Is the Military Our Last, Best Hope for Averting War with Iran?

The last, best hope for averting a war with Iran lies with the United States military. The Democratic Congress, cowed by the Israel lobby and terrified of appearing weak on defense before the presidential elections, will do nothing to halt an attack. The media, especially the electronic press, is working overtime to whip up fear of a nuclear Iran and tar Tehran with abetting attacks against American troops in Iraq. The American public is complacent, unsure of what to believe, knocked off balance by fear and passive. We will be saved or doomed by our generals.

Veterans Oppose Iraq War

"We've been at this war now longer than World War II, we've lost approximately four thousand people in it and I don't see any end to it," says Warren Henthorn, who lost his son in Iraq.

18 Veterans Arrested in Antiwar Protest

More than a dozen members of an antiwar veterans group were arrested yesterday as they protested the exclusion of their message from Boston’s Veterans Day parade.

Meet Abu Abed: the US's new ally against al-Qaida

Abu Abed, a member of the insurgent Islamic Army, has recently become the commander of the US-sponsored "Ameriya Knights". He is one of the new breed of Sunni warlords who are being paid by the US to fight al-Qaida in Iraq. The Americans call their new allies Concerned Citizens.

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According to Government Accountability Office investigations -- and at least one criminal investigation -- over 190,000 weapons sent to Iraq for the Iraqi security forces disappeared almost as soon as they got off the C-17s. General Petraeus, who was in charge of the effort at the time, commented recently that he thought expeditious delivery of weapons was more important than proper bookkeeping.

Iraq: Call an air strike

[...] the Pentagon has practically finished a base in southern Iraq less than 10 kilometers from the border with Iran called Combat Outpost Shocker. The Pentagon maintains this is for the US to prevent Iranian weapons from being smuggled into Iraq. Rather, it's to control a rash of US covert, sabotage operations across the border targeting Iran's Khuzestan province.

Twenty Reasons against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

The hawks, headed by Dick Cheney in Washington , are now shamelessly calling for a military attack on Iran . The same Israeli lobby which pushed for the invasion of Iraq is now pushing for a military attack on Iran . The same distortions which were attempted to dupe the western public opinion for the invasion of Iraq , are now used to pave the way for another illegal pre-emptive war of aggression against Iran . As in the case of Iraq , the UN Security Council Resolutions against Iran , extricated through massive US pressure, are meant to provide a veneer of legitimacy for such an attack.

NJ School Cameras Fed Live to Cops

Surveillance cameras rolling inside our local schools is nothing new, but what’s taking place inside Demarest’s public schools is truly cutting edge: a live feed from more than two dozen cameras with a direct connection to the police.

Former Top Cop Indicted on Federal Fraud, Conspiracy Charges

ernard Kerik, the former head of the New York City Police Department, who was briefly a nominee to head the US Homeland Security Department, was arraigned Friday in US federal court in White Plains, New York on a 16-count indictment that includes felony charges of fraud and conspiracy.

Former Halliburton CEO Cheney laid the wreath as Bush hid on his ranch

Here we have the former CEO of Halliburton who has made money hand over fist through a company that has profited dearly from this war while our veterans are not treated with the respect they deserve.

Sex Determined Army Iraq Contracts

From 2005 through spring 2006, when the affair was allegedly taking place, the company's contracts increased from $3.8 million to $106 million.

MP says Kelly's 2003 death not suicide

LONDON (Reuters) - A former U.N. weapons inspector, whose death caused one of the biggest crises of Tony Blair's premiership, did not commit suicide as official accounts state, an MP claims in a new book.

$100 Oil May Mean Recession as U.S. Economy Hits `Danger Zone'

Rising fuel prices that businesses and consumers took in stride earlier this year may now be near the point of pushing the weakened U.S. economy into recession.

E*Trade Down 59 Percent on Losses and Bankruptcy Fear, ‘Bank Run’ Possible

E*Trade Financial Corp. lost more than half its market value after the online brokerage forecast a decline in fourth-quarter earnings and a Citigroup Inc. analyst said the company may go bankrupt.

Houston, we have a problem…

1.) We had three days of negative trading ending in a high-volume sell-off,
2.) The SPYs are below their 200 day SMA,
3.) The QQQQs broke their uptrend,
4.) Breadth is negative across the board, and
5.) The market’s fewer and fewer strong stocks all took hits last week that broke their uptrends.
6.) There is also the further complication of the CDO/mortgage issue. It’s quite possible that before the week is over we’ll see more write-down of mortgage portfolios.

Stocks collapse by the close!! Below 13,000!!!

Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Energy and metals companies sent stocks lower for a fourth day, the longest stretch of declines in eight months, after commodity prices dropped on concern economic growth is slowing.

Ron Paul’s Prescience

The neo-con oriented New York Sun comments that Rep. Ron Paul understands what is happening to the U.S. dollar - and predicted it in advance. In an editorial today, they state “Our own view is that Mr. Paul’s prescience on the dollar is one of the reasons he’s showing what the pundits are calling surprising strength on the hustings.”

Opinion Polls Skewed To Marginalize Ron Paul

Presidential candidate Ron Paul has broke fundraising records, consistently trounces the opposition in phone-in and Internet polls and the Texas Congressman always performs well at straw polls, yet is the reason for his meager support in national opinion polls partly due to a deliberate effort to skew the results?

Ron Paul Tea Party 07

On December 16th, 1773, American colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor to protest an oppressive tax. This December 16th, American citizens will dump millions of dollars into the Ron Paul presidential campaign to protest the oppressive and unconstitutional inflation tax (which has enabled a flawed foreign policy, a costly war and the sacrificing of our liberties here at home).

space defense program gets extra funding

The $459 billion bill, which awaits President Bush's signature, provides $100 million for a new "prompt global strike" program that could deliver a conventional, precision-guided warhead anywhere in the world within two hours.

The Torpedo that Hit the USS LIBERTY: Made in the USA?

In sum, in June 1967, after deliberately using fighter-bombers and torpedo boats to attack the USS Liberty for over two hours in an attempt to sink it and kill its entire crew, and then getting the U.S. government, the Navy, and the Congress to cover up what happened, the Israeli government learned that it could-literally-get away with murder.”

Judge orders White House to hold e-mails

WASHINGTON - A federal judge Monday ordered the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails, a move that Bush administration lawyers had argued strongly against.

GEORGE BUSH HAS ALWAYS LIKED TORTURE

On November 8, 1967 the NY Times recounted a Yale Daily News report that five fraternities had been accused of "sadistic and obscene" initiations. The paper said that Delta Kappa Epsilon had used a "hot branding iron" on the backs of new members and quoted a former Delta president, Georg Bush, then a senior, that the resulting wound was "only a cigarette burn."

Giuliani Buddy On Wrong Side of Law. Again.

Former Rep. John Sweeney was charged with aggravated DWI when he was pulled over by State Police early this morning on the Northway with a 23-year-old woman in his car, police told the Daily News.

ADL PISSED OFF AT GOOGLE

IRONY..... When a Hate Organisation such as the ADL attacks Google for refusing to censor hate material on the Web... in ISRAEL... the most hate ridden country in the world!

Nuclear papers, suicide weave Hawaii mystery

A visiting Taiwan national who was found hanging by a bedsheet in his Honolulu jail cell in 2003 was being investigated for possessing written materials on nuclear production, according to government documents obtained by The Advertiser.

Unexplained Blue Cloud Floats, Darts Around Customers At Gas Station

A strange blue cloud seen floating and darting around customers, freezing for 30 minutes and then speeding from an Ohio gas station, remains unexplained even though it was caught on security cams.