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HUGH THOMPSON, the American helicopter pilot who courageously intervened to save Vietnamese civilians from massacre by US troops at My Lai, Vietnam in 1968, has died.
HUGH THOMPSON (Vietnam veteran, US Army helicopter pilot, Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross, Soldier’s Medal) (4/15/1943-1/6/2006) was an American hero and a profoundly decent human being of the kind whose decency and courage surely give hope for all humanity.
On March 16 , 1968, Hugh Thompson (24) and his 3 man (…)

Last weekend an American special task force unit raided my house. It was precisely the kind of terrifying experience I have had described to me over and over again by Iraqis I have interviewed in the past two-and-a-half years. My wife, Zina, described it as like something out of a Hollywood action movie.
It began at half past midnight on Saturday when explosives blew apart the three entrances to my house. We thought we had been caught in a bombing, but then a rifle sneaked round our (…)

Sam Alito is merely the latest liar on the block for Bush’s full spectrum dominance agenda. But the show-trial hearings on whether this proto-fascist ideologue should be allowed to shape US social and political development for a generation provide some nuggets of insight into how the corrupt junta’s pathological liars actually work.
The first order of amazement is that the process can actually take place. Shouldn’t precedence be given to hearings on impeaching and imprisoning the corporate (…)

By IAN JAMES
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)- The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.
Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including the actor Danny Glover and the Princeton University scholar Cornel West that met the Venezuelan president for more than six hours late Saturday. Some in the group attended Chavez’s (…)

EU AGREED TO CIA PRISON FLIGHTS — With these words: "Both sides [EU-US] agreed on ... increased use of European transit facilities to support the return of criminal/inadmissible aliens...."
"European transit facilities" are the airspaces and airports now claimed to be violated. "The return" is what the CIA calls "rendition"; and "criminal/inadmissible aliens" are persons who have been renditioned to Guantanamo, CIA prisons in Eastern Europe, and states that practice torture in the Middle (…)

Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright9@aol.com
This website has a link to an Iranian website, and the claim is made that the "site is in possession of ’documents’ that prove Berg was a CIA special agent who had initiated widespread contacts with Muslims resident in the US over the past two years, with the aim of penetrating Al-Qaeda."
http://www.agonist.org/archives/015...
I am not able to read the Iranian website. Can anyone tell me about the nature of these documents (…)

Katrina Survivors
to Congress
128k mp3s: rt-click -> save as 1. Why all the M-16s? 2. Concentration Camps 3. They Blew it 4. Show Us The Levee 5. Martial Law or
or Stream 64k or 128k (except #5)
or even more options at archive.org
On Dec 6, 2005 several Katrina Survivors testified before Congress- their testimony should have been headline news across America... You can still watch the testimony at C-span (12/6/05), but if you don’t have 4 hours, (…)

The Neocon Broadcasting Company is turning about to be quite the motley crew.
Witness Tim Russert’s statement ,to whit ;
he did not know Valerie Plame’s NAME or that she was an undercover CIA OPERATIVE and had no discussions with Scooter Libby on this topic in JULY 2003 .
He also didn’t smoke or inhale this information .
Andrea Mitchell , the Foreign affairs correspondent for Neocon Broadcasting Company first stated that Plame’s CIA identity was common knowledge among her (…)

Taken from: www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
Imperialist Devastation of Peoples and the Evils Done in our Names
Let us for a few moments put aside our lavish lifestyles of fortuitous endowment and providence that have made us blind to the realities of billions of our fellow humans. Let us ignore our plasma televisions, our DVDs, our two-story cookie cutter homes and gas-guzzling SUVs. Let us promise to not open our overstocked pantries and refrigerators, or to go out and eat at one of (…)

FANTASY VS REALITY
By Peter Fredson
January 10, 2006
I hold no grudges against fantasy. As a teen-ager I had a stack of paper-backs on science-fiction, many books on mythology and religion, and some of the most lurid horror magazines of the 1940’s, not to mention an equally large stack of magazines of the Far West, outlaws, gun-slingers, etc. When I went off to war my mother threw all that “junk” away, which I still mourn as many would now be exceedingly valuable and would provide many (…)