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September 10, 2012
Open Thread 2012-23
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latest from penny… Posted by: ben | Sep 10 2012 18:48 utc | 1 Surprise! The US generals in Afghanistan don’t have a clue. Chris Hedge’s latest…Not a pretty picture. Posted by: ben | Sep 10 2012 19:01 utc | 3 @ DB #2; “Surprise! The US generals in Afghanistan don’t have a clue.” Posted by: ben | Sep 10 2012 19:06 utc | 4 Back when there was some sense of responsibility – March 1, 1941 – The Truman Committee re DB 2 Posted by: alexno | Sep 10 2012 19:29 utc | 6 re DB 5 Posted by: alexno | Sep 10 2012 19:54 utc | 7 Don, I’m unsure what your point is? Sure a Truman Committee to look into Defence appropriations would be fun, but Truman himself was a disaster as President, thanks in large part to his allowing Acheson et al to run wild. The Cold War began under him. Would it have done so under Wallace? Much less likely. Posted by: bevin | Sep 10 2012 20:04 utc | 8 @bevin – I don’t get it – what’s your grudge with FDR? Posted by: claudio | Sep 10 2012 20:35 utc | 9 @bevin Claudio: FDR gave into the right and dumped Wallace, replacing him with Truman a Senator with very dubious ties to Boss Pendergast in KC. Wallace ran for President in ’48, backed by the left and talking about the need for Peace. Truman inaugurated a long war against poor people, around the world, which is still going on. Posted by: bevin | Sep 10 2012 22:49 utc | 11 @alexno If you could explain how wartime regulations and rationing, the production of tanks, warplanes and ships, bombs and the export of such to the enemy to destroy their factories, transport routes and homes spurred the post war boom? Posted by: heathroi | Sep 11 2012 0:23 utc | 13 Rebuilding their factories, transport routes and homes spurred the post war boom. Posted by: Alexander | Sep 11 2012 2:16 utc | 14 My latest effort… Israel Could Send Iran ‘Back to the Stone Age’… u dont need to be a fry on pentagons wall Posted by: denk | Sep 11 2012 2:59 utc | 16 no14, sounds good, however before anyone concludes that war is good for the economy, let’s mention that some people in war, if not most, lose everything including their life or the life of loved ones. Posted by: somebody | Sep 11 2012 5:35 utc | 18 Also a much greater degree of social equality came out of the Second World War. After the war, we were all more or less ‘in it together’. The social welfare developments which took place at least in Europe. Posted by: alexno | Sep 11 2012 9:14 utc | 19 a rare comment in the MSM: Posted by: brian | Sep 11 2012 12:09 utc | 20 *In my short search I also found the website Moon of Alabama.(15) On that site a detailed exposure appeared when the US Government distributed satellite photos claiming to show military shelling of the city of Homs. Moon of Alabama looked at Google Maps and Google Earth satellite photos to demonstrate for example that some of the satellite photos were of a Syrian military training base not of shelling of the city of Homs.* Posted by: denk | Sep 11 2012 16:04 utc | 21 thanks for the link denk. not sure if you ever saw or read b’s debunking Pictures From the CIA “Syrian Reactor” Show. the new yorker has a new article up rehash of this fabrication. i’m blocked from their version but read about it here. Posted by: annie | Sep 11 2012 18:50 utc | 22 Comments on Chris Hedges piece # no 3. which is really just quoting Heinberg. Posted by: Noirette | Sep 11 2012 19:31 utc | 23 in German – ARD it started with a lie – Kosovo as the new model of NATO wars Posted by: somebody | Sep 11 2012 21:07 utc | 24 Basketball co-captains to withdraw from Harvard after being caught in cheating scandal. Posted by: Seekonk | Sep 11 2012 22:10 utc | 25 tku annie 22 Posted by: denk | Sep 12 2012 4:33 utc | 26 A bit more from Chris Hedges, a short video.. Posted by: ben | Sep 12 2012 6:16 utc | 27 iranian TV fantasy film about jews with English subtitles Posted by: hans | Sep 12 2012 18:43 utc | 28 just happened to see this here: Posted by: peter radiator | Sep 14 2012 8:29 utc | 29 ‘they hate us for our freedom’ Posted by: brian | Sep 15 2012 13:09 utc | 30 why do they hate us Posted by: denk | Sep 17 2012 16:01 utc | 31 Sorry if this has been posted, but here is an example of how the Powers That Be get their propaganda out to the public in the US. I bet this spills over the borders as well. Posted by: jawbone | Sep 17 2012 20:28 utc | 32 Remember WMD’s? The fictitious threat of WMD’s drove the Iraq fiasco. They can’t repeat that one, but they can change to nuclear weapons and hope that people fall for it again. But Iran isn’t Iraq. These guys are bigger and stronger The US generals and admirals know that. Iran can sink ships, and more. So there will be some sailing around and war games but the probability of anything worse is low. This pathetic piece of shit might well become our President. Posted by: PissedOffAmerican | Sep 18 2012 3:06 utc | 34 POA @ 34– What’s interesting or amazing it that Romney is doubling down on saying the non-Federal income tax payers are lost to him, but that’s only because he’s big of cutting taxes. Posted by: jawbone | Sep 18 2012 21:35 utc | 35 Reidar Visser of historiae.org has changed his focus to «How the Norwegian Government Brought an End to My Iraq Research» Posted by: Karin | Sep 19 2012 14:41 utc | 36 Oops! The above should have been on the “Reidar Visser Changes His Field” thread. I cross posted over there. Posted by: juannie | Sep 19 2012 20:04 utc | 38 on previous reading , i didnt pay much attention to this part, Posted by: denk | Sep 20 2012 4:55 utc | 39 http://rt.com/politics/russia-usaid-putin-washington-elections-474/ Posted by: brian | Sep 20 2012 7:58 utc | 40 like i say, Posted by: denk | Sep 20 2012 10:16 utc | 41 @brian #40 – the analysis you cite is interesting, but I’m not sure about point (c):
my impression is that “other ruling class regimes” are solidly bound to Us hegemony, because it gives them chances at looting and leverage over their own working classes; they are increasingly uneasy as disaster looms (presently, for example at the periphery of the Eurozone), but still far from challenging the main assumptions of the worldview that has served them so well far Posted by: claudio | Sep 20 2012 12:52 utc | 42 Hello all.
Posted by: jonku | Sep 20 2012 19:11 utc | 43 prologue……………. Posted by: denk | Sep 22 2012 5:28 utc | 44 why do the jihadists only go after amerika ? Posted by: denk | Sep 23 2012 14:36 utc | 46 *this is just the tip of an iceberg* Posted by: denk | Sep 26 2012 5:18 utc | 47 this site Posted by: denk | Sep 27 2012 2:35 utc | 48 doesnt assange knows that un is in amerika’s pocket ? Posted by: denk | Sep 29 2012 5:00 utc | 49 we all know that the amerikan military can never have enough *toys* to play with, right ? Posted by: denk | Oct 1 2012 4:37 utc | 51 I believe that the atrocities and barbarism of the international drama will continue unabated until the age of Empires are rendered obsolete by the non necessity of ongoing resource exploitation.
Posted by: juannie | Oct 6 2012 0:45 utc | 52 |
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