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Libs angry over Nixon/Allende but silent on Israel/US/Gaza
How come liberals/leftists who denounced US role in Chile in the 70s are silent about US role in aiding Israel to kill Palestinians? In the early 70s, Allende, a Marxist came to power democratically in Chile. He was a friend of Castro and USSR. He was a lowlife anti-American commie. So, Nixon tried to use whatever means--CIA and economic ...
Posted to Today's Papers by Andrea Freiboden on January 18, 2009
The Great Game -- Anglo Amero Brits and Kamchatka!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waziristan Honestly, I do not know why it is, that I both love to read Christopher Hitchens every week, and disagree with his every point almost without exception. Maybe it is his ''the sun never sets on the British Empire'' world girdling perapatetic meanderings around the World Map of Current Events and political ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard2 on September 19, 2008
Krebs Can't Shake Imperial Thinking
It seems like so many pundits, thinkers, politicans, and leaders in America just can't shake the mindset that America must advance its interests abroad through conniving double talk, backstabbing hypocricy, and cutthroat manicheanism. Its like the abuser that beats his kids, realizes its wrong, but resorts back to beating them because it just ...
Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on January 4, 2008