[LAAMN] Herbert: America's Open Wound, Infant Discovered in Barn - Capenter Held

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/opinion/21herbert.html?themc=th America's Open Wound By BOB HERBERT NY Times Op-Ed: December 21, 2006 New Orleans It's eerie. The air is still. There is no noise. Night is falling. The five stone steps in front of me once led to a porch, or maybe directly

[LAAMN] Znet/Traboulsi: We the Arabs, Iran Elections, Blood Diamond

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=22ItemID=11665 We the Arabs, the Holocaust, and Palestine by Fawwaz Traboulsi December 18, 2006 [Translator's note: The following article first appeared in the Beirut daily as-Safir of 14 December 2006. Its author, Fawwaz

[LAAMN] Tariq Ali: The War is Already Lost, Krugman: Democrats and the Deficit,

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15965.htm The War is Already Lost Ideological zealotry has helped destroy Iraq, revive the Taliban and increase the terror threat By Tariq Ali 12/20/06 The Guardian -- -- Once a war goes badly wrong and its justifications are shown to be lies,

[LAAMN] Justice in 2007, Guardian.uk/Blumenthal: Delusions of victory

Hi. I know the sender joins me in adding celebrants of Christmas and Kwanza, as well as pagans, non-believers, et al, to her best wishes list. And do click-on the public art. It's gorgeous and stirring. Ed --- Happy Chanukah Ed - Great to see you at Mary's - thanks for all you do! I did

[LAAMN] The Hollow Men, 1917: Amid War, Women Picket, March on Washington Jan 27th

Bush's Disastrous Troop Plan In Iraq there are no good options, but President Bush's plan to expand the armed forces appears inclined to the worst. By Christopher Dickey Newsweek Dec. 21, 2006 - Not so very many years ago, Baghdad thrived with intellectuals and artists, a few of whom survived

[LAAMN] Herbert: The Ninth Ward Revisited, Mississippi Goddam, Lincoln, Twain and Gandhi

Enjoy the holiday/holy day and reflect on the meaning/s of Christmas. Ed (Just a thought: If you know someone who may get something out of these mailings, just send me a name and email address. it's easy to check for duplications and it's free, for them and me.)

[LAAMN] Blood Diamonds, 'Twas the Night,

- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tidbits December 25th, 2006 Dora Brown Re: Blood Diamonds To me, a blood diamond is a diamond that is mined and owned by Africans, the alternative, euphemism Kimberly diamond unless I am mistaken, is that is is controlled by whites. How

[LAAMN] McGovern/Lang: Troop Surge, Cindy Sheehan: In Search of Peace

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122506Y.shtml Troop Surge in Iraq Would Be Another Mistake By W. Patrick Lang and Ray McGovern The Miami Herald W. Patrick Lang, a retired Army colonel, served with Special Forces in Vietnam, as a professor at West Point and as defense intelligence

[LAAMN] Democracy Now: Gerald Ford and East Timor

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 Democracy Now: Gerald Ford and East Timor Former President Gerald Ford died last night at the age of 93. We begin our coverage of Ford's time in office with a look at his support for the Indonesian invasion of East Timor that killed one-third of the Timorese

[LAAMN] Democracy Now: More on Gerald Ford w/ Victor Navasky, Robert Parry

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/27/1645231 Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 Investigative Journalist Robert Parry on Gerald Ford's Legacy and the Bush Administration's Roots in the Ford White House

[LAAMN] As Castro Fades, In Somalia, UFPJ: Are They Out of Their Minds?

As Castro Fades, A Crop Of New Leaders Interviews with two younger political figures suggest a gradual opening both economically and socially. By Tom Fawthrop The Christian Science Monitor December 27, 2006 http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1227/p06s01-woam.html HAVANA, CUBA In a country that is

[LAAMN] A Bad Year for Empire, 100,000 Iraqis Flee, Peace Vigil and Party

CHALLENGES 2006-2007: A Bad Year for Empire Jim Lobe http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35951 WASHINGTON, Dec 22 (IPS) - For those who believed that the precise and overwhelming demonstration of U.S. military power in Afghanistan and Iran would shock and awe the rest of the world -- and

[LAAMN] A Failed Revolution, Brown vs. the Board, James Brown's Misses

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/12/29/opinion/29krugman.html?themc=th A Failed Revolution By PAUL KRUGMAN NY Times Op-Ed: December 29, 2006 After first attempting to deny the scale of last month's defeat, the apologists have settled on a story line that sounds just like Marxist explanations for

[LAAMN] Fisk: Saddam Created Then Destroyed by America, A Congo Lesson for Bush

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2112555.ece Independent UK Published: 30 December 2006 A dictator created then destroyed by America by Robert Fisk Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold - that crack of the

[LAAMN] Riverbend and Baghdad Burning/2006

from: Women Unlimited in 2007 Baghdad Burning: a young woman's diary from a war zone Riverbend 'I've learned more about the occupation of Iraq from Riverbend's blog [ http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ ] than from just about any other news source.' - Katha Pollitt, in The Nation ===

[LAAMN] 2006 Biggest Lies, Gerald Ford, Unsentimentally

Lies and Obfuscations By Eleanor Clift Newsweek Friday 22 December 2006 A look back at some of the biggest falsehoods of 2006. In the spirit of holding our political leaders accountable, this year-end review will tabulate the worst lies told by Bush and company, along with

[LAAMN] A Lynching...Tariq Ali, Riverbend

http://www.counterpunch.org/tariq12302006.html Counterpunch - Weekend Edition, Dec 30,31, 2006 Saddam at the End of a Rope What's Good for Saddam May Be Good for Mubarak or the Saudi Royals By TARIQ ALI It was symbolic that 2006 ended with a colonial hanging--- most of it (bar the last

[LAAMN] Keeping Faith with Fide, Gift of the Magil

Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 11:21:48 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NYTr] Fawthrop: Keeping Faith with Fidel Guardian Blogs - Jan 1, 2007 http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/tom_fawthrop/2007/01/cuba_after_castro.html Keeping Faith with Fidel by Tom Fawthrop In Cuba, the end of 2006

[LAAMN] Democracy Now: The Hanging of Saddam Hussein

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/02/1526255 The Hanging of Saddam Hussein Democracy Now! talks to Param Preet Singh of Human Rights Watch; international law expert Richard Falk; Najmaldin Karim, President of the Washington Kurdish Institute; and Professor John Collins. [includes

[LAAMN] Dowd: Stained Glass and Strained Egos, Andy Rooney: Ike Was Right

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/opinion/03dowd.html?themc=th Stained Glass and Strained Egos By MAUREEN DOWD NY Times Op-Ed: January 3, 2007 Washington It was a scene that Mary McCarthy could have written the devil out of: a funeral for a fine, bland fellow that filled everybody with

[LAAMN] Herbert: Another Thousand Lives, Krugman: A Healthy New Year, Jan. 27th

Hi. These powerful essays outline what we expected from Democrats we just elected, on this opening day of congress. This clearly won't happen without our ongoing, diverse efforts, including those around January 27th. So. California activities are now being planned, and I'll list them as they

[LAAMN] The Nation: Get Carter, Margolis: Blundering Into Somalia

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070108/hedges Get Carter By Chris Hedges comment | (January 8, 2007 issue) Jimmy Carter, by publishing his book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, walked straight into the buzz saw that is the Israel lobby. Among the vitriolic attacks on the former President was the

[LAAMN] Scheer: Our Monster, Iraq Vets in Agony

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070102_robert_scheer_a_monster_of_our_creation/ Truthdig: Jan 2, 2007 Those deeply unsavory connections between Saddam and the United States would have been exposed in any honest trial. Presumably, this is the real reason why the Bush administration so

[LAAMN] Shulamit Aloni: Apartheid in Israel, 2006 Statistics

- Original Message - From: Jeffrey Blankfort Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 11:25 PM Subject: Ynet: Aloni: Indeed there is Apartheid in Israel This item by Shulamit Aloni, the Israeli Prize laureate who once served as Minister of Education under Yitzhak Rabin, is from Yediot Acharonot,

[LAAMN] Shulamit Aloni: Apartheid in Israel, 2006 Statistics

- Original Message - From: Jeffrey Blankfort Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 11:25 PM Subject: Ynet: Aloni: Indeed there is Apartheid in Israel This item by Shulamit Aloni, the Israeli Prize laureate who once served as Minister of Education under Yitzhak Rabin, is from Yediot Acharonot,

[LAAMN] Tillie Olsen Celebrations, Bush Set to Escalate

Hi. I'll confess I never read Tillie Olsen's poems before these arrived. I always meant to is something most of us say, and too frequently. But I do hope someone reading this with connections to media or book stores will act properly and do a great service to devotees as well as the lazy

[LAAMN] The World's Warmest Year, Giant Oil's Grab of Iraq's

Hi. During the week I rise at 5am, check the web and read emails while preparing my sendouts. I listen to music or to Democracy Now on DC's wpfw (Pacifica). Today's show on Global Warming is a killer, and should not be missed. I'd prepared a different emailing for this AM, but grabbed these

[LAAMN] Bush's Rush to Armageddon - Emergency Protest, Thu- 5pm

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:50 PM http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/010807.html Bush's Rush to Armageddon By Robert Parry Consortium News Monday 08 January 2007 George W. Bush has purged senior military and intelligence officials who were

[LAAMN] Buchanan: Planning Our Next War?, Somalia's One Hope, Thursday Demo's

Hi. I chose these two articles as the most direct and honest of the many pouring in opposing Bush's escalation and confusedly blathering about Somalia. And, of course, they are parts of the intensifying Bush projection into the world of bases, Islam and oil. Bitter truths, the cornered tiger, the

[LAAMN] Kuehl on health plans, No Human Being is Illegal, Gilbert Weingort Exhibit

! For more information call CSPG at 323 653-4662 *** - Original Message - From: gilbert b. weingourt To: Ed Pearl Below is a listing of the people in the photographs and the actual intro to the show which will be displayed at each gallery

[LAAMN] Healthcare-NOW, Plackard Ideas, (for) Tomorrow's Demo's

From: Marilyn Clement To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 6:00 PM Subject: National Health Care Evades California -- one more time Oy vay! Now it's California promoting the insurance company profits! TESTIMONY: Here's the truth --coming from the testimony of millions of

[LAAMN] The Forgotten 100,000 Mercenary Surge, Peled: The Answers have changed

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16130.htm 100,000 mercenaries, the forgotten Surge By Barry Lando 01/10/07 Alternet --- - What is striking about the current debate in Washington - whether to surge troops to Iraq and increase the size of the U.S. Army - is that roughly 100,000

[LAAMN] NY Times: The Real Disaster, et alia, Demo's/Slogans

in talking about jobs programs and military offensives. There is nothing ahead but even greater disaster in Iraq. *** From: Joseph Maizlish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed Pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 7:15 AM Subject: Re: Buchanan: Planning Our Next War? Ed, Buchanan's reads

[LAAMN] Plans for Jan27th!

- Original Message - From: Ed Pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 9:53 AM Subject: Plans for Jan27th! - Original Message - From: Lisa Lubow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 8:02 AM Subject: Plans for Jan27th! Dear

[LAAMN] Fisk: The March of Folly, Somalia will not forget

Maizlish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed Pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 7:15 AM Subject: Re: Buchanan: Planning Our Next War? Ed, Buchanan's reads believably -- unfortunately. I have figured out the major item in Bush's war aims: Exercise and protect his personal habit of AVOIDING

[LAAMN] Ortega signs trade pact, Rose Ann DeMoro Honored, Blair says No

Our theme: As the rest of the world and our heads spin. Ed Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:21:20 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AP via Yahoo - Jan 11, 2007 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070112/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/nicaragua_ortega_s_return_10 Nicaragua's Ortega signs trade pact By TRACI CARL

[LAAMN] The Kissinger Factors: How Republicans win if we lose in Iraq, Bush's Secret War Against Syria and Iran?

http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-oe-brooks12jan12,1,3289669.column?coll=la-news-columns How Republicans win if we lose in Iraq Bush and the GOP are shifting tactics just like Nixon did with Vietnam -- to win the next election, not the war. as long as they can blame the loss on the

[LAAMN] Carter's Inconvenient Truths, Hedy Epstein- Jewish Survivor, LA Philarmonic Demonstration Today

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts01112007.html Counterpunch - Jan 11, 2007 Carter's Inconvenient Truths By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS An Honest Man Refutes Propaganda Jimmy Carter, probably the most decent man to occupy the White House, received a lot of grief during his term in office, most of it

[LAAMN] January 27th Action Coalition, From Dr. King

Hi. My 'to go' file has over a thousand emails I've saved and not sent, out of 5 times that many sent to me. Every aspect of war, economy, Bush, et al is examined from every angle and field, enough to fill the curriculum of a major university. I think that aside from the length, the horror and

[LAAMN] Herbert: Descending to New Depths, Destabilizing the Horn

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/opinion/15herbert.html?themc=th Descending to New Depths By BOB HERBERT NY Times Op-Ed: January 15, 2007 New Orleans I was surprised recently by a sudden shift in the tone of a veteran cabdriver, Stanley Taylor, who had been kind enough to take me on a

[LAAMN] Bloice: More Blood for Oil, In Douglass's Footsteps

http://www.blackcommentator.com/212/212_left_margin_more_blood_for_oil_bloice_ed_bd_pf.html blackcommentator.com January 11, 2007 - Issue 212 Left Margin More Blood for Oil By Carl Bloice BC Editorial Board Forget about all that stuff about Ethiopia having a 'tacit' o.k. from Washington to

[LAAMN] Fisk: jargon disease, The Texas Strategy, Blues, w/ Honeyboy Edwards and Bernie Pearl

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2149736.ece The Independent - Jan 13, 2007 This jargon disease is choking language In the military sex-speak of the Pentagon, Iraq would endure a 'spike' of violence by Robert Fisk I once received an invitation to lecture at The University of

[LAAMN] Dowd: Aux Barricades, Cole: Misreading the Enemy

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/opinion/17dowd.html?themc=th Aux Barricades By MAUREEN DOWD Published: January 17, 2007 WASHINGTON Being president can be really, really hard. Sometimes you're the commander in chief, W. explained to Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes. Sometimes you're the

[LAAMN] The Guardian: Iran President's future in doubt, Cole: Marginalizing Carter

The Guardian: Tuesday January 16 2007 President's future in doubt as MPs rebel and economic crisis grows By Robert Tait in Tehran Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has suffered a potentially fatal blow to his authority after the country's supreme leader gave an apparent green light for MPs

[LAAMN] Krugman: Surging and Purging, Impeach Bush

Hi. I can't add anything to either article, but I can urge you to read and consider them seriously and as a unit. Actually, what I can add to the impeachment article is that, whether or not impeachment can succeed, the platform provided by the attempt will catch the attention and mood of the

[LAAMN] Carter: A New Chance for Peace? Pilger: from Belsen to Gaza

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16215.htm A New Chance for Peace? By Jimmy Carter 01/18/07 Washington Post - --- I am concerned that public discussion of my book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid has been diverted from the book's basic proposals: that peace talks be resumed after

[LAAMN] Pitt: The Next 100 Hours, Massive March(es), Nicaragua, Seeger Sings

Hi. Whether the votes of the American people gave Democrats cover for doing the right thing or put the fear of God into many, it is clear that we're in a period where mass action, voting, marching, and otherwise has made this a reality. The dog wagging the tail, for a change. IMO, how long this

[LAAMN] Peace Marches in Washington, Los Angeles, and many more

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.: Learned Hand = Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of

[LAAMN] Rich: Lying Like It's 2003, January 27th Nationwide Protests- Updated List

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/opinion/21rich.html?themc=th Lying Like It's 2003 By FRANK RICH NY Times Op-Ed: January 21, 2007 THOSE who forget history may be doomed to repeat it, but who could imagine we'd already be in danger of replaying that rotten year 2003? Scooter Libby, the

[LAAMN] Roberts: Only Impeachment, Norr: Amazon bows!

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/69/1/ Only Impeachment Can Prevent More War By Paul Craig Roberts 01/22/07 ICHBlog -- --Everyone knows that Bush's Iraq surge will not work. Even the authors of the plan, neoconservatives Frederick Kagan and Jack Keane, have emphasized that the plan cannot

[LAAMN] Pollitt: Think Bigger, Krugman: Gold-Plated Indifference

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070122/pollitt The Nation January 22 Edition Happy New Year/Think Bigger By Katha Pollitt It's only January 2 as I write, and I've already broken my New Year's resolutions. (Exercise! Keep diary! Be better person! [Start column earlier!--Ed.]) You'd think I'd

[LAAMN] NY Times: The State of the Union, Scheer: Stop Him

A regularly updated list of Jan 27th anti-war events is posted on: http://www.unitedforpeace.org , currently approaching 100 cities. And Bush did not even MENTION Katrina/New Orleans recovery. Ed http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/opinion/24wed1.html The State of the Union NY Times Editorial:

[LAAMN] Avnery: A Freedom Ride, The Road To Guantanamo, Cindy Sheehan will Speak

A Freedom Ride Uri Avnery 20.1.07 MAHATMA GANDHI would have loved it. Nelson Mandela would have saluted. Martin Luther King would have been the most excited - it would have reminded him of the old days. Yesterday, a decree of the Officer Commanding the Central Sector, General Yair Naveh, was

[LAAMN] January 27th Action: Sheehan vs. Schiff, Judis: Rogue State America

Hi. I was at this conference. Sheehan, of course, said much more, and almost all of the thirty or so supporters represented anti-war groups from the area, including military families with kids on active duty, Code Pink and Vietnam Vets. I'd never seen Cindy Sheehan live and was not only deeply

[LAAMN] CODEPINK: Fonda, Sarandon, et al, in DC, Mollie Ivins, Maher Arar

Hi. I've emailed enough about LA's January 27th Action Coalition Please Join us. For details: http://linuxbeach.net/jan27action/ Ed === http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?list=typetype=182 Join Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon in the Streets this Weekend! January 25, 2007 Dear james m, We

[LAAMN] Fw: January 27th

Hi. Attached, are CBS and ABC's tv coverage of yesterday's march and ABC's written coverage. I don't have the necessary Flash hdwre. but I was there. Hope you have, or were. In a word, fabulous. Many years ago, 1969, I was stage manager of a huge march by members and supporters of the

[LAAMN] Krugman: On Being Partisan

Hi. It's almost 3 weeks since the first meeting of the coalition which is creating tomorrow's Peace March in Los Angeles, two since I joined and one, since I jumped in to help with musical performers, aside from my outreach stint. The entire entity has been improvised, yet promises the greatest

[LAAMN] Pitt: The Tiniest President, the Rally on the Mall

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012407A.shtml The Tiniest President By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Columnist Wednesday 24 January 2007 George W. Bush delivered his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, and nobody gave a damn. There was, to be sure, keen

[LAAMN] The U.S. Congress, Mercenary Deaths, Impeachment/ Backbone Resuscitated, China Snaps LA's 1/27 (attached),

From: Thomas F Barton Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 10:21 PM Subject: GI Special 5A29: The United States Congress The United States Congress Day after day after day... They know nothing about brotherly love in time of war. They do not serve. They do not get it. They do not understand the

[LAAMN] Schechter: Media and the Anti-War March, So. Cal. Lobbying

Hi. We're clearly in a period of transition, for better or much worse; where important questions are not settled and while the American public is actively exerting pressure on their representatives. I hope to cover the main areas of struggle against the war machine as well as the forces driving

[LAAMN] Buchanan: Hysteria at Herzliya, Israel buys $100M of US bomb kits

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/235/52/ Hysteria at Herzliya Wednesday, 31 January 2007 By Patrick J. Buchanan America is on a collision course with an Iran of 70 million, and the folks who stampeded us into Iraq are firing pistols in the air again. 01/31/07 WND

[LAAMN] In Loving Memory of Molly Ivins, Fidel's Recovery

This is from the paper Mollie called her heart and home. http://www.texasobserver.org/molly_obituary.html In Loving Memory of Molly Ivins Syndicated political columnist Molly Ivins died of breast cancer Wednesday evening at her home in Austin. She was 62 years old, and had much, much more to

[LAAMN] Scheer: A Case for Impeachment, Congress Can Stop War, Lies over Najaf Exposed

In response to the reader who asked about Cheney, I believe a thorough investigation of Cheney's activities--including his misstatements about the war-- could result in his impeachment as well. There is nothing in the Constitution to prevent a double impeachment. The Speaker of the House, Nancy

[LAAMN] Bricmont: The Clash of Our Time, Feingold: The Power of the Purse

Hi. The number of people getting this has increased over the past couple of weeks, enough to warrant this note. I usually save longer, more systemic essays for the weekends and send only one mailing. Today's is in that mode and I hope this quote from the continuation encourages you to click-on,

[LAAMN] UFPJ rally against Israeli policies, Vigil tonight, Jews for Carter petition

http://www.forward.com/articles/main-anti-war-group-plans-rally-against/ Main anti-war group plans rally against Israeli policies By Daniel Treiman The Forward February 2, 2007 The anti-war group behind the recent demonstration that brought tens of thousands to Washington to protest the Iraq

[LAAMN] The Nation: Which Side Are You On?, Krugman: The Green-Zoning of America

Hi. Since the election corporate media has wallowed in proving that new Democrats were elected because of bread and butter issues. Would that it were so. These essays well describe the critical need for full-out, immediate engagement of those public demands. These issues and the war become

[LAAMN] [edgeofsports] The Super Bowl: When Hawks Cry

I just had to send you this one. It carries my own feelings, but sharpens the focus exponentially, and I left the gang at halftime. If you're not a football fan, skip to the startling, invaluable, final three paragraphs. Hope fans in the area weren't too zonked to see it. Ed - Original

[LAAMN] KLUG Who Speaks for Jews in Britain?, Outrage in Jerusalem, Vigil Tonight

WOMEN FOR PALESTINE MELBOURNE - AUSTRALIA http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/brian_klug/2007/02/hold_jewish_voices.html Who speaks for Jews in Britain? By Brian Klug The Guardian (commentisfree) 5 February 2007 If there is one thing on which Jews can agree, it is this: it's good to argue.

[LAAMN] Roberts: Failed States - An amazing essay, not to be missed.

Failed States By Paul Craig Roberts Iran, a nation with a 5,000 year history, is certainly not a failed state. The main failed states in the Middle East are those that are US puppets. They represent American hegemony, not the interests of their people. 02/05/07 ICHBlog -- -- Growing references

[LAAMN] R Scheer: Bush Budget, J Jackson: War Privatization, Ralph Nader in LA

Hi. Ralph Nader, whether as prospective candidate or in his historic role as Truthdigger of the 20th Century can be counted upon to further uniquely the critical analyses Scheer and Jackson present here. -Ed http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070206_bush_budget_delivers_the_bacon/ Truthdig

[LAAMN] Why Chavez Was Given More Authority, Stiglitz on Public Ownership

Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:11:41 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent by Steven Robinson (activ-l) - Feb 5, 2007 Marxmail - Feb 2, 2007 http://www.marxmail.org/msg22304.html Why Hugo Chavez Was Given More Authority By Maria Paez Victor, PhD. http://www.marxmail.org 2 February 2007--This

[LAAMN] NY Times: Bush Budget a Smokescreen, Medcare For All, Iraq War Chest

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/opinion/08thur1.html?themc=th Lead Editorial Mr. Bush's Improbable Budget Published: February 8, 2007 President Bush claims that his new $2.9 trillion budget request is a tough-minded plan for balancing the books by 2012. In reality, it's a smokescreen for

[LAAMN] Herbert: ‘They Beat Gary So Bad ’, US Refuses Ban on Disapearanc es, The Legacy of Torture

- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:54 PM Subject: Bob Herbert: ‘They Beat Gary So Bad’ - NY Times 2/8 (Part 3 in Series) For more information and to read Parts 1 2 of Bob Herbert NY Times columnist series on Gary Tyler go to:

[LAAMN] Jeff Cohen: Jonah Goldberg's Gambling Debt, Phyllis Bennis: How to Prevent a War with Iran

Hi. It's old-friends' Friday. Here are two of them and this afternoon's will be Bob Zaugh's trip to Angola prison and Gary Tyler. Jeff just sent this. I'd read Goldberg's column a few times when he replaced Robert Scheer, but found his ideas so ignorant I skip them, bemoaning how far the Times

[LAAMN] Gary Tyler and Peace Press, Robert Fisk: Iraqi insurgents offer peace

From long-time friend Bob Zaugh who headed Peace Press for its decades of life and elevated movement fliers to works of art. Amen. Fisk's article is an important news break: The first specific proposal for peace has been issued by the principal insurgent command. Let's see what the corporate

[LAAMN] Cockburn: Blaming Iran, the Money behind the Surge, A Painful Wait

http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article2245091.ece The Independent February 2007 It is no use blaming Iran for the insurgency in Iraq The US media, gullible over WMD, is showing itself equally gullible over this exaggerated Iranian threat. By Patrick Cockburn It is scarcely

[LAAMN] Z/ Cutler: Beyond Incompetence, Amiri Baraka in So. Cal. M-Th

- Original Message - From: Jeffrey Blankfort Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 12:21 PM This is a long but very interesting and important article analyzing the positions of the competing factions in the US ruling class and well worth the time.-JB *** Ed's notes: It's long if you click on

[LAAMN] End The War: Dems Discuss, Voters Occupy - LA Too!, Charging Towards Iran

Hi. The full 'Charging Towards Iran article is vital in content but a bit too long to send with these immediate features. It's a click-on, very worth while and NOT requiring you to subscribe, as did yesterday's recommended NY Times editorial by Frank Rich. I forgot about that, having paid my

[LAAMN] Buchanan: Bombing Iran. Is it Bush's Call?, Deconstructing Nader

The same neocon ideologues behind the Iraq war have been using the same tactics - alliances with shady exiles, dubious intelligence on WMD - to push for the bombing of Iran. As President Bush ups the pressure on Tehran, is he planning to double his Middle East bet?

[LAAMN] Iran - Krugman: Scary Movie 2, Juan Cole: NY Times Bogus Charge 2, Flash

Scott Ritter and Jeff Cohen's So. Cal. tour this week has become ever more pertinent. At the bottom, after a click-on Flash on Iran. ed http://select.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/opinion/12krugman.html?themc=th Scary Movie 2 By PAUL KRUGMAN NY Times Op-Ed: February 12, 2007 Attacking Iran would be

[LAAMN] Marjorie Cohn: Fool Us Twice? Poll: 80% in area fear US Israel not Iran, Ritter/Cohen Kickoff

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticlecode=20070213art icleId=4774 Global Research February 13, 2007 Fool Us Twice? From Iraq to Iran by Marjorie Cohn It's déja vu. This time the Bush gang wants war with Iran. Following a carefully orchestrated strategy, they have

[LAAMN] The LA 8: Today's NY Times Editorial, Legacy of Turture film this Saturday, Demo today at 5pm

Hi. Ritter and Cohen are here next week, not tonight. Aplogies for this morning's mis-information. The dates are straight around the LA 8. Demo this evening and film on Saturday. Ed http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/opinion/14wed3.html?_r=1themc=thoref=slogin A Shameful Prosecution The Editors,

[LAAMN] Your Culture and Politics Weekend: Tuvan Throat Singers, Black Panthers, Dahl Jamahl, Flamenco

From: Gabrielle Weeks Subject: rare opportunity to see Tuvan cultural performance in Long Beach this Friday Tyva Kyzy all-women throat-singers of Tuva Performing at Woodruff Community Church Time and Date: 7:00 pm, Friday February 16th, 2007 Location: 3908 Woodruff Ave, in Long Beach, California

[LAAMN] NY Times: On to the Hard Part, U.S. 'prepares for failure,' Bush's Kool-Aid on Iran

Hi. This editorial isn't the great leap needed, but takes the step beyond disapproval to consideration of funding, and opens the debate to many other proposals. Any serious discussion about the Iraqi government or analysis of performance will inevitably conclude there is no light, and to getting

[LAAMN] Cockburn: The Most Powerful Iraqi: Who is Muqtada al-Sadr?

Hi. On the surface, it makes no sense for the U.S. to destroy Muqtada al-Sadr. He controls by far the largest force in Iraq which is opposing the Sunni resistance. It seems absolutely insane - that is, until one considers Bush's desire to attack Iran. It then makes perfect sense to first take

[LAAMN] War Spending Slashes Health Care, The Real Cost of Bottled Water

http://www.sbsun.com/pointofview/ci_5229533 San Bernardino County Sun (California) February 14, 2007 Defense spending overshadowing health care By Deborah Burger [Deborah Burger, RN, is president of the California Nurses Association.] With President Bush now proposing to push the price tag for

[LAAMN] Global Warming: Its All About Energy

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-klare170207.htm Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org February 15, 2007 Global Warming: Its All About Energy Michael T. Klare Finally, after years of effort by dedicated scientists and activists like Al Gore, the issue of global warming has

[LAAMN] Rosa Brooks: Insurgents buy American, Write a Letter, Scott Ritter Jeff Cohen

need. I have a daily email sendout to a big list and will begin passing them on. Please consider a similar letter about the Jr. ROTC at Roosevelt Hi, my own alma-mater, I say proudly. The Times does it right, once in a while, and deserves thanks and encouragement for more like it. Ed Pearl

[LAAMN] Fisk: Lebanon as victim of Iran crisis, 2 Israeli Women in LA, Film in Echo Park

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2290044.ece Robert Fisk: Lebanon will be first victim of Iran crisis The Independent: 21 February 2007 How easily the sparks from the American-Israeli fire fall across the Middle East. Every threat, every intransigence uttered in Washington

[LAAMN] Wallerstein: Bush's Headlong Rush Into Iran, War Losses from Small Towns

Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:21:40 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Commentary No. 203, - Feb. 15, 2007 http://fbc.binghamton.edu/commentr.htm Bush's Headlong Rush Into Iran? by Immanuel Wallerstein: The French have an expression fuite en avant, which the dictionaries translate as headlong

[LAAMN] Brooks: A lot of forgetting, Party over Country, Write a Letter

http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-oe-brooks16feb16,1,2503233.column?coll=la-news-columns The Memory of All That LA Times Op-Ed: February 16, 2007 By Rosa Brooks A lot of forgetting has gotten us where we are in Iraq. ACCORDING TO the defense lawyers at his trial, I. Lewis Scooter Libby

[LAAMN] Gonzales: The Oily Truth, 'The Ground Truth,' US Iran Intelligence echoes Iraq,

- Original Message - From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nydailynews.com/02-21-2007/news/story/499341p-421044c.html New York Daily News February 21, 2007 Oily Truth Emerges In Iraq By Juan Gonzalez Throughout nearly four years of the daily mayhem and carnage in Iraq,

[LAAMN] Juan Cole on Blair's Drawdown This is a rout, there should be no mistake, Calendar

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NYTr] Juan Cole: Blair's Drawdown a Rout by Resistance Informed Comment - Feb 21, 2007 http://www.juancole.com/ Blair to Draw Down British Troops by Juan Cole Tony Blair is taking 1600 troops out of Basra in the next few months and will aim to be down to only

[LAAMN] The Dixie Chicks, Sandy Carter: The Politics of Country

Hi. LA Times.com just sent out 'live, non-stop Oscar coverage' Before, During and After the event. My favorites are previewing the red carpet fashions BEFORE with Elizabeth Snead through her hits and misses AFTER. Actually, as a born and bred LA kid with a career on the fringes of the

[LAAMN] Rich: Where Were You In 2001?, EU antiterrorism chief echoes, and adds

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/opinion/25rich.html?themc=th Where Were You That Summer of 2001? By FRANK RICH NY Times Op-Ed: February 25, 2007 UNITED 93, Hollywood's highly praised but indifferently attended 9/11 docudrama, will be only a blip on tonight's Oscar telecast. The ratings

[LAAMN] Buddy Collette - Musiician and Pioneer, Recognizing Labor, Generals say No!

Hi. Buddy Collette is a legend of jazz, a great multi-horn player, composer and conductor. Only his pioneering and organizing match, even surpass those musical skills because they opened doors to so many others. He's probably done more, but the two I know of are on the level of a musical Rosa

[LAAMN] Hersh: The Redirection

Hi. You may have noticed that over the 4 or 5 years of this service I haven't sent you any of the 911 conspiracy theories. Use of 9/11 by Bush to invade Iraq, militarize our country and severely damage democracy, yes, but never indulge in the huge email game of perpetration of 9/11 for those

[LAAMN] Bernie Pearl: Berlin Blues, New Orleans is calling, A Psychiatrists's Perspective

From: Bernie Pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Blues friends: I though I'd let you know that I'll be appearing in a musical role in a Native Voices at the Autry production of The Berlin Blues, Thursdays-Sundays, March 1-25 at the Autry Museum in Griffith Park. Please download the attached flyer for

[LAAMN] Reed GI's Gagged, Tariq Ali: The Khyber Impasse, UN on Gaza

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022807L.shtml Walter Reed Patients Told to Keep Quiet By Kelly Kennedy Army Times Tuesday 27 February 2007 Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center's Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have

[LAAMN] Sarah Olson on Military Dissent, Greg Palast on Cynthia McKinney

http://www.counterpunch.org/olson02282007.html CounterPunch February 28, 2007 Last year's Zogby poll showed that 72% of soldiers wanted to leave Iraq by the end of 2006. Opinion has not grown more sanguine. Though soldiers have stinging criticisms of the Iraq War we rarely get to hear them.

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