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亚洲时报:传美欲萨达姆旧部復辟 收拾伊拉克内战乱局

传美欲萨达姆旧部復辟收拾伊拉克内战乱局撰文Pepe Escobar 2006/11/30, 亚洲时报. 伊拉克总统塔拉巴尼本月27日出访德黑兰时道:“我们迫切需要伊朗的帮助,以重建伊拉克 的安全和稳定。”在伊拉克,每天都有数十名以至数百名平民遭折磨或绑架,有的被斩首、 ...

Bury my heart in the Green Zone (by Pepe Escobar) …

Bury my heart in the Green Zone (by Pepe Escobar) As dozens of people a day (sometimes a couple of hundred a day), every single day, Sunni and Shi'ite alike, continue to be beheaded, tortured, blown up, shot, kidnapped, ...

No Questions Asked

Or else,” by Pepe Escobar. The article said: “ General President (or vice-versa) Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan is not sleeping very well these days since the full force of the George W administration requested his direct input into a ...

No Questions Asked

Or else,” by Pepe Escobar. The article said: “ General President (or vice-versa) Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan is not sleeping very well these days since the full force of the George W administration requested his direct input into a ...

Irak 124

By Pepe Escobar. "We are in dire need of Iran's help in establishing security and stability in Iraq."- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in Tehran "Asia Times" -- --- As dozens of people a day (sometimes a couple of hundred a day), ...

Nuevo orden petrolero mundial: trasnacionales vs. …

En forma peligrosa Gazprom se ha vuelto sinónimo de Rusia ("La nación Gazprom", Pepe Escobar; Asia Times, 26/5/06), lo cual eleva la puja de la subasta geopolítica por la posesión del gas global, donde no hay que perder de vista las ...

Why the US is to blame for Iraq’s nightmare

“The whole point is a new oil law--which is in fact a debt-for-oil program concocted and imposed by the International Monetary Fund,” reports Asia Times commentator Pepe Escobar. “This is the point of the US invasion--a return on ...

Barack Hussein Obama, Democrat

I saw this coming, and said so on page 1 of my book ;-)

GOP op Ed Rogers makes a point of mentioning golden boy Senator Barack Obama’s little-noted middle name. Jim Hitler Webb could not be reached for comment.

Via Wonkette and YouTube.

Obama #1 on NYT best seller list

As Barack Obama weighs a Presidential run, here's something else that Barack Obama is likely to take as a sign that his moment is now and that his message is resonating across the country: His book, The Audacity of Hope, has climbed to number one on the New York Times's hardcover nonfiction best sellers list -- topping John Grisham and Bill O'Reilly.

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/nov/29/obamas_book_number_one_on_times_bestseller_list

Shaq not in decline

SI.com - NBA - Shaq: My career is not in decline - Tuesday November 28, 2006 5:58PM

A year ago, when O’Neal sprained his ankle in Miami’s home opener and missed 18 games, there was talk his body was breaking down. He recovered, sat out only five more games and led the Heat to the NBA title for his fourth championship ring.

Now that he’s in the middle of another layoff, rumblings about slippage in his productivity have resurfaced. He dismisses detractors.

Are these people nuts? Did any of them see the Pistons series last year where Shaq ran the floor like a 20-year-old? His knee injury may mark a down spot, but he sure as hell wasn’t in decline six months ago.

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Obama makes first trip to New Hampshire

This speaks for itself.

We are responsible for what’s happening in Iraq today

By Pepe Escobar Everyone is guilty in the ongoing Iraq tragedy. The US-trained new Iraqi army is infiltrated by militias, by death squads and even by al-Qaeda in Iraq. The SCIRI, Da’wa and the Kurds are only worried about their own …