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Last Updated January 13, 2005
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Cost of the War, December 26, 2005
Uri Avnery - Israel - Updated January 13th Doris Colmes - Unique Perspective - Updated December 1st Chris Floyd - Sharp, detailed criticism - Updated January 5th John S. Hatch - Updated December 1st Dahr Jamail - Iraq - Updated January 13th Jason Miller - Unique Perspective - Updated January 5th Bill Quigley - Updated December 18th Sheila Samples - Current Issues - Updated January 13th
A Formula for Slaughter; The American Rules of Engagement from the Air Cult of Character Ariel Sharon J. Edgar Hoover With Supercomputers Cronies at the FEC To Russia, Love Tom DeLay Alito and The "F" Word Self-Help's Big Lie Broken Ranks in the Palestinian National Movement Bring Back the 40-Hour Workweek - and Let Us Take a Long Vacation
The following is a required read. See link at end of this note.BJF The CIA's Dangerous Failures in Iran By Philippe Gélie Le Figaro Friday 06 January 2006 A book reveals that the American espionage powerhouse gave Teheran the plans to make a bomb and was double-crossed by its own messenger. When the Iranian regime defies the international community, announcing - as it did Tuesday - the resumption of its "peaceful nuclear program," Washington reacts by demanding that its allies "consider additional measures to restrain Iran's nuclear ambitions." What the American administration doesn't say is that an unbelievable faux pas on the part of its own secret services has perhaps brought Teheran closer to possession of the bomb. The story is revealed in James Risen's book State of War, The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration, (Free Press). It comes on top of the affair - already uncovered by the same reporter in the New York Times - of the NSA's warrantless eavesdropping and an embarrassing series of clarifications about what the CIA really knew about Saddam Hussein's arsenal before the Iraq invasion. What emerges is a charged portrait of an agency disoriented since the end of the Cold War that had not seen the September 11 attacks coming and which regularly trips over the carpet. "No other institution failed its mission so completely during the Bush administration," the author deems. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010606H.shtml
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