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Cross posted from Radarsite Bush used phony patriotism to start war From the Chicago Sun Times http://www.suntimes.com/news/greeley/1034720,CST-EDT-greel02.articleANDREW GREELEY agreel@aol.comThe Russians call World War II "The Great Patriotic War." The current longest of our wars could well be called the same thing. It is a war that originated in the orgy of patriotism ("U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!") that followed the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and has been sustained by the patriotism of those who support it ("Our soldiers are defending American freedom") and false promises of some latter-day prophets ("We are winning the war in Iraq.") It is...

Here is a link to an Official site of Russian State TV network RUSSIA TV. http://www.vesti.ru/comments.html?id=31914&tid=25004 The article called (on main page) "Who pays for Ukrainian riots?" Describes how Ukrainian People's protest was orchestrated by George W. Bush via Richard Lugar and how millions of dollars from US and EU were paid to turn Ukraine in to a battle zone, a front to pressure Russia.. (Article assumes that everybody understands that main point of the WEST (US & EU) existance is disintegration of Russia)

Review: Anti-Americanism by Jean-François Revel translated by Diarmid Cammell (Encounter Books, 2003) We moderns fancy ourselves cool rationalists, whose beliefs are more securely founded than the ignorant superstitions of our forebears. Widespread literacy and schooling, access to abundant free information, and a scientific sensibility have combined to create a people whose beliefs are based on reason rather than the irrational passions and delusions of the past. This self-flattering prejudice, of course, is peculiarly modern and not even half true. For the fact is, many of us are just as driven by gratifying myths, pleasing prejudices, and unexamined received wisdom as...

Dribble "I loathe America, and what it has done to the rest of the world ," the banner reads over a screed by Margaret Drabble, novelist. I knew that the wave of anti-Americanism that would swell up after the Iraq war would make me feel ill. And it has. It has made me much, much more ill than I had expected. America has made you sick. Ah, Maggie dear, buck up. Let us know what we can do to make you well. My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my...

In a poll earlier this month of citizens of 44 countries, only in Canada among all Western nations did a majority of people express satisfaction with their country and its prospects. Obviously these Canadians are not marching to the drumbeat of negativism from their political and media elites. Traditionally erring on the side of self-abnegation, Canada's image-shapers have been working harder than usual of late to disparage their country, particularly in comparison with the U.S. Indeed, the proximate cause of this latest bout of self-deprecation appears to be the supposedly turbulent relations between ourselves and the Americans in the aftermath...