ANTIWAR COLUMNIST WILL BE BASED IN SAN FRANCISCO

August 16-24

CONTRARIANCOMMENTARY.COM WILL ORIGINATE FROM THE BAY AREA

(San Francisco)(August 16, 2006) ContrarianCommentary.com Executive Editor Andy Martin will be in San Francisco from August 16-24 and the controversial antiwar-oriented Internet news and information source will be edited in the Bay Area during that period.

ContrarianCommentary.com covers the world, and editors are regularly based in California.

Some of Martin's columns may also be read at politicalgateway.com.

Martin may be reached through the Mark Hopkins Hotel (415) 392-3434 or by cell at (917) 664-9329.

"We are working on a three-part series analyzing the recently concluded Middle East war, and the impact on the three sets of 'players,' Bush-Rice, Olmert-Peretz and Hizballah-Nasrallah," Martin states. "This 'war of convenience' was a disaster for U. S. foreign policy interests, and carries forward the Bush Administration's consistent record of creating anti-American chaos throughout the world. Needless to say, ContrarianCommentary.com's analysis will disagree with the 'prevailing wisdom' that a new war is imminent.

"It is apodictic to say that Israel's attack on Lebanon

will be studied in perpetuity as one of the most unbelievably self-destructive policy decisions in history.

"If Bush and Olmert have many more 'victories' of the kind they are claiming in Lebanon, we are all doomed," Martin says.

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Andy Martin is the Executive Editor and publisher of ContrarianCommentary.com. © Copyright by Andy Martin 2006. Comments? E-mail: AndyMart20@aol.com. Media contact: (866) 706-2639. Andy is America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analyst. He is a Middle East expert who is Executive Director of the Revolutionary War Research Center. He has spent 36 years in and out of the Middle East and spent much of 2003 in Iraq.