Dirty Politics of Discreditation

It is one thing to disagree with someone and present arguements against his or her case and then let the best idea stand up. But when you activly try to discredit people and try to find and manufacture dirt, it can only point out the weakness of your argument.

The adminsitration is now looking for ways to get into Iran, now that it has egg on the face with Iraq. ElBaradei is not phrasing his words exactly the way the administration wants them to be phrased. Therefore, they take the liberty to tap his phones.

The first link below is a recent CNN article about this. The second is some of the analysis by Paul Craig Roberts about the readiness of the US to attack Iran, even with strong European opposition.

Here is an excerpt from the analysis (2nd link).

The important unanswered question is: why do the neocons with their proven record of duplicity and delusion still hold the reigns of power in the Bush administration? Why isn’t Feith in prison? Martha Stewart is in prison for "lying" about a noncrime. Feith’s lies have killed thousands. The Iraq war is based entirely on neocon lies. The war is costing the US a fortune it does not have. The war is producing US casualties comparable to those of the Vietnam war and has killed a minimum of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.

The neocons have destroyed Iraq’s infrastructure, alienated the entire Muslim world and made the US the most hated country on the planet.

U.S. taps ElBaradei phone

A Dose of Non-Delusional Reality for Douglas Feith

Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database

Google is working with major institutions around the world to add digital libraries that are searchable on the internet. WOW!! This is going to be fantastic! Prestigious institutions like Oxford University, New York Public Library and our local Stanford University are joining this effort.

Now we have to account for our time even better than before and stop wasting so much of it. Here is an interesting short article by Salah Eddin Arqadan (sorry it is in Arabic, I will try to get it translated soon) about the power of the internet and our accountability for all the time that we save using it.

The internet and abuse of time and location

شبكة الانترنيت وسوء استخدام الوقت والزمان

A Stubborn Refusal to Die

Please take a look at this! I have added it as a permanent link on the right set.