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01/10/06
- Mondialisation
et nouvelle lutte des classes
As
Jobs Leave America's Shoress... The New Face of Class War
by Paul Craig Roberts, CounterPunch 30/09/06
"The attacks on middle-class jobs are lending new meaning
to the phrase "class war". The ladders of upward
mobility are being dismantled. America, the land of
opportunity, is giving way to ever deepening polarization
between rich and poor.
The assault on jobs predates the Bush regime. However, the
loss of middle-class jobs has become particularly intense in
the 21st century, and, like other pressing problems, has been
ignored by President Bush, who is focused on waging war in the
Middle East and building a police state at home. The lives and
careers that are being lost to the carnage of a gratuitous war
in Iraq are paralleled by the economic destruction of careers,
families, and communities in the U.S.A. Since the days of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s, the U.S.
government has sought to protect employment of its citizens.
Bush has turned his back on this responsibility. He has given
his support to the offshoring of American jobs that is eroding
the living standards of Americans. It is another example of
his betrayal of the public trust.
"Free trade" and "globalization" are the
guises behind which class war is being conducted against the
middle class by both political parties. Patrick J. Buchanan, a
three-time contender for the presidential nomination, put it
well when he wrote1 that NAFTA and the various so-called trade
agreements were never trade deals. The agreements were
enabling acts that enabled U.S. corporations to dump their
American workers, avoid Social Security taxes, health care and
pensions, and move their factories offshore to locations where
labor is cheap.
The offshore outsourcing of American jobs has nothing to do
with free trade based on comparative advantage. Offshoring is
labor arbitrage. First world capital and technology are not
seeking comparative advantage at home in order to compete
abroad. They are seeking absolute advantage abroad in cheap
labor..."
"...Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury in the Reagan administration."
01/10/06
-
Condoleeza Rice était-elle alertée, deux mois avant le 9/11
?
11/9:
Rice dément vigoureusement avoir ignoré une mise en garde de
la CIA
AFP 02/10/06
"La secrétaire d'Etat américaine, Condoleezza Rice, a
vigoureusement démenti lundi avoir été prévenue de risques
terroristes imminents pour les Etats-Unis deux mois avant les
attentats du 11 septembre, comme l'affirme le journaliste
vedette Bob Woodward dans son nouveau livre.
Interrogée à ce sujet dans l'avion la conduisant au
Proche-Orient, avant une escale à Shannon, en Irlande, Mme
Rice, qui était alors conseillère à la sécurité nationale
à la Maison Blanche, a déclaré ne pas se souvenir d'une
rencontre le 10 juillet 2001 avec l'ancien patron de la CIA,
George Tenet.
"Mais ce dont je suis certaine, c'est que je me
souviendrais si on m'avait dit, comme ce récit le dit
apparemment, qu'il allait y avoir un attentat aux Etats-Unis",
a-t-elle déclaré à un groupe de journalistes avant l'arrivée
à Shannon (Irlande) lundi matin..."
Two
Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice
WaPo 01/10/06
"On July 10, 2001, two months before the attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon, then-CIA Director George
J. Tenet met with his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black,
at CIA headquarters to review the latest on Osama bin Laden
and his al-Qaeda terrorist organization. Black laid out the
case, consisting of communications intercepts and other
top-secret intelligence showing the increasing likelihood that
al-Qaeda would soon attack the United States. It was a mass of
fragments and dots that nonetheless made a compelling case, so
compelling to Tenet that he decided he and Black should go to
the White House immediately.
Tenet called Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser,
from the car and said he needed to see her right away. There
was no practical way she could refuse such a request from the
CIA director.
For months, Tenet had been pressing Rice to set a clear
counterterrorism policy, including specific presidential
orders called "findings" that would give the CIA
stronger authority to conduct covert action against bin Laden.
Perhaps a dramatic appearance -- Black called it an "out
of cycle" session, beyond Tenet's regular weekly meeting
with Rice -- would get her attention..."
"...Tenet and Black felt they were not getting through to
Rice. She was polite, but they felt the brush-off. President
Bush had said he didn't want to swat at flies.
As they all knew, a coherent plan for covert action against
bin Laden was in the pipeline, but it would take some time. In
recent closed-door meetings the entire National Security
Council apparatus had been considering action against bin
Laden, including using a new secret weapon: the Predator
unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, that could fire Hellfire
missiles to kill him or his lieutenants. It looked like a
possible solution, but there was a raging debate between the
CIA and the Pentagon about who would pay for it and who would
have authority to shoot.
Besides, Rice seemed focused on other administration
priorities, especially the ballistic missile defense system
that Bush had campaigned on. She was in a different place.
Tenet left the meeting feeling frustrated. Though Rice had
given them a fair hearing, no immediate action meant great
risk. Black felt the decision to just keep planning was a
sustained policy failure. Rice and the Bush team had been in
hibernation too long. "Adults should not have a system
like this," he said later..."
"...Afterward, Tenet looked back on the meeting with Rice
as a tremendous lost opportunity to prevent or disrupt the
Sept. 11 attacks. Rice could have gotten through to Bush on
the threat, but she just didn't get it in time, Tenet thought.
He felt that he had done his job and had been very direct
about the threat, but that Rice had not moved quickly. He felt
she was not organized and did not push people, as he tried to
do at the CIA.
Black later said, "The only thing we didn't do was pull
the trigger to the gun we were holding to her head."
"
01/10/06
- Turquie
et Iran vont-ils envahir le Kurdistan Irakien ?
Erdogan
seeks US crackdown on PKK
Daily Star 02/10/06
"Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will urge
the US to take concrete action to crack down on Kurdish
guerrillas in Iraq, newspapers reported on Sunday, as a
unilateral rebel cease-fire went into effect. Amid growing
violence in Turkey's southeast and a diplomatic push to break
up the group, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Saturday
announced a halt to hostilities from its northern Iraqi base,
from where some 5,000 militants launch attacks on Turkey..."
Iran
and Turkey Prepare for War in Iraqi Kurdistan
DEBKAfile Exclusive Military Report September 24, 2006
A new Middle East war is in the offing. DEBKAfile's
exclusive military sources in Iraq and sources in Iran reveal
that Turkish and Iranian air units as well as armored,
paratroop, special operations and artillery forces are poised
for an imminent coordinated invasion of the northern Iraqi
autonomous province of Kurdistan.
Our sources pinpoint the target of the combined
Iranian-Turkish offensive as the Quandil Mountains (see
picture), where some 5,000 Kurdish rebels from Turkey and
Iran, members of the PKK and PJAK respectively, are holed up.
Iranian and Turkish assault troops are already deployed 7-8 km
deep inside Iraqi territory.
Turkey to the northwest and Iran to the east both have Kurdish
minorities which have been radicalized by the emergence of
Iraqi Kurdistan in the last three years. The three contiguous
Kurdish regions form a strategic world hub.
A jittery Washington foresees a Turkish-Iranian military
thrust quickly flaring into a comprehensive conflict and
igniting flames that would envelop the whole of Iraqi
Kurdistan as well as southern Turkey and Armenia.
Tehran is quite capable of using the opening for its
expeditionary force to grab extensive parts of Kurdistan and
strike a strategic foothold in northern Iraq.
Informed US officials would not be surprised if Turkey took
the chance of seizing northern Iraqi oil fields centered on
the oil-rich town of Kirkuk, the source of 40 percent of
Iraq's oil output..."
01/10/06
- Rapports
secrets,
"State of denial"... :
tempêtes à Washington
The
Woodward War
Newsweek
09/10/06
‘State
of Denial’
By Bob Woodward, Newsweek
09/10/06
Should
He Stay?
WaPo 02/10/06
Secret
Reports Dispute White House Optimism
WaPo 01/10/06
Book
Details Attempts to Oust Rumsfeld
LATimes 30/09/06
Card
Urged Bush to Replace Rumsfeld, Woodward Says
WaPo 29/09/06
New
Woodward Book Says Bush Ignored Urgent Warning on Iraq
NYT 29/09/06
Downie:
'Wash Post' Woodward Excerpts To Run Sunday and Monday
E&P 28/09/06
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