The Guerrilla Campaign

Neocons seek to justify action against Teheran By Tim Shipman Last Updated: 12:17am BST 30/09/2007 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/30/wiran230.xml Shifting Targets The Administration’s plan for Iran. by Seymour M. Hersh October 8, 2007 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/08/071008fa_fact_hersh US weighs possible strikes on Iran's military: report 9/30/07 http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070930/wl_mideast_afp/usiraniraqmilitary_070930194253 WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US administration has shifted strategy and is drawing up plans for possible air strikes against Iran's Revolutionary Guard instead of the country's nuclear sites, the New Yorker magazine reported on Sunday . President George W. Bush has requested the Joint Chiefs of Staff revise plans for a possible attack on Iran, with the focus on "surgical" raids against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps which Washington accuses of targeting US forces in Iraq, the magazine wrote. Pre...

War Alarms Drowned by Beltway Bloodlust Written by Chris Floyd Friday, 28 September 2007 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1297/135/ "I got my hammer ringin', baby, but the nails ain't goin' down." -- Bob Dylan Hammerblows of truth keep falling on the Bush Regime's propaganda campaign for war against Iran, which has been built up out of allegations so specious and shoddy that they make the manifold deceits of the Attack Iraq carnival look like gospel truth. But far from doing any damage to the engine of death now rolling toward Persia, the hammers are not even being heard above the roar. Of course, it is actually inaccurate to refer to the "Bush Regime's propaganda campaign." As we have noted here before, the Democratic-led Congress has already overwhelmingly swallowed the Bush case for war – the Senate even accepted the Regime's mendacious casus belli unanimously. And this week, the Democrats went even further in adopting aggressi...

Eric Blumrich over at Bushflash , a few years back, did up an animation . Take a look.

- by Stephen Lendman 9/26/07 What do you call a country that glorifies wars and violence in the name of peace. One that's been at war every year in its history against one or more adversaries. It has the highest homicide rate of all western nations and a passion for owning guns, yet the two seem oddly unconnected. Violent films are some of its most popular, and similar video games crowd out the simpler, more innocent street play of generations earlier. Prescription and illicit drug use is out of control as well when tobacco, alcohol and other legal ones are included. It gets worse. It's society is called a "rape culture" with data showing: - one-fourth of its adult women victims of forcible rape sometime in their lives, often by someone they know, including family members; - one-third of them are victims of sexual abuse by a husband or boyfriend; - 30% of people in the country say they know a woman who's been physically abused by her husband or boyfrie...

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.September 18, 2007 http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/none-dare-call-genocide.html How comfy we are all in the United States, as we engage in living-room debates about the US occupation of Iraq, whether "we" are bringing them freedom and whether their freedom is really worth the sacrifice of so many of our men and women. We talk about whether war aims have really been achieved, how to exit gracefully, or whether we need a hyper-surge to finish this whole business once and for all. But there's one thing Americans don't talk about: the lives of Iraqis, or, rather, the deaths of Iraqis. It's interesting because we live in an age of extreme multiculturalism and global concern. We adore international aid workers, go on mission trips abroad, weep for the plight of those suffering from hunger and disease, volunteer in efforts to bring plumbing to Ecuador, mosquito nets to Rwanda, clean water to Malawi, human rights to Togo, and medicine to B...

Lebanon, l982-84 - reagan After the 1982 Israeli occupation of Lebanon, U.S. Marines were deployed in a neutral "peacekeeping" operation. They instead took the side of Lebanon's pro-Israel Christian government against Muslim rebels, and U.S. Navy ships rained enormous shells on Muslim civilian villages. Embittered Shi'ite Muslim rebels responded with a suicide bomb attack on Marine barracks, and for years seized U.S. hostages in the country. In retaliation, the CIA set off car bombs to assassinate Shi'ite Muslim leaders. Syria and the Muslim rebels emerged victorious in Lebanon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombing In the attack on the American barracks, the death toll was 241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 Navy personnel and 3 Army soldiers. Sixty Americans were injured. In the attack on the French barracks, 58 paratroopers were killed and 15 injured, in the single worst military loss for the French since the end of the Algerian war. ...

“Don’t Shop While The Bombs Drop!” Re-thinking Movement Strategy by Paul Rockwell Oakland, California http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/opin/pr_shop.html Hey kids, you want to be radical? You want to be revolutionary? You want to do your part to help bring down the corporatistas? Buy used, not new, whenever possible. Recycle things and use them to make other things, or for other purposes. All the resources and materials used to make it new have already been used, and would have to be used again to make another one. Help reduce your carbon footprint, and cut into the corporatists’ profits. here's what some women down here in Redneck City are doing. What’s Your Bag? by Amanda Mayer In today’s world, life is terribly expensive. Our whole nation is in debt because everyone spends more than they make. Somehow, amidst all of this, my friends and I have devised an easy, effective, green way to keep our kids happy, and our wardrobes up to date. Kids grow fast, one day they’re a size 2T, and ...

I say that the fundamentals of our nation's economy are strong. - george bush - September 20, 2007 [ http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/09/20070920-2.html ] what an idiot. China threatens 'nuclear option' of dollar sales By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Last Updated: 8:39pm BST 10/08/2007 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=JOZA3ZD4IKSLVQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=/money/2007/08/07/bcnchina107a.xml The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation. Two officials at leading Communist Party bodies have given interviews in recent days warning - for the first time - that Beijing may use its $1.33 trillion (£658bn) of foreign reserves as a political weapon to counter pressure from the US Congress. Shifts in Chinese policy are often announced through key think tanks and academi...

really. what else is there to say? Senate bars bill to restore detainee rights Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:27pm EDT By Susan Cornwell http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1924593620070919 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate voted on Wednesday against considering a measure to give Guantanamo detainees and other foreigners the right to challenge their detention in the U.S. courts. The legislation needed 60 votes to be considered by lawmakers in the Senate, narrowly controlled by Democrats; it received only 56, with 43 voting against the effort to roll back a key element of President George W. Bush's war on terrorism… Senate Republicans block Iraq bill Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:06pm EDT By Susan Cornwell http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1423419220070920 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans blocked a plan on Wednesday to give U.S. troops in Iraq more home leave, defeating a proposal widely seen as the Democrats' best near-term chance to change President George W. Bush...

by Mary Pitt 9/18/07 So Hillary finally presented us with her "health plan". Whoopee! That will fix everything. Right? Wait a minute, isn't that what Romney did in Massachusetts? Isn't that the same pattern set by George Bush's Medicare Part D? We must, by law, buy insurance from the already-money-bloated insurance industry while still being obligated to pay deductibles and co-payments that will further burst our shrinking budgets? Does that make sense? Those who are suffering from lack of medical care because they cannot afford to pay for health care absolutely cannot afford to pay insurance premiums because, even after they do so, they will not be able to afford the additional costs that are built into the system. As a personal testimony, I will say that, were it not for Medicare Part D, my medications would cost about $120.00 a month for three generic medications. As the result of choosing a plan that will not leave me hanging in the "donut hole", I p...

Anti-War protests Thousands of Iraq war protesters march in Washington; more than 190 arrested The Associated Press Saturday, September 15, 2007 WASHINGTON: Several thousand anti-war demonstrators marched through downtown Washington, clashing with police at the foot of the Capitol steps where more than 190 protesters were arrested. The group marched from the White House to the Capitol on Saturday to demand an end to the Iraq war. Their numbers stretched for blocks along Pennsylvania Avenue, and they held banners and signs and chanted, "What do we want? Troops out. When do we want it? Now." Army veteran Justin Cliburn, 25, was among a contingent of Iraq veterans in attendance. "We're occupying a people who do not want us there," Cliburn said of Iraq. "We're here to show that it isn't just a bunch of old hippies from the 60s who are against this war." Trouble in Redneck city Sunbelt City in Grasp of Housing Undertow Ripple Effect Could Be Nationa...

- by Stephen Lendman 9/13/07 No issue is more sensitive in the US than daring to criticize Israel. It's the metaphorical "third rail" in American politics, academia and the major media. Anyone daring to touch it pays dearly as the few who tried learned. Those in elected office face an onslaught of attacks and efforts to replace them with more supportive officials. Former five term Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney felt its sting twice in 2002 and 2006. So did 10 term Congressman Paul Findley (a fierce and courageous Israeli critic) in 1982 and three term Senator Charles Percy in 1984 whom AIPAC targeted merely for appearing to support anti-Israeli policy. DePaul University Professor Norman Finkelstein has long been a target as well for his courageous writing and outspokenness. DePaul formally denied him tenure June 8 even though his students call him "truly outstanding and among the most impressive" of all university political science professors. It's why his D...

- by Stephen Lendman 9/10/07 Israel's population today is about 7,150,000. About 5.4 million are Jews (76%) plus another 400,000 Jewish settlers in over 200 expanding settlements on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank that includes Palestinian East Jerusalem. They're the chosen ones afforded full rights and privileges under the laws of the Jewish state for Jews alone. Palestinian Arabs are another story. Their population is around 5.3 million (plus six million or more in the Palestinian diaspora). Around 3.9 million live in occupied Gaza and the West Bank, and another 1.4 million are Jewish citizens of Israel (20% of the population), including about 260,000 classified as internally displaced. Palestinians get no rights afforded Jews even though those inside Israel are citizens of the Jewish state, have passports and IDs, and can vote in Knesset elections for what good it does them. They're subjected to constant abuse and neglect, are confined to 2% of the land plus 1...

By Sheila Samples 9/10/07 Speculation is swirling about who will replace Attorney General Alberto Gonzales -- everyone from Utah's Senator Orrin Hatch to former Solicitor General and Clinton stalker Theodore Olsen. Until last week, the name most bandied about was Secretary of Homeland Security and USAPATRIOT Act co-author Michael Chertoff. You'd think selecting Chertoff in light of the New Orleans debacle would be a stupid thing to do since Chertoff's continued ideological mishandling of the Katrina disaster borders on the criminally insane. Oh. Yeah. I forgot. Stupid bungling and destructive, criminal assaults on the less fortunate seem to be the criteria for serving at the pleasure of this president. Who can forget Chertoff's bewildered insistence that nobody could "predict such a disaster ever could occur"? Or that he refused hundreds of aid personnel and dozens of vehicles offered by Chicago's Mayor Daley...refused to let the Red Cross deliver food...r...

By Sara Flounders http://www.workers.org/2007/world/iraq-0906/ Published Sep 3, 2007 8:01 PM If the full dimensions of the horror the U.S. occupation has created in Iraq were exposed and confronted, world outrage would reach such a pitch that the occupation could not continue. A huge number of reports that are largely ignored or given only passing mention in the corporate media confirm an unprecedented level of destruction of essential infrastructure, loss of life and massive displacement of people. There are more than 4 million Iraqi refugees and more than 1 million dead. Seventy percent of Iraqi children are not in school. Yet these reports and statistics do not begin to tell the story of destruction and violence caused by the U.S. occupation. Iraq, which was a modern, industrializing country before the first U.S. war in 1991, is now under U.S. occupation, facing national catastrophe and disintegration. Its once internationally acclaimed and free health care system is now in shambles...

Nursing home owners acquitted in Katrina deaths Fri Sep 7, 2007 9:40PM EDT By Russell McCulley ST. FRANCISVILLE, Louisiana (Reuters) - The owners of a New Orleans-area nursing home were found not guilty of all charges on Friday in the deaths of 35 residents who drowned in one of the worst tragedies of Hurricane Katrina. Salvador Mangano, 67, and his wife Mabel Mangano, 65, faced 35 counts of negligent homicide and 24 counts of cruelty to the infirm, but a six-member jury acquitted them after deliberating about 3 1/2 hours following three weeks of testimony. The Manganos hugged each other when the jury verdict was read, and choked back tears as they left the courtroom. "Y'all don't want to hear what I got to say," Salvador Mangano said as he walked past reporters. Katrina's 20-foot (6-metre) storm surge trapped and drowned residents at the Manganos' St. Rita's nursing home near New Orleans during the August 29, 2005, storm that killed more than 1,400 people...

by Mary Pitt 9/7/06 In 2006, when we gave the Democrats a majority in both houses, we were full of hope that, at last, something would be done to stop the President's war-mongering. To date we have seen little except compromise, coalition, and making nice. Few are there who have the courage of their convictions to fulfill the promises they made when begging for our votes. A few of the new representatives that are there have tried their best but, just as in high school, nobody cares what the freshmen think. As the result, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, being old hands at the political "game", are being overly prudent and conciliatory, talking the talk but rolling over when it is time to walk the walk. Senator Clinton left the middle of the road long ago in search of the votes of a few disgruntled Republicans and is much more interested in allowing citizenship to illegal aliens than in restoring the rights of those of us who already belong to that club. Even before the releas...

by Mike Ferner; September 05, 2007 http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=51&ItemID=13709 St. Louis – His government broke his heart but it could not break Air Force veteran Charles Powell’s spirit. Fighting back tears, the 64 year-old vet stood tall and resolute in front of 400 of his comrades, describing in verse the final steps of a painful disillusionment. Each summer during the national convention of Veterans For Peace, time is reserved for a Veterans’ Speakout, where any member can rise to say whatever is on their mind. When the veterans gathered in 2002, prior to the invasion of Iraq, George Bush and the hawks of Washington were pounding away on the war drums. That year, Powell, who had served on a Titan ICBM launch crew during the Cuban missile crisis, read his poem titled, “I Won’t Let Them Take My Flag.” He noted the warmongers were “again waving my flag” as a buildup to invasion, and he countered what he felt was a manipulation of the national symbol wi...

by Stephen Lendman [...] Bush Administration Strategy: Usually Wrong but Never in Doubt In the run-up to its March, 2003 attack on Iraq, the Bush administration proved it didn't lack tricks and schemes to justify war. Iran now faces the same threat with one provocative act from Washington after another. In an unprecedented and outrageous move against a sovereign state, the New York Times and Washington Post reported August 15 the administration plans to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (a major branch of its military) a "global terrorist" organization... [...] In the long-running US-Iran saga, it remains to be seen how events will play out. Expect more heated rhetoric, and don't ignore Dick Cheney's influence. Barnett Rubin's recent comments about him from his Global Affairs blog are all over the internet. Cheney's already unofficially on record urging war on Iran and presently proposes bombing suspected Quds Force sites in Iraq. Earlier re...

The I.W.W.--Its History, Structure and Methods http://tmars.iwarp.com/theMagazine/archive/07/IWW_History.html A pamphlet by Vincent St. John describing the structure and operations of the IWW. It was originally used in the trial of the United States vs. William D. Haywood, et al. This exhibit was introduced into the trial of Michael Simmons vs. the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Company through the deposition of John W. Hughes. see also: Industrial Workers of the World http://www.iww.org/ http://www.iww.org/culture/chronology/ The History of the I.W.W . http://tmars.iwarp.com/theMagazine/archive/07/History%20of%20the%20I.%20W.%20W..pdf I.W.W. Songs http://tmars.iwarp.com/theMagazine/archive/07/IWW%20Little%20Red%20Songbook.pdf