Thursday choices from Gerry

Written by: Gerry L on Aug 21, 2008 8:10 AM EDT

Thursday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ August 21,  2008

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Her passion, dynamism, warmth and grace will be sorely missed!!!  She inspired so easily…to have met her even once, as I did, was to love her…’

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The Limits of Power:  Andrew Bacevich on the End of American Exceptionalism

Andrew Bacevich is a conservative historian who spent twenty-three years serving in the US Army. He also lost his son in Iraq last year. In a new book titled The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Bacevich argues that although many in this country are paying a heavy price for US domestic and foreign policy decisions, millions of Americans simply continue to shop, spend and satisfy their appetite for cheap oil, credit and the promise of freedom at home. Bacevich writes, “As the American appetite for freedom has grown, so too has our penchant for empire.” [includes rush transcript]

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/20/the_limits_of_power_andrew_bacevich

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Lieberman to speak at Republican convention

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/49526.html\

 

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McCain's Ties to Neocon Hard Lines
One of John McCain's top advisers embodies two key prongs of neocon global strategy: pushing to remove hostile regimes in the Middle East and encircling Russia, reports Jason Leopold.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/082008c.html

 

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I Spent Years as a POW with John McCain, and His Finger Should Not Be Near the Red Button

http://www.alternet.org/election08/95825/i_spent_years_as_a_pow_with_john_mccain%2C_and_his_finger_should_not_be_near_the_red_button/

 

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Wake-Up Call for Team Obama

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20080820_wake_up_call_for_team_obama/

 

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Impeachable Offense?

Bruce K. Gagnon

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/35620

 

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Journalists and Their Good Friends in the White House

by Glenn Greenwald

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/20/11099/

 

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Jerome Corsi's Long, Strange Trip

By Max Blumenthal

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080901/blumenthal

 

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A Few Speculators Dominate Vast Market for Oil Trading

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082003898.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR

 

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Do Native Americans Have First Amendment Rights?

http://www.truthout.org/article/do-native-americans-have-first-amendment-rights

 

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Pilot Sues Gov't Over Terrorist Watch List

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/20/terror/main4366284.shtml

 

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Johann Hari: John McCain and his secretive plot to 'kill the UN'

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-john-mccain-and-his-secretive-plot-to-kill-the-un-903998.html

 

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The Value of George Orwell

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12219.htm

 

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Rice: Military power is "not the way to deal in the 21st century"

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/19/rice/index.html

 

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from and about ‘over there’

 

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World Water Crisis Underlies World Food Crisis

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/20/11083/

 

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Is it finished????

Proportion and Distortion

Russia and Georgia

By MICHAEL NEUMANN

http://counterpunch.org/neumann08202008.html

 

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Russians seeing red on missiles

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/08/20/2008-08-20_russians_seeing_red_on_missiles-2.html

 

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Diplomatic Rubble

Georgia's Ossetian Debacle

By ERIC WALBERG

http://www.counterpunch.org/walberg08202008.html

 

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US oil pipeline politics and the Russia-Georgia conflict

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/aug2008/pipe-a21.shtml

 

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Missile strike reported in Pakistan

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/08/20/2008-08-20_missile_strike_reported_in_pakistan.html

 

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Patience Needed in Pakistan

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/346832

 

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Al-Qa'ida keeps its promise to be 'bone in crusaders' throats'

Robert Fisk

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/world-focus-alqaida-keeps-its-promise-to-be-bone-in-crusaders-throats-904129.html

 

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Key U.S. Iraq strategy in danger of collapse

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/49538.html

 

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Juan Cole:  Informed Comment

Baquba Raid Roils Sunni-Shiite Relations;
Al-Maliki to Disband Awakening Councils

http://www.juancole.com/

 

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Activists plan to break Israel blockade on Gaza

LARNACA, Cyprus Aug 20 (Reuters) - A Holocaust survivor, a Catholic nun and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's sister-in-law are set to sail to Gaza on Thursday to try to break an Israeli blockade on the territory.

The three are among some 46 activists from 16 countries who have gathered in Cyprus for the journey, which The Free Gaza Movement hopes will draw attention to the plight of 1.4 million Palestinians suffering shortages of everything from fuel to food since an Israeli crackdown began last year.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LK659525.htm

 

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