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Mike Whitney
An Amrican writer who runs his his own landscape company in Snohomish, Wa, U.S., Mike Whitney regularly features on ukurnet and other websites
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
Mike Whitney asks Lebanon’s Prime Minister: “Why did you allow the Secretary of State to visit Beirut? …Is your dignity worth so little that you would grovel at Israel/America’s feet for a villa in the Riviera and a pocket full of silver?”
Posted in Current Affairs
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
The media has done an admirable job of concealing the truth about America’s involvement on the Korean peninsula, writes Mike Whitney. Focusing on the bizarre personality of Kim Jung II rather than historical facts which might clarify the real issues
Posted in "The War on Terror"
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
The media knew of Haditha months before it appeared in Time magazine. Why then did we not hear about it sooner? Because the mainstream media is now little more than the mouthpiece for the political establishment and they have their own agenda
Posted in The Media
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
It has barely been reported in the western media, but on May 10 Russia’s President Putin made an announcement that could trigger a global economic firestorm
Posted in Current Affairs
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
The Internet is the modern day market place of ideas; which is why the Pentagon is so keen to silence its unfettered discourse, writes Mike Whitney
Posted in Controlling the News
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
Apart from its nuclear program and the threat it supposedly poses to Israel, America has its own reasons to curb Iran’s growing power. Mike Whitney spells some of them out
Posted in Iran
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
The Bush team knows they’re losing ground; and fast. That’s why they dispatched poor Rummy to 4 TV talk shows on one morning alone. Rumsfeld was reduced to repeating the same lines he’s uttered for years, only this time, no one is buying
Posted in Iraq
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
The economic tsunami planned by the Bush administration is probably only months away, writes Mike Whitney. In just 5 short years the national debt has increased by nearly 3 trillion dollars while the dollar has continued its predictable decline
Posted in Israel, 'Anti-Semitism', Zionism and US-UK allies
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
Mike Whitney asks: are we are engaged in a noble effort to liberate and democratize the Iraqi people, or complicit in the deliberate murder of innocent civilians?
Posted in Iraq
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
Events in New Orleans are a pointer to things to come: a totalitarian state, policed by mercenaries in the pay of a moneyed elite willing to sacrifice everyone in their pursuit of power
Posted in Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
Nearly overnight the familiar voices that sang his praises from every media pulpit in America have either been silenced or turned against him. It is truly extraordinary; and a tad suspicious
Posted in Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
With at least 10,000 dead, New Orleans virtually destroyed and thousands of internal refugees, Hurricane Katrina could turn into America’s worst ever-natural disaster. But had it not been for the War on Terror and Iraq things might have been different
Posted in Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
When Tony Blair boasted two weeks ago that “the rules had changed”, he wasn’t joking. A few days later an innocent Brazilian was gunned on London Underground in the name of Blair’s “New Rules”
Posted in London Terror Attacks
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
America’s preemptive war of aggression is now being fought, in large part, in the offices of TV executives, producers and engineers. They decide the content of what the nation will see and how the ongoing slaughter will be promoted
Posted in Controlling the News
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
Details now surfacing about the London bombings are familiar to those who have researched the anomalies surrounding September 11. In both cases the government version of events is shot with holes
Posted in London Terror Attacks
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
Just like 9/11 did for Bush, the events of 7/7 have revitalised Tony Blair’s political fortunes and given added momentum to the passage of a whole raft of new ‘security’ legislation
Posted in London Terror Attacks
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
Tyranny requires little to be realised and right now America has all that and then some. The only thing missing its own secret police but that body is rapidly taking shape
Posted in "The War on Terror"
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
The evidence is clear. First the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, home to many unembedded journalists, was shelled, then Al Jazeera’s offices were bombed twice and now the shooting of Sgrena Giuliana. The US is out to get journalists who don’t tow the line
Posted in Iraq
By Mike Whitney on February 1, 2007
The American media has descended on the Asian tsunami with all the fervor of feral animals in a meat locker. In contrast to its coverage of Fallujah which was restrained in comparison. Why the difference?
Posted in The Media