Pamela aka Atlas wants you to get a gander at global news . These are the headlines of the biggest newspapers/magazines worldwide. Read them, study them, understand what we are up against and why we must act in our best interest (unilaterally is we must!) as the world would very much like us knocked downnot out mind you as they still want our aid of course - so that they could then spit on it
Columbus' Discovery of America: History's 'Biggest Mistake'
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“If Columbus was alive today and witnessed the scandals of abuse and torture inside the U.S. detention centers of Abu Gharib, Umm Qasr, Guantanamo, and Afghanistan, he would have discovered the magnitude of his error and headed back to Spain to be tried.”
Pak Tribune, July 5, Pakistan:
Osama's Brother Offers to Pay for His Defense
The Frontier Post, July 5, Pakistan
Chinook On Patrol In Afghanistan
"First In Iraq and Now Afghanistan, Bush's Arrogance Is Punished"
“He must confess his failure and ask the global community to retrieve these two unfortunate nations from their unenviable predicament.”
Le Figaro, July 4, France
"George W. Bush Reluctant to Increase Funding for 'the Dark Continent"
“The total effort of the United States remains a very pale reflection of its economic power.”
[Atlas thinks you ought to read Bono's remarks on the same subject ]-Well, I think [President Bush has] done an incredible job, his administration, on AIDS. And 250,000 Africans are on antiviral drugs. They literally owe their lives to America. In one year that's being done. ... Yes, there's a lot of pressure on President Bush. If he, though, in his second term, is as bold in his commitments to Africa as he was in the first term, he indeed deserves a place in history in turning the fate of that continent around." -- Irish singer and activist Bono, in an interview on "Meet the Press
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Le Figaro, June 30, France
"America 'Hoists the Iranian Flag,' Is Outwitted By Tehran"
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“The truth is simple: up to now, Iran has wanted the success of the Shiites in Iraq almost as much as the Americans.”
Al Mustaqba, June 25, Lebanon
"How America Uses Aid As a Pretext for Intervention"
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“What is happening in North Korea today reminds us of many past American 'humanitarian' interventions in third world countries. ”
People's Daily, June 8, China
"America's Search for the Next Bogeyman"
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"Another reason the Pentagon cannot succeed is that after the glaring lie told by the United States about why it launched a war in Iraq, who now is prepared to believe its irresponsible remarks? "
El Universal, June 29, Venezuela
"Chavez Says U.S. Oil Consumption a 'Burden of Conflict"
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“I don't know what they would do without these 1.5 million barrels of petroleum. It would shut off -- I don't know how many cities and factories.”
—Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela