if steps are not taken now, the taxation rate would have to double in order to balance in 2040. Now is not too soon. We could begin with the premature cancellation of the Bush tax cuts for the rich which are set to be discontinued in 2010 if nothing is done sooner. We are told that this would bring disaster to "the economy...

By Nancy Greggs Sun Jan 14th 2007 http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NanceGreggs/150 Yes, elected Republicans, you have the right to remain silent. But at this juncture, I believe it is beyond a right – it is an obligation. Within minutes of the Democrats assuming their role as the majority, the inevitable criticism of their every action, every word, every plan or idea began, delivered in the whining tone you are now famous for, and continues unabated. Not only is this detrimental to the spirit of bipartisanship you became so enamored of in the wee hours of November 8th, it is childish, hypocritical and, more often than not, downright silly – but alas, completely expected. Such are the times we live in; such are the morals of your party. One finds it hard to understand why you would have trouble reverting to your normal acquiescent silence, a state in which you have lived for years while allegedly performing the responsibilities of your office. You sat silent as the president’s ...

by Chuck Wilson 1/16/07 How many times have we parked our butt in front of the tv to catch the news and heard these words? "We are the news!" Think about it for a minute. "We are the news!" Remember back say twenty years ago how they opened the show in the promo? It was "here is today's news." "reporting the news." " here's joe blow with today's news." "i'm joe blow reporting the news." Never "we are the news!" So what does this really mean "we are the news?" We sit here day after day complaining how the mainstream media never reports the news. We sit here day after day searching the internet for our news. We search foreign newspapers and web sites to find the news. But is it the news we're searching for? Could it be rather the truth we seek? When I trace the ownership of the major media channels, and do a social diagram on the names, they all link back to a select group of people. The ...

Let’s recap, shall we? The US has destroyed Iraq, it’s infrastructure, economy, environment, health system, educational system, government, and everything else we could get our hands on. And now georgie wants gratitude. Yet when asked if he owes the Iraqi people an apology for botching the management of the war, he said, "Not at all. "We liberated that country from a tyrant," Bush said. "I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude." Journal-Advocate, Sterling, CO Yeah, sure, georgie, they’re just brimming over. There’ll be a little something extra in your christmas card this year. What an idiot.

by Frank Rich Saturday, January 13, 2007 http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2007/01/frank-rich-hes-in-bunker-now.html President Bush always had one asset he could fall back on: the self-confidence of a born salesman. Like Harold Hill in “The Music Man,” he knew how to roll out a new product, however deceptive or useless, with conviction and stagecraft. What the world saw on Wednesday night was a defeated Willy Loman who looked as broken as his war. His flop sweat was palpable even if you turned down the sound to deflect despair-inducing phrases like “Prime Minister Maliki has pledged ...” and “Secretary Rice will leave for the region. ...” Mr. Bush seemed to know his product was snake oil, and his White House handlers did too. In the past, they made a fetish of situating their star in telegenic settings, from aircraft carriers to Ellis Island. Or they placed him against Orwellian backdrops shrieking “Plan for Victory." But this time even the audio stuttered, as if in soli...

The Guerrilla Campaign is moving. While there is a slight delay, shall we say, in setting up the domain, you can access it here . Pay a visit, let me know. The newsfeeds alone make it worth visiting, and there’s a link to the old site that you all love or hate or are indifferent to, depending on your point of view. I’ve been sick, and not only with a nasty cold. What I see happening is sickening. It’s becoming more obvious daily that the bush is going to attack Iran. The administration is tossing around “evidence” they can’t show anyone, just like before they attacked Iraq. A new carrier task force in the area. Now what good is that for a guerrilla war in the streets of Baghdad? An admiral in overall command. New, and ominous threats. Boys and girls, the signs really all point in one direction. The bush boy’s “new way forward” appears to be through Tehran. All this is going on under the cover of the “surge” that has everyone talking. I think it’s another case of misdirection. Of course...

by Stephen Lendman Borrowing the line from Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore: " Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream. " It's as true here in the US today as it was in 19th century England, and its message explains how to understand and view our affairs of state and why the title of this essay was chosen - to reflect on our national federal holidays that, in fact, represent something much different than the stated reasons we commemorate them for. Eleven such holidays are reviewed below moving chronologically through the year post-New Year's Day discussed briefly at the end because it's part of the Christmas holiday season celebration. read more

The spokespeople supporting the continuation and escalation of the war in Iraq are fewer and fewer. Now we are down to the few diehards from a few think tanks to cheer the continuing devastation. Most of them admit that this is the last opportunity to "win" the war. They seem to be more concerned with the consequences of losing. The fact is that we can learn from our mistakes only if we realize that we have made them. This particular foreign policy adventure was a gamble to begin with and is now simply on the last "all or nothing" bet. Detaching myself, for the moment, from the reality of war I will try to look at the possibility of "winning". Can the military do it? They say they can only sustain an increase for about six months; beyond that time the Iraqi military will have to be prepared to sustain any advances in stability. The military can do that much and would deserve our fondest respect for the devotion and effort involved. A political solution is ...

by Stephen Lendman We only know about Tom Paine because Thomas Edison discovered him in the 1920s. Edison believed he was our most important political thinker, and it was essential that his writings and ideas be taught in the nation's schools. It's no exaggeration that there might never have been an American Revolution without this man's writings that had such a profound influence on the nation's founders and masses of people he reached through one of the few "mainstream" means of communicating of that period. Paine was an unlikely man to have had such influence. He was humbly born and raised in England, was largely self-educated and decided to come to the colonies in 1774 after meeting Benjamin Franklin in London who encouraged and sponsored him to do it. It was a decision that changed the world, but who could have imagined it at the time. Paine only began writing two years earlier when he took up the cause of excise (or customs) officers arguing in a pa...

Get your fatted calves together, boys and girls. Little georgie's going to be asking for more sacrifice to his bush god.

TV plans tasteful coverage of Saddam execution Friday December 29, 2:53 PM Reuters http://asia.news.yahoo.com/061229/3/2v1kd.html […] Several sources said Saddam's execution would be videotaped by the Iraqi government, though it wasn't clear whether it would be released to the public or broadcast. "We will video everything," Iraqi National Security adviser Mouffak al Rubaie told CBS News. Judging by the Iraqi government's release Tuesday of videotape of the hanging of 13 convicts, it could be a gruesome affair. Meetings were held Thursday in at least two network headquarters over how to handle the potentially graphic images. […] Talking Points Memo http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/011765.php (January 02, 2007 -- 04:01 PM EST) An investigation? Now the Maliki government is going to investigate the 'Moktada' chants at Saddam's execution and the leaking of the phone-cam snuff film? First of all, wasn't it filmed? And wasn't it clear that ...

Democrats, Republicans, CEOs, Generals United By John Stanton Global Research, January 1, 2007 www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=4269 Just 32 years ago in 1975, former US President Gerald Ford (unelected to both the vice presidency and the presidency) served as master of ceremonies for the close of the Vietnam War. There are two images that remain seared in the minds of many around the world from that terrible 10 year debacle and defeat. One is a photograph taken by Hubert van Es during the fall of Saigon depicting Vietnamese civilians climbing to the top of an apartment building frantically attempting to board a US helicopter. The other is a photograph taken by Nic Ut of a young Vietnamese girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, her flesh seared by napalm in a US aerial assault. She is running down a road, naked and screaming. Thirty-two years later, as much of the world celebrated religious and cultural holidays, and prepared to greet the new year 2007, its newspapers and electronic ...