Surviving Sailors Break Their Silence 40 Years After Israeli Attack on US Navy Ship
Hustler Magazine, July 2008 June 8, 1967 — the fourth day of the Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan — was a beautiful day in the Mediterranean. The USS Liberty was in international waters off the coast of Egypt. Israeli aircraft had flown over the USS Liberty in the morning and had reported that the ship…
Read more »A Totally Lawless Regime
By: Paul Craig Roberts|21 June, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Lawless . Regime . Totally
Think about this question: In the 21st century what regime is more lawless than the Bush Regime? Everyone is entitled to his own answer. The only answer I can come up with is the Zimbabwe regime of Robert Mugabe. Voted out of power in the last election, the great man hasn’t left. Zimbabweans are going to have to vote again,…
Read more »Elect Obama or Fall Into Tyranny
By: Paul Craig Roberts|19 June, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns
As articles by John Pilger, Alexander Cockburn and Uri Avnery make clear, by groveling before the Israel lobby, Obama has dispelled any hope that his presidency would make a difference. Obama told the lobby that in order to protect Israel he would use all the powers of the presidency to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon. As in the…
Read more »John Yoo, Totalitarian
John Yoo stands outside the Anglo-American legal tradition. His views lead to self-incrimination wrung out of a victim by torture. He believes a President of the US can initiate war, even on false pretenses, and then use the war he starts as cover for depriving US citizens of habeas corpus protection. A US attorney general informed by Yoo’s memos even…
Read more »Obama Grovels To Lobby— GOP Grovels To Tyranny
By: Paul Craig Roberts|17 June, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: GOP . Grovels . Lobby— . Obama . Tyranny
As articles by John Pilger, Alexander Cockburn and Uri Avnery make clear, by groveling before the Israel Lobby, Obama has dispelled any hope that his presidency would make a difference. Obama told the Lobby that, in order to protect Israel, he would use all the powers of the presidency to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon. As in the…
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