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THE STRANGEST DREAM
By Peter Fredson
January 18, 2006
Last night, retiring after having a glass of warm milk, I had the strangest dream.
I was standing on a tall platform, from which I could see most of the world, and was wearing a purple robe, a shining halo, and holding a silver cane with a miniature ivory head of Barbara Eden (I DREAM OF JEANIE) star on it.
The ivory head spoke to me: “Because you are of irresistible personality, and very petulant, the powers-that-be have (…)

"BUSH STEP DOWN!" Rally at Cedar Beach Park southwest corner, Hamilton & Ott Sts. Allentown PA February 4th 1-2 pm It is time for the Bush reign to end. Lies to Congress and Americans to start a war, illegally spying on US citizens, Katrina, Medicare cuts, Veterans cuts, children’s school lunch cuts, economists figuring the true cost of Iraq war to be 2 trillion dollars, over 2000 troops dead, cronyism over experience, on and on the list goes.... Whatever your issue with this (…)

Taxation without recognition?
Although not recognised officially as housing, caravans will now be paying council tax.
The 2006 finance law introduces council tax for people living in mobile, land-based dwellings, mainly caravans and camping-cars. This aggravates existing discrimination and contradicts recent presidential and government statements.
The situation is pure dynamite. Will this blow it up?
All depends on what will happen during the next few months.
In fact, the law will (…)

Against Laundry Lists and the Exhaustively Debated, Politically Correct, 58-Point Platform
By JoANN WYPIJEWSKI
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are hopeless hacks, claims Lenni Brenner here on the CounterPunch site a couple of days ago. They should be avoided by any pure and peace-loving activist, but then Brenner argues that Louis Farrakhan, who believes white people were created by an evil spaceman, who is profoundly sexist and anti-Semitic, who was involved in the murder of Malcolm X and (…)

by Davids Wanson
New Zogby Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping
By a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge’s approval, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the (…)

By Adrian Walker
It takes a deep devotion to spend more than two decades of your life on a single topic, and the passion that has kept historian Taylor Branch going for all these years comes through clearly when he discusses his life’s work: the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Branch has spent the past 24 years researching, analyzing, and chronicling King, whose life spanned just 39 years. ’’At Canaan’s Edge," the third and concluding volume of his grand trilogy on America in the King (…)

by Jason Leopold
The National Security Agency advised President Bush in early 2001 that it had been eavesdropping on Americans during the course of its work monitoring suspected terrorists and foreigners believed to have ties to terrorist groups, according to a declassified document.
The NSA’s vast data-mining activities began shortly after Bush was sworn in as president and the document contradicts his assertion that the 9/11 attacks prompted him to take the unprecedented step of (…)

They’re back ! The New York Times , that Old Gray Skank , is churning out lies about Iran in order to whip up the American people into yet another war frenzy. They are not alone but serve as the lead dog - going where the other lapdogs are soon to follow.
Journalists William J. Broad and David Sanger ,the ever dutiful stenographers for the Bush administration, dredged up this absurd nonsense about a so called Iranian laptop computer whose files contained thousands of pages of details (…)

The terrorists that blew up the WTC in 1993 and 2001 have something in common, they were aided by covert intelligence agencies in 1986 and the anti communist groups associated with the Council for National Policy. Jack Abramoff is not just a lobbyist gangsta, he was member of the CNP and worked with Oliver North and others involved in the Iran Contra scandal. The training of the terrorists in 1986 associated with Bin Laden, was sealed with an earliar hand shake between Bin Laden and Donald (…)

by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Dictatorships seldom appear full-fledged but emerge piecemeal. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with one Roman legion he broke the tradition that protected the civilian government from victorious generals and launched the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Fearing that Caesar would become a king, the Senate assassinated him. From the civil wars that followed, Caesar’s grand nephew, Octavian, emerged as the first Roman emperor, Caesar (…)