Paul Craig Roberts: US Hypocrisy Astonishes the World

To stem opposition to its wars, the War Department hides signs of American casualties from the public. Angry that evidence escaped the censor, the War Secretary and the American Legion attacked with politically correct jargon: "insensitive," "offended," and the "anguish," "pain and suffering" inflicted upon the Marine's family. The War Department sounds like it is preparing a harassment tort.

Isn't this passing the buck? The Marine lost his life not because of the Associated Press and a photographer, but because of the war criminals -- Gates, Bush, Cheney, Obama, and the US Congress that supports wars of naked aggression that serve no American purpose, but which keeps campaign coffers filled with contributions from the armaments companies.

Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard is dead because the US government and a significant percentage of the US population believe that the US has the right to invade, bomb, and occupy other peoples who have raised no hand against us but are demonized with lies and propaganda.

Henry Makow: 9-11 Truth Deniers

Brits facing Afghanistan defeat

Again: First Afghan war; Second Afghan war - Battle of Maiwand; The Third Afghan War: The Treaty of Rawalpindi - Britain recognizes Afghan independence.

Khadr hearing proceeds

The Supreme Court of Canada, in agreeing yesterday to consider the repatriation of Omar Khadr, will face the thorny question of what legal duty, if any, the government has to protect Canadian citizens who are detained abroad.

...Government lawyers assert that there is "an emerging trend" in the Federal Court to issue orders that interfere with the government's discretion to conduct its foreign relations as it sees fit.

When we are grovelling to the United States, we grovel good, and screw Canadian citizens' rights.

Layton: Harper shows no respect for Canadian Citizenship

"We're faced here with another example of how Mr. Harper doesn't seem to regard Canadian citizenship as something that is to be respected," he said. "It's as though he's got this concept of some kind of conditional citizenship."

When a Canadian is not a Canadian

A white Canadian, while living in Mexico, rates the assistance of a member of the inner circle of government -- Jason Kenny, flying to Mexico to secure their freedom.

A Pakistani Canadian in a Lebanese jail and a Somalia Canadian in a Sudanese jail are disowned by Canada. They are required to fight not only the foreign government's persecution but Stephen Harper's government as well. Why is this?

Canadian government indifferent to Israel's murder of eight Canadians

Harper justifies Israel's deliberate killing of Canadian peacekeeper

...before the post was hit, peacekeepers had called the Israeli military 10 times in a six-hour period to ask it to halt bombing.

During each phone call, an Israeli official promised to stop the attacks, a UN official told the Associated Press.

The UN peacekeepers said the area within a kilometre of the post was hit with precision munitions, including 17 bombs and 12 artillery shells, four of which directly hit the post Tuesday, the report said.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has suggested Israel deliberately targeted the UN outpost despite repeated calls to stop the shelling.

But Harper said ... "I certainly doubt that to be the case"...

Russia overtakes Saudi as World's largest oil producer

Economics Nobelist: US Going down the tubes like Argentina

I.M.F. Economist: US a banana republic

Bill Bonner: Fixers Aim to Fix Fixes With Another Phony Fix

Ahmadinejad to Bam: Wanna talk? I'll debate you on TV

... the Iranian president said, "we are ready to discuss world issues with the U.S. president in the presence of mass media. The time of hidden agreements is over, and television debates are the best way."

Iran is ready for talks about the peaceful use of nuclear energy for all countries, as well as organizing worldwide nuclear non-proliferation, Ahmadinejad said. His press conference in Tehran was carried live by state television.

Man responsible for your shampoo being confiscated at the airport has been found guilty in a British court of conspiring to commit mass murder

And the plot mastermind was advised by the US Government.

Global Warming, Swine Flu, the Banksters' coup d'etat: Conspiracy theory thrives

No One Convicted of Terror Plot to Bomb Planes

A lengthy trial centering on what Scotland Yard called a plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners ended Monday when the jury convicted three of eight defendants of conspiracy to commit murder.

But the jury failed to reach verdicts on the more serious charge of a conspiracy to have suicide bombers detonate soft-drink bottles filled with liquid explosives aboard seven airliners headed for the United States and Canada.

So they tried them again and got a conviction.

STUNNING VICTORY FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Democrats protest Obama's plan for Afghanistan escalation

Blowback: Taliban's Tank-Killing Bombs Came From CIA, Not Iran

Resigning Minister ridicules Gordon Brown's justification for war in Afghanistan

... in a scathing letter to the Prime Minister last night, Mr Joyce directly contradicted [Brown] ... "I do not think the public will accept for much longer that our losses can be justified by simply referring to the risk of greater terrorism on our streets."

Second U.K. Minister calls Brown a liar

Gordon Brown has been accused of "lying" by Alistair Darling in a vicious feud that threatens to wreck the Government's attempt to combat the recession.

The Chancellor has enraged the Prime Minister by refusing point-blank to back Mr Brown's claim that his multi-billion-pound bailout of the banks has "saved 500,000 jobs".

In an astonishing show of defiance, Mr Darling argued the claim cannot be substantiated and has told the PM to stop repeating it.

When Ministers claim that the Government is telling the truth, we know that's all in the way of business. When they repeatedly state that the Prime Minister is lying, we know they mean it.

Iran accuses U.S. of forgery

Karzai wins more than 100% of Kandahar vote

Well done, Hamid.

Peter Eglin: Canada bringing violence in the pursuit of wealth to Afghanistan

Archaeologists discover massive Caananite ruin in Jerusalem

Standing 8 meters (26 feet) high, the wall of huge cut stones is a marvel to archaeologists.

"To build straight walls up 8 meters ... I don't know how to do it today without mechanical equipment," said the excavation's director, Ronny Reich. ...

Archaeologist Eli Shukron of the Israel Antiquities Authority added, "You see all the big boulders -- all the boulders are 4 to 5 tons."

The wall is believed to have been built by the Canaanites, an ancient pagan people who the Bible says inhabited Jerusalem and other parts of the Middle East before the advent of monotheism.

Good, that bit about the the Canaanites inhabiting Jerusalem "before the advent of monotheism."

So delicately put.

Actually, as the bible relates, the Canaanites inhabited Jerusalem until the Jews killed them all, and a many others too:

And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

The Canaanites were wiped from the face of the Earth in a holocaust of fire and sword:

Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.

And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron

The Jews may not yet have figured out how the Canaanites moved massive rocks by hand, but they understand genocide. I mean, do you ever run into a Girgashites or Jebusite these days? Me neither.

Tory plan: Ontario industry to subsidize the oil sands

That'll bring out the Ontario vote.

Afghanistan: US AID Contractors reported to pay Taliban for protection

War criminal Jack Straw: Release of man convicted as Lockerbie bomber linked to oil

Chris Floyd: Bogus Bluster From Bigwigs Hides Lockerbie Truth

Patrick Buchanan: Did Hitler want war

The article that The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) of America does not want you to read.

If you read it, perhaps you will agree that you should not have been allowed to.

Or you may conclude that the NJDC is a group of dangerous anti-free speech nuts and that MSNBC, who pulled the article, is not a reliable news source.

What the NJDC found objectionable about the article is unclear.

Was it the statement that as a result of WWII "50 million Christians and Jews had perished," thus making clear that Christian war losses outnumbered Jewish losses by around nine to one?

Or was it the suggestion that had the British persisted with their policy of appeasement and pursuaded the Poles to cede the German-populated city of Danzig, war could have been avoided? It is not obvious why that is offensive, although it suggests that the long-ridiculed policy of appeasement might actually have worked if pursued consistently.

However, in suggesting that war was brought to Germany, rather than Hitler's Germany having irrevocable plans for world conquest, it might lead some to conclude that Jews, who declared war on Nazi Germany in 1933, had brought disaster on their own heads.

The notion that Hitler had plans for world conquest is certainly nonsense. Since the time of Otto von Bismarck, Germany had sought to carve out an empire in the East. When German Foreign Minister, von Ribbentrop, met Winston Churchill in 1937, he showed him a map, sketched out the territory Germany intended to conquer and asked what Churchill thought. "We don't like the Russians" Churchill is said to have replied, "but we don't hate them that much."

Johnathan Cook: The Missing Link in Israeli Organ Theft? The Autopsy Surgeon Aftonbladet Forgot

Conde Nast: Keeping Putin's dirty secret

The Moscow apartment tower bombings provided Putin the pretext for a brutal crackdown on Chechen separatists. The New York Twin Tower bombings destruction by planes used as missiles -- something that nobody could have predicted -- provided Bush a pretext for a brutal attack on Afghanistan and Iraq.

An interesting parallel. Naturally, neither Moscow nor Washington wants anyone talking "inside job."

NEXT UPDATE: September 15, 2009

More Links ...

Mt. Logan, Yukon Territory, Canada