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• Imperialism's Rant

  Published: August 29, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Ted Nugent, Iran, Imperialism, Iraq, American Empire

  of a concerted effort (imperialism) by the powers that be to reduce the debate in this country to a driveling, unimaginative, inane, rant. A rant that benefits neither the speaker nor the listener, all it does is create a greater ignorance and further distances any hope of our actually hearing the truth , or better yet, acting upon

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• Bin Laden Transcript

  Published: September 8, 2007, 9:08 am

  Tags: Osama Bin Laden, Wahhabism, Bin Laden, Imperialism, Bin Laden Inc, Saudi Arabia, 9 11, Middle East

  is asymmetrical Imperialism versus the new Imperium. The modern manichiest duality. Bin Laden Inc. is a Muslim engineering, security and banking corporation in competition for regional hegemony with USA Inc. and it's partner's Halliburton and Bechtel. Not to be confused with the family business back in Saudi Arabia.The Saudi

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• Truth A Casualty of War

  Published: September 12, 2007, 9:33 am

  Tags: Osama Bin Laden, Conspiracy Theories, Conspiracy, Bin Laden, Imperialism, Bin Laden Inc, 9 11, Middle East, Wmd

  Iraq, US, libertarian, Imperialism,Osama bin Laden, bin-Laden Inc., beinLaden, Al-Qaeda, Spectacle, Debord, Situationist, War, Bush, 9/11, Iraq, Imperialism, Terrorism, terror, bin-Laden, Osama, UsamaAmerican Revolution, Federalists, Anti-Federalists, Federalist Papers, Secret Societies, NWO, New World Order, Society of the Cincinnati,

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• *Poke Poke Poke*

  Published: September 16, 2007, 2:54 pm

  Tags: Proxy War, Punk, Africa, Icu, Imperialism, Somalia, Realism, Video, Gwot, Bloggy Mcbloggerson, Friends, Human Rights Watch, Ethiopia, Al Qaeda

  I really wish von still hung around my all-time favourite regular online haunt*, Obsidian Wings. Would love to see if this would cause him to at least reconsider his stubborn contention that US proxy ally Ethiopia = teh good guys teh lesser evil. (Butbutbut teh radical ICU wuz harbourin ur Al Qaedaz in Somalia - surgical strikes FTW!!111 Oops,

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• Quote of the Day 2: No Loose Cannon'

  Published: September 18, 2007, 7:37 pm

  Tags: Neocons, Foreign Affairs, Sarkozy, Hawks, Bernard Kouchner, Imperialism, France, Iran

  The rhetoric from Paris clearly makes an attack on Iran more likely. Until Kouchner and Sarkozy weighed into the debate, it was possible to argue (not entirely inaccurately) that the only real war party in western governments, was confined to a coterie of unrepentant neo-cons, grouped around Vice-President Cheney. But now that even France is

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• Quote of the Day: Imperial Ventriloquism

  Published: September 19, 2007, 8:36 pm

  Tags: Colonialism, Occupation, Imperialism, Iraq

  The basic reality in wars of occupation–see the history of colonialism–is that a country can never regain true sovereignty so long as the occupying army remains on the scene, able to impose its will by force of arms. That of course is Iraq’s situation, no matter what the White House says or Americans wish to believe. Iraq will

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• Revisiting Paris 1919

  Published: September 28, 2007, 11:29 pm

  Tags: Nationalism, Separatism, Sovereignty, Federalism, Partition, Occupation, Joe Biden, Imperialism, Blackwater, Iraq

  The other night Kyle expressed (lukewarm) support for Joe Biden’s (non-binding) partition resolution, which was “overwhelmingly endorsed” by the Senate 75-23, including 26 Republican votes. Others aren’t so hot on the idea. Toby Dodge, consulting senior fellow for the Middle East at the International Institute for

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• Quote Of The Day: A Message To All The Gertrude Bell Wannabes In Washington

  Published: October 1, 2007, 9:49 pm

  Tags: Hubris, Shia, Parliament, Isci, Partition, Occupation, Iraq, Imperialism, Congress

  ”We reject this decision.” - Iraqi PM Nuri al-Maliki, responding to the recent non-binding U.S. Senate resolution calling for the creation of separate Sunni, Shi’ite and Kurdish federal regions. More from the LA Times, noting the resolution “has backfired in Baghdad, where it has been interpreted in light of

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• DanKeating, the last IRA veteran of the War of Independence dies at 105

  Published: October 4, 2007, 8:17 pm

  Tags: Dan Keating Rip 1902 2007, Anti Imperialism Ireland Politics British Empire, Ira, History, War Of Independence, Irish Civil War, Dan Keating

  anti Imperialism/Ireland/politics/British Empire/, IRA, History, war of independence, Irish Civil War,

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• al-Maliki: Senate Proposal "a Catastrophe"

  Published: September 28, 2007, 8:28 pm

  Tags: Joe Biden, Imperialism, Iraq Occupation, Nouri Al Mailiki

  Iraq PM: Senate Proposal "a Catastrophe"CBS News/The Associated Pressvia t r u t h o u t, Friday 28 September 2007 Prime Minister sharply rejects government decentralization plan pushed by Biden, others.Baghdad - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Friday rejected a U.S. Senate proposal calling for the decentralization of Iraq's government

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• America and Turkey plan to grab Kurdish land and oil.

  Published: October 15, 2007, 11:55 am

  Tags: Exxonmobil Kurdistan Iraq Oil Kirkuk Turkey, Usa Turkey Imperialism Kurds Kurdistan Iraq, Exxon Mobil

  George Bush and the Neo Cons have secret plans with Turkey to grab Kurdish oil.The international markets showed just how important the area is in terms of oil, by pushing oil prices up to a record price, just on the worry of a Turkish invasion.America is pretending, not very convincingly, to oppose an invasion of Kurdistan by Turkey.Yet all the

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• Tuesday Night Tidbits: 101.5 Degrees of Separation

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:12 am

  Tags: Power, Geopolitics, Link Farmin, Hegemony, Political Theory, Iraq, Oil, Imperialism, Iran

  Am weak, feverish and not at all in any condition (nor state of mind) to write (not coherently, at least). Instead, I’m happy to present some recent choice selections from other (far more) capable and coherent scribes (all of whom actually get paid to report/opine. Sigh.) In an interview with Der Spiegel, U.S. military historian

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• Quote of the Day 2: [T]he Term That Fits It Best Is Imperialist

  Published: October 22, 2007, 9:29 pm

  Tags: Spencer Ackerman, Marty Peretz, John B Judis, Jamie Kirchick, Tnr, Wwi, Video, Music, Imperialism, History, Bush

  States is not engaged in imperialism. America is not “an imperial power,” but a “liberating power,” he has declared. But Bush’s denial rings as hollow as Gladstone’s. What Bush has done in Iraq, rather than what he says he has done, is to revive an imperialist foreign policy, reminiscent of the British and

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• Quote of the Day: Embracing Irony

  Published: October 22, 2007, 7:55 pm

  Tags: Ussr, Militarism, Authoritarianism, Hawks, Imperialism, Cheney, Human Rights, Iran

  It’s really an appallingly strange time in our country. We have a singularly powerful Vice-President (compared to any of his predecessors)–openly quite enamored by the tactics employed by the Soviet Union–our former arch-foe whose human rights standards we derided. Indeed, we fought a decades-long Cold War so that Western style

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• Why Is The Middle East So Volatile?

  Published: October 24, 2007, 10:24 am

  Tags: Imperialism, War In Iraq, War, Religion, Middle East, History, Empire

  How did we get here? Why is there so much strife in the Middle East? Why are there so many deadly competing cultural, national, political and economic interests there? What is the history behind it all? How can we understand it all without spending years and years becoming becoming scholars of Comparative Religion or Historians?There is no easy

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