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Species are dying out faster than we have dared recognise, scientists will warn this week. The erosion of polar ice is the first break in a fragile chain of life extending across the planet, from bears in the north to penguins in the far south
By Andrew Buncombe in Anchorage and Severin Carrell in London
The polar bear is one of the natural world’s most famous predators - the king of the Arctic wastelands. But, like its vast Arctic home, the polar bear is under unprecedented threat. Both (…)

Iraq’s Kurdish president called on the country’s Shiite prime minister to step down, the president’s spokesman said Sunday, escalating a political split between the two factions that make up the government.
President Jalal Talabani has accused the Shiite-led United Iraqi Alliance, which holds the majority in parliament, of monopolizing power in the government and refusing to move ahead on a key issue for Kurds, the resettlement of Kurds in the northern city of Kirkuk.
The time has come (…)

October 2nd, 2005
“The U.S. public is deeply skeptical about the priority President George W. Bush has put on promoting democracy abroad, and its experience in Iraq has made it more so, according to a detailed new survey released Thursday by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations (CCFR) and the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) of the University of Maryland,” writes Jim Lobe. “Only 35 percent of the 808 randomly selected respondents said they favored the use of military (…)

Oct. 3, 2005, 5:34PM
DeLay indicted on money laundering charge Associated Press
AUSTIN - A Texas grand jury today indicted U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on a new charge of money laundering.
A different grand jury whose six-month term ended last week indicted him on a conspiracy charge, forcing DeLay to temporarily step down as House majority leader.
Both indictments accuse DeLay and two political associates of conspiring to get around a state ban on corporate campaign contributions by (…)

Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com
On the evening of Saturday, October 1, while a football game was in progress at the nearby stadium, a University of Oklahoma engineering student, packed with explosives, was seated on a bench near a sidewalk in front of the microbiology building. He knew that within a few minutes the sidewalk would be full of people during the halftime break. A few minutes before the half, the bomb exploded and killed him. This photo shows (…)

by Mike Whitney
October 3, 2005
The Bush administration began the dismantling FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) as one of the first orders of business when they reorganized the government under the Homeland Security Bill. What masquerades now as FEMA is a public relations smokescreen which disguises the fact that the government will no longer assist in major natural catastrophes. The "free market" approach to disaster requires that FEMA chieftains use their power and influence (…)

You never want to say that brave troops in Iraq died for the mindless fantasies spun by a gang of inept politicians. But what else did they die for?
For No Good Reason By Bob Herbert
Monday 03 October 2005
"You can keep the flowers blooming on their graves forever. It won’t change the fact that they died for nothing." Anti-war protester, circa 1969 It’s finally becoming clear on Capitol Hill, and maybe even in the White House, that the United States cannot win the war in Iraq. The (…)

October 3, 2005 In New Book Ex-Chaplain at Guantánamo Tells of Abuses By NEIL A. LEWIS WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 - James J. Yee, a former Muslim chaplain at the Guantánamo Bay detention center, says in a new book that military authorities knowingly created an atmosphere in which guards would feel free to abuse prisoners.
Mr. Yee, 37, is a former Army captain and a West Point graduate who was arrested and imprisoned in 2003 on suspicion of espionage. It was a case that, in the end, proved (…)

Patrick Briley September 30, 2005 NewsWithViews.com
The OKC bombing was a National Security Council (NSC) operation. The groundwork for the operation was laid in the HW Bush administration. The operation was carried out and covered up during the Clinton presidency, and further covered up during the GW Bush presidency.
Within weeks of the OKC bombing Clinton convened an NSC meeting. An attendee of the meeting has said that after Clinton left the meeting, officials of the NSC, DOJ, FBI, (…)

By Webster Griffin Tarpley
Washington DC, Sept. 18 - The Bush-Cheney war drive continues unabated, despite hurricane Katrina. The US government continues to operate under Cheney’s order to prepare in the short term for the nuclear bombing of Iran in the wake of a new 9/11 of state sponsored, false flag synthetic terrorism, as revealed in late July by Philip Giraldi in The American Conservative.
But Iran is not the only possible target in the wake of a new 9/11. Venezuelan President Hugo (…)