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  • Voter Insecurity And The 2006 Elections
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Voter Insecurity And The 2006 Elections By James Zogby (Monday June 26 2006) "Insecurity runs deep in America today. Despite macro indicators which point to a relatively strong economy, polls show that most US voters are insecure about their future. Only 29% say that the country is on the right track and many indicate concern with job loss." While most contests in a congressional election year are decided on local issues and personalities, national themes often set the stage in a way that (…)

  • "Relief" For Aristocracy
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Relief" For Aristocracy By Robert L. Moore June 26, 2006 If achieving one’s goals is the measure of a successful presidency, then George W. Bush is one of the more successful presidents in history. He has, after all, helped transfer much of the nation’s wealth into the hands of the already wealthy, which has long been a major goal of the Republican right.
    Bush’s rewriting the tax code diverted billions away from the nation’s treasury and into the clutches of select multimillionaires — (…)

  • Scrawled Bush Threat Sparks California Port Scare
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Scrawled Bush Threat Sparks California Port Scare By Dan Whitcomb Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:03pm ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A bomb threat against President George W. Bush and his "Jewish gang" scrawled in a cargo ship prompted authorities to shut down part of a major California port on Monday until investigators determined that no explosives were on the vessel.
    Officials shut down a terminal at Port Hueneme, about 60 miles north of Los Angeles, after a dock worker discovered the message inside (…)

  • Army Wives Get Phone Death Threats From Iraq
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Army Wives Get Phone Death Threats From Iraq By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent (Filed: 25/06/2006)
    Wives and family members of soldiers fighting in Iraq have received telephone calls, believed to include death threats, from insurgents, according to military documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph.
    The "nuisance" calls have been made with increasing frequency over the past few weeks after insurgents managed to obtain home numbers from soldiers’ mobile telephones.
    The growing number (…)

  • Tall Stories: The Plot To Topple Chicago’s Sears Tower Was Not All That It Seemed
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tall Stories: The Plot To Topple Chicago’s Sears Tower Was Not All That It Seemed The Plan Uncovered By The FBI Last Week Proved Little More Than Wishful Thinking. But Could It Be A Sign Of Worse To Come? By Rupert Cornwell Published: 25 June 2006 The alarming news flashed across America’s TV screens on Thursday evening: government agents had thwarted an al-Qa’ida plot, using home-grown American terrorists, to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago in a ghastly repeat of 9/11.
    When the dust (…)

  • If Wanton Murder Is Essential To The US Campaign In Iraq, It’s Time To Leave
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    If Wanton Murder Is Essential To The US Campaign In Iraq, It’s Time To Leave The Reported Atrocities By American Soldiers Are Not Isolated Incidents But The Inevitable Offshoots Of Occupation Gary Younge Monday June 26, 2006 The Guardian Every four years it’s the same. The hand of God, the sending off, the miskick that finds only our net - the fluke that shatters the dream. Each World Cup some freakish incident dashes England’s hopes with such predictable regularity that the only truly (…)

  • Terrorists In Miami, Oh My!
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Terrorists In Miami, Oh My! June 26, 2006 By Robert Parry
    The Bush administration finally took action against alleged terrorists living in plain sight in Miami, but they weren’t the right-wing Cuban terrorists implicated in actual acts of terror, such as blowing a civilian Cuban airliner out of the sky. They were seven young black men whose crime was more “aspirational than operational,” the FBI said.
    As media fanfare over the arrests made the seven young men, many sporting dreadlocks, (…)

  • Facing A Tough Re-Election Bid, Sad Sack Santorum "Finds" WMD
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Facing A Tough Re-Election Bid, Sad Sack Santorum "Finds" WMD By Bill Gallagher June 27 2006 Detroit - It just becomes a matter of faith, blind faith. Facts and reason have no place in discussions about the unending mess in Iraq and the contrived reasons the Busheviks sold to carry out the invasion. The desperate defense of the indefensible reached a new, laughable low when Sen. Rick Santorum declared that, indeed, Saddam Hussein’s hidden weapons of horror have been found.
    The sorry (…)

  • Richard Perle: A Serial Warmonger!
    26 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Recently, sixteen American GIs were killed in the Iraqi War in one week! (1) This brought the total U.S. fatalities to 2519. This is the same conflict which was recklessly launched in March, 2003, by the Bush-Cheney Gang based on lies. (2) The chief architect of the war, Paul Wolfowitz, a Neocon, then a Deputy Secretary of Defense, now sits in a cushy office in Washington, D.C., bringing down a six-figure salary, as the President of the World Bank. (3) Meanwhile, another pro-Iraqi War (…)

  • "Victory" can never be
    26 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I still remember the advertising slogan for Tobe Hooper’s horror classic "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" WHO WILL SURVIVE AND WHAT WILL BE LEFT OF THEM?
    This phrase prompts me to consider something which hasn’t been written about yet. We’ve talked at length about US troops coming home and the trauma they’ve experienced (coupled with various "mysterious" diseases which will inevitably kill them), but haven’t said a single word about WHY the US cannot possibly "win" the "war" in Iraq by (…)