Alfred W. McCoy: America and the Dictators From Ngo Dinh Diem to Hamid Karzai <<—>> Diem, the Vietnamese stooge, and his cynical handlers. The crisis has come suddenly, almost without warning. At the far edge of American power in Asia, things are going from bad to much worse than anyone could have imagined. The insurgents are [...]
Crosspost with CounterPunch.org December 11-13, 2009 By ALEXANDER COCKBURN A friend down the coast here in California called Wednesday to say that her mother, 95, had fallen, cracked her ribs, got a cough and told her daughters, “That’s it. I’m checking out.” She’s given up eating. I remembered all the arguments I’d had down the [...]
Dateline: October 19, 2009 MEDIA ALERT: THE BALANCE OF POWER – EXCHANGES WITH BBC JOURNALISTS – PART 2 A Gale Of Spring Air – Barbara Plett And The President Editor’s Note: The following is an exchange between British media watchdog editors from Medialens, and the BBC. You will see that the British media establishment shares [...]
http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2009/09/pilger-british-afghan-labour New Statesman September 17, 2009 Like the Democrats in the US, UK’s degenerate Labour party serves only to camouflage the crimes of the Anglo-American alliance John Pilger For the Afghan villagers blown to pieces in our name, one craven motion at Labour’s conference is too late On the [...]