Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 4 June 2007

Monday, 4 June 2007, 7:08 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:
Exclusive To Scoop: Hizbullah Move To Aid Nahr el Bared Controversial
Scoop Satire: Hood - Govt Struggles to Overreact to Tragedies
Iran: Hartung & Berrigan - Bush Leading Us to Nuclear War
United States: Stateside - Shamorial Day
War Lies: Suzan Mazur - Ex-CIA Chief George Tenet, Vacuum Cleaners & WMD
Torture: Stephen Soldz - Psychologists Role In Interrogation Abuse
United States: Who Are These People And Where Did They Come From?
UQ Wire: WNBC Catches Giuliani Getting 'Tripped Up' By 9/11
Bush Admin vs The Rule of Law: The Goods on Goodling
The Great Capitulation: Cindy Sheehan Takes A Break
The Great Capitulation: Shallow Throat – "Dems' Cave-In Is Truly Scary"
MORE IRAQ WAR COMMENT:
American Coup: Bill Berkowitz: Ken Blackwell Lands In D.C.
LATEST IMPEACHMENT NEWS:
LATEST ISRAEL / OCCUPIED PALESTINE / LEBANON COMMENT:
LATEST SOUTH ASIAN COMMENT:
MORE SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:

Exclusive To Scoop: Hizbullah Move To Aid Nahr el Bared Controversial

- Prof. Rami Zurayk writes from Lebanon: The past 48 hours were very eventful in Lebanon, and set the stage to what promises to be a critical development in the protracted Lebanese conflict. The most important political event was the TV address by Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah on the Occasion of Liberation Day, which commemorates the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon on May 25, 2000.More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00465.htm

Scoop Satire: Hood: Govt Struggles to Overreact to Tragedies

Satire by Lyndon Hood - The purpose of the State, it is widely accepted, is to stop bad things happening. Recent events show this Government's spectacular failure in this regard. Their only hope is that other role was ask of our leaders, finding the right overreaction in a crisis. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00456.htm

Iran: Hartung & Berrigan - Bush Leading Us to Nuclear War

Only days before the fifth anniversary of September 11, President George W. Bush addressed military officers in Washington to warn that nuclear-armed terrorists could "blackmail the free world and spread their ideologies of hate and raise a moral threat to America." See... More >> [1]

MORE IRAN NEWS:
• ABC News - Bush Authorizes New Covert Action Against Iran [2]
• The Independent UK - US and Iran Finally Meet to Discuss Iraq [3]

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United States: Stateside - Shamorial Day

The high fructose corn syrupy celebration that is Memorial Day in the United States is a sham. Not that the creator of the original commemoration didn’t see that coming: See... More >> [1]

MORE MEMORIAL DAY COMMENT:
• Michael Collins - Michael Collins: The Soldier Vote [2]
• David Swanson - Swanson: New Senate Report Is Worst Betrayal Yet [3]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00483.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00471.htm
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War Lies: Suzan Mazur - Ex-CIA Chief George Tenet, Vacuum Cleaners & WMD

Following the thorough public bashing of former CIA director George Tenet over his current book, At the Center of the Storm, his mea culpa about botched Iraq WMD war intelligence -- the question arises: Could the Bush II administration’s inspiration for bogus intel have come out of the Hollywood can of Our Man in Havana? See… More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00516.htm

Torture: Stephen Soldz - Psychologists Role In Interrogation Abuse

The Defense Department (DoD) has just declassified a report from their Inspector General (OIG) looking at the various investigations that the Department has conducted into repeated claims of detainee abuse – a.k.a. "torture" and "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment" – banned by international and United States law. The report documents that the various DoD "investigations were, individually and in total, inadequate: See... More >> [1]

MORE TORTURE COMMENT:
• William Fisher - Leading GOP Candidates Surge to Embrace Torture [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00513.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00523.htm

United States: Who Are These People And Where Did They Come From?

Those of us who actually possess developed brains and thus can't sleep at night contemplating the death-dealing horror this country has become have long been infuriated not only by the naked neocon emperors and their oily collaborators, the Vichy Democrats, but also by the millions of our fellow citizens who think everything's just ducky with our New American Century of torture, mass murder and looting and thus collectively just sit there, motionless, like a giant rotting carcass unapologetically blocking our path while we desperately clamor to halt the whole hateful hell before it's too late. See... More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00575.htm

UQ Wire: WNBC Catches Giuliani Getting 'Tripped Up' By 9/11

- It appears that Giuliani has been caught in a lie about 9/11. If he was warned about the WTC coming down that morning when he was not able to use the bunker in WTC 7, then why weren't others warned as well and why didn't the NYPD and the NYFD have ... See... More >> [1]

MORE UQ WIRE:
• Kyle Hence - UQ Wire: Political Assassinations, 9/11 & Media [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00507.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00557.htm

Bush Admin vs The Rule of Law: The Goods on Goodling

- BBC Television’s Newsnight has 500 “missing” Rove office emails including a series of self-incriminating notes which provide “the keys to the kingdom” behind the prosecutor firings. See... More >> [1]

MORE BUSH ADMIN vs RULE OF LAW:
• Greg Palast - Greg Palast On 'Greg Palast Is Dangerous' [2]
• Jason Leopold - Jason Leopold: An Interview With David Iglesias [3]
• Dean Lawrence R. Velvel - The New Big Lie [4]
• Bradblog.Com - Cheney Directly Implicated by Fitz. in CIA Case [5]
• Newsweek - Link: Bush's Role in ComeyGate Probed [6]
• Truthout Links - Dick Cheney vs The Rule Of Law & The Media [7] & US Attorneys: Gonzales vs Goodling & The Media [8]

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The Great Capitulation: Cindy Sheehan Takes A Break

- My alliance with Cindy Sheehan began with an exchange of emails several years ago after I made mention of her son, Casey, in an article about the expanding number of American troops lost in Iraq. She wrote to thank me, and to correct me on some small details about precisely when and how Casey died. Our friendship grew from that moment, and over time, she was always there to hand me a good kick in the pants whenever I needed one. See... More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00509.htm

The Great Capitulation: Shallow Throat – "Dems' Cave-In Is Truly Scary"

"Shallow Throat" looked like a ghost -- exhausted, pallid skin, and, when the wrap-around shades came off, I could see dark circles under the eyes. The GOP mole high up in the Bush Administration had contacted me through our secret code. Given our numerous conversations over the past six years, where the inner secrets of Republican strategy were revealed, I hurried to set up a meeting. See... More >> [1]

MORE ON THE GREAT CAPITULATION:
• Evelyn Pringle - Congress Gives Iraq War Profiteers Another $100Bn [2]
• Dennis Kucinich - It's All About Oil [3]
• David Swanson - Congress Licks Bush's Shoes [4] , Live Blogging House War Funding Debate [5] , Is Our Peace Activists Learning? [6] , Of Congressional Surrenders [7]
• Scott Galindez - The Handwriting on the Wall Is Written in Blood [8]
• Norman Solomon - Deadly Illusions, Rest in Peace [9]
• Afterdowningstreet.org - Soldiers, Unarmed, Abandoned in Iraq’s Civil War! [10]

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American Coup: Bill Berkowitz: Ken Blackwell Lands In D.C.

Over the years he's carried enough water for the GOP to fill up a good part of Lake Erie. He's done enough dirty work to pave the Interstate from Cleveland to Columbus. He is credited with being part of the team that helped double President George W. ... See... More >> [1]

MORE AMERICAN COUP:
• John Gideon - Daily Voting News For May 25, 2007 [2] , May 24, 2007 [3]

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