The last time we saw James Bond, Agent 007, in Afghanistan he was fighting on the side of ... the mujahadeen, them then-courageous and balls-out deadly "freedom fighters." Just shows to go ya' that today's "freedom-fighter" can allus become tomorrow's "terrorist."
("The Living Daylights", 1987. Major Digression: Timothy Dalton, the best of all the Bonds since Sean Connery left the role, brought a certain deadly, reptilian edge to our favorite secret agent as far as I was concerned, ya'll. This is not said to take any props away from Pierce Brosnan, who has certainly earned the role after all the crap he had to do through to finally get it. But Dalton was The Man, fellow Sanitation Engineers.)
Fast forward to November, 2001: If Bond is in Afghanistan right now, he's been sent there by MI6 to undermine the very people he was supposed to be helping 14 years ago. (Oh-oh! ) Have we moved through the danged looking glass? Hell, yeah! Since 9-1-1 ever'-danged-thang has changed. It's on in Afghanistan again, 'cept it's us, not the Russkies, dropping bombs into the mountainous wastes
Is Commander Bond confused? Prob'bly yes.
Is Tabloid Hart confused? No.
Why? 'Cause me, I blame God. Lemme tell you why, Sanitation Engineers.... More
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Why Do the Wicked Prosper?
ROD AMIS
NEW ORLEANS - 13 November, 2001: In all of the analysis of of the Anglo-American war in Afghanistan that's been spewed on us by the Mouthpiece Media in the United States -- which have basically sank to the role of propaganda organs, with CNN leading the way -- and even in the more thoughtful and leftist international press, it seems from this seat that one important point has been lost: It's still about the oil.
bin Laden has stated in no uncertain terms that he's after control of Saudi Arabia, which includes the Islamic holiest of holies, BUT also contains the largest oil reserves in the world outside of Russia. Even the Israeli-Palestinean issue pivots on the point of which oil-rich nations side with the United States (and thereby will accomodate Israel) and which do not. That's where Iraq falls into this equation, as well as the Sudan.
This stinking mix of geopolitics and resource-management means that we can only see the forest, instead of the trees, if we really follow the money.... More
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From Aliza Dichter, New York, NY, USA:
SUBJECT: international news source
Dear friends,
In case you have a hankering for some real international news about
the "war on terrorism," straight from the sources in South/Central
Asia, Mideast and around the world, I encourage you to check out the
new daily news service from Globalvision New Media (company that
"produces" mediachannel)...
http://www.gvnewsnet.com/html/WorldReacts/index.html
they are picking up stories from all over so some are state media or
otherwise partisan in ways we might not understand but if you are
interested in reading widely and seeing news and views that are simply
invisible in US media, check it out.
(They were planning to launch in Jan but rushed due to circumstances
so there may be glitches..)
Feel free to forward this note to any news junkies in your life....
Liza
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Aliza Dichter
Senior Editor
MediaChannel
liza@mediachannel.org
www.mediachannel.org
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