"Learn to advance and retreat from every position. It is not your job to change anyone’s mind. They don’t have to agree that you are right. Stop the argument when you feel it is getting nowhere. Learn to develop a ‘light touch’ around PO: Suggest what’s coming (‘I can’t imagine the price of oil will ever go down significantly’), listen to the answer, if it is negative, introduce a final statement [‘Well, there are a lot of panicky people out there, wondering how they are going to get by with the price as it is, and I feel for them’], change the subject".

 

by Gaither Stewart

 

Congressman warns of "chaos about to be unleashed" on economic and political system by globalist intervention and world empire

 

"Obama supporters should take their candidate at his word. What he is proposing is a dramatic escalation and expansion of the war into another sovereign country. How is this consistent with the demands of his base or the millions of Americans who believe that Obama represents real change.

It–s time for a reality check; the Democrats are the real problem not the Republicans. If the path to peace requires crushing the Democratic Party and its blood–thirsty candidates; so be it. The main thing is to stop the killing. If Obama won’t do it; we’ll find someone who will"…

 

 

 

 

 

submitted by Luc Majno

 

from j grub –

Mark Levine says Bush is as responsible for the disaster in Iraq as Bashir is for the humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur | By Mark Levine, Middle East historian

 

 

 

US and Afghan troops have abandoned a remote village in eastern Afghanistan where militants killed nine US soldiers and wounded a dozen more on Sunday…

 

More districts of Kandahar are controlled by the Taliban than by the Afghan government, according to a U.S. assessment that casts doubt on Canada’s upbeat view of the war…

 

Nato–led forces in Afghanistan say they have fired into Pakistan after coming under attack from there by suspected militants…

 

Police have fired tear gas to disperse protesters in Haiti who had gathered during a rally marking the 55th birthday of Jean Bertrand Aristide, the former president…

 

By Adam Liptak – President Bush has the legal power to order the indefinite military detentions of civilians captured in the United States, the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Tuesday in a fractured 5–to–4 decision…

 

 

 

by Luc Majno

 

 

Canadian Detainee, Arrested At Age 15, Weeps, Shows Alleged U.S. Torture Scars In Clips Released By Lawyers

President Bush has informed Israeli government officials that he may look favorably on a pre–emptive military strike by the Jewish state on Iran’s nuclear facilities if negotiations with Tehran to end its nuclear development program fail, a British newspaper reported Sunday.

Remember. what is being talked about here is a power plant., not weapons. And Iran has a legal right to build power plants, by virtue of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, signed by both Iran and the US (but not by Israel).

 

Former U.S. Rep. John Hostettler argues in a new, little–noticed, self–published book that the United States invaded Iraq to avenge an assassination attempt on then–President George H.W. Bush and to help Israel.

turns out, the attempt on George H. W. Bush may not have been carried out by Iraq at all!

 

Uri Avnery

submitted by Luc Majno

 

By Paul Craig Roberts – The Great Moral West does not commit war crimes. War crimes are charges fobbed off on people demonized by the Western media, such as the Serbian Milosovic and the Sudanese al–Bashir…

 

 

 

by Vincent Guarisco

 

This story reveals the human suffering inflicted on people who already have nothing by the West’s demand for cheap and abundant oil in order to continue its way of life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

submitted by Luc Majno

 

which continues to be written, is not a story of rugged individualism and heroic personal sacrifice in the pursuit of a dream. It is a story of democracy derailed, of a revolutionary spirit suppressed, and of a once–proud people reduced to servitude.…

 

by Greg Palast

 

 

BILL SCHER

Sen. John McCain, I’m one of your friends, right? The kind of friend who can handle some of your special brand of Straight Talk™. So why won’t you just tell me you hate Social Security?

 

 

 

reposted due to demand > > >

submitted by Walter C. Uhler

 

reposted due to demand > > >

submitted by Walter C. Uhler

 

 

"Here’s the point: Yes, there is a powerful faction in this administration, headed by the Vice President, which has, it seems, saved its last rounds of ammunition for a strike against Iran. The question, of course, is: Are they still capable of creating ‘their own reality’ and imposing it, however briefly, on the planet? Every tick upward in the price of oil says no. Every day that passes makes an attack on Iran harder to pull off"…