From todays globalecho !
Robert Fisk: America slowly confronts the truth
The old media dog sniffed the air, found power was moving away from the
White House, and began to drool
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6022
Dahr Jamail: "Pacified" Fallujah
Yesterday
morning on NPR (National Pentagon Radio) their reporter in Baghdad was
asked if he felt what Mr. Bush said in a recent speech was true-was the
US military strategy in Iraq working? He replied that he felt what Mr.
Bush said was true in some cases, like in Fallujah. The NPR reporter
referred to Fallujah as "pacified."
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6021
Isabel MacDonald: MINUSTAH in Cite Soleil
Luckson
Docius, a 48-year old metalworker who supported his family of seven by
making saucepans was at work on November 24 when a bullet fired by a UN
“peacekeeper” working with the UN Mission for Stabilization in Haiti
(MINUSTAH) ripped through the metal wall of his studio and killed him.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6020
Anatol Lieven: Decadent America Must Give Up Imperial Ambitions
U.S.
global power, as presently conceived by the overwhelming majority of
the U.S. establishment, is unsustainable. To place American power on a
firmer footing requires putting it on a more limited footing. Despite
the lessons of Iraq, this is something that American policymakers -
Democrat and Republican, civilian and military - still find extremely
difficult to think about.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6018
William Bowles: On the road to Damascus
Oil
in the next war will occupy the place of coal in the present war, or at
least a parallel place to coal. The only big potential supply that we
can get under British control is the Persian and Mesopotamian supply .…
Control over these oil supplies becomes a first class British war aim –
Sir Maurice Hankey in 1918 and Britain’s First Secretary of the War
Cabinet
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6016
Daniela Estrada: Media Democracy Must Sprout From the Grassroots
Civil
society must lead the democratisation of the media, an issue that was
barely touched on at the recent World Summit on the Information
Society, said participants at an international meeting in the Chilean
capital.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6017
Zen Toro: Death Before Dishonor
I
cannot support a msn [mission] that leads to corruption, human rights
abuse and liars. I am sullied," it says. "I came to serve honorably and
feel dishonored.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6015
Mike Head: Australian government insists on sedition clauses in
new terrorism legislation
Organisations
to be outlawed and individuals jailed for “urging disaffection” with
the government or expressing sympathy for resistance to Australian
military interventions, such as the one currently underway in Iraq.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6013
Elizabeth Wilmshurst: It is time for Britain to come clean on its part in
rendition
Allegations
about the use of British airports to refuel CIA planes carrying
terrorist suspects to countries where they are to be interrogated and
tortured raise the question whether this has anything to do with us.
Why should the UK be involved or concerned?
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6014
Patrick Cockburn: Military progress claimed by White House is an illusion
The
Iraqi armed forces on the ground in Baghdad look very different from
the encouraging picture of them painted by President George Bush. Its
men are often packed into pathetically vulnerable convoys of ageing
white pick-up trucks.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6012
Ziauddin Sardar: The next holocaust
Islamophobia
is not a uniquely British disease: across Europe, liberals openly
express prejudice against Muslims. Do new pogroms beckon?
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6011
Chris Floyd: Masked Man
The
recent revelations about the virulent spread of death squads ravaging
Iraq have only confirmed for many people the lethal incompetence of the
Bush Regime, whose brutal bungling appears to have unleashed the demon
of sectarian strife in the conquered land. The general reaction, even
among some war supporters, has been bitter derision: "Jeez, these bozos
couldn't boil an egg without causing collateral damage."
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6009
John Hepburn: GM Rice No Solution To Poverty And Starvation
World
Food Day, which was celebrated recently, is a time of year to reflect
on where our food comes from, on the abundance of food for some, and
the lack of access for so many others. It is a time to reflect on the
history of food, and the future of food.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6008
Gabriele Zamparini: The Face of War
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but
an act of murder. - Albert Einstein
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6007
Mike Whitney: Riding with the Bad Boys - The rise of Iraqi death
squads
The
New York Times confirmed today that the "Iraqi (security) forces are
carrying out executions in predominantly Sunnis neighborhoods."
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6006
Philip Challinor: We weren't always this ethical, you know
Now, here's a shock: the Foreign Office has not always told the truth.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6005
Tim Howells: How our governments use terrorism to control us
The
sponsorship of terrorism by western governments, targeting their own
populations, has been a taboo subject. Although major scandals have
received cursory coverage in the media, the subject has been allowed to
immediately disappear without discussion or investigation. Therefore
the appearance this year of two major studies of this subject is a
welcome breakthrough, and provides essential reading for anyone
struggling to understand the events of September 11, 2001 and the post
September 11 world.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6004
Mark Steel: The need for a modern free market in torture
Before long there'll be league tables so customers can decide which
torturer to attend
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6003
Shannon Jones: Probe exposes criminal methods in Republican right
takeover of US Public TV
A
report issued by the inspector general of the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting (CPB) reveals that its former chairman, Kenneth Tomlinson,
violated federal laws in his efforts to refashion public radio and
television as propaganda organs for the Republican right and the Bush
administration. The report suggests that the entire CPB board was to
one degree or another complicit in Tomlinson’s actions.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6002
Wadah Khanfar: Why did you want to bomb me, Mr Bush and Mr Blair?
Al-Jazeera's quest for answers has been met with silence from both the
White House and Downing Street
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5999
Stephen J. Lendman: Comments on Norman Finklestein's new book - 'Beyond
Chutzpah'
Dr.
Finklestein knew full well because of his great credibility, integrity
and reputation for meticulous scholarship he would have to brace for
the inevitable assault against him after or even before publication. It
certainly came and quite viciously - cancelled scheduled appearances to
discuss his book, an effort to keep it from being published and more.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=5522