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Endgame for Iraqi Oil? The Sovereignty Showdown in Iraq.
notqueThe expiration date that Iraq has now set for the operation of a multinational force on its territory coincides almost exactly with the end of the Bush administration. As that date nears, the endgame question may become: How far can the administration go in repudiating its own erstwhile agenda and returning Iraq to its pre-war status -- that is, to U.S.-backed Sunni domination of Iraqi domestic politics. That would, of course, result in armed Iraqi hostility to the administration's enemy of enemies in the region, Iran, and a resigned return to collaboration with the Saudi-dominated Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in the management of the world oil market, all under a largely offshore U.S. military umbrella. Will the fallback dream now be the one the President's father entertained after Gulf War I -- the creation in Baghdad of a kinder, gentler Saddam Hussein with whom, to use the classic phrase, the U.S. can "do business"?
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Audio: A Fragment of Time #3 by Andy Nemmity. Comedy / Politics / Music
New "A Fragment of Time". Please listen, even in the background. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. Ways to make it better. Your opinion matters to me, and I think you'll enjoy this. Thanks.
Discussion includes Nuremberg, War Crimes, Comedy, Chile, Salvador Allende, More Comedy, Music. It's something that sounds really good to me, and you're not going to hear this anywhere else. Please listen.
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Torture, Paramilitarism, Occupation and Genocide; Torture as U.S. Policy
The October, 2006 Military Commissions Act followed, appropriately called the "torture authorization act." It gives the administration extraordinary unconstitutional powers to detain, interrogate and prosecute alleged terror suspects and anyone thought to be their supporters. The law lets the president designate anyone in the world an "unlawful enemy combatant," without corroborating evidence, and order they be arrested and incarcerated indefinitely in military prisons outside the criminal justice system without habeas and due process rights. US citizens aren't exempt. We're all "enemy combatants" under this law. Anyone charged under it loses all constitutionally protected rights and can be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment including torture.
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October 27 March & Rally in Los Angeles: Mass Protest
If anyone else is marching or rallying on Oct 27th, or this weekend please comment with links to what is going on. This can be a center for discussion of resistance this weekend, or just show your support for the protest efforts.
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Audio: A Fragment of Time #2 by Andy Nemmity. An Hour Long. On Anarchism
An hour long radio show on Anarchism with music and comedy. May offend. Punk Rock music, and cursing. If you like what I submit generally, please listen. Really appreciate your ears.
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US media control in Iraq and elsewhere
In this operation in Iraq, the US was following a pattern used repeatedly around the globe to alter local public opinion and international perceptions by gaining influence with the dominant news outlets In repeated instances, the US has used under-the-table payments to newspaper owners and journalists to turn leading publications against nationalist leaders who were democratically elected but whose economic policies clashed with the interests of US-based multinational corporations.
Notable examples of this have occurred in Iran in the early 1950’s before the 1953 US-British coup against democratically elected President Mohammed Mossadegh; in Chile where El Mercurio was used as a weapon by the US against democratic socialist President Salvador Allende; in Jamaica in the 1970’s where The Daily Gleaner waged a relentless campaign against another democratic socialist, Prime Minister Michael Manley; and in Nicaragua, where La Prensa was an incessant source of attacks on the Sandinista government of Daniel Ortega, democratically elected in 1984
These papers relentlessly promoted false "news" aimed at undermining the governments' public standing, reported non-existent shortages to create a "run" on a particular item and thus induce an actual shortage as people hoarded it, defended hostile actions both economic and military by the US, and generally served as a central front against democratic leaders who offended powerful US interests.
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