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George Bush’s 37% popularity offers an opportunity to highlight the results of Republican failures. Under the leadership of our self-anointed “War President”, our foreign policy has grown increasingly delusional. Republicans in Congress have spent and borrowed trillions, for the benefit of the wealthy, while cutting vital aid to working-class Americans.
We’re locked in two land wars in a hostile region. Neither war can nor will end without withdrawal, for radical Islamic terrorists pledge (…)

22 November 2005 Madness of war memo By Kevin Maguire And Andy Lines
PRESIDENT Bush planned to bomb Arab TV station al-Jazeera in friendly Qatar, a "Top Secret" No 10 memo reveals.
But he was talked out of it at a White House summit by Tony Blair, who said it would provoke a worldwide backlash.
A source said: "There’s no doubt what Bush wanted, and no doubt Blair didn’t want him to do it." Al-Jazeera is accused by the US of fuelling the Iraqi insurgency.
The attack would have led to (…)

Iraqi Lawmakers Call for Foreign Troops to Withdraw By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, BAGHDAD June 21, 2005
Iraqi lawmakers from across the political spectrum called for the withdrawal of foreign forces from their country in a letter released to the media June 19.
The move comes as U.S. President George W. Bush is under increasing domestic pressure to set a timetable for the pullout of American forces in the face of an increasing death toll at the hands of insurgents.
Eighty-two Shiite, (…)

From the New Zealand Scoop-This isn’t new news! Posted by The Prissy Patriot http://prissypatriot.blogspot.com White House Silenced Experts Who Questioned Iraq Intel Info Six Months Before War Thursday, 12 June 2003, 11:48 am
By Jason Leopold
Six months before the United States was dead-set on invading Iraq to rid the country of its alleged weapons of mass destruction, experts in the field of nuclear science warned officials in the Bush administration that intelligence reports showing (…)

Understand that NO PERSON is YOU and can REPRESENT your NEEDS. To represent yourself you need EDUCATION for SELF AWARENESS. This comes from being ABLE to READ, which is the MAGIC bullet to FREE YOURSELF FROM mind control slavery. That means YOU SHOULD be very SUSPECT about ALL INFORMATION that is GIVEN you for FREE (like TV, radio, Internet) and that which you must pay for or struggle to obtain, for that information is most likely being HIDDEN from you FOR GOOD REASON. And that is that (…)

by Christina Lamb
SHE risked torture, imprisonment, perhaps even death to study literature and write poetry in secret under the Taliban. Last week, when she should have been celebrating the success of her first book, Nadia Anjuman, was beaten to death in Herat, apparently murdered by her husband.
The 25-year-old Afghan had garnered wide praise in literary circles for the book Gule Dudi - Dark Flower - and was at work on a second volume.
Friends say her family was furious, believing (…)

Exclusive interview with Karen Parker, Chief Counsel of the Association of Humanitarian Lawyers By Gabriele Zamparini (*)
The BBC News website, in a special page “Q&A: White phosphorus” and under the title “The BBC News website looks at the facts behind the row.” reads:
What are the international conventions?
Washington is not a signatory to any treaty restricting the use of white phosphorus against civilians.
White phosphorus is covered by Protocol III of the 1980 (…)

By David Swanson
During the middle of the day on Friday, I spent an hour or two on a conference call with activists and congressional staffers discussing next steps to end the war. We planned, among other things, to organize support for Congressman John Murtha’s bill, H.J.Res. 73, which he introduced on Friday. The bill resolves that:
"The deployment of United States forces in Iraq, by direction of Congress, is hereby terminated and the forces involved are to be redeployed at the (…)

by Bill Moyers Remarks prepared for the recent 50th anniversary of The Texas Observer, an independent newspaper in Austin, Tx.
The 50th anniversary of The Texas Observer is a double celebration for me. Your first issue appeared one week before Judith Davidson and I were married in December 1954. We had transferred here to the University of Texas as juniors and were renting a garage apartment that has now totally disappeared along with the block on which it stood. So many landmarks of (…)

What do you get when you cross gutted labor laws with a corporate culture of impunity? Why, Wal-Mart, of course!
By Christopher Hayes
There’s a moment in Robert Greenwald’s new documentary, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, that serves as a perfect metaphor for the entire battle between organized labor and the country’s largest private employer.
Josh Noble, an employee of the Tire and Lube Express division of a Wal-Mart in Loveland, Colorado, is attempting to organize 17 of his (…)