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Members of Congress - including Oakland’s representative - will mark the third anniversary of a British government meeting detailed in the "Downing Street memo" by taking criticism of the Iraq war to the masses.
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, will host a town hall meeting from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Grand Lake Theatre, 3200 Grand Lake Ave. in Oakland. Eight other lawmakers from New York to Michigan to New Mexico to California will hold district meetings this weekend as well. (…)

NO ONE doubts the atrocious inhumanity of those who planted the bombs that killed and caused mayhem in London yesterday. No one should also doubt that this outrage has been coming since the day Tony Blair joined George Bush in their bloody invasion and occupation of Iraq. They are “Blair’s bombs,” and he ought not be allowed to evade culpability with yet another unctuous speech about other people’s violence. He was warned. Indeed, the only reliable warning from British intelligence in the (…)

Today Bush says he will fire for convictions, not mere leaks. The consensus of lawyers is that Karl Rove will be indicted in the Valerie Plame outing case — and not for what you think. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald appears to have a slam-dunk case under Title 18, Sec. 641, USC (which is NOT about outing a covert agent) just as the DOJ did for leaker Jonathan Randel, who got a year in prison. Karl Rove was abandoned by both of his parents — the man he called Dad left home, Rove (…)

An international one-day conference on rebuilding Iraq sponsored by the United States and the European Union, which has to drawn foreign ministers from the 25-nation European Union, the United States, Iraq and many others took place in Brussels on June 22. This raises several questions : why does the US want an international conference with the participation of European countries two years after its "victory" in Iraq ? What can be expected from this conference ? And how should the antiwar (…)

The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) through sessions held in Western Europe, Asia and the US has established a comprehensive record of US-UK war crimes in Iraq.
An extensive documentation has been forth, testimonies have been presented in some 17 global sessions. The BRussells Tribunal sessions of the WTI in Brussels in April 2004 focused on the role of "The Project for the New American Century" (PNAC) which consists in a blueprint of global military conquest. (…)

Does Anybody Remember THIS?
I posted THIS on APFN
DC to Test Evacuation on July 4
Trinity DC to Test Evacuation on July 4Sun Jul 3, 2005 19:45
Washington to test evacuation on July 4
WASHINGTON, July 2 (UPI) — Officials in Washington, D.C., plan to use the July Fourth crowd watching fireworks on the National Mall to test the city’s emergency evacuation system.
Thousands of people are expected to come to the mall for a concert and fireworks, the Washington Post reports. Fifteen (…)

Senators and Representatives:
I write to you today to ask a simple question: "What the hell are you thinking?"
Not terribly long ago in our history, the occupants of your respective offices at least appeared to be grappling with the problems we face as a nation. There used to be some semblance of reasoned debate on the critical issues of the time. Really good representatives tried to find some point on which they agreed with their opponents to use as a starting point for developing a (…)

To Whom It May Concern:
With all the coverage of the London bombings, it is extremely upsetting to me, but not surprising, that one detail is being left out of every mainstream media article: Visor Consultants, a security consultant firm, was conducting a "terror drill" in the London Underground on July 7, 2005, at the exact same time in the exact same locations that the actual bombs went off. Visor’s Managing Director, Peter Power, discussed this amazing coincidence in two separate (…)

Dear Editor: There are those who would have us continually proclaim to the world that the United States is the best and greatest nation and that it is our duty to bestow our blessings upon all other peoples.
No other nation, they proclaim, is as free, wealthy, innocent, compassionate, able or well-meaning as ours. Life in these United States, they declare, is better than in any other place in the world.
There is a lot in these claims with which most of us agree.
However, most patriots (…)

The chasm separating the Bush administration’s version of events in Iraq and the actual reality of the occupation has, it appears, become so absurdly wide that even Republican supporters of the illegal war and occupation have begun to question the Bush administration’s inability to publicly face the disastrous truth. Conservative Republican Senator Chuck Hagel recently commented about the war, "It’s like they’re just making it up as they go along," adding that the White House is "completely (…)