"Never again.": The Creaky Coalition:

Even if John Kerry defeats Bush, any British government will find it difficult, if not impossible, to muster popular support for a future American-led military intervention. A senior British diplomat put it bluntly to NEWSWEEK: "Never again."

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6315335/site/newsweek/


From Information Clearing House

Resisting the war machine and U.S. ecocide
http://www.culturechange.org/e-letter-resist.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

The Neo-Conservative Agenda - Humanism VS Imperialism:

It would be nothing less than scandalous for the United States, which was founded on humanistic and democratic principles, to attempt to replace the old empires of the past and to deny the fundamental democratic right of other peoples and other nations to self-determination.

http://207.44.245.159/article7061.htm

by Jim Ingalls and Sonali Kolhatkar

Asia Times

10/13/04

The majority of Afghans played no part in the decision-making regarding the schedule and structure of the weekend's presidential elections, and will not benefit from the results: the election process was imposed by the US to solve 'Afghan problems' as defined by the US...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/FJ13Ag02.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Michael Klare, Alternet

Klare--a professor of world security studies--examines the underlying rationale justifying Congress' $420 billion defense budget: Oil.

http://www.alternet.org/story/20127/

Source: http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#002246

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1130.htm


Informant: civl ecco

by Michael Klare

In the first U.S. combat operation of the war in Iraq, Navy commandos stormed an offshore oil-loading platform. "Swooping silently out of the Persian Gulf night," an overexcited reporter for the New York Times wrote on March 22, "Navy Seals seized two Iraqi oil terminals in bold raids that ended early this morning, overwhelming lightly-armed Iraqi guards and claiming a bloodless victory in the battle for Iraq's vast oil empire." A year and a half later, American soldiers are still struggling to maintain control over these vital petroleum facilities -- and the fighting is no longer bloodless. On April 24, two American sailors and a coastguardsman were killed when a boat they sought to intercept, presumably carrying suicide bombers, exploded near the Khor al-Amaya loading platform. Other Americans have come under fire while protecting some of the many installations in Iraq's "oil empire." Indeed, Iraq has developed into a two-front war: the battles for control over Iraq's cities and the constant struggle to protect its far-flung petroleum infrastructure against sabotage and attack. The first contest has been widely reported in the American press; the second has received far less attention. Yet the fate of Iraq's oil infrastructure could prove no less significant than that of its embattled cities....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct04/Klare1009.htm

http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/wasdin/wasdin10.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.spacewar.com/upi/2004/1005-093005-outsideview-ibrahim.html

Burned By Oil
Youssef M. Ibrahim, UPI

The former energy editor for the Wall Street Journal says America's blind addiction to this strategic commodity led to strategic failure...

http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#002184