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Gen. Wesley Clark – US to invade 7 countries in five years

This is the plan. Clark outlines it clearly. Why wasn’t this front page news in 2007?

When the plan is out in the open and those in control of the media fail to report it, then there is no opening for the people … until now.

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A Hawk Reappraises the Afghan War

Bing West’s “The Wrong War”

By BRIAN M. DOWNING

Bing West, a marine veteran and assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan, has written extensively on American soldiers in various wars from the Vietnam War, in which he served, to ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His many books have chronicled the hard work and grim determination of US soldiers and have been typically supportive not only of the troops but also of the wars themselves. As its title more than suggests, this offering is very much a departure on the latter point. (Image Isafmedia)

West’s long experience gives him the ability to relate to and learn from the GIs, making his insights more penetrating than those of embedded journalists. He has gone out into foreboding places such as the Korengal Valley in Kunar province in the east, which the US withdrew from last year, and Marja in Helmand to the south, which is one of the three principal areas in the counterinsurgency program.
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Guest Author Stewart Hutchison – A Cautionary Tale and Other Outcomes of Imperialism

The events in Egypt cannot help but remind me of Portugal.  Here, there, and everywhere, now and before, the United States of America, as always, is petrified of anything genuinely progressive or socialist, or even too democratic, for that carries the danger of allowing god-knows what kind of non-America-believer taking office.  Honduras 2009, Haiti 2004, Venezuela 2002, Ecuador 2000, Bulgaria 1990, Nicaragua 1990 … dozens more … anything, anyone, if there’s a choice, even a dictator, a torturer, is better.  William Blum

From — “Hutch” — Stuart Hutchison of Prosecute Them Now
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