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By Marjorie Cohn
For seven days, Cindy Sheehan has been camped down the road from George Bush’s Crawford ranch where the President is on a five-week vacation. Cindy says she will never enjoy a vacation again. Her heart is broken. Her precious son Casey was murdered in George Bush’s war on Iraq.
Cindy Sheehan is a patient woman. She will wait until Bush comes out and talks to her. She will wait until the man who ordered the invasion of a country that posed no threat to us explains why (…)

by Justin Raimondo
In January of this year, Rep. Curt Weldon made a speech to the House of Representatives - a speech which no one took notice of, and which hardly anyone heard, except maybe inveterate C-SPAN watchers - in which he made a number of extraordinary assertions:
"Mr. Speaker, I rise because information has come to my attention over the past several months that is very disturbing. I have learned that, in fact, one of our Federal agencies had, in fact, identified the major New (…)

by Mick Hume
ITALY IS another country, they do things differently there, to paraphrase L. P. Hartley. So you hope that a fortnight in the sun on the Riviera dei Fiori in Liguria will also mean a holiday from the stifling climate of “Don’t eat/drink/do that” back home. Even here, however, the dead hand of the EU-wide health and safety regime now seems to have la dolce vita within its grasp.
For example, the Vietato Fumare signs are spreading everywhere, since smoking in public places was (…)

by DAN WILLIAMS
AN ISRAELI soldier was jailed for eight years yesterday for killing the British activist Tom Hurndall, who was shot while protecting Palestinian children during violence in Gaza in 2003.
The sentence was the harshest punishment meted out to an Israeli soldier for actions in a combat zone since the start of a Palestinian uprising nearly five years ago.
Taysir Hayb, a Bedouin Arab soldier, was convicted in June of manslaughter for shooting Mr Hurndall, an activist with (…)

By Peter Baker
The Bush administration has sent seemingly conflicting signals in recent days over the duration of the U.S. deployment to Iraq, openly discussing contingency plans to withdraw as many as 30,000 of 138,000 troops by spring, then cautioning against expectations of any early pullout. Finally yesterday, President Bush dismissed talk of a drawdown as just "speculation and rumors" and warned against "withdrawing before the mission is complete."
If the public was left confused, (…)

VIDEO ONLINE HERE
by John Byrne
The above ad, paid for by Gold Star Families for Peace, will air on Crawford cable channels near Bush’s ranch. The total ad buy is currently $15,000. The group plans to air the ad throughout August and wherever Bush visits during his vacation.
Sheehan’s son, Casey, was an Army mechanic who was killed just five days after arriving in Iraq.
"He was only 24 and he died in his best friend’s arms," Sheehan says in the ad, directed at President Bush. "Casey (…)

Day 6 began early yesterday morning when people in cars drove by our camp a few times and blasted on their horns. I just assume they were blaring their approval of us.
Before we get to the less than negative things that are happening out at Camp Casey and in the world at large, over 700 people showed up at the Camp yesterday. There were more people, flowers, cards, mail, interviews, laughter, heartache, camaraderie, excitement, and just sheer work.
We had the first birthday party last (…)

By Charlie Coon
STUTTGART, Germany - Three anti-war protesters, including a 70-year-old woman, turned themselves in to police on Tuesday after they cut a large hole in the fence at Patch Barracks, walked onto the base, hung a banner, and weren’t challenged by anyone.
The three Germans, the woman and two men ages 51 and 22, were apparently surprised they weren’t arrested after breaking onto the base at about 11:30 a.m. So they walked through the base and out the main gate, where they (…)

By Greg Moses
CAMP CASEY, TX (Part One) Thursday is only a few minutes young, but Cindy Sheehan is already running late. Rumors are percolating that police will swoop into Camp Casey at midnight to arrest everyone, and she dare not be late for a date like that. So she says, “I really have to go now,” and takes her leave from the soft light and murmur of the Crawford Peace House lawn. Before she goes however she does have time to say that her fever is getting a little better.
Among the (…)

In an interview with an Israelian news channel a desperate President whose polls showing each day less support of the American people for his policy declared practically war on Iran.
Source German newspaper "Rheinische Post".
http://www.rp-online.de/public/maga...
sorry it is in German. But can be translate with Google language tools.
WW III is unevitable! The American troops stretched to their ability might use nuclear weapons on Iran. That will create rage in the Islamic world. (…)