Necessary Illusions

Home Truths You’ll Never Read in the Press

Image via Wikipedia By PATRICK COCKBURN 04/08/08 "Counterpunch" --- American politicians and journalists have repeatedly made the same mistake in Iraq over the past five years. This is to assume that the US is far more in control of events in the country than has ever ...

US Vilifies Faithful Old Ally

Image via Wikipedia By Eric Margolis 03/08/08 "Toronto Sun" -- - It’s blame Pakistan week. As resistance to western occupation of Afghanistan intensifies, the increasingly frustrated Bush administration is venting its anger against Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s military intelligence agency. The White House leaked claims ISI was in cahoots with pro-Taliban groups ...

Bush must be stopped before starting war with Iran

Image via Wikipedia Tennessee Voices -- The Bush administration, in rhetoric that is eerily similar to that used to build the case for a war against Iraq, asserts that the Iranian Quds Force is arming anti-U.S. groups in Iraq and providing them with high-tech roadside bombs and sophisticated rockets. It dismisses the ...

Making Nuclear Extermination Respectable

Image via Wikipedia 31/07/08 "ICH" -- On July 18, 2008 The New York Times published an article by Israeli-Jewish historian, Professor Benny Morris, advocating an Israeli nuclear-genocidal attack on Iran with the likelihood of killing 70 million Iranians – 12 times the number of Jewish victims in the Nazi holocaust: “Iran’s leaders ...

Bush Reveals True Reason for War in Push for Iraqi Agreement

Image by James Gordon via Flickr Huffington Post - For five years the Bush administration has played wack-a-mole with the American people as to why we are in Iraq, with a new justification quickly spawning after the hollow core of the prior position was exposed. WMD's was followed by fighting Al ...

The war between the United States and Iran is on

Image via Wikipedia By Scott Ritter The war between the United States and Iran is on. American taxpayer dollars are being used, with the permission of Congress, to fund activities that result in Iranians being killed and wounded, and Iranian property destroyed. This wanton violation of a nation’s sovereignty would not be ...

Bush Will Issue a Mass Pardon

Image via Wikipedia "Smirking Chimp" --- Before leaving office George W. Bush will issue a mass pardon, the largest collection of presidential pardons in American history. Bush will pardon himself, Vice ...

The Greatest Threat America Has Ever Faced: the GOP?

Image via Wikipedia The Mother of All Messes By Paul Craig Roberts Republicans are sending around the Internet a photo of a cute little boy whose T-shirt reads: “The mess in my pants is ...

US lawyer seeks to sue US over Iran threats

Image via Wikipedia By Chris Gelken 23/07/08 "Press TV" -- 22/07/08 -- Tehran -- An American lawyer has offered to represent Iran in an international lawsuit against Israel and his own government in an effort ...

Why is Gordon Brown repeating a mistranslation?

Image via Wikipedia The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's never called for Israel "to be wiped off the map". This has been confirmed by many Iranian language experts. That the mainstream media have repeated and echoed the original mistranslation from 2005 attests to their bias and hidden agenda. However, it is shocking for ...