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“It is not civilizations that promote clashes. They occur when old-fashioned leaders look for old-fashioned ways to solve problems by rousing their people to armed confrontation.” –Kenichi Ohmae, The End Of The Nation State, (New York: The Free Press 1995), p. 11.

Why of course the people don’t want war. … That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. —Hermann Goering, Adolph Hitler’s heir-apparent

There is more propaganda in a democracy than in a dictatorship. … The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control -‘indoctrination,’ we might say – exercised through the mass media. –Seminal linguist Noam Chomsky
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Iran is up next.

This is the program the War Party has planned for you, your children and your grandchildren.

Are you with the program?

Tell Speaker Pelosi to push to cut off funds for the war.

On the anniversary of the start of the US war against Iraq, a broad-based coalition will rally outside Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home office at 450 Golden Gate Avenue (between Polk and Larkin) in San Francisco, 12 noon, Monday, March 19.

Join us in front of Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco district office to urge her and her fellow Representatives to deny any White House war funding request and to support HR 508, The Bring Our Troops Home and Sovereignty of Iraq Restoration Act.

Speakers include:
Justin Raimondo (Antiwar.com)
Rabbi Michael Lerner (Tikkun Community)
Matt Gonzales (former President, San Francisco Board of Supervisors)
Howard Wallace (San Francisco Labor Council)
John Caldera (Veterans Affairs Commission)

For more information, visit www.StopFundingtheWar.com, or contact jessica@stopfundingthewar.com .

Attorney General Gonzales is dead meat.  His exit is only a question of time.  (I been wrong before, but….)

I think the Senate Dems will not confirm some obvious hatchet man as the replacement for Gonzales.   Bush has “benefitted” from two Attorney Generals who were profoundly dishonest and demagogic.  No matter what the Bush administration did, they could be counted on to rubberstamp it as legal – or “close enough for government work” legal.

If the next Attorney General is halfway honest and opens the files of what has been done since 2001,  even damn moderates will be shocked.   There are bombshells waiting to detonate on the torture scandal, on Iraq, and on other dishonest and illegal gross abuses.

This year could be more entertaining politically than I expected.

Comments/corrections welcome at my blog here.

Carah Ong writes:

Last night, Rep. Pelosi and the democratic leadership decided to pull language from the Supplemental Appropriations bill which stated that no funds may be authorized for military operations in or related to Iran unless specifically authorized by the Congress.
We DO have a chance to reverse this in committee, but we urgently need you to send action alerts to your constituents and make phone calls TODAY.

TOLL FREE NUMBER FOR CONGRESS
(800) 828-0498
OTHER NUMBER FOR CONGRESS
(202) 224-3121

The Supplemental Appropriations bill is scheduled to be marked up in full committee Thursday (MARCH 15) at 9 am.

Please send action alerts to your constituents, encouraging them to write and, more importantly, call their members of Congress. Click here for a list of Members of the full Appropriations committee. If your Congressional representative is not on the committee, urge your Representative to tell Committee members to reinsert language back in the Supplemental Appropriations bill.

There is an interview with the only real anti-war candidate, Ron Paul, in the new issue of The New American. An excerpt can be read here.

There’s a new internet petition demanding that some member of the Imperial Senate stand up and filibuster this war.

They must be made by the American people to abide by their mandate and end this war immediately.

It doesn’t say liberal or conservative anywhere on it, so anti-imperialists unite!

Sign here.