Paradigm Subversion

Afghanistan, Another Untold Story -By Michael Parenti

Barack Obama is on record as advocating a military escalation in
Afghanistan. Before sinking any deeper into that quagmire, we might do
well to learn something about recent Afghani history and the role
played by the United States.

Less than a month after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon, US leaders began an all-out aerial
assault upon Afghanistan, the country purportedly harboring Osama bin
Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist organization. More than twenty years
earlier, in 1980, the United States intervened to stop a Soviet
“invasion” of that country. Even some leading progressive writers, who
normally take a more critical view of US policy abroad, treated the US  read more »

Howard Zinn Celebration of Life Memorial-this Saturday, February 6th, 3 P.M. Lecture Hall 1, Evergreen

Dear Friends --


Many of you have been influenced by Howard Zinn and read or even worked with his People's History of the United
States.  He had planned to speak here in Olympia,
Saturday, Feb. 6, at 3 P.M. but passed away last week.  He'd be delighted to know
people will gather to consider the people's history and tell the
people's stories that day anyway.

Come honor and celebrate
Howard Zinn's life and work at The Evergreen State College this
Saturday Feb. 6 from 3 - 5:15 in Lecture Hall 1.  T
he program will feature
a recent interview of Zinn with David Barsamian and a recording of the
address "Three Holy Wars" that Zinn had promised to bring to Olympia.   read more »

Afghan 'Dirty War' Escalates

By
Douglas Valentine  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/010410b.html
January 4, 2010

On
Dec. 31, I listened in dismay as an NPR “terrorism” expert condemned
the suicide bombing that killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan as
especially hideous because the CIA victims were spreading economic
development and democracy in the area as members of a Provincial
Reconstruction Team (PRT). 
   read more »

Cause and Effect in the 'Terror War'

by Glenn Greenwald

"In
all their alleged allegedness, this Administration has an allergy to
the concept of war, and thus to the tools of war, including strategy
and war aims" -- Supreme Tough Guy Warrior Mark Steyn, National Review, yesterday.  read more »

Are Presidents Afraid of the CIA?

by Ray McGovern

In the past I have alluded to
Panetta and the Seven Dwarfs
.  The
reference is to CIA Director Leon Panetta and seven of his moral-dwarf
predecessors-the ones who sent President Barack Obama a letter on Sept. 18
asking him to "reverse Attorney General Holder's August 24 decision to re-open
the criminal investigation of CIA interrogations."  read more »

Jim Page & Erin Corday with Joel Litwin at Traditions Cafe Saturday, December 26

12/26/2009 - 20:00
12/26/2009 - 22:00
Etc/GMT-8

 

Jim“Jim’s
been writing great topical songs for as long as I can remember,
bringing his acute wit and wry humor to a host of subjects that can
really use both. In the tradition of Woody and Dylan, he cuts right to
the heart with music you actually enjoy listening to. I'm a longtime
admirer.”
- Bonnie Raitt

8:00 PM, Tickets: $12 Student/low income: $8  read more »

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