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By Sarah Meyer
The American Imperial Plan is proceeding nicely. Ahmad Chalabi is now controlling the Oil Ministry, whilst not a member of the newly elected government:
"Relations with Washington after falling out with the US administration, was appointed acting oil minister after the incumbent Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum was given leave, officials said on Friday.
His takeover coincided with long lines forming at petrol stations in Baghdad, as words spread that Iraq’s largest oil refinery had (…)

ImpeachPAC today announced the formation of a Citizens Impeachment Commission to make 2006 the "Year of Impeachment." "We are honored by the broad support for impeachment from this distinguished group of true American patriots," said Bob Fertik, President of ImpeachPAC. "Impeachment is not a ’fringe’ position, as the Bush Administration would like Americans to believe. With a recent Zogby poll showing Americans support impeachment hearings by a solid majority of 53%-42%, there is far more (…)

WASHINGTON - January 3 - Citing a litany of alleged high crimes and misdemeanors, abuses of power, and violations of the U.S. Constitution, Green Party leaders urged Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush and Vice President Cheney as soon as possible.
"The evidence that President Bush has abused his office and betrayed the trust of the American people is now so overwhelming that failure to undertake impeachment would make Congress even more complicit (…)

By Andrew Gumbel
The US government is not planning to continue funding reconstruction projects in Iraq, in what appears to be a major climbdown from the White House’s one-time pledge to build the best infrastructure in the region.
According to officials cited in yesterday’s Washington Post, the Bush administration will not be adding construction funds to the $18.4bn (£10.7bn) it has allocated since the 2003 invasion.
In future it will be up to other foreign donors and the Iraqi (…)

by Steve Early
Three years ago in Boston, downtown streets and office buildings were the scene of inspiring immigrant worker activism during an unprecedented strike by local janitors. Their walk-out was backed by other union members, community activists, students and professors, public officials, religious leaders, and even a few "socially-minded" businessmen. The janitors had long been invisible, mistreated by management and, until recently, ignored by their own SEIU local union. (…)

by Aldon Morris and Dan Clawson
What kind of labor writing gets suppressed in the U.S. today? Apparently it doesn’t take much.
We wrote an article on "Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement for Building a Worker Rights Movement" whose last paragraph said:
Finally, a fundamental question faces workers today: do they have the courage to get up off their knees and confront powerful employers and corporations? A movement requires moral authority and enormous sacrifices by its participants (…)

Could our glorious news media ask President George W. Bush if he has any comment on reports emanating from the Manila Times that Mr. Bush authorised the "rescue" of "treasure hunter" Michael Meiring . Mr. Meiring was under arrest recovering from wounds resulting from an an accidental bombing that took place in his hotel room when agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation , operating under the authority of US National Security Council, whisked his personage away . The Manila (…)

The emergent multimedia radio of criticalsecret _ Is to download free as podcast and as videopodcast _ (2 formats by article: mp3 more mp4 -Fire work )
PODCAST YOURSELF -since 2005 December 26th _ (mostly in French with bilingual abstracts) Current thematic issue _ FIRE WORKS
4 columns: 1. ADVANTAGES OF THE RECORDING,
2. CONFUSIONS OF THE DESCRIPTION
3. RETURNS ON FITTERING
4. PROSOSCOPIES
RSS link to be pasted:
_ (unionization online in your way, more (…)

By William Fisher
Amidst undenied charges that the Pentagon is paying Iraqi journalists to write “good news” stories about the country’s progress, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has announced a new international exchange program for journalists named for famed broadcaster Edward R. Murrow and emphasizing “the democratic principles that guided Mr. Murrow’s practice of his craft: integrity and ethics and courage and social responsibility”.
Rice added, “We all know that the bedrock (…)

by Monica Benderman
The Regional Corrections Facility at Ft. Lewis, Washington is vintage World War II. The windows are cracked and can’t be closed. It’s below freezing on most nights now.
I could go on - but what good will it do in this country of warmongers, idealistic pacifists, and evangelicals? Nothing like love for a cause - any cause - as long as it’s impersonal enough that everyone can remain detached, can share their emotions through the war cries and protest chants, staring (…)