Headlines for 02-01-08

The American Conservative: Paul for President This campaign sends a signal to both parties that a significant number of Americans value their country?s great Constitution, that many conservatives reject wiretaps, waterboarding, and senseless wars. There is far more realism in Paul?s analysis than can be found in those Republicans who believe that Washington?s policy of borrowing billions from China to pay for the occupation of a growing number of countries is desirable, much less sustainable.



Report: Military not ready for US attack


Bush: Don't show Iran US is 'paper tiger' US President George W. Bush on Thursday warned that a hasty pull-out from Iraq would ruin fragile progress there and convince extremists and Iran that the United States is a "paper tiger."


Domestic Spying Program Could Aid Terrorists, Experts Say Although the Bush administration calls it a vital weapon against terrorism, its domestic wiretapping effort could become a devastating tool for terrorists if hacked or penetrated from inside, according to a new article by a group of America?s top computer security experts


Tapped out nation by Patrick J. Buchanan


Bush prods Congress on eavesdropping law The president signed what Congress has given him so far ? a 15-day extension of the law that allows electronic surveillance of suspected terrorists. But he said Congress should urgently pass a permanent law, on his terms, to safeguard the country.


Protect America from the Protect America Act by Rep. Ron Paul The misnamed Protect America Act allows the US government to monitor telephone calls and other electronic communications of American citizens without a warrant. This clearly violates the Fourth Amendment


Obama: US should conduct direct talks with Syria and Iran


Iran: Sanctions violate UN Charter


Iran resolution hits snag at U.N.: French envoy Vimont did not mention countries by name but nonpermanent Council member South Africa has voiced discomfort over moving ahead fast on the resolution and Libya, Indonesia and Vietnam are also seen as spoilers.


DM: Iran's military does not threat any country "The United States is trying to introduce Iran as a threat to peace and security in the Middle East, yet our armed forces are not threatening any country in the region,"


"We Can't Afford to Let Them Spill the Beans" A dual Israeli-American national, Grossman has promoted the neocon agenda of forcing "regime change" in the Middle East. "[T]he time has come now," he declared on the eve of the Iraq invasion, "to make a stand against this kind of connection between weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. And we think Iraq is a place to make that stand first . . . the great threat today is the nexus between weapons of mass destruction and terrorism."


OPEC set to freeze oil output amid US recession fears OPEC ministers turned down calls for extra output on Thursday, voicing concern that the weak US economy may cause oil prices to drop further from recent historic peaks above 100 dollars. Greedy bastards.


Deadly Hubris A million Iraqis dead ? for what?


US diplomats sometimes go off-message The trouble began on Jan. 17, when Jay Lefkowitz, the special U.S. envoy for human rights in North Korea, delivered a speech at the conservative American Enterprise Institute think-tank in which he trashed the six-nation talks aimed at persuading the North Koreans to give up their nuclear weapons program.


Poll: Most U.S. Muslims reject attacks on civilians The poll also found that 75 percent of respondents agreed that "brokering a just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would improve America's reputation in the Muslim world."


Deminers find new cluster bomb sites without Israeli data while Israel continues to ignore requests for data that would assist clearing the estimated one million unexploded bomblets, which continue to kill and maim civilians and decimate rural livelihoods. A single cluster bomb can disperse hundreds of bomblets.



Horowitz Returns to Meet Officials Horowitz said he wants to discuss his campus appearance on Oct. 24 ? a speech on ?Islamo-Fascism? that he ended prematurely due to repeated interruptions by outside protesters.



Defending Israel to the "End Times"


3 Antiwar.com Columnists Appointed to Advise Ron Paul Campaign This morning the Ron Paul campaign announced the appointment of three new policy advisors: Doug Bandow has been appointed policy advisor to the campaign, while Charles Peña and Philip Giraldi have been named as foreign policy advisors.


Palestinian refugees in Iraq call for unity Palestinian refugee in Iraq, facing repeated attacks, abductions and killings, voiced an appeal to the Palestinian people in Palestine and to all factions in order to save them and place their issue as a high priority. The refugees called on all Palestinian factions to end the internal tension and to unite