Mike's Blog Roundup

AllGov: For Halliburton/KBR, war is the gift that keeps on giving

Danger Room: Iran election: Taking to the streets - and tweets.  Update: Katherine Harris applauds Iranian election results - declares process "free and fair"

skippy the bush kangaroo: Crazy person fools crazy people, making them crazier

TalkLeft: Founder of drug abuse prevention program arrested in drug sting

The Project On Government Oversight : Flagrant Foul?

HOLY CRAP: A conversation with WhoIsYourCreator.Com...Aggressive Christianity...Atheist's Lullaby...Moonies swindling again...Just good friends...WTF is the Christian Christian Civil Liberties Union?...This Week in God...More Commandments...Sotomayor and the secular...A Feast of nonsense...This Pastor lays it all out...Social justice vs. Israel...Killing in the name of...Creationist talking points...Mr Deity...God Squawk



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Glenn Greenwald on various topics here.

On Iran:

(4) Speaking of Iran, I don't have any idea what really happened with its presidential election -- if, as Juan Cole argues, there was widespread fraud, that would be entirely unsurprising -- but Newsweek's long-time Middle East reporter Christopher Dickey persuasively warns against the emerging assumption that the anti-Ahmedinejad views expressed by middle class and cosmopolitan Iranians and promoted by the Western press are representative of a majority of Iranians. In Brazil, if you ask middle class, professional and/or educated Brazilians what they think of President Lula da Silva, you would conclude that he is an intensely despised figure, when -- in reality -- he is profoundly popular among a majority of Brazilians largely due to the deep support from that country's poor and under-education population (much the same way that you'd get vastly disparate responses if, in 2004, you went to Manhattan and then to rural Kansas and solicited opinions of George Bush). Dickey suggests that the same dynamic exists in Iran.

The point is, a politician that poor people like is often hated by the elite, for the obvious diametrically opposed reasons.

Witness Chávez, Juan Evo Morales etc etc.

Greenwald misses the mark in talking about George Bush, the people in Kansas are not all poor, but poor or not they are more likely to fall prey to that sort of delusion.

Ironically, the so-called reasons for the recent uptick in right wing extremism are much more attributable to the Bush administration than the Obama administration, according to the DHS's April report.

Never saw the link until I noticed my hit count spike. Thanks, Mike.

And also in the Greenwald piece cited above:

(3) According to Haaretz, a new poll in Israel finds that "only one in five Israeli Jews believes a nuclear-armed Iran would try to destroy Israel and most see life continuing as normal should the Islamic Republic get the bomb."…

Yet CNN has a headline: Poll: Half of Israelis back bombing if needed to stop Iran nukes

Who are you going to believe?

For me, anytime the US Government likes something or someone, I am EXTREMELY cautious.

And visa versa.

The more things seem to change, the more they stay the same.

greatly relieved to know that the Iranian government invited Katherine Harris to come to Iran and 'observe' the election; and, that Katherine has stated for the record - the election was free and fair.

If Kate says so, I know it must be true!!!

You just broke my snarkometer. ;°)

You say visa

I say vice

visa…

vice…

Let's call the whole thing off!

what do you say.......long history of political favortism,bribes,human trafficing,safety violations,controversy, unregulated power. i still can't get over those rape cases that involved
KBR employees. of course they were not legally bound and settled out of court and never to be heard of again.

and we will be successful.

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