And the wars go on.... the Old Big Muddy.

It's really something to watch the despicable media selling a new war in Pakistan. Even though Pakistan and the Taliban are geometrically weaker than the US economically and militarily, the media, even including Jon Stewart, are creating a mentality in the American people that Pakistan is going to nuke Disneyland. Once again the fear card is played on a fearful and relatively ignorant US population so that a new powerful enemy is created. I remember the deadly Cuban construction workers in Grenada being a threat to US interests -- and Panama -- and Iraq -- and Vietnam -- all wars in which a cowardly bully attacked countries that were geometrically militarily and economically weaker than the US and justified it by claiming a threat to our national interests. And here we go again.

I haven't viewed the video yet, but will a little later, and while I haven't finished reading it yet, I read the first two sections of the first piece below by Pepe Escobar and the second section certainly warns of serious escalation of war against the poorest in Afghanistan, who, because they have no other source of income, depend on poppy cultivation. That is also something the Northern Alliance drug and war lords of Afghanistan also depend on and we should (believably) not expect them to readily agree with having their poppy producers being killed ... en masse(s), which seems to be what the Obama admin. and U.S. military are too likely going to do.

Escalation of war ... all around, iow.

"REBRANDING THE LONG WAR, Part 1
Obama does his Bush impression",

By Pepe Escobar, atimes.com, May 7, 2009

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m54054

I used the atimes.com link at the end of this above article to check if Part 2 was available yet and didn't see any link for it, but came across the following piece.

"The myth of Talibanistan", By Pepe Escobar, May 1, 2009

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KE01Df01.html

A video by Pepe Escobar that goes importantly well as another relevant resource is the following one. I've posted the link a number of times before, months ago, at CD, but the video is certainly worth repeating the link.

"Full spectrum dominance" (9:26), TheRealNews.com, Aug 21 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTwdiC5jQ-I

Checking Uruknet's main index right now for articles related to Afghansitan, I came across the following. I haven't read these though, only this being the first time I've heard or read of the U.S. or NATO using white phosphorous in Afghanistan.

"Afghanistan: NATO Should ‘Come Clean’ on White Phosphorus
Release Report on Attack in Which Child Burned",

by Human Rights Watch, May 8, 2009

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m54085

"Afghan girl's burns show horror of chemical strike",
by Emma Graham-Harrison, Reuters, May 8, 2009

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m54084

And the following being the first I've read of the U.S. building a massive base in Afghanistan for what seems to be to support the additonal U.S. forces being sent. I should have anticipated more base building for this reason, but hadn't thought of it.

"A giant US military base emerges in Afghanistan",
by Dan De Luce, AFP, May 8, 2009

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m54078

There are more aritcles related to the war in Afghanistan and possibly Pakistan linked in the main index at Uruknet right now.

And I'll add the following link. Maybe there are articles linked in the CD homepage today for Iraq, but didn't see any yet, so will include the link for this piece in this first post I'm making for May 8th articles at CD.

"SADDAM'S SPEECH THAT STARTED THE WAR AGAINST IRAQ",
by Saddam Hussein
posted May 8, 2009, by ouraim.blogspot.com

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m54083

QUOTE:

This speech was delivered by Saddam Hussein to the Amman Summitt meeting on Feb. 24, 1990. Present were the heads of state of the key Arab allies of the United States: the president of Egypt and the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The president of Syria was also present. In its sweeping proposals for Arab unity against U.S.-Israeli domination, it was a blunt challenge to imperialism. It is this speech that was the flash point of the U.S.-U.N. aggression, not the Kuwait crisis which was engineered in response. (David Hungerford)

...

Reference: FBIS-NES-90-039, 27 February 1990

END QUOTE

This should provide some "food for thought" or thinking.

After having tried to view the video it seems that I'm unable to, and the source or page source for this CD page seem to have any video links at all.

The video seems to be from DemocracyNow.org, or there's one there with the same title and of May 7, 2009, anyway.

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/7/pak

QUOTE:

Pakistani government and the Taliban collapses, clashes between the two sides have forced tens of thousands to flee Pakistan’s Swat Valley. We speak to University of Chicago historian Manan Ahmed about the distinction between legitimate and overblown concerns about Pakistan’s internal unrest. While US political culture has focused on the Taliban, it’s taken for granted the legitimacy of the US-backed Zardari government and US drone attacks that have killed hundreds of Pakistanis. [includes rush transcript]

END QUOTE.

New boss - same as old boss.

Goes to show you what a TOOL Jon Stewart can be. Ultimately the best you can say is that he's good at making fun of the extreme right wing, all the while sucking up to Republican-Lite.