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More Statesmanship, Less Salesmanship, Please . . . by Rep. Lynn Woolsey The war in Iraq, now entering its 30th month, seemingly brings a new atrocity or source of shame every day. The American death toll is approaching 2,000, with August on track to be one of the war’s deadliest months.
And let’s not forget the wounded, the victims of post-traumatic stress syndrome and the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians senselessly killed so that their nation could be ‘liberated’.
Throughout (…)

by Gene Ellis
CRAWFORD - Shortly after Joan Baez arrived Sunday afternoon at Camp Casey II, she gave a press conference with the Gold Star Families, all of whom have lost loved ones in the war. She talked with them, and she cried with them.
Ms. Baez returned to the trailer to prepare for her performance, speaking only in whispers when it was necessary to speak at all, saving her voice.
She gave a moving performance, peppered with energy, emotion, humor, and humanity. She even showed (…)

Cindy has asked that as many as possible join her in Crawford, and as the momentum and numbers are growing COINTELPRO operatives swarm the internet trying to discourage people from going. Just like the organizers at the protest, they are actively trying to lesson the numbers. What is interesting is that the operative supports giving even more money to the Crawford Peace House. Althought the Crawford Peace House has denied paying off their mortgage with donations meant for Cindy...it is (…)

by Sean Liddell
The Military is used to shut down a rave. The military is used on US soil. Anyone else have a problem with that? This is crossing the line into full on fascism- hired thugs that will go anywhere, brutalize anyone, even teenagers, no questions asked. Demand the mainstream media show this footage.
These are first-hand accounts as posted at
I was standing behind the second stage watching a friend of mine play records. Everyone on the dance floor was talking or dancing to (…)

By Jason Leopold
Every year, right around the anniversary of 9/11 the Bush administration spins the public about the reasons 1,864 American soldiers have died fighting for a lie in Iraq. And every year, it’s just as crucial that the media tell the public the truth about the reasons the war was started.
So here goes.
The disinformation campaign the White House launched last weekend should leave no doubt that the war in Iraq was hatched well before 9/11 and is part of a broader strategy (…)

By Greg Moses
If by socialism you mean the kind of world that officers’ kids enjoy, then I’m pretty much for it. It’s the kind of world I grew up in. Free health care, pretty good job security, cheap movies (that I could afford to attend every night in a row), swimming pools, bowling alleys, shooting ranges, craft shops, safe streets, and no private property to speak of. The toughest day on base was the day you “cleared quarters”, when a soldier with clipboard would come to your house and (…)

By Peter Fredson
Many people have willingly sacrificed their lives for unselfish or patriotic reasons. They throw themselves in the path of a truck to save a child, they drown in an effort to save a companion, or throw themselves on a live grenade to save their buddies. In 1941 after listening to reports of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the continuing reports of the deeds of Hitler and Mussolini in Europe, I hurried to the local Recruiting Office to volunteer for military service. The (…)

MindWar: Full Spectrum Fake Terrorism
August 21st, 2005
Jeffrey Steinberg, in an article appearing in the August 26 issue of the Executive Intelligence Review, mentions Col. Paul E. Vallely, the Commander of the 7th Psychological Operations Group, United States Army Reserve, and a document he authored entitled From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory (note: link is a PDF document). “MindWar must be strategic in emphasis, with tactical applications playing a reinforcing, (…)

by Lawrence M. Ludlow, August 19, 2005
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 (Forthcoming)
On the subject of war, Machiavelli offers simple advice (chapter 14):
"Thus a prince should have no other object, nor any other thought, nor take anything else as his art but that of war and its orders and discipline; for that is the only art which is of concern to one who commands. "
Again it is important to remember that Machiavelli’s chief concern is not the freedom or well-being of (…)

By NATALIE GOTT
RALEIGH, N.C. — Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound, revolutionizing music in the 1960s and opening the wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71.
Moog died Sunday at his home in Asheville, according to his company’s Web site. An inoperable brain tumor had been detected in April.
A childhood interest in the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments, would lead Moog to a create a career and business (…)