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Here is a most extraordinary letter from Syria’s Ambassador in Washington Imad Mustapha to Congresswoman Sue Kelly, which has come into my possession. It explains how the American Administration has been stonewalling Syrian cooperation on a host of issues. It explains how Syria is being set up to fail so that the US can isolate it and carry out a process of regime-change at the expense of Iraqi stability and the lives of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians. It explains how the US (…)

The Top Nine Plamegate Lies
As the possibility of high-level indictments increases, the misinformation battle intensifies; get the truth behind the major falsehoods. By Josh Kalven, Media Matters for America October 25, 2005
As U.S. attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald’s two-year investigation into the CIA leak case reportedly draws to a close, the long-standing debate over the origins of the scandal, the merits of the federal investigation, and the legal authority of the prosecutor has (…)

October 22, 2005 The occupation of Iraq, the primary target in the "war of terror," is unraveling. The arrest and subsequent "rescue" of two British SAS agents provocateur has made evident what has until now been widely rumored on the Iraq street: that the American and British occupation forces are engaging in covert acts of terror in order to maintain chaos and perpetuate the occupation.
This is not surprising. Since late 2002 it’s been reported (UPI, Los Angeles Times and elsewhere) (…)

Repeat the lie enough and people will think it is the truth
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - U.S. envoy Karen Hughes on Friday defended Washington’s decision to go to war against Iraq in front of a skeptical audience, saying Saddam Hussein had gassed to death "hundreds of thousands" of his own people. A State Department official later said she misspoke about the number.
Hughes, undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, made the comment before a group of Indonesian students who repeatedly (…)

Do you get it yet?
Foster City, CA, January 3, 1997 - Gilead Sciences Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced that board member Donald H. Rumsfeld will assume the position of Chairman, effective immediately. Mr. Rumsfeld succeeds Michael L. Riordan, M.D., who founded Gilead in 1987 and has served as Chairman since 1993. Dr. Riordan will continue to serve as a director on the board.
"Gilead is fortunate to have had Don Rumsfeld as a stalwart board member since the company’s earliest days, and (…)

CIA finally fed up with George W. Bush and the amateurs around him
VHeadline.com commentarist Arthur Shaw writes: In the shabby, sham, and phony United States "democracy," a controversy over the rule of law rages although the US capitalist press falsely portrays the controversy as a mere case of criminal law that affirms the rule of law in the USA.
Of late, the US capitalist press closely covers developments in Venezuela where the capitalist press portrays every alleged criminal act by a (…)

Soup Of The Evening, Beautiful Soup by Michael Doliner
In the long run, the existence of this intensely elitist society in the ancient Near East was of enormous importance to the history of Western civilization. As late as 1700, the prevailing European social system was still one in which vast power, the greater part of landed wealth, and the prime control of political life belonged to the hereditary landed aristocracy. Norman F. Cantor, The Civilization of the Middle Ages
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The past is the present is the future
With so much history in the making right now, you may feel as though now isn’t the time to review scandals of yore. But those who do not study history are condemned to relive it. Yes, that’s a cliche; it’s also true.
Case in point: Gary Buell’s recent look back at the Secret Army Organization(), a militia-like provocateur group of the early ’70s — whose leaders were run by the FBI.
The SAS represented the plausibly deniable "action arm" of an (…)

"The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on."
Joseph Heller, Catch 22
Hate to break this to you, but you are brainwashed; or, at the very least, have been subjected to brainwashing all your life. It’s unfortunate, and you can deny it all you want, but you have. So have your parents, your grand-parents, and their parents, and their parents before that. So have your wife and your children. So will your children’s children and their children too. Your (…)

Corruption-Lite and The Two Party System That Has Choked the Democracy out of this Country. by Anthony Wade
opednews
October 23, 2005
I see all the time the questions of what is wrong with the Democratic Party. I sense the palpable frustration of well-minded people who fight day in and out against the corruption in the current administration only to be heartbroken at the apparent ineptitude of the opposition party. It hit me today why the Democratic Party seems too inept in dealing (…)