THE (almost) DAILY BUZZSAW_- LINKS - Tuesday September 10, 2002
NEW: DAMNED BIG DIFFERENCE! Democrats take note! "Ralph Nader and the Green Party claim there is no difference between the Democratic and Republican parties."
damnedbigdifference.org
Some of us suspect that Ralph Nader is a "agent provacateur" working for the GHP (Grand Hypocrisy Party) to divide and conquer the Democratic vote. Hell, it worked in Florida! Media Whores Online is all over this Nader chicanery. Cf. Ed DeGaa candidacy against Paul Wellstone in Minnesota. Greens should be ashamed!
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BRZEZINSKI OUTED: Imperialism's quiet player from the Carter team is written up in a couple of intriguing items here:
fair.org
Amazing and brutal honesty about our gamesmanship in Afghanistan from 1978 on, Le Nouvel Observateur interview:
LNO: When the Soviets justified their intervention (in 1979) by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don't regret anything today?
BRZEZINSKI: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.…
LNO: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
BRZEZINSKI: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war? <Continues.....>
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"On August 1, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline Company (BTC Co.) was founded to construct and operate the long awaited pipeline that will bring oil from the Caspian oil fields of Azerbaijan to the Mediterranean Sea." Brzezinski is on the Board of Directors.....
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GUARDIAN-UK: PROPAGANDA Hertzgaard - "Why we still don't get it:Americans are badly served by semi-official media propaganda" Excellent discussion of the failure of the American press to inform the public.
guardian.co.uk
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INDEPENDENT-UK: Robert Fisk - "Bush is intent on painting allies and enemies in Middle East as Evil"
news.independent.co.uk
Quotes: "When he addresses the United Nations on Thursday, George Bush will be threatening not only Iraq -which had absolutely nothing to do with the crimes against humanity in New York and Washington - but Syria, Iran and, by extension, Saudi Arabia and Egypt."
With the "Syrian Accountability Act," Bush intends to paint all of the Middle East (except Israel) as evil.
"Now President Bush seems set on following the colonial powers into the region for another military and political adventure - ostensibly to spread "democracy" among those nations it most despises (Iraq, Palestine and Iran) but in fact more likely to increase American control of an increasingly anti-Western Arab world."
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NY TIMES: Maureen Dowd: The Surreal World of the Washington Press Corps:
nytimes.com
Dateline Tuesday:
At 1:40 p.m., federal workers wheeled "Break glass in case of emergency" gas mask cabinets into a Congressional press gallery.
At 2:30 p.m., Representative Billy Tauzin declared he was at the end of his rope with Martha Stewart and the resident declared he was at the end of his rope with Saddam Hussein.
At 4:26 p.m., Donald Rumsfeld had live ammunition readied for loading into anti-aircraft batteries around Washington.
[[So is the game intimidation, terrorization and bluff? ]]
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XYMPHORA: Excellent 9/11 information in today's item.
xymphora.blogspot.com |
