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THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER editor Bob Chapman writes:
The US military is building a new base and conducting secretive operations in Paraguay ... our Embassy there refuses to acknowledge a base exists and describes the military activity as routine.
The base is in Mariscal Estigarribia, 200 km (127 miles) from the Bolivian border and will handle large aircraft and accommodate 16,000 troops.
There are now 500 of our troops there with planes, weapons, equipment and ammunition. Either (…)

Televangelist Calls for Chavez’ Death
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson called on Monday for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him a terrific danger’’ to the United States.
Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition of America and a former presidential candidate, said onThe 700 Club’’ it was the United States’ duty to stop Chavez from making Venezuela a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism.’’
Chavez has (…)

RNs Protest Sticky Fingers for Corporate Cash
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ — There was "No Sympathy" for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Sunday night as he sought to turn a Rolling Stones concert in Boston into a fundraiser only to be picketed by registered nurses from California, Illinois and Massachusetts outside the stadium and loudly booed by thousands of rock fans when introduced inside.
Exploiting the kickoff event of the Stones latest North American tour to raise cash for his (…)

Havana, Aug 23 (AIN) Bolivian presidential candidate Evo Morales
said the first graduation of the Latin American Medical School
in Havana will be engraved in history.
The leader of the Movement for Socialism congratulated the Cuban
government for the project, which celebrated its first
graduating class of 1,610 last Saturday. He also praised the
Venezuelan government for announcing that it would create a
second such medical school and like the Cuban model, provide (…)

by Karen Kilroy
The title of this article is what the notice read on the morning of May 4, 1970 - it sat largely unread in the mail boxes of Kent State University students. Later that day, four students were murdered when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a hillside filled with students - some protesting, some watching, others merely changing classes.
Whether or not you are old enough to remember the tragedy at Kent State ( http://www.may41970.com ), please pay attention to this (…)

Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com
I have recently reported an enormous lie by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, they denied ever having had an "investigatory interest" in Nick Berg. Go here for details and a scan of their letter:
There is more evidence about the agency’s deep interest in Berg. When the laptop computer of Zacarias Moussaoui was searched on 9/11, the FBI recovered the University of (…)

The invasion not only killed innocents and decimated the country, it also empowered tyrants - so why are we still there?
by Justin Raimondo
The ugliness of the regime we have installed in Iraq has finally bubbled up to the surface, like the outbreak of an oozing syphilitic sore, and spilled over onto the front page of the Washington Post:
"Shi’ite and Kurdish militias, often operating as part of Iraqi government security forces, have carried out a wave of abductions, assassinations, (…)

BOYCOTT 911truth.org’s bogus march on 9/11
By Nico Haupt aka ewing2001
August 22, 2005
BOYCOTT 911truth.org’s anniversary march on 9/11 in NYC and instead show up at GROUND ZERO only!
Start an independent investigation into 9/11truth.org, its financial background and possible cointel-pro background ties!
Demand a clear opposition towards all gatekeepers, from the left and right!
BACKGROUND: On September 11th, 2005, ny911truth.org, affiliated with 911truth.org is planning a march (…)

On November 30 2004 Gail Davidson, co-chair of Lawyers against the War (LAW), filed an Informational Brief in the Provincial Court of B.C. charging George W. Bush as President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces with torture.
When Davidson went to court on December 6th to secure a date for a process hearing, the Attorney General applied to declare the information a nullity on the grounds that, as head of state, Mr. Bush was immune from prosecution. In an (…)

"If I have to sacrifice my whole family for the sake of our whole country and world, other countries that want freedom, I’ll do that."
These are the dramatic words of former Marine Gary Qualls, whose son, Marine Lance Cpl. Louis Wayne Qualls, died in Iraq last fall at the age of 20. Qualls is a friend of Crawford gift shop owner Bill Johnson, who established the pro-Bush/pro-war camp that is now opposing Camp Casey in Crawford, Texas.
Qualls, you’ll recall, is the man who removed the (…)