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by Mary MacElveen!
I just finished watching that movie on Lifetime TV called “Human Trafficking” and it turned my stomach to know how young girls and young boys are trafficked world-wide and even within this country.
So we must be their voices and their power to end their slavery where they are worked to death for years as sex slaves. According to this movie the selling of human beings ranks third after the selling of weapons and drugs. Also according to this movie approximately (…)

by David Swanson
This piece of legislation is the clearest way for Congress to demand a serious investigation of the Plame leak and the war lies that preceded it.
This privileged Resolution of Inquiry, introduced by Dennis Kucinich, has a lifespan of 14 legislative days, ending on or about November 9 with a vote in the House International Relations Committee. It is crucial that we build support before that date through a long list of cosponsors.
H Res 505 would require the White House (…)

Is the looming "Nuclear Option" a Queen Swap that will hurt the Republicans More than the Democrats? Why the democrats should excercise the filibuster and why the Republicans WON’T exercise the Nuclear Option
by Rob Kall
It’s official. The extreme right has torpedoed the nomination of Harriet Miers. She has withdrawn her nomination, as predicted, explaining that she didn’t want Bush to have to weaken is right of executive privilege by releasing papers she’d written for him. The timing is (…)

by Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma USA mpwright9@aol.com
For a quick review, I have argued that former U.S. Senator David Boren, his protege George Tenet, and another CIA agent named David Edger were the inner circle of the CIA in 2001. In 1994, Boren became the president of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, and brought Edger to OU in the summer of 2001 with a "visiting professor" appointment. Here is a photo of Edger:
I have stated the suspicion that this trio let the 9/11 (…)

Manchester Social Forum
Decisions on the programme
Following the main debate and numerous discussions on the political and social situation, the Istanbul EPA came to an agreement on several points in order to put together the programme:
Agreement on general objectives:
1. Create an alternative to the European neo-liberal programme and anti-social policies.
2. Raise the profile and awareness of these alternatives as well as concrete responses to them.
3. Encourage the convergence (…)

This immoral invasion and occupation of Iraq has cost the world so much. George and his reckless war of choice have cost the American taxpayers billions of dollars that could be better spent at home. Judging from Katrina, Iraq has cost our country much of its security. It has cost the US any good standing we enjoyed in the world community. It cost America the post 9/11 good will from almost the entire world. We Americans are the laughing stock of the world community. Not only is our callous (…)

The Anti-War Left Seeks a Challenger for Hillary Clinton by Kristen Lombardi Cindy Sheehan, a/k/a the "peace mom," probably never intended to sound like a candidate, but she did. Sheehan, the activist who became the face of anti-war sentiment after camping outside President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, last summer, had just mounted the podium at the Brooklyn Peace Fair on October 22. And already she was getting political.
"Maybe later we’ll talk about your senators," she said, (…)

A former guardsman suffering from Gulf War Syndrome has won a landmark legal case against the Ministry of Defence.
Daniel Martin, 35, who has suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome, memory loss and impaired concentration since the 1991 conflict, will receive a disability award under the "umbrella term" of Gulf War Syndrome.
He is one of 1,500 soldiers who made a claim for a disablement pension because of the syndrome, which, for the past 14 years, the MoD has said does not exist.
A war (…)

By JUAN FORERO
CARACAS, Venezuela - Firmly in power and his revolution now in overdrive, President Hugo Chavez is moving fast to transform Venezuela’s economy by bucking free-market planning with what he calls 21st-century socialism: founding state companies, seizing abandoned private factories and establishing thousands of cooperatives and worker-run businesses.
The populist government is reorganizing the country’s colossal oil industry, taking a bigger share from private (…)

Working families and their allies are gearing up for the nation’s largest-ever mobilization to support workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain collectively. Throughout the week of Dec. 5-10, thousands of workers in 63 cities—and the number is growing daily—will take the fight to restore workers’ freedom to form unions to the White House, statehouses and front doors of employers that deny workers’ rights.
The nationwide events are part of a massive global mobilization on Dec. 10, (…)