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Remembering Modern History’s Greatest Crime
Eric Margolis
http://www.ericmarg olis.com/ archives/ 2008/06/remember ing_mod.php

… For eight decades, the greatest mass murder in modern history has been shamefully covered up or ignored … If we keep demanding that Germany and Japan atone for their wartime crimes, is it not time for our governments to finally recognize and atone their alliance with the biggest mass murderer in history, Josef Stalin, a man whose crimes exceeded those of Adolf Hitler by a factor of at least three or four times? Particularly so in the United States, where World War II has become something of a state religion and is endlessly invoked by conservatives and neocons to justify foreign military adventures.

And The Winner Is … The Israel Lobby
Pepe Escobar - Asia Times
http://www.atimes. com/atimes/ Middle_East/ JF03Ak01. html

… Such star power wattage, a Washington version of the Oscars, is the stock in trade of AIPAC - the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the crucial player in what is generally known as the Israel lobby and which holds its annual Policy Conference this week in Washington at which most of the heavyweights will deliver lectures … No wonder AIPAC is considered by most members of the US Congress as more powerful than the National Rifle Association or the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. … AIPAC has explicit Zionist roots. … AIPAC maintains a virtual stranglehold over the US Congress.

Paradise Lost: Crowdifornia
Brenda Walker
http://www.vdare. com/walker/ 080527_crowdifor nia.htm

Not so long ago - before the Immigration Profligacy Act of 1965 took hold, and before Washington decided to stop enforcing the law against illegal aliens — California was Eden, even for average folks … The speed at which postwar California has been paved over for dubious progress and substantial profit has been breathtaking. California is full and getting fuller, but They Keep Coming - everyone on earth, or so it appears … Unpleasant crowdiness is becoming normal as quality of life drops off the chart in the place that was once close to paradise on earth. It seems every day brings another report about worsening everything, and how much more it will cost.

Peter Schaenk Radio Interview with Mark Weber
Voice of Reason Radio Network
http://reasonradion etwork.com/ ?p=227

The Zionist-led campaign against California Prof. Kevin MacDonald for his scholarly writings on Jewish group behavior, and the outrageous ordeal of British historian David Irving for having expressed non-conformist views about World War II history, along with other issues, are tackled by Mark Weber and host Peter Schaenk in this hour-long May 30 radio broadcast.

Indefensible Spending: An Irrational US Military Budget
Robert Scheer
http://www.commondr eams.org/ archive/2008/ 06/01/9349/

What should be the most important issue in this election is one that is rarely, if ever, addressed: Why is U.S. military spending at the highest point, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than at any time since the end of World War II? Why, without a sophisticated military opponent in sight, is the United States spending trillions of dollars on the development of high-tech weapons systems that lost their purpose with the collapse of the Soviet Union two decades ago?

From Kennedy to Obama: Liberalism’s Last Fling
John Pilger
http://www.johnpilg er.com/page. asp?partid= 489

In this season of 1968 nostalgia, one anniversary illuminates today. It is the rise and fall of Robert Kennedy, who would have been elected president of the United States had he not been assassinated in June 1968 … Kennedy’s campaign is a model for Barack Obama. Like Obama, he was a senator with no achievements to his name. Like Obama, he raised the expectations of young people and minorities. Like Obama, he promised to end an unpopular war, not because he opposed the war’s conquest of other people’s land and resources, but because it was “unwinnable. ” Should Obama beat John McCain to the White House in November, it will be liberalism’s last fling.

Bush, Borah and Hitler: Bush’s `Revisionist’ History
Allan J. Lichtman
http://www.britanni ca.com/blogs/ 2008/06/george- w-bushs-revision ist-history- of-wwii/

With the mainstream media fixated on remarks by preachers at Trinity United Church in Chicago, it has largely ignored far more consequential comments by the president of the United States … The final irony in Bush’s revisionist history is that [Sen. William] Borah may never have said the words that Bush quoted. The line about Hitler was not reported in the press at the time and does not appear in Borah’s correspondence. The line comes from a single source, journalist William K. Hutchinson error-filled memoir, in which he claims attributes the line to a private conversation with Senator Borah.

Is George Bush Becoming Irrelevant
Patrick J. Buchanan
http://buchanan. org/blog/ ?p=999

… The synchronized savagery of the attacks on McClellan as turncoat suggests he drew blood. For what he has done is offer confirmation to the president’s war critics, from within the White House inner circle, that Bush’s motive in going to war was not a clear and present danger of attack by Iraq with weapons of mass destruction, but to advance a Bush crusade to impose democracy on the Middle East. Neoconservative ideology, not U.S. national interests, McClellan is saying, motivated Bush to launch one of the longest and most divisive wars in U.S. history.

Tower of Babble Rabble: New Light on the Iraq War
Arnaud de Borchgrave - UPI
http://www.upi. com/Internationa l_Security/ Emerging_ Threats/Analysis /2008/05/ 30/commentary_ tower_of_ babble_rabble/ 7705/

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan is excoriated for stating the obvious … Of course, it was a war of choice, not of necessity, as he writes. The Bush administration’ s main motive for invading Iraq was to introduce “coercive democracy.” This motive originated in a controversial 1996 White Paper titled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” which referred to Israel. …

British Lecturers Vote to Continue Debating Israeli Boycott
The Guardian (Britain)
http://education. guardian. co.uk/higher/ news/story/ 0,,2282491, 00.html

Lecturers voted to continue to debate and discuss UK university links with Israeli academics at the annual congress of the University and College Union (UCU) today. Discussion of the possibility of an academic boycott of Israel dominated the UCU congress last year, and lecturers’ decision led to international condemnation. Lecturers today voted overwhelmingly to pass a motion calling on colleagues to “consider the moral and political implications of educational links with Israeli institutions, and to discuss the occupation with individuals and institutions concerned, including Israeli colleagues with whom they are collaborating” .

Weber Set to Appear on Sunday with James Edwards
The Political Cesspool
http://www.thepolit icalcesspool. org/

Mark Weber is scheduled to appear on Sunday, June 8, with host James Edwards on the “Political Cesspool” radio program. Weber will be on from 2:00 p.m to 3:00 or 4:00 p.m., Pacific coast time, or 4:00 to 5:00 or 6:00 p.m., Central time. Regarded as the country’s foremost populist radio program, the show is broadcast each Sunday on WLRM radio, 1380 AM, Memphis, Tennessee, and online. Weber, director of the Institute for Historical Review, has written and lectured extensively on history and current affairs.

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