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 Share This- LRB · John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt: The Israel Lobby
 Mar 29, 2006 12:45am  (17 reviews) middle-east http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.htm...- From the page: "For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to spread "democracy" throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardised not only US security but that of much of the rest of the world. This situation has no equal in American political history. Why has the US been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of another state? One might assume that the bond between the two countries was based on shared strategic interests or compelling moral imperatives, but neither explanation can account for the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the US provides."
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- Truthdig - Reports - Bernie Sanders' Independent Revolution
- Mar 26, 2006 12:08am
 (1 review) politics http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2006... - by Blair Golson
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From the page: "The important issue for today is for people to understand that we're dealing with the most reactionary government in the modern history of the United States, and it's absolutely imperative to replace the Republican leadership in the House and the Senate and simultaneously it's vitally important that we organize from one end of the country to the other a strong grass-roots movement which fights for progressive change in our country, and which takes power away not only from Republicans but from the big- money interests who dominate our economy, our political life and the media. Those are the goals I have, and that's what I think the times call for."
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- Bush shuns Patriot Act requirement - The Boston Globe
- Mar 24, 2006 2:58pm (16 reviews) government, liberties, politics http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washin...
- by Charlie Savage
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From the page: "WASHINGTON -- When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was using the act's expanded police powers.
The bill contained several oversight provisions intended to make sure the FBI did not abuse the special terrorism-related powers to search homes and secretly seize papers. The provisions require Justice Department officials to keep closer track of how often the FBI uses the new powers and in what type of situations. Under the law, the administration would have to provide the information to Congress by certain dates.
Bush signed the bill with fanfare at a White House ceremony March 9, calling it ''a piece of legislation that's vital to win the war on terror and to protect the American people." But after the reporters and guests had left, the White House quietly issued a ''signing statement," an official document in which a president lays out his interpretation of a new law."
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- New York in Black and White (Broadband recommended) - Cyburbia Forums
- Mar 24, 2006 12:07am (57 reviews) new-york http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/showthrea...
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- Afghanistan: The Other War
- Mar 23, 2006 9:36pm (1 review) politics, war, afghanistan http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060327/pa...
- by Christian Parenti
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From the page: "Our Humvee jolts and sways against another cold dirt track in Parwan Province, an hour north of Kabul. On the road thin shadows from barren winter orchards lie like dark lacework and flicker across the Humvee's hood and windshield.
A landscape of adobe-walled villages, empty fields, horse carts and dramatic sharp mountains slides by. Inside the armored Humvee we listen to music on a dusty iPod and two speakers that are jacked into the vehicle's nervous system. Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" rolls up on the iPod. The lyrics, though older than most of the soldiers on this patrol, capture the squad's mix of homesickness and political cynicism: "Now Watergate does not bother me/Does your conscience bother you?" No one talks much about Afghanistan.
I am riding along with these two Humvees from the 164th Military Police Company to observe the American effort at keeping a lid on the Afghan caldron. I also want to compare US methods with those of the European troops who are taking over an ever larger part of the military mission here."
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- A Collapsing Presidency by Paul Craig Roberts
- Mar 21, 2006 2:26am (5 reviews) politics http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/rober...
- From the page: "The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that President Bush's support among the American people has fallen to 33%. Even more devastatingly, the survey finds that people's most frequently used one-word description of President Bush is "incompetent."
The chief chaplain for the New York City Corrections Department told a Tucson audience that "the greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House." Two years ago when New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was suppressing demonstrations at the Republican National Convention, the chief chaplain would have been fired for his remarks, but not today."
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- OpEdNews » Wanna Make This About Who’s Hurting America? Bring it On!
- Mar 20, 2006 9:33pm (2 reviews) politics http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_...
- by Andrew Bard Schmookler
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From the page: "This is a battle eminently worth joining. On the one side we have the Bushites who continually work to keep us Americans frightened of the terrorists. Sure, they pose a threat that needs to be addressed. But we shouldn't be so frightened of the terrorists that we lose our cool and throw out the great gift of our Constitutional government. What we should be most frightened of is losing that great gift.
That's the message from our Founding Fathers embedded in that oath of office: the key to our future is to preserve our constitutional system. So long as we have that, we can deal with whatever else history sends our way--including enemies that would attack us from without. In that constitutional system of checks and balances we find the proof that the danger that concerned our Founders most was the rise to power of domestic enemies to our Constitution."
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- Thomas Paine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Mar 20, 2006 5:12pm (12 reviews) activism, american-history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pain...
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- http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20060320/1a_bottomstrip20.ar...
- Mar 20, 2006 4:55pm (3 reviews) politics http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/new...
- Lawmakers get out of the House
by Kathy Kiely
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From the page: "WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives is on track this year to be in session for fewer days than the Congress Harry Truman labeled as "do-nothing" during his 1948 re-election campaign.
Members of Congress are taking an entire week off for St. Patrick's Day. It's the latest scheduling innovation to give members more time to meet with constituents.
Through Friday, the House was in session for 19 days, compared with 33 for the Senate. If they stick to their current schedule -- including two weeks off in April, a week in May and July, plus all of August -- House members will spend 97 days in Washington this year."
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- OpEdNews » Americas Last Throes
- Mar 20, 2006 1:18pm (2 reviews) activism, politics http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_...
- by Joaquín Ramón Herrera
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From the page: "I find I have little to say, lately, on the entire Bush tyranny.
I've been raging inside over the miscarriage of justice that has been going on since 2000. I've written hundreds of posts, I've lost friendships over the election, I've taken to the streets in protest and been locked up in a barbed wire makeshift jail for over 50 hours without talking to a lawyer, I've worn shirts conveying my feelings, I've sent money to help those in the cause, I've written letters to congress, sent emails, signed petitions.
To be honest, "miscarriage of justice" is not the correct phrase. A miscarriage is not purposely achieved. This bloody, clotted mess the Bush junta has strewn upon our plates is an abortion of justice. It is a hot, stinking, mangled mess of death and loss, dropped right down into our trusting embrace, and we are still in so much denial that we are scolding the baby, telling it to get up and walk.
Offensive imagery? You don't know the half of what I have to say. And a third of that, I cannot, for I would probably be picked up and swiftly shipped to a gulag. I damn well hope you are offended. For myself, I am beyond offended. I am shrieking inside over this gross, aberration we call George W. Bush, and his group of leftover Nixonites. The ex-cheerleader turned dictator wags his head and opens his mouth, and the putrid miasma of his secret agenda stinks up my mind so terribly that I begin ranting, my words an attempt to clear the room of trickery, greed, and artless prevarication. Democracy? He is spreading insanity, and I have caught the fever. "
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