A Latin American Axis

Brazil's next president most likely will be an anti-American radical with an appetite for atomic bombs. Leading in the polls, Ignacio "Lula" da Silva could win either the October 6 first-round election or October 27 runoff. If so, Brazil, Venezuela, and Cuba could unite in hostility to the United States.

"We must prevent a nuclear-armed axis of evil in the Americas," says Constantine Menges, a senior fellow in the Washington office of the Hudson Institute. Since last spring, the former adviser to President Reagan has offered spoken and written warnings of da Silva's mounting menace. "Lula's a supporter of terrorism," Menges continues. "He will, I believe, permit covert support to be given to bring about anti-American regimes in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru." [read more]

thanks to bertramonline

These people are just fucking crazy and they will take us all down.

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The West's battle for oil

IT is a document that fundamentally questions the motives behind the Bush administration's desire to take out Saddam Hussein and go to war with Iraq.

Strategic Energy Policy Challenges For The 21st Century describes how America is facing the biggest energy crisis in its history. It targets Saddam as a threat to American interests because of his control of Iraqi oilfields and recommends the use of 'military intervention' as a means to fix the US energy crisis.

The report is linked to a veritable who's who of US hawks, oilmen and corporate bigwigs. It was commissioned by James Baker, the former US Secretary of State under George Bush Snr, and submitted to Vice-President Dick Cheney in April 2001 -- a full five months before September 11. Yet it advocates a policy of using military force against an enemy such as Iraq to secure US access to, and control of, Middle Eastern oil fields. [read more]

thanks to Politics in the Zeros

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Inspection as invasion
The US has been seeking to prevent a resolution of the Iraq crisis for the past eight years

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Is the American empire already over?

thanks to Cursor

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The Power Paradox
History teaches that holding a monopoly on might--as the United States now does--is likely to provoke a backlash.

thanks to Cursor

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Help Us to Stop the War
As a US Republican, I Reject George Bush's Illegal and Unconstitutional Plan to Attack Iraq
by Scott Ritter

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America's great misleader
Bush's arguments strain the limits of plausibility to justify war on Iraq, and this, says Simon Tisdall, means regime change is imperative - in Washington