http://empire.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for Empire en Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:50:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2046408 unknown@Netscape.com In Iraq and beyond, America's empire of permanent bases grows at an alarming pace. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:50:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2046408EmpiremilitaryimperialismbasesforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2017412 unknown@Netscape.com The U.S. is building an embassy in the heart of Baghdad's embattled Green Zone that will be the largest embassy on the planet -- big enough to embody the Bush administration's vision of an American-reordered Middle East. Wed, 30 May 2007 16:13:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2017412baghdadembassyiraqwarEmpireNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1988856 unknown@Netscape.com Musings on the book Nemesis by Chalmers Johnson. Are we human? Are we awake? Or are we happy robots, enjoying the things we are offered as bribes for our complicity in our monstrous empire's service. Mon, 21 May 2007 19:12:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1988856nemesischalmersjohnsonEmpireforeignpolicywarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1947856 unknown@Netscape.com I intend to remind you about how the plans for an American empire were made long before the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon took place and instead of just citing where you can find the information I'm including it in my article. Fri, 18 May 2007 08:18:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1947856911EmpirewarmilitarismterrorismNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1937829 unknown@Netscape.com This nation has gotten along just fine for more than two centuries, and through several wars, without a "War Czar". Why do we need one now? Thu, 17 May 2007 22:35:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1937829warCzarbushEmpireiraqNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1918637 unknown@Netscape.com When Reagan coined the phrase "evil empire," he was referring to the USSR, & I basically agreed with him that the USSR needed to be contained & checkmated. But today it is the US that is widely perceived as an evil empire, & world forces are gathering to stop us. Thu, 17 May 2007 01:02:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1918637EmpirewarconstitutionimperialismmilitarismNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1905285 unknown@Netscape.com We now live in a country in which the president wields the power to send the entire nation into war on his own initiative, without the congressional declaration of war required by the Constitution. Tue, 15 May 2007 22:24:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1905285EmpireRepublicconstitutionwarcongressNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1846156 unknown@Netscape.com Our invasion and occupation are illegal, being in violation of both international law and our own traditions. We were lied into war. We are still being lied to. We need to get out of Iraq right now. This folly has already cost us 3,300 American lives, $500 billion in tax money, 30,000 wounded... Sat, 12 May 2007 01:37:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1846156iraqwarEmpireoccupationwithdrawalNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1852845 unknown@Netscape.com Terrorism, our government constantly reminds us, is the scourge of our times. So why is a man described by our government as "an unrepentant criminal and admitted mastermind of terrorist plots and attacks on tourist sites" looking forward to a hero's welcome in Miami from his old Bay of Pigs comrades? Fri, 11 May 2007 21:35:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1852845terroristsmPosadaEmpireNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1782092 unknown@Netscape.com By Matthew Parris - This is a battle Islamism cannot win. Fundamentalist Islam is a medieval force. It has little to contribute to modern business, science or government, and subsists uneasily in today's world. Profoundly and essentially reactionary, it hardly creates, innovates or invents, and appears chronically disorganised and prone to internal Mon, 07 May 2007 18:22:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1782092americanEmpiredecayIslamistthreatNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1673700 unknown@Netscape.com Gore Vidal's take on the upcoming presidential campaign, religion and the future of the American empire Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:01:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1673700gorevidalelection2008PoliticsEmpirepresidentialcampaignNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1430286 unknown@Netscape.com An unidentified person - supposedly male - has jumped from the Empire State Building's 69th floor, landing on the 30th floor and on the ground outside the structure. Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:41:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1430286newyorkcitysuicideEmpirestatebuildingjumpernycNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1409454 unknown@Netscape.com You walk up toward the big brick penitentiary, through the guard towers and the shotguns and rifles. And you know that none of it has to do with right and wrong. It has to do with we are bigger than you and we don't care about thou shall not kill and we will kill you if you get out of line and run toward home and your son and your wife. Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:57:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1409454EmpirewarcasualtieskillingpowerNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1173959 unknown@Netscape.com The confrontation with Iran has very little to do with nukes - and a lot with the agenda of empire. Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:01:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1173959middleeastiraniraqEmpirewarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1168839 unknown@Netscape.com It is interesting to note that the United States is never officially referred to as an empire, although our country has assumed many imperial characteristics. Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:10:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1168839EmpireimperialismEconomyromeamericaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1021610 unknown@Netscape.com People in US cities would be outraged if another country garrisoned its troops close by with all the resulting fallout: unacceptable noise, pollution, environmental destruction, appropriation of valued public real estate along with drunken soldiers on the loose violating laws, causing damage and raping local women. Not the kinds of neighbors we cho Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:21:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1021610EmpirenemesismilitarybasesforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/979504 unknown@Netscape.com The US Republic has yet to collapse, but an imperial presidency now places great strain on it with a dominant Pentagon and culture of militarism undermining Congress, the courts and our civil liberties. Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:06:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/979504EmpirenemesisforeignpolicyimperialismlibertyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/920302 unknown@Netscape.com U.S. President George W. Bush's troop buildup in Baghdad apparently will be bigger and more costly - and perhaps will last longer - than it seemed when he unveiled the plan in January as the centerpiece of a new Iraq strategy. Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:12:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/920302surgepropagandawarEmpireiraqNews http://web2announcer.com/go/890967 unknown@Netscape.com Please your superiors, stand erect when the national anthem is played & salute when that flag goes by. Genuflect to leaders who mouth words like liberty, justice, & democracy. Following the cues will lead one in the desired direction of conformity where ideas are framed in ways that assure American motivations are cast in the most favorable Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:37:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/890967mediapropagandapowerEmpiregovernmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/875917 unknown@Netscape.com The Founders invented a system of constitutionally mandated republican government with a federal authority sharing power with the states and three separate branches in Washington - able to check and balance each other with the single most important power put in the hands of Congress so presidents would never have it - the ability to declare war. Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:34:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/875917EmpirelibertyconstitutionRepublicforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/741276 unknown@Netscape.com Being hated is no fun. Few of us are like those pantomime villains who glory in the hisses and boos of an audience. And few people hate being hated more than Americans. I wish I had a dollar for every time I've been asked the plaintive question: "Why do they hate us?" Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:24:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/741276americahatingEmpirepowerNews http://web2announcer.com/go/604160 unknown@Netscape.com Our "peaceful" presidents have taken, perhaps, over a million Iraqi lives & limbs, & thousands of the same for Americans. No amount of yellow ribbons will bring back a single one of them, or make a single loss worthwhile. This, we must recognize, is part of the American way. In particular, we must first recognize it if we are eve Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:30:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/604160warEmpireiraqpopulistpeaceNews http://web2announcer.com/go/540451 unknown@Netscape.com George Lucas asserts that The Empire Strikes Back was the worst Star Wars movie during a luncheon for the Publicist's Guild. [via Cinematical] Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:46:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/540451starwarsGeorgelucasTheEmpireStrikesbackNews http://web2announcer.com/go/474251 unknown@Netscape.com From Afghanistan to Iraq to Somalia and Darfur. War, war, and more war. Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:03:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/474251warEmpirepopulistSomaliadarfurAfricaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/449088 unknown@Netscape.com No nation can maintain an empire abroad and a democracy at home. We are now about to pay for our empire, and the price is American freedom. This is the message of a new book by Chalmers Johnson. Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:08:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/449088EmpirewarfreedomnemesispopulistNews http://web2announcer.com/go/406390 unknown@Netscape.com Online retailer DVD Empire has quit selling games, blaming slim margins, selfish publishers, slow distribution and "the fact that 80% of games are crap". Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:59:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/406390industrygreedDVDEmpireprofitmarginpriceprotectionqualityNews http://web2announcer.com/go/224726 unknown@Netscape.com A prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist who spoke out against the killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire early last century was shot to death Friday, according to CNN Turk. Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:38:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/224726HrantDinkTurkisharmenianOttomanEmpireshotcnnturkNews http://web2announcer.com/go/6461 unknown@Netscape.com An illegal war, a long list of eroded rights, and a country run by and for the benefit of corporate campaign donors -- all courtesy of the imperial presidency. Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:29:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/6461PoliticsbusharrogancerightscapitalismEmpireNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2793 unknown@Netscape.com Anyone who wants to write about the constitutional crisis unfolding in the United States today faces a peculiar problem at the outset. There is a large body of observations that at one and the same time have been made too often and yet not often enough - too often because they have been repeated to the point of tedium for a minority ready to listen Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:34:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2793PoliticsEmpirebushNews