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WASHINGTON — Former Department of Defense adviser Richard Perle, the immensely influential godfather of the neo-conservative movement, launched a public broadside against the alleged corruption of the Saudi Arabian government Thursday, and called on the United States to cease its friendly relations with Riyadh. Perle claimed Saudi Arabia was no ally of the United States and that the Saudi royal family had allowed terrorist ideology to flourish within its borders and beyond. He (…)

The Republicans in this House have done a heinous thing: they have insulted one of the deans of this House in an unthinkable and unconscionable way.
They took his words and contorted them; they took his heartfelt sentiments and spun them. They took his resolution and deformed it: in a cheap effort to silence dissent in the House of Representatives.
The Republicans should be roundly criticized for this reprehensible act. They have perpetrated a fraud on the House of Representatives (…)

by Pirate News & John Lee
Episode 1 of the shockumentary September 911 Surprise mini series debuted on CTV Channel 12 in Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 19. Since PNTV broadcasts uncensored All-American news, PNTV is only allowed a Late-Night weekend timeslot, after midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Guaranteed to raise your IQ or your money back. Winner "Best Music Video" at Los Angeles Music Awards in 2005.
Visit PirateNews.org for free download of this 1 hour broadcast, or (…)

Kurt Nimmo, Another day in the empire
November 18, 2005
​​​​Although I have a couple problems with Hugo Chávez, I love it when he tells the truth, especially when it is so difficult to get the truth here in Bushzarro world, a criminal nation with a corporate media filtering system allergic to the truth. "The planet’s most serious danger is the government of the United States.... The people of the United States are being governed by a killer, a genocidal murderer and a madman," Chávez (…)

Kucinich: Republican Iraq “Withdrawal” Resolution Is A Fraud The American People Are Fed Up With Politicians Who Say One Thing And Do Another
Washington, Nov 19 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) gave the following speech tonight on the House floor on the House Republican Leadership’s plan to play politics with the war in Iraq and present a phony “withdrawal” bill:
“I have spent three years making the case against the war in Iraq, trying to convince Congress to avoid war, working (…)

I found these interesting even if you don’t particularly like some views of the BBC. For those that have not really gotten into the actual history of the neo conservative movement, it does give some insight. Just hope the links work.
"The Power of Nightmares." All three hours of this provocative BBC series are available. The series chronicles the parallel rise of neo-conservatism and Islamo-terrorism. It concludes that the terrorist threat is greatly exaggerated and concocted the Bush (…)

Trudi Loh Trudi Loh Bio Blog Index RSS 11.18.2005 Gore’s Crystal Ball (29 comments ) READ MORE: Saddam Hussein, Al Gore, Dick Cheney, Iraq, George W. Bush
As the Democrats rage about the war — 3 years too late — and the Bush Administration huffs and puffs about the Democrats playing politics with an issue and rewriting history, I felt the need to re-read some of the remarks made by Vice President Al Gore at the Commonwealth Club on September 9th, 2002, prior to the vote (…)

FORGIVE MY CYNICISM
By Peter Fredson
November 19, 2005
I was not always cynical of American politics, civics, and public service. Indeed, I thought highly of “American Values” such as patriotism, honor, honesty, keep one’s sworn word, doing one’s duty to country, and serving honorably. Although I knew that the words “Liberty” and “Democracy” had multiple meanings for philosophers and linguists, to me they were fairly straight-forward. Indeed they were master symbols of Americanism (…)

By Rep. John Murtha
A conservative senior House Democrat and Purple Heart-decorated Vietnam veteran describes the U.S. presence in Iraq as an ’occupation,’ and calls for immediate troop withdrawal.
Following is the transcript of a speech by conservative Democratic Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania on October 17. Murtha is the ranking Democrat on the House Appropriation Committee’s defense panel.
I just spoke to the Democratic Caucus and told them my feelings about the war. And (…)

by Elizabeth de la Vega
Shortly after Vice President Cheney’s former Chief of Staff, I. Lewis ("Scooter") Libby, was indicted for obstructing justice and making false statements to a government agent and a grand jury, Libby’s attorneys suggested that they would use the standard he’s-a-busy-man-who-can’t-remember-everything defense. But now, with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’s revelation that a senior Administration official other than Libby told him, in mid-June 2003, that Joseph (…)