The Independent June 2, 2008

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/fisk/robert-fisk-so-alqaidas-defeated-eh-go-tell-it-to-the-marines-837843.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/fisk/robert-fisk-so-alqaidas-defeated-eh-go-tell-it-to-the-marines-837843.html (Keep reading…)

TruthOut June 15, 2008 http://www.truthout.org/article/how-do-you-say-justice-mixteco

FRESNO, CA (6/15/08) — Erasto Vasquez was surprised to see a forklift appear one morning outside his trailer near the corner of East and Springfield, two small rural roads deep in the grapevines ten miles southwest of Fresno. He and his neighbors pleaded with the driver, but to no avail. The machine uprooted the fence Vasquez had built around his home, and left it smashed in the dirt. Then the forklift’s metal tines lifted the side of one trailer high into the air. It groaned and tipped over, with a family’s possessions still inside. (Keep reading…)

http://www.countercurrents.org/leopold180608.htm

18 June, 2008 Countercurrents.org

Top Pentagon officials developed the harsh interrogation methods used against detainees at Guantanamo less than a month before the Justice Department issued two now repudiated memorandums that gave interrogators legal cover to employ the tactics, according to documents released Tuesday by the Senate Armed Services Committee. (Keep reading…)

In trying to please ultra-Zionists, Barack Obama is ignoring Israel’s long-term interests

The Guardian, June 5, 2008 (Keep reading…)

June 14, 2008 The Nation

Barack Obama waited just three days after Hillary Clinton pulled out of the race to declare, on CNBC, “Look. I am a pro-growth, free-market guy. I love the market.” (Keep reading…)

The American Conservative June 2, 2008

Pay no mind to the Mossad agent on the line. 

After Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was sentenced to life in prison in 1986, the U.S. negotiated an understanding with Israel—a “gentlemen’s agreement” —stipulating that neither nation would thenceforth conduct espionage operations in the other’s territory without consent. But the agreement was a sham from the beginning. The Israeli government didn’t even honor its commitments in the aftermath of the Pollard case, failing to return the estimated 360 cubic feet of stolen information to enable the U.S. to conduct a damage assessment. The United States, for its part, continued to recruit and run agents inside Israel throughout the 1980s and 1990s. And it was known within the intelligence and counterintelligence communities that Israel did the same in the United States. David Szady, the FBI’s assistant director for counterintelligence, was so dismayed by the level of Israeli spying in the late ’90s that he called in the head of the Israeli Embassy’s Central Institute for Intelligence and Special Activities (Mossad) office and told him, “Knock it off.”  (Keep reading…)

HuffingtonPost.com  June 6, 2008  

It was so sad. To see a grown tower of a man come to his knees. Just like everyone before him, the presumptive Democratic nominee followed the suit of all US political leaders before him and bowed down at the footsteps of the pro Israel lobby. What happened to the anti lobby nominee? On the day his nomination had been sealed, at a time when his chances of being elected had been all but ensured, Barack Obama failed the test. What happened to the nominee who was going to change the way Washington was run? What happened to the promise of “I will tell you what you have to hear, not what you love to hear?”  (Keep reading…)

Special to Canadian Dimension June 5,2008 (Keep reading…)

The Daily Star (Beirut) Friday, May 30, 2008

As a result of misguided American policy, the threat of another military confrontation hangs like a dark cloud over the Middle East. The United States’ enemies have been strengthened, and Iran - despite being branded as a member of the so-called “axis of evil” - has been catapulted into regional hegemony. Iran could never have achieved this on its own, certainly not in such a short time. (Keep reading…)

28/05/08 “TruthDig http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080527_where_is_the_outrage/ “

Are we Americans truly savages or merely tone-deaf in matters of morality, and therefore more guilty of terminal indifference than venality? It’s a question demanding an answer in response to the publication of the detailed 370-page report http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/s0805/final.pdf on U.S. complicity in torture, issued last week by the Justice Department’s inspector general. (Keep reading…)