Scott Horton is interviewing the heroic author Chris Hedges on his radio show this afternoon.
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Justin appeared on MSNBC to talk about recruitment troubles.
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Antiwar.com is delighted to add a new member to our blog: Laurence M. Vance.
Laurence is a regular columnist for Lew Rockwell.com, where he writes primarly about the issues of war and peace. He is a freelance writer and an adjunct instructor in accounting and economics at Pensacola Junior College in Pensacola, FL. His new book is Christianity and War and Other Essays Against the Warfare State. Visit his website and his archives at LewRockwell.com.
In an interview earlier this month in the San Francisco Chronicle, Milton Friedman speaks on many issues (enough to madden some of our readers).
Buried in the interview is a gem:
Progress in his goal of rolling back the role of government, he said, is “being greatly threatened, unfortunately, by this notion that the U.S. has a mission to promote democracy around the world,” a big Bush objective.
“War is a friend of the state,” Friedman said. It is always expensive, requiring higher taxes, and, “In time of war, government will take powers and do things that it would not ordinarily do.”
The White House calls for democracy in Lebanon have not produced the results they were hoping for. In yesterday’s third round of voting, neocon poster boy Walid Jumblatt was trounced by a Syrian-alligned coaltion led by former general Michel Aoun.
Even more of a surprise was the sweep by Hezbollah in the eastern Bekaa Valley where the group labeled by Bush as “terrorists” won all 10 seats. Hezbollah has so far won 33 seats out of the 128-seat parliament, the largest of any single group.
Hezbollah was not expected to win anywhere near this many seats, but was helped by recent pronouncements of the White House. Knight Ridder reports:
Samia Hajj, a 43-year-old Shiite Muslim housewife, said she isn’t traditionally a supporter of either Hezbollah or its recent ally, the more secular Amal party. However, recent U.S. admonitions for Hezbollah to lay down its arms infuriated her, she said, and drove her to vote for the Hezbollah-Amal list as a means of resisting outside influence.
“We are not against America, but we aren’t terrorists and we don’t like being called terrorists,” Hajj said. “When the United States talks like that, it makes us think they are going to interfere here like they did in Iraq. We’re not going to let that happen.”
Among all the news about the self-outing of ‘Deep Throat,’ this news has gotten only a brief mention:
In 1981, Ronald Reagan granted a presidential pardon to Mark Felt for illegal actions against antiwar activists, including break-ins. Reagan said that Felt followed procedures he
believed essential to keep the Director of the FBI, the Attorney General, and the President of the United States advised of the activities of hostile foreign powers and their collaborators in this country. They have never denied their actions, but, in fact, came forward to acknowledge them publicly in order to relieve their subordinate agents from criminal actions.
Four years ago, thousands of draft evaders and others who violated the Selective Service laws were unconditionally pardoned by my predecessor. America was generous to those who refused to serve their country in the Vietnam war. We can be no less generous to two men who acted on high principle to bring an end to the terrorism that was threatening our nation.
Those who study history know that the Cointelpro activities supervised by Mark Felt were not limited to surveillance and burglary. During that period, the FBI actively interfered with the internal politics of dissident groups, including starting and inflaming factional struggles. There were many local groups that were under the total control of FBI infiltrators.
Reagan’s comparison of peaceful dissent and the illegal actions of the FBI is outrageous.
