By Bob Geiger
Bush Dishonors War Dead By Using Their Families

By Dave Johnson And James Boyce
Smoking Politics Alert: Mitt Romney Loves That Dirty Money
Mitt Romney has some interesting sources of campaign money.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Jason Miller
Please God, Deliver Us From The Banality Of Evil
Sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but the analyses of Hannah Arendt and Ward Churchill define our reality much more accurately. No matter how closely an individual US American might adhere to humane principles, we are all "Little Eichmanns." We can minimize our roles, but there is no escaping participation in our nation's virtuoso performance of "The Banality of Evil."Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By SDrobny
Take A MSM Holiday
If you want to get through the aftermath of the Virginia Tech massacre in a healthier way, don't watch the news for about a week. If you did not need an anti-depressant before this event, you may have to start if you decide to listen to, watch, or read the news. These vultures will do you in.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Patrick Bigabo
Africa's Problems: Blame The West
Africa needs to own the process of her problem-solving but the continued colonialism instincts of the West through NGOs and other institutions that indirectly disrupt progress in African nations is not of any help to Africa.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Dominic Jermano
Ethanol Has Its Own Commodity Status!
Ethanol deserves its own commodity rating without being attached to corn, grain or sugar commodity prices. This is how it is done.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Robert Raitz
The Virginia Tech Shootings: Why Are People So Surprised?
My analysis of the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech; a view from someone who is anything but surprised by the bloodshed.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Mary MacElveen
Virginia Tech Was Of Human Loss And Not A Conspiracy Theory
All that lost their lives, were wounded and responded to this on behalf of all of us suffered a terror that none of us can even imagine. All are deserving of our prayers. There is real human suffering going on in Virginia and we must all think of them.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Ron Fullwood
Who Will Ultimately Control Iraq? Bush Or The Shiite Majority?
Earlier in the month, at the assumed direction of Sadr, thousands of residents of Sadr City headed to Najaf and rallied against the occupation. Those thousands of peaceful protesters could easily be transformed into an overwhelming 'surge' of Iraqi humanity in the streets which could bring a new reality to the puny coalition forces as they are confronted by an exasperated population of Iraqi millions.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Michael Leon
Ecological Activism Blooms At Ecological Internet
Ecological Internet specializes in using the net to attain environmental victories.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Dan Merica
Cartoon For Virginia Tech Massacre

By Andrew Bard Schmookler
Presidential Simulations: A Better Basis For Choosing Our Leaders
Here's a way we can really learn something substantial about the men and women who want to be president.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Jay Esbe
The Slaughter Of 32 Innocents April 16th In Virginia Would Have Been Called An "improvement" In Iraq.
What was it that was said about all of this? Oh yes: "We must win their hearts and minds". Right. What did today do to yours?Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Robert Parry
Bush/Cheney Dig In To Win
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney believe they can back down the Democrats over legislative timetables for leaving Iraq -- and as a bonus drive a wedge between national Democrats and their anti-war base. But all the political maneuvering in Washington is not likely to change the desperate facts on the ground in Iraq, where the Bush/Cheney military strategies are in dangerous disarray.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Rob Kall
Thoughts On Virginia Tech
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By Larry C Johnson
Now Do You Understand?
Does death in Iraq mean the same as death at Virginia Tech?Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Amanda Lang
Leahy, Schumer, & Specter: A Burning Question For Gonzales
DoJ's Jesus "Fast Track?"Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Larry Beinhart
A Secret Dispatch From The War On Stupidity
The Senate is about to pass an intelligence bill that calls for spending $45,000,000,000,000 (forty-five billion dollars) a year � not just once, year after year � on intelligence. Bush is threatening to veto it because it has provisions that might let congress know what they're getting for $45,000,000,000,000 a year. He feels that only he should know. It's time to seriously rethink this whole 'intelligence' thing.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Mickey Z.
My Movement Is Bigger Than Yours
Most folks, it seems, have confused the occasional weekend parade, I mean, protest with a full-blown movement.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By JGideon
'Daily Voting News' For April 15 And 16, 2007
a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseasRoxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Evelyn Pringle
Iraq Money Trail To Bush Cronies Must End
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By Timothy V. Gatto
Death At Home; Death In Iraq: It Still Hurts
It's a terrible thing when 32 people die in an unexpected way in a peaceful setting. The hurt doesn't dissipate however when it's in the middle of a war zone with trigger happy militias filled with hundreds of people like the guy at Virginia Tech. It hurts just as bad when you find out your father died trying to get to a food store in BaghdadRoxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Sheila Samples
DARE TO LOOK BACK
We are in the clutches of an evil, evil group of psychopaths -- warmongering moral cowards whose faux leader, George W. Bush, is a shallow, self-destructive little bully who deserted his military post during a time of war. Damn them. Damn them all.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Kevin Zeese
Marine Mom Arrested At Speaker Pelosi's Washington, DC Office
A Marine Mom whose son has served two tours in Iraq and is 80% disabled was arrested outside of Speaker Pelosi's office today (video available). Just as George Bush refused to meet with Cindy Sheehan, Nancy Pelosi seems unwilling to meet with a Marine Mom. A request for a meeting was delivered by a "Women's Delegation for Peace."Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By F. Vyan Walton
Hyping The Hip-Hop Hate Myth
Picking up where Imus left off, Michelle Malkin leads to charge to blame Black people for the racism directed against them.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

By Bob Geiger
Reid: Republicans "Owned By The Pharmaceutical Industry"

By Dan Merica
A Note To Bush's Conservative Christian Base

By Andrew Bard Schmookler
Fear Factor III: Fear As The Instrument For Debasing A People's Consciousness
Considering the effects of Fear on how people think, it's no wonder that the cultivation and manipulation of Fear is one of the major tools by which Evil forces achieve their purposes in the world.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Best News Links from the WebRoxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

That Was An Anti-war Vote? By Alexander Cockburn
When Congress attached a 'withdrawal deadline' to the supplemental appropriation bill for the war in Iraq, their gesture was even weaker than has been reported. Not only does it require no change for a full year and a half, but even after September, 2008, troops are permitted to remain in Iraq for diplomatic protection, counterterrorism operations and training Iraqi Security Forces. Doesn't this sound like Bush's surge?Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Democrats Taking Closer Look At Agency Oversight Of Oil, Gas Leases - Politico.com
With the advent of a Democratic Congress, public interest groups that have long complained that the Interior's U.S. Minerals Management Service is too lax in its oversight of oil and natural gas leases on public lands have found some kindred spirits on Capitol Hill.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

U.S. Market Is Losing Its Appeal, Chinese Say
Chinese producers of everything from socket wrenches to sport utility vehicles say their fastest growth these days lies in Europe, Africa, the Mideast, South America and elsewhere in Asia.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

White House May Find Millions Of E-mails
The White House should be able to recover an undetermined number of e-mails - perhaps millions of messages - that accidentally disappeared from its servers during a program conversion, an administration official said Monday. NOTE: This issue is separate from the White House acknowledgment that aides to President Bush have improperly used e-mail accounts created by the Republican Party to conduct official White House business!Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Why Is The Peace Movement Silent About AIPAC?
AIPAC is not just an issue for Jewish Americans or the Jewish wing of the peace movement like Jewish Voice for Peace; it is a major force, although not the only one, driving the U.S. to wars in the Middle East. AIPAC is no less a force for war than is the Republican National Committee. In fact it is worse, because it sinks its teeth into the foreign policy establishment of both parties - perhaps Dems more than GOP.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Hold Gonzales Accountable, Then Bush :: John Nichols
The Senate hearing that begins Thursday is about more than the Attorney General's hiring practices. It goes to the heart of the whether the rule of law will prevail in Bush's America.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

How Bush Destabilized The Arc Of Instability :: Tom Engelhardt
At any moment, somewhere in the now-Bush-administration destabilized "arc of instability," with its six crisis areas, a seventh crisis could indeed rise, demand attention, and refuse to be ejected from the premises. There are many possible candidates.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

AARP Says It Will Become Major Medicare Insurer While Remaining A Consumer Lobby
The group said it would offer a health maintenance organization to Medicare recipients and several other products to people 50 to 64.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

US Evangelical Groups' Aim To Influence European Law - Using Your Faith-based $$?
There is a the growing effort by US Christian legal organizations to take the "culture wars" overseas. Pushing back against a perceived assault on their values by an increasingly secular society, the groups are striving to influence European law on issues ranging from home schooling to stem-cell research to gay marriage. Why are American groups going to such lengths to shape the laws in other countries?Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

CA Foreclosures, Default Notices Hit 10-year High
Sluggish sales, rising adjustable mortgages blamed for 802% increase from previous year in homes lostRoxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Behind The Virginia Tech Massacre :: Michael Winship
The majority seeking reasonable gun laws are shouted down by the anti-regulation, well-armed few.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Judiciary Committee To Vote On Goodling Immunity.
Judiciary Comm Chair John Conyers (D-MI) has scheduled a vote tomorrow to consider granting immunity to former Alberto Gonzales counsel Monica Goodling, in order to secure her testimony about the U.S. Attorney scandal. "Two-thirds of the Committee must approve immunity"Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Brazil Defends Ethanol Deal At Summit
Brazil is defending its ethanol agreement with the US, despite efforts by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to undermine the deal using his country's vast reserves of oil and natural gas. Chavez did not publicly discuss his dispute over ethanol with Brazil, but has pledged to explain his objections...Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Virginia Gun Laws
Buying and owning a gun in VA does not require a permit and there is no waiting period to acquire the gun. The state maintains "no restriction on the sale or possession of rapid-fire ammunition magazines that can fire up to 100 bullets without reloading." In one controversial loophole, people can buy weapons at second-hand gun shows without any waiting periods or background checks.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Va. Gunman ID'd As Student
The Virginia Tech Police Department identified him as Cho Seung-Hui, 23, a senior in the English department. Ballistics tests showed one of the guns found was used in both shootings, at the doom and the classroom building.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Heroic Professor Among Virginia Tech Dead
A 76-year-old Romanian lecturer was shot dead in the Virginia Tech massacre only after he had saved the lives of many of his students. Liviu Librescu blocked the classroom door while his students escaped through a window, according to his son.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Iraq Group Claims Making Own Rockets
Insurgents usually believed to use arms from Saddam's depots, Iran, Syria - Could Liar-in-Chief & his band of neocon war mongering incompetents made another intel error?Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Shootings Draw Worldwide Condemnation Of US 'gun Culture'
'They have got to change the law'Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Mayor Of Japanese City Nagasaki Shot
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The Party Of Brownshirts :: Paul Craig Roberts
Decency and intelligence have departed Republican ranks. The party's shrunken base consists of ignorant and fearful people who believe Muslim jihadists are going to murder them in their beds, rapture evangelicals who believe that war in the Middle East is the prelude to their being wafted up to heaven, the military-security complex reveling in power and fortune, and resentful and frustrated people...Bush's base.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Wolfie's Piggy Bank :: Pat Buchanan
Barracks language edited out, Tommy Franks once referred to the Pentagon's No. 3, Doug Feith, as "the dumbest guy on the planet." It now appears Gen. Franks' honorific better applies to Feith's boss, the Pentagon No. 2, Paul Wolfowitz. For a man once hailed as the brightest of the neocons, Wolfie has behaved with a stupidity born of the arrogance of power.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

An Army Popping At The Seams
Two events of the past week illustrated the increasing stresses and strains on the US military as it tries to sustain both its "surge" in Iraq and its overall military presence in Iraq.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

70% Of Iraqi Children Suffer Severe Trauma
About 70% of primary school students in a Baghdad neighborhood suffer symptoms of trauma-related stress such as bed-wetting or stuttering, according to a survey by the Iraqi Ministry of Health. The survey of about 2,500 youngsters is the most comprehensive look at how the war is affecting Iraqi children, said Iraq's national mental health adviser and author of the study.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

US House To Begin Probe Into Fla. Election
A House task force will take the first steps Tuesday in an investigation of a Florida congressional election decided by 369 votes amid complaints that voting machines failed to count thousands of electronic ballots.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Bush Embraces The Culture Of Death
The other day, Bush read one of his pandering anti-choice, anti-stem cell research scripts glorifying the "culture of life." How hypocritical for a man who has come to exemplify the culture of death.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Ex-Aide Sampson Repeats Under Oath Sunday That Gonzales Discussed Firings
In his interview Sunday, Mr. Sampson again said under oath that Mr. Gonzales took part in discussions last fall about David C. Iglesias, who was removed as the US attorney in New Mexico, as well as in a June 2006 meeting that addressed concerns about Carol C. Lam, the US attorney ousted from her job in San Diego, said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

GOP Lawyers Say Bush Can Eject Dissenters From Events, Even If They Don't Do Anything
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Russia Making Floating Atom Plant
Russia has started building the world's first floating nuclear plant, designed to provide power for remote areas.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

How Tax Cheats Are Using Your Money To Fund Republicans
When it comes to tax cheats, the government has been vocal about catching the little guys but hasn't mentioned the big-time frauds, like Swift Boat financier Sam Wyly, who happens to be a top-tier Republican contributor.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

UN Chief Urges Countries To Keep Borders Open For Fleeing Iraqis
His appeal came at the opening of a UN conference on the plight of some four million Iraqis who have fled their homes, including nearly 800,000 since sectarian violence intesnified in Iraq just over a year ago.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Federal Judge Finds Against U.S. Dept. Of Justice In Missouri 'Voter Fraud' Case
Whaddaya know? A federal judge has found no "voter fraud" in Missouri, finding in favor of the Secretary of State, and against the Department of Justice in their continuing attempt to game the election system and keep voters from voting via bogus claims of "voter fraud"....Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

16 States Affected By Newly Discovered ES&S IVotronic Touch-screen Voting System Virus Vulnerability
Since the EAC refuses to do their job in notifying Elections Officials about incredibly serious vulnerability,it's up to you to notify your state's Secretary of State and/or county Election Officials! Details on the vulnerability and mitigating steps that may be taken are detailed in this brief report at VotersUnite.org as written by a computer scientist and voting system expert well-famliar with the newly discovered flaw.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Robert Reich: Not About Email, It's About White House Wanting To 'Make It More Difficult For People To Vote'
The issue at stake here has to do with what the White House was trying to do with the US attorneys. What the White House was trying to do in terms of, perhaps, creating a public image of voter fraud across this country that would entitle the White House to make it more difficult for people to vote. That seems to be to be a very large issue that needs to be discussed.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Gore Vidal: Hail And Farewell: The End Of The American Empire
In the name of Manichaean religious cults he is eager to destroy every last trace of the New Deal (privatize Social Security) by destroying both the state and its global imperium. W.'s love of torture and the death penalty suggests this that is Caligula Redux, but...Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Bush Personally Issued Order To Fire New Mexico US Attorney
Today's "biggie" news comes out of The Albuquerque Journal indicating that the order to fire New Mexico's U.S. Attorney David Iglesias seems to have come directly from George W. Bush after Sen. Pete Domenici's (R-NM) attempts to get the prosecutor to either bring "voter fraud" cases or be removed had otherwise failed.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Is Cheney Right? Will Democrats Cave On Iraq Funding?
Ray McGovern served as an Army infantry and intelligence officer in the early sixties and then as a CIA analyst for 27 years. He is a member of the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Conservatives Letter: "An Unsuitable Steward Of The Law"
He has embraced legal theories that could be employed by a successor to obliterate the conservative philosophy of individual liberty and limited government celebrated by the Founding Fathers.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

BREAKING: New DoJ Email Reveals Gonzales Contradicts His Own Testimony
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' assertion that he was not involved in identifying the eight U.S. attorneys who were asked to resign last year is at odds with a recently released internal Department of Justice e-mail. That e-mail said that Gonzales supported firing one federal prosecutor six months before she was asked to leave...Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Greetings From The Red Zone - Iraq Upclose
Dispatches from a Five-Day Trip to Iraq - "Do not believe anyone who tells you that the situation is getting better."Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

U.S. Troop Deaths Climbing In Iraq - Highest Rate Since War Began
Over the past six months, American troops have died in Iraq at the highest rate since the war began, an indication that the conflict is becoming increasingly dangerous for U.S. forces even after more than four years of fighting.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Conyers Seeks To Interview More Justice Officials
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) has asked the Justice Department to interview eight additional employees in his committee's ongoing probe into the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. The list includes four federal prosecutors who have been in the news recently as the scandal unfolds.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Shootings Echo Across Decades Without Gun Control Solutions
George W. Bush said: "I don't know of a law - - a governmental law - - that will put love in people's hearts. There seems to be a wave of evil passing through America now...but our hopes and our prayers have got to be that there is a more love in society." Which was the classic Republican position: Guns don't kill people; people without love in their hearts kill people.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Virginia Tech And Gun Control
The N.R.A. said its "thoughts and prayers are with the families,'' but declined further comment.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Former Abramoff Associate Abruptly Quits Job At D.C. Law Firm Amid Investigation
Kevin A. Ring, a key associate of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff who spent many hours lobbying his old boss, Rep. John Doolittle, has abruptly resigned his job at a DC law firm. Ring's departure raises questions about whether Doolittle's former legislative director has become a Justice Department target in the investigation into the Abramoff lobbying scandal, to which Doolittle also has been linked.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Paul Krugman | Way Off Base
"The public hates this war, no longer has any trust in Mr. Bush's leadership and doesn't believe anything the administration says. Iraq was a big factor in the Democrats' midterm victory. And far from being a risky political move, the confrontation over funding has overwhelming popular support: According to a new CBS News poll, only 29 percent of voters believe Congress should allow war funding without a time limit, while 67 pRoxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

US Coast Guard Takes Over $24B Deepwater 'modernization' Program From Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman
The deal has been skewered in recent investigations and on Capitol Hill for spiraling costs, design flaws and lax contract oversight. ABFU Lawmakers had called for the Coast Guard to take the helm of the so-called Deepwater contract, awarded in June 2002 to Integrated Coast Guard Systems, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Gonzales Deputy, In Crossfire, Looks For Quiet Exit - MCNulty In The Crosshares
He may need one, if critics have their way. Some Democrats and conservative Republicans argue that the deputy attorney general, who so far has been relatively unscathed, should shoulder more responsibility for the mishandling of the firings, which has devastated morale at the Justice Department and embarrassed the Bush administration.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Vote For Naisy Dolar - It's Time For A Change!
The Chicago primary is tomorrow, Tuesday. Don't forget to vote! Here's an alternative to Alderman Bernie Stone.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

The Religious Right Has Had Its Day? Fat Chance
A recent essay in Time magazine claimed "The religious right's era is over." Someone better tell that to the GOP presidential candidates praying for the fundamentalist movement's blessings.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Deleted E-mails Could Prompt Obstruction Of Justice Charges For Rove, Other White House Officials
A major government watchdog organization, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, has warned that White House officials, including Karl Rove, could face a number of obstruction of justice charges for the way they used outside e-mail accounts and failed to properly archive e-mails on White House servers.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Gonzales Delayed In Effort To Clear Up Contradictions Over Fired Prosecutors
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy said the proceedings, initially set for Tuesday, would be inappropriate after the shootings in southwestern Virginia. He delayed Gonzales' appearance until Thursday.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

"A Tragedy... Of Monumental Proportions."
The shootings at Virginia Tech, which caused 31 deaths today, are a product of America's culture of violence.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Conservatives To Bush: Fire Gonzales
"He has brought rule of law into disrepute, and debased honesty as the coin of the realm." Alluding to ongoing scandal, it notes: "He has engendered the suspicion that partisan politics trumps evenhanded law enforcement in the Department of Justice."Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Monday: 6 GIs, 71 Iraqis Killed; 39 Iraqis Wounded
At least 71 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 39 more Iraqis were injured in violent attacks today. Six American soldiers were also reported killed in separate events in Iraq.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Divided Iraq Has Two Spy Agencies - 'Shadow' Secret Service
Shiite officials wary of the CIA-funded, Sunni-led official intelligence service have set up a parallel organization.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

FEMA Hurricane Emergency Plan Delayed
A federal government plan for responding to emergencies will not be ready in time for the approaching hurricane season, officials have told Congress. No new target date was set. In the meantime, a modified version of the plan in place during Katrina will be followed. WTF, that worked so well last time... Idiots! If needless deaths, somebody in FEMA needs to be prosecuted for murder.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

White House And Guns: Stay The Course
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Money Laundering Allegations By U.S. False, Report Says
Charges by the U.S. Treasury Dept that a small bank in Macau knowingly laundered counterfeit U.S. currency on behalf of North Korea have no basis in fact, according to a confidential audit ordered by the government of the Chinese enclave. The audit, obtained by McClatchy Newspapers, also suggests that the Treasury overstated claims that the bank laundered "hundreds of millions" in ill-gotten gains through Banco Delta AsRoxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Escalating Military Spending :: Income Redistribution In Disguise
Critics of the recent U.S. wars of choice have long argued that they are all about oil. "No Blood for Oil" has been a rallying cry for most of the opponents of the war. It can be demonstrated, however, that there is another (less obvious but perhaps more critical) factor behind the recent rise of U.S. military aggressions abroad: war profiteering by the Pentagon contractors.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Democratic Illusions :: Justin Raimondo
Foreign policy advisers to the 'big three' Democrats bode ill for antiwar movementRoxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

VIDEO COMPILATION: Bush Fear-Mongering Reaches Fever Pitch In Iraq Speech
Increasingly desperate, and facing broad public opposition, Bush tried his best to stir up fear with repeated references to September 11 and dark visions of "death and destruction...here in America" if U.S. troops were to withdraw.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

WDBJ7 Roanoke: Virginia Tech Death Toll Now At 31
That makes the tragedy at Virginia Tech the deadliest mass shooting in U-S history.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Springtime Brings Hope In Iran Nuclear Standoff
"We have been here before many times, with flickers of hope about an imminent breakthrough in the Iran nuclear standoff, only to be dismayed by subsequent developments extinguishing those hopes," writes Asia Times Online's Kaveh Afrasiabi, a leading commentator on Iran politics. "This time it may turn out different."Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Bolton: We Have No Interest In Iraq's Well-being.
Watch this clip: Bolton offers a point-blank view that the US had no responsibility to impose order after the invasion, and no responsibility for security within the country. Bolton actually says that the only error Bush really made was not giving the Iraqis 'a copy of the Federalist papers and saying, "Good luck."'Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Gays Subject To "Sexual Cleansing" In Iraq
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Sudan Approves U.N. Support For Darfur
Sudan on Monday approved the deployment of attack helicopters and more than 3,000 U.N. troops, police, and other personnel in Darfur to beef up the 7,000-strong African Union force in the troubled region.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Juan Cole: Cheney Watches '24' Too Much
"Cheney has been watching the television show '24' too much," writes Juan Cole, "and says he is worried about terrorists getting a nuke. He is worried about the wrong thing. Slum kids with RPG-29s and GPS systems are the real threat to his plans." (Still, let's not get too casual about the prospect of terrorists with nukes, Juan.)Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

6 Ministers - Al-Sadr Followers - Quit Iraq Cabinet Posts Shaking US-backed Maliki -govt
Cabinet ministers loyal to the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resigned on Monday to protest the prime minister's refusal to set a timetable for an American withdrawal, raising the prospect that the Mahdi Army militia could return to the streets of Baghdad.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

UPDATE: 22 Dead, 28 Wounded In Virginia Tech School Shooting
21 students and the gunman are dead after a man went on a rampage across the Virginia Tech campus. The shooting started on one side of campus in a dormitory and continued in a class room on the other side of campus. This is the second time this school has been locked down because of shootings.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Report: France Warned CIA Before 9/11 Attacks
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Breaking: At Least 20 Dead In VA Tech Shootings
The Virginia Tech police chief said at least 20 people were killed in twin shootings on the Blacksburg campus Monday morning. "Some victims were shot in a classroom," Chief Wendell Flinchum said, adding that the gunman was dead. "Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions." [My heart goes out to the faculty, staff, students, & families. [A. Lang, VA Tech, Class of '93]Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Erased Emails Cause Justice To Reopen Probe Into Abramoff Ties To White House - Possible Evidence Destruction?
WSJ reports that "the Justice Dept's Public Integrity Section is investigating connections between convicted lobbyist Abramoff & WH, a probe that may be affected by missing WH emails." Investigators on the Hill are worried that "the loss of an undetermined number of emails concerning official WH business" on RNC e-mails could include the "possible destruction of evidence relevant to the Abramoff-White House inquiry."Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Poll: Most Say Politics Motivated U.S. Attorney Firings
Two thirds of Americans, including a narrow majority of Republicans, see political motivations behind last year's firings of eight chief federal prosecutors.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Ethics: Questions For Gonzales
For starters: What is he hiding? Why were the US Attorneys fired? How involved was the White House?Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

OpEdNews Bookmark
On Friday the 13th of April, 2007, Mordechai Vanunu was informed that the Israeli government has continued his house arrest in Jerusalem and has renewed all the restrictions against him, for the fourth time and third year of captivity in east Jerusalem. On January 25, 2006, Vanunu's freedom of speech trial began, he will learn on 4/30/07 if he returns to jail for expressing freedom of speech in ME democracy.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Tenet's Tell-All Is A Slam Dunk To Provoke Invasion's Architects
Let's just say it would probably be best if he not go hunting with Dick Cheney.Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Amnesty International Calls On US To Go Into Overdrive On Iraq Refugee Crisis
Amnesty International warns of a humanitarian crisis unless the more than three million people forcibly displaced by the conflict in Iraq are provided with relief. A stand-up president would ask every American town to sponsor an Iraqi family (once the men have been cleared of committing atrocities).Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Gone-zales Mea Culpa -- Kinda
At least I didn't shoot anyone in the face... Hey, Monica is just shy. That's the only reason she took the 5th. Cheney doesn't even know where DoJ is. Rove and Miers are in rehab and can't testify. Bush who?Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

Ret. Gen. John J. Sheehan - Why I Declined To Serve
Ret Marine Gen explains why he turned Bush down as the Iraq 'War Czar.' "It would have been a great honor to serve this nation again. But after thoughtful discussions with people both in and outside of this admin, I concluded that the current DC decision-making process lacks a linkage to a broader view of the region and how the parts fit together strategically.... We have never gotten it right in Iraq."Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie

George Lakoff And Bruce Budner: Progressive Taxation: Some Hidden Truths | BuzzFlash.org
At this time of year, it seems there are only two things certain in life: taxes and anxiety about taxes. Instead of the perennial talk of a simplified tax form, how about a simplified understanding of the progressive values that underlie our tradition of progressive taxation?Roxio Easy 6 spolszczenie