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Afutilestan (II)

by Propagandee October 8, 2009

Urban renewal, Afghanistan style
Under its own heading, FEAR OF A FUTILE MISSION INCREASES, Huffpo links to an article in today’s Time’s Online that provides another point of view about current conditions in Afghanistan. While we’ve heard plenty from military commanders, diplomats, politicians, and the punditocracy, we haven’t heard anything from the grunts on the [...]

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Afutilestan

by Propagandee September 21, 2009

The contents of General McCrystal’s top-down review of Afghanistan ordered by President Obama found its way into the front pages of the NY Times and Washington Post today. As expected, it paints a grim picture and calls for more of everything– more troops, more money, more nation building– on top of the $ 4 [...]

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Cheney Agrees To Star In Memento Remake

by Propagandee May 27, 2009

Dick Cheney reprising the role of Guy Pearce
So where are you?  You’re in some motel room underground bunker. You just – you just wake up and you’re in – in a motel room bunker. There’s the key. It feels like maybe it’s just the first time you’ve been there, but perhaps you’ve been there [...]

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Torture In Context

by Propagandee April 22, 2009

Demonstrating an “enhanced interrogation technique”
In 1999, Bush’s family biographer, Mickey Herskowitz, reports that W. told him he was intent on invading Iraq, saying that his status as a war time president would give him enough political capital to push through his conservative domestic agenda.
(That would include the privatization of social security whose blood rich corpse [...]

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Strange Bedfellows

by Michael Hart April 12, 2009

You can live with each other, you just can’t be married.

“And who knows which is which, and who is who”
—Pink Floyd

The long evolutionary heritage of religion has always been inextricably linked with the forms and functions of the evolution of government.  Long ago, the early tribal shamans were the go-to guys for all the practices [...]

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White House Aide Trampled To Death

by Propagandee December 1, 2008

Bush bids farewell

White House Employee Trampled To Death As Bush Aides Flee
Jan. 19, 2009
WASHINGTON D.C. [C.U.News] —  Long time White House doorman, Oscar Willit, who served four different presidents, died in a stampede today as aides to President Bush and Vice President Cheney fled the building in advance of the incoming Obama Administration.
“It [...]

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Who Does She Remind You Of? UPDATED

by Michael Hart September 25, 2008

“And as our leaders are telling us, in our military, we do need to, ramp it up in Afghanistan, counting on our friends and allies to assist with us there, becuzz these terrists— who hate Amirrica, they hate what we stand for, with the… the freedoms, the democracy, the the women’s rights, the tolerince, they hate what it is that we represent, and, our allies, too, and our friends, what they represent.” Sigh.

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Sow The Wind, Reap The Economic Whirlwind

by Propagandee August 15, 2008

A number of significant economic statistics were announced yesterday: inflation hit a 71/2 year high; consumer earning power declined 3 1/2% from last year; and home foreclosures rose 55%.
Fueling these economic fires has been the soaring cost of the Iraq war and occupation.
Using credit cards, American taxpayers bought huge amounts of stock in Corporate America’s [...]

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Is McSame a Hypocrite Or Merely Senile?

by Propagandee August 13, 2008

At a press conference today meant to display John McSame’s superior foreign policy credentials, the Rethuglicans‘ reality challenged presidential candidate either had a senior moment, or he believes that the corporatist media is so in the tank for him that he is free to utter even the most egregious hypocritical pronouncements and escape scrutiny.
Case [...]

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The Surge Is Not A Success

by Propagandee August 2, 2008

                 Urban renewal project in beautiful downtown Baghdad
Chris Matthews‘ substitute host, McCain enthusiast Mike Barnicle, reacted incredulously Wednesday to a comment by Iraq war vet Jon Soltz, co-founder and chairman of VoteVets.org, that the so-called “surge” has not been a success. Pressed by Barnicle, who refelcts the corporatist media’s official narrative of [...]

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Wrecking the Economy

by Propagandee July 29, 2008

Impact of two terms of Bush’s management of the US Economy
The Bush Administration today issued a mind boggling record deficit projection of $482 billion for 2009. And that’s not even counting the off-budget estimated $80 billion being spent in Iraq and Afghanistan, nor the cost of the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac and homeowner bailout bill.
That’s a [...]

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Change You Can’t Believe In

by Propagandee July 23, 2008

Photo of McSame’s Botched Nip/Tuck & Hormone Treatment Said to Resemble Trash Media’s Bat Boy

ABOARD THE DOUBLE TALK EXPRESS  (C.U. News) — In an effort to close the perceived and actual age gap between himself and his much younger rival for the presidency, presumptive Republican candidate John McSame has apparently taken the advice of [...]

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Obama’s Cites Environmental Challenges As Greatest National Security Threat

by Propagandee July 15, 2008

Findings of the US Climate Change Science Program
While the vast amount of media coverage of Obama’s speech on national security today will focus on Iraq and Afghanistan, I would note what Obama himself says is the greatest single security threat to the US (and the world):
This immediate danger is eclipsed only by the [...]

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Israel Appeases Syria

by Propagandee May 24, 2008

Last week in a speech before Israel’s parliament, The Knesset, George W. Bush implied that Barack Obama was a terraist appeaser for his willingness to talk to evil doers like Iran and Syria. His foreign policy clones, John McSame and his Svengali adviser, Joe LIEberman immediately piled on, citing Barack’s inexperience and naiveté.
One has to [...]

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McCain’s Note In The Wall

by Michael Hart March 19, 2008

God how the dead men
Grin by the wall.
Watching the fun
Of the Victory Ball.

—Alfred Noyes

John and Cindy McCain, (who was not actually there but sent a clone), looking appropriately Hasidic at the Western Wall
Michael D. Shear, WaPo wrote:
JERUSALEM — What was supposed to be a somber visit by Sen. John McCain to the [...]

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