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Eisenhower’s worst fears came true. We invent enemies to buy the bombs

by SR Editor June 18, 2011

Nato has long outlived its purpose, now justifying its existence only by how much it induces its members to spend, and how many wars irrelevant to its purpose it finds to fight. Yet still it does not spend enough for the US defence secretary. In his anger, Gates threatened that “future US leaders … may not consider the return on America’s investment in Nato worth the cost”. Is that a threat or a promise?

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If Words Could Kill: Those Bloodthirsty Americans and Their Death Threat Duplicity

by Nima Shirazi December 16, 2010

Fox News national security analyst Kathleen McFarland urged the United States to declare WikiLeaks a terrorist organization, kidnap Assange, and try him in a military tribunal for espionage. Furthermore, McFarland, who served in the Pentagon under the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations and is currently a “Distinguished Adviser” at the Iran-hating/Israel-advocating think tank The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, agreed with Huckabee that Manning should be charged and tried as a traitor for exposing American war crimes, criminal negligence, and diplomatic duplicity. “If he’s found guilty,” she wrote, “he should be executed.”

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Undermining bipartisanship on Israel

by SR Editor November 12, 2010

Netanyahu’s ideological sympathies are legitimate. The problem is that by doing so he – and like-minded U.S. conservatives – are flirting with disaster: undermining the paradigm of bipartisan support for Israel. Netanyahu’s actions are a distinct break from the past 40 years, when Israel’s strengthening ties with Washington were all a product of bipartisan support – regardless of who was in the White House or who controlled Congress.

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The Hate Mongers Among Us

by Jeff Gates September 17, 2010

By Jeff Gates* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Hate is a harsh word. As the counterpoint to love, hate reigns supreme among those emotions that the faith traditions seek to expunge from the human heart. Hate we’re told is the face of evil seen in plumes of smoke and ash on 911. Yet hate also [...]

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9/11 ANALYSIS: From Ronald Reagan and the Soviet-Afghan War to George W Bush and September 11, 2001

by Michel Chossudovsky September 10, 2010

By Michel Chossudovsky* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz This article summarizes earlier writings by the author on 9/11 and the role of Al Qaeda in US foreign policy. For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, America’s “War on Terrorism”, Global Research, 2005 “The United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled [...]

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The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda. The CIA’s Drug-Running Terrorists and the “Arc of Crisis” (Part I)

by SR Editor September 7, 2010

By Andrew Gavin Marshall* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Introduction As the 9th anniversary of 9/11 nears, and the war on terror continues to be waged and grows in ferocity and geography, it seems all the more imperative to return to the events of that fateful September morning and re-examine the reasons for war and [...]

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Is the “Times Square Terrorist” more Field-based Warfare

by Jeff Gates May 13, 2010

By Jeff Gates* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In March 2001, Indonesian Intelligence Chief Arie Kumaat asked American James M. (“Mel”) Rockefeller to assess the Taliban’s destruction of the two ancient Buddhas of Bamyan carved into a sandstone cliff in central Afghanistan 140 miles northwest of Kabul. Familiar with psychological operations (psy-ops) that involve lengthy [...]

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More hype about Iran?

by SR Editor April 23, 2010

By Prof. Stephen M. Walt* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Back when I started writing this blog, I warned that the idea of preventive war against Iran wasn’t going to go away just because Barack Obama was president. The topic got another little burst of oxygen over the past few days, in response to what [...]

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The Source of the Economic Crisis: A Chicago State of Mind

by Maidhc Ó Cathail February 5, 2010

By Maidhc Ó Cathail* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Worried about the global economic crisis? It’s all in your head, says a leading financial expert.   And that’s the problem, according to Jeff Gates, author of the highly-regarded Democracy At Risk: Rescuing Main Street From Wall Street, a sequel to The Ownership Solution: Toward A [...]

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Did you know?

by Haitham Sabbah January 20, 2007

[by Carlos Latuff] Did you know that last August, a US Navy sailor, Ariel J. Weinmann, was suspected of spying for Israel and has been held in prison for four months. Last month, the Washington Post reported that the sailor was accused for spying and pleaded guilty, but guess what? They say he is accused [...]

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