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  • RULING THE WORLD
    8 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    RULING THE WORLD
    A Satirical Exposition
    By Peter Fredson
    November 8, 2007
    I just finished a long compilation of reasons why Bush invaded Iraq, using several thousand files from the past 5 years. Many reasons have been alleged for the invasion, some humorous, and others reaching the edge of criminality. The reasons seemed to shift and multiply as the administration gradually realized things were not going as well as it had hoped. Then a fellow blogger asked me to identify the reason I (…)

  • PREPARING FOR LIFE AFTER OIL
    8 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michael T. Klare, The Nation
    This past May, in an unheralded and almost unnoticed move, the Energy Department signaled a fundamental, near epochal shift in US and indeed world history: we are nearing the end of the Petroleum Age and have entered the Age of Insufficiency. The department stopped talking about "oil" in its projections of future petroleum availability and began speaking of "liquids." The global output of "liquids," the department indicated, would rise from 84 million (…)

  • CIA Rendition: The Smoking Gun Cable
    8 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In a CIA sub-station close to al Libi’s jail cell, the CIA’s "debriefers," who had been talking to al Libi for days after his return from Cairo, were typing out a series of operational cables to be sent Feb. 4 and Feb. 5 to the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va. In the view of some insiders, these cables provide the "smoking gun" on the whole rendition program — a convincing account of how the rendition program was, they say, illegally sending prisoners into the hands of torturers.
    November (…)

  • Independence, fear, and the King Georges of Our History
    7 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Fredson
    This week I took a trip with a busload of other veterans to visit the World War II monument in Washington. While there I saw the paranoid fear and the tense security in our Capitol city. Our driver was told he could not pass in front of either the White House or the Capitol. I wondered if our people were cowards when the British King George held sway over our destiny.
    I harkened back to our Declaration of Independence, got a copy to peruse, and was astonished at the (…)

  • IRAN : The Road to Armageddon? by Felicity ARBUTHNOT
    7 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Research and the UN Observer
    Reminder to the crusading Armageddonists... “Thou shalt not kill.” Exodus 20: 13
    They are at it again. Remember when Milosovic was labelled “the butcher of Belgrade”, the new Hitler?
    Then Saddam Hussein was “the butcher of Bagdad” and, of course the most dangerous man since Hitler - with weapons of mass destruction which could be unleashed on the world “in forty five minutes”.
    Colin Powell lied to the U.N., about the danger Iraq posed to the (…)

  • It’s Time to Impeach Cheney
    6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dennis Kucinich
    As a member of Congress, I have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution and the laws of our nation, and I have pledged to represent the views of my constituents and of all Americans.
    That’s why I feel both duty and sorrow in pursuing the path of impeachment against Vice President Richard B. Cheney.
    While the impeachment movement has generated intensely strong sentiment and activism, there have been only two polls published on the question of impeaching Vice (…)

  • Fire, water and denial
    6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Neal Peirce
    Could there be a pattern here?
    The San Diego and Los Angeles areas are hit by a raging series of high-impact wildfires — the worst in the state’s history. Many of the blazes coincide with areas already scorched in 2003 by fires that themselves were declared California’s worst ever.
    But is there any move to get away from the areas where a century of firefighting has left many forests choked and overgrown, thick underbrush creating tinderbox conditions? Apparently not. (…)

  • Wobbled by Wealth?
    6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By PAUL KRUGMAN
    At just about every stop I’ve made so far on my book tour, what I’ve come to think of as The Question comes up. I talk about the origins of the long right-wing dominance of American politics, and the reasons I believe that dominance is coming to an end. Then someone asks, “How can you be optimistic about the prospects for progressive change, when big money has so much influence on politics?”
    It’s a good question.
    The public wants change. “If Americans have ever been (…)

  • Feds want Net snooping limits overturned
    6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Feds want Net snooping limits overturned
    Posted by Anne Broache
    November 5, 2007 5:25 PM PST
    The Bush administration plans to fight a recent court decision that threatens to curb its powers to obtain logs of Americans’ Internet activities without court approval.
    As expected, the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday filed a notice that it plans to appeal a September federal court ruling that declared the surveillance tactic, known as a national security letter, to be (…)

  • Markets fear banks have $1 trillion in toxic debt
    6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Markets fear banks have $1 trillion in toxic debt
    By Sean O’Grady, Economics Editor
    Published: 06 November 2007
    A new phase in the credit crunch, one of “$1 trillion losses” seems to be dawning. The crisis at Citigroup and renewed doubts about some of the world’s leading banks disquieted stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic yesterday, with the fractious mood set to continue.
    The FTSE 100 fell 69.2 to 6,461.4, with Alliance & Leicester (down 4 per cent) and Barclays (off (…)