Posts Tagged ‘Neo-Conservatives’
Americans to hold “Burn a Koran Day” on 11 September 2010
Southern Poverty Law Center | By Alexander Zaitchik | 22 July 2010 Coming Soon: 'International Burn a Koran Day' After years of having the field all to himself, Westboro Baptist Church leader and gay-basher extraordinaire Fred Phelps might finally have some competition for the title of America’s most media-hungry hate-church [...]
Ex-M15 spy chief: Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11
China Daily | 20 July 2010 Ex-M15 spy chief: No link between Iraq and 9/11 "Our involvement in Iraq radicalized, for want of a better word, a whole generation of young people - not a whole generation, a few among a generation - who saw our involvement in Iraq, on top of our involvement in Afghanistan as being an attack on Islam," she [...]
Ho-Hum! More Racism in America
Washington Post | By Greg Sargent | 14 July 2010 Latest right wing attack: Obama only cares about black victims of terrorism This has to be the dumbest attack yet: Some on the right are on a tear because President Obama allegedly said Al Qaeda kills Africans because the organization is "racist." The hint here is that Obama cares more about [...]
Obama compared to Hitler, Lenin
Deccan Chronicle | 14 July 2010 Washington: The US President, Mr Barack Obama, has been compared to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin in a billboard by a local protest movement in Iowa state. The North Iowa Tea Party in a billboard in Mason City shows photographs of Obama, Hitler and Lenin with the statement: "Radical leaders prey on the [...]
Republicans Likely to Retake U.S. Congress
Pravda.ru | By Sergei Balmasov | 13 July 2010 Hawks Land at US Congress Read the original in Russian The control of the lower house of the American parliament, the Congress, could fall into the hands of Republican hawks. The Democrats who currently have the majority in Congress think that this is possible. In particular, such an [...]
Stirrings of a New Push for Military Option on Iran
Antiwar | By Jim Lobe | 10 July 2010 "From a marketing point of view, you don’t introduce new products in August," explained then-White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card back in September 2002, in answer to queries about why the administration of George W. Bush had not launched its campaign to rally public opinion behind invading Iraq [...]
Republican, Mark Kirk, to Seek Obama’s Senate Seat
Wall Street Journal | By Douglas Belkin | 3 February 2010 Kirk Wins Illinois Republican Primary CHICAGO -- In the first midterm election of the year, with the U.S. Senate seat once occupied by President Barack Obama up for grabs, voters sent a moderate five-term congressman from a wealthy suburb to face off against a 33-year-old state [...]
The Un-Americanism of Americans Electing Obama
Wall Street Journal | By Fouad Ajami | 2 February 2010 The Obama Spell Is Broken Unlike this president, John Kennedy was an ironist who never fell for his own mystique. (more...)
George W. Obama: War We Can Believe In
The American Conservative | By Andrew J. Bacevich | 1 February 2010 Issue No Exit America has an impressive record of starting wars but a dismal one of ending them well. President Obama’s decision to escalate U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan earned him at most two muted cheers from Washington’s warrior-pundits. Sure, the [...]
No gaffe: Clinton’s remarks make public a secret US-Israel understanding
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's ostensibly contradictory statement during her recent Middle East visit — declaring in Israel that "There has never been a pre-condition . It's always been an issue within the negotiations" while stating several days later during a visit to Morocco that there was no change in the American policy — is [...]
