October 2nd, 2009
by Tim Teeman — The Times – UK
The Republicans will win the next election, Vidal believes; though for him there is little difference between the parties. “Remember the coup d’etat of 2000 when the Supreme Court fixed the selection, not election, of the stupidest man in the country, Mr Bush….
…Vidal is sitting in the Connaught Hotel in Mayfair, where he has been coming to stay for 60 years. He is wearing a brown suit jacket, brown jumper, tracksuit bottoms; his white hair twirled into a Tintin-esque quiff and with his hooded eyes, delicate yet craggy features and arch expression, he looks like Quentin Crisp, but accessorised with a low, lugubrious growl rather than camp lisp.
October 2nd, 2009
by Jason Ditz — Antiwar.com
Following up on assurances he made in May, President Obama has reportedly ‘reaffirmed’ a secret understanding whereby he will not reveal the existence of Israel’s widely known nuclear arsenal, nor will he pressure Israel to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Though Israel has often, albeit accidentally, publicly revealed that they have nuclear weapons, the United States officially has followed a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy with the arsenal, the only one of its kind in the Middle East.
October 2nd, 2009
Lester Watson flew many missions over Europe in the early 1940s. The 87-year-old veteran remembers those experiences as if they happened yesterday… Watson says he told the men he had a back injury and he should be “handcuffed in front,” but was told, “This is the way we do it.”
“I begged him to put a belly chain on me, but they wouldn’t. They put my right hand clean up behind my head. Oh my God! It hurt,” Watson says…. Then when his cherished hat, inscribed with “388 Bomb Group,” in honor of the U.S. Air Force unit Watson had served with, fell to the pavement, he asked the men to pick it up. “We don’t pick up hats…
October 2nd, 2009
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Impending today are two of the most critical decisions Barack Obama will ever make, which may determine the fate of his presidency, as well as the future of the United States in the Near and Middle East.
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