US officials say Israeli military exercise appeared to be practice for Iran
attack; Truthout's J. Sri Raman on Wa****ngton's "Afghan trap" and
continuing
conflicts along the Afghan-Pakistan border; Norman Solomon explores the
distorted relation****p between war time spending and health care spending
in
the US; Congressional Democrats concede defeat to Cheney's claim of secret
do***ents and staffing decisions; "populist pandering" by the EU with
approval
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t r u t h o u t | 06.20
US Says Exercise by Israel Seemed Directed at Iran
http://www.truthout.org/article/us-says-exercise-israel-seemed-directed-iran
Michael R. Gordon and Eric Schmitt re****t for The New York Times: "Israel
carried out a major military exercise earlier this month that American
officials say appeared to be a rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on
Iran's nuclear facilities."
J. Sri Raman | Bush Army in Brzezinski's Afghan Trap
http://www.truthout.org/article/bush-army-brzezinskis-afghan-trap
J. Sri Raman writes for Truthout: "'That secret operation was an excellent
idea. It had the effect of drawing the Soviets into the Afghan trap ...
The
day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President
Carter: We now have the op****tunity of giving to the Soviet Union its
Vietnam
war.' So said Zbigniew Brzezinski in a media interview in 1998. A decade
later, we can look back upon the tactic Brzezinski was boasting about,
also as
a trap Wa****ngton was laying for itself. The US was working to give its
own
Afghan war to itself. It is a weird sort of war, in which it killed allied
troops over a week ago and is struggling to cope with the aftermath."
Norman Solomon | Health Care and Ghosts of War
http://www.truthout.org/article/health-care-and-ghosts-war
For Truthout, Norman Solomon writes: "Speaking in a time of war, Martin
Luther
King Jr. said: 'Somehow this madness must cease.' Forty-one years later,
young
soldiers are returning to the United States from terrifying zones of
carnage.
The old claims of a justified war have melted away. So have the promises
of a
humane society back home. Statistics about the war dead tell us very
little
about human realities. And familiar downbeat numbers about health care -
47
million Americans with no health insurance, perhaps an equal number
woefully
underinsured - tell us very little about the actual consequences or other
options."
Cheney's Secrecy Prevails
http://www.truthout.org/article/cheneys-secrecy-prevails
Kevin Bogardus and Rebecca Brown re****t for The Hill: "Vice President Dick
Cheney has won his battle to withhold records from the public despite
efforts
by Congress and other critics who say they should be open to scrutiny."
Europe and Immigration: The Populist Option for Repression
http://www.truthout.org/article/europe-and-immigration-the-populist-option-repression
Rue89's Pierre Haski argues that the European Parliament's approval this
week
of an illegal immigrant "return directive" was short-sighted populist
pandering.
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