The Guerrilla Campaign

War with Iran augurs a global conflict by Justin Raimondo March 30, 2007 Our "free" media is so eager to accept the official British explanation of why their sailors/Marines wound up in Iranian custody that most Western "news" accounts are ignoring all evidence to the contrary, such as the trenchant observation of former British diplomat Craig Murray: "The British Government has published a map showing the coordinates of the incident, well within an Iran/Iraq maritime border. The mainstream media and even the blogosphere has bought this hook, line and sinker. But there are two colossal problems. "A) The Iran/Iraq maritime boundary shown on the British government map does not exist. It has been drawn up by the British Government. Only Iraq and Iran can agree their bilateral boundary, and they never have done this in the Gulf, only inside the Shatt because there it is the land border too. This published boundary is a fake with no legal force. "B) Acce...

Let’s see. It took the bush one day to get to Washington, D.C. after the Sep 11 attacks. The slow-footed bush took three days to get to New Orleans after Katrina. It’s taken little georgie SIX weeks to inspect Walter Reed after the publication of the conditions the wounded veterans were enduring. How long you figure it’ll take him to get to the next disaster?

by Stephen Lendman 3/29/07 Emma Lazarus' memorable words on Lady Liberty's pedestal once had meaning as a new nation grew. No longer in a country hostile to the tired, the poor, the huddled masses, the wretched refuse, the homeless and many others not making the grade in a white supremacist Judeo-Christian state worshiping wealth and privilege. No welcome sign is out for the unwanted poor and desperate. At best, they're ignored to subsist on their own. At worst, they're scorned and abused, exploited and discarded like trash or labeled "terrorists" in a post-9/11 world of mass witch-hunt roundups aimed at Muslims because of their faith or country of origin and Latinos coming north to survive the fallout from NAFTA's destructive effects on their lives. Immigrants of color, the wrong faith or from the wrong parts of the world are never greeted warmly in "America the Beautiful" that's only for the privileged and no one else. They're not ...

British Marines Captured by Iran: Fake Maritime Boundaries By Craig Murray Global Research, March 28, 2007 Craig Murray Web Site I have been unpopular before, but the level of threats since I started blogging on the captured marines has got a bit scary. It is therefore with some trepidation that I feel obliged to point this out. The British Government has published a map showing the coordinates of the incident, well within an Iran/Iraq maritime border. The mainstream media and even the blogosphere has bought this hook, line and sinker. But there are two colossal problems. A) The Iran/Iraq maritime boundary shown on the British government map does not exist. It has been drawn up by the British Government. Only Iraq and Iran can agree their bilateral boundary, and they never have done this in the Gulf, only inside the Shatt because there it is the land border too. This published boundary is a fake with no legal force. B) Accepting the British coordinates for the position of both HMS Corn...

Pocket change, and don’t do it again. But, you send 5 bucks to a Muslim charity, you’re off to Guantanamo. ITT fined $100 million for illegal exports Manufacturer admits to exporting night vision materials to China, Singapore and Britain without U.S. authorization. March 27 2007: 1:32 PM EDT -- By CNN Producer Mike M. Ahlers http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/27/news/international/itt_export/index.htm WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The leading manufacturer of night vision gear for the Defense Department has admitted sending classified materials overseas and will pay a $100 million penalty, according to federal prosecutors, who say the actions of ITT Corp. have jeopardized the security of U.S. soldiers. ITT, based in Roanoke, Va., exported classified or sensitive technical data to China, Singapore and Britain without having obtained authorization from the United States, prosecutors said. The conviction is the first involving a major defense contractor violating the Arms Export Control Act, prosecutors s...

By Sheila Samples 3/26/07 "You is feeling like you was lost in the bush, boy? You says: It is a puling sample jungle of woods. You most shouts out: Bethicket me for a stump of beech if I have the poultriest notions what the farest he all means." - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939) My friend Bernie says ever since the Bush gang stormed the White House in 2000, then stormed the World Trade Center in 2001, we've done nothing but run in circles like a bunch of terrified chickens with our heads chopped off. "We have no sense of direction," Bernie said, "we're staggering around in a jungle of lies, deceit, and scandal with no way out -- and that's the way they planned it." "You're kidding!" I exclaimed, astonished. "You mean they planned this mess? It's nothing but bloody chaos out there --" Bernie nodded. "You got that right. Bloody chaos is the best -- the only -- way to get what they're after. Don't be f...

By Webster G. Tarpley on: 26.03.2007 http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=122371 WASHINGTON DC — The long awaited US military attack on Iran is now on track for the first week of April, specifically for 4 AM on April 6, the Good Friday opening of Easter weekend, writes the well-known Russian journalist Andrei Uglanov in the Moscow weekly "Argumenty Nedeli." Uglanov cites Russian military experts close to the Russian General Staff for his account. The attack is slated to last for twelve hours, according to Uglanov, lasting from 4 AM until 4 PM local time. Friday is a holiday in Iran. In the course of the attack, code named Operation Bite, about 20 targets are marked for bombing; the list includes uranium enrichment facilities, research centers, and laboratories. The first reactor at the Bushehr nuclear plant, where Russian engineers are working, is supposed to be spared from destruction. The US attack plan reportedly calls for the Iranian air defense ...

M Taqi March 24, 2007 http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_24184.shtml It was not supposed to be like this. Iraq was not supposed to end up like this four years from the start of the invasion. By now, Iraq was supposed to be the most peaceful, most stable and most prosperous state in the region, if not the whole world. That is what US President Bush and the coalition of the blind followers prophesied to their respective tax-paying people as they sought their support for what can now only be called the stupid war. The picture is very different now of course from that prophecy; Iraq is drenched in blood as the occupation baby-sits a sectarian civil war to say the least. Death, grotesque public execution, criminal torture, hideous terror, immoral ethnic cleansing extreme poverty and hunger, and strange diseases have all swept the land of Iraq. The future is very grim, and the picture very depressing. Four years on, and US President Bush is still saying Baghdad security will t...

by Stephen Lendman 3/22/07 John Ross is a Latin American correspondent and activist who's been living in and writing about Mexico for nearly four decades turning out some of the most important and incisive analysis of events there of anyone covering the country, its history, politics and people. Few writers anywhere make the country come alive like he can. He lives among the people and knows them well including Zapatista leader Subcommandante Marcos who may have given Ross his first ever interview. Ross has written eight books of fiction and non-fiction and is one of the few surviving Beat poets with nine chapbooks of poetry in and out of print, the latest of which is due out soon called Bomba. He's also been called a new John Reed (who wrote the classic 10 Days that Shook the World on the Russian Revolution) covering a new Mexican revolution playing out around the country from its most indigenous, impoverished South in Chiapas and Oaxaca to the streets of its capital in Mex...

Just heard on the news that a bush nephew (jeb's boy) has joined the naval reserve, and is going to be taking intelligence training. Well. That's going to take a long time.

Imperial Ambitions on Naked Display Written by Chris Floyd Monday, 19 March 2007 http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1078&Itemid=135 Rarely has the imperial hubris that lies at the basis of U.S. foreign policy – the unspoken, unquestioned assumption of America's right to global domination by force – been so nakedly revealed than in the recent Washington Post story decrying the degraded state of the Pentagon's military preparedness. (" Military is Ill-Prepared for Other Conflicts. ") What makes the story so remarkable, and so valuable as a diagnostic tool for the health of the Republic (which could perhaps be most accurately described as "the sickness unto death" ) is that none of the generals or politicians quoted in the story – nor the writer herself – betray the slightest awareness of the moral obscenity upon which all their earnest concerns and diligent fact-finding are based. On its surface, at the level of ...

Posted by Trish Mar. 20, 2007, 8:42 am Pensito Review http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/03/20/the-question-for-year-five/ Asute PR reader tmkent asks what should be THE question as we open on Iraq, Year Five: “Seen on CNN this morning: “Bush - ‘Artificial timetables could be disastrous.’” O.K., How about a REAL timetable then? Let’s all start asking that question, and asking the MSM to ask it too.

“Why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s going to happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?” - Barbara Bush, March 18, 2003 "feels good!" - George W. Bush, March 19, 2003 Four years ago, the president bush began his Iraq atrocities. At the time, over 70% of Americans supported his obscenity, and those that opposed it were reviled and called unAmerican and treasonous. French fries became freedom fries, and French champagne was poured down the drain, because that country’s government wouldn’t support the crimes of bush. Only in the US was there popular support for this adventure. The world’s peoples were overwhelmingly opposed, but that didn’t stop several governments from jumping in, either from a desire to share in the spoils, or they were coerced by the US. The Iraqi people have suffered through 4 years of death and destruction fo...

by Larisa Alexandrovna March 15, 2007 http://www.atlargely.com/2007/03/ksm_deflector_a.html I had wondered how purgegate would be removed from 24-7 news coverage, what spin could possibly knock this story out of our attention. Perhaps, I thought, finally Osama bin Laden would be conjured up in the flesh. I was close. The next best thing to a PR Osama, is the real mastermind of the September 11 attacks and boy, he is singing just in time and like a canary. " Khalid Sheik Mohammed , the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, confessed at a Guantanamo Bay military hearing that he planned and funded that al-Qaeda operation and said he was involved in more than two dozen other terrorist acts around the world, according to documents released by the Pentagon yesterday. In a rambling statement delivered Saturday to a closed-door military tribunal, Mohammed declared himself an enemy of the United States and claimed some responsibility for many of the major terrorist attacks on ...

by Stephen Lendman 3/15/07 The US electorate sent a clear, unequivocal message in the November mid-term elections. End the Iraq war and bring home the troops. Many supporting war in the 109th Congress lost out to more moderate voices taking over their seats because voters want change and expect new faces to deliver starting with the top issue on voters' minds in recent polls - Iraq. A majority of the public demands it, protests and heated rhetoric continue building over it, and the Congress is about to disappoint again proving getting into war is easy but even an act of Congress can't get us out because doing nothing is less risky than taking a stand against the prevailing view in Washington. So the best this Congress can offer is non-binding stuff with no meaning and a wishy binding proposal rolled out March 8 guaranteeing support for the war with billions more spending than the administration wants. It also sets a timetable for partial withdrawal far enough in the future to b...

Decadence, Waste, Corruption in the New American Empire [Part II] by Rodrigue Tremblay March 12, 2007 "The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors." - Plutarch (c. 46 A.D.-127 A.D.) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." - Plutarch (c. 46 A.D.-127 A.D.) "It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us. Perhaps the reason is that rich men are very clever at covering up what they do." - Andrew Greeley Corruption and moral bankruptcy take many f...

By Sheila Samples 3/6/07 "A lost infant in the ashes, lost faces in the dust, a lost finger in the garbage dumps, a lost mother in the debris, a nation lost in the fire, a country lost in the greed...and eyes lost in that endless tunnel of helplessness, anguish and despair...lost in the total emptiness, in the void of the living dead." - Layla Anwar, "Ashes & Dust" Sometimes I wonder if Americans are unaware of the malicious devastation the Bush administrtion is wreaking upon this good earth and its inhabitants, or if they just don't give a damn. I wonder if they ever put a "face" on even one of the hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children who are lost forever -- victims of arrogance, lust for power, insatiable greed. And lies .. all lost because of evil, deliberate lies. I wonder why so many denizens of this Christian nation seem unable or unwilling to wrap their minds around the reality that Iraqi people are human beings just a...

by Stephen Lendman 3/8/07 The Samson Option is terminology used to explain Israel's intention to use its nuclear arsenal as an ultimate defense strategy if its leaders feel threatened enough to think they have no alternative. It comes from the biblical Samson said to have used his great strength to bring down the pillars of a Philistine temple, downing its roof and killing himself and thousands of Philistine tormentors. It's a strategy saying if you try killing me, we'll all die together, or put another way, we'll all go together when we go. Richard Wagner had his apocalyptic version in the last of his four operas of Der Ring des Nibelungen - Gotterdammerung , or Twilight of the Gods based on Norse mythology referring to a prophesied war of the Gods resulting in the end of the world. The Bush Doctrine isn't that extreme, and it's not the intent of this essay to suggest its unintended consequences may turn out that way even though the threat it may is real if ...