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A surge in "suicide attacks" in Iraq and elsewhere around the world is a response to territorial occupation and has no direct link with "Islamic fundamentalism", a political science professor has said.
Robert Pape, associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago, has spent 25 years creating a database of such attacks and has chronicled them in his new book, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. According to the author, most suicide terrorists were (…)

The US Probe On The Iraq "Oil-For-Food Scam" Has Exposed Its Own Duplicity Prem Shankar Jha June 06, 2005 The criminal procedure code of every democratic country contains one all-important provision. Information obtained through an unlawful search of any premises cannot, under any circumstances, be admitted as evidence in a court of law. No American government, whether national, state or local, would dream of flouting this principle at home. But in its dealings with other nations and (…)

US Uses The Magic Mantra "Zarqawi" To Justify Its Failures Fatih Abdulsalam May 31, 2005 There seems to be no end to the flow of reports on al-Zarqawi. This legendary rebel has now come to haunt the Americans the way Saddam Hussein did before his overthrow two years ago.
For many Iraqis the name ‘Saddam Hussein’ has been replaced by ‘Zarqawi’. The only difference is that while they could easily verify the footage, the speeches and sound bites of the former, many of them believe the (…)

John Pilger - Information Clearing House May 17, 2005
Can you imagine the BBC and other major broadcasters apologising to a rogue regime which practises racism and ethnic cleansing; which has “effectively legalised the use of torture” (according to Amnesty International); which holds international law in contempt, having defied hundreds of UN resolutions and built an apartheid wall in defiance of the International Court of Justice; which has demolished thousands of people’s homes and given (…)

OUTING DEEP THROAT
By Peter Fredson
The hissing and rattling of Watergate media serpents became a frightening cacophony ever since Mark Felt outed himself as the famous Deep Throat. Practically all of the Republicans commenting on the Deep Throat disclosure felt that the man was a traitor, poisonous, vile, and to be shoved under a pile of manure. They are all extremely vocal and aggressive in denouncing Mark Felt. They have little hesitation in calling him a traitor or in ignoring, (…)

...I stood with a group of demonstrators at the gate of the General Staff building to protest against his appointment. Our slogan was: "You have blood on your wings!" ­ a reminder of his remarks when the Air Force dropped a one-ton bomb on a residential area in Gaza, in order to kill Hamas leader Salah Shehadeh. As will be remembered, the bomb also killed 14 uninvolved people, including nine children...
From Bad to Worse
by Uri Avnery
While Israel’s new chief of staff, Air Force (…)

Nice work. I like the use of imagery and so forth. I am of European decent, but I am not a practicing Christian or any other Money centric religious system. These systems are based on the instituationalization of a heirarchy called a priestly class and they are supported by money that is made and accepted from anyone that wishes to donate even those that commite crimes and so forth. In fact these are only shells of actual human oriented spiritual organizations as they do take sides in human (…)

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused the United States on Sunday of trying to impose a "global dictatorship".
He said the US, not Venezuela, should face scrutiny by the Organisation of American States.
"If there is any government that should be monitored by the OAS, then it should be the US government, a government which backs terrorists, invades nations, tramples over its own people, seeks to install a global dictatorship. That should be the government that is monitored," said (…)

Iraq has been the tragic Lie of Historic Proportions of Washington, DC since before the first gulf war. For years, Saddam was one of our government’s propped up and militarily supported puppets. Many people have seen the famous footage of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam. I suppose the two are smiling so big for the cameras because they are kindred spirits. After all of the hand-shaking and weapon brokering, when did Saddam become such a bad guy to Bush, Cheney, Halliburton and Co.? (…)

A 2005 Digest of the E.V. Debs Speech at the 1925 Conference for Progressive Political Action at the Lexington Hotel in Chicago; Plus The Cashless Utopia
The kernel of great human movements has always involved just a few individuals. What’s the pop adage from back in the nineteen eighties? ... It only takes four people to start a new hair-do.
Perhaps there’ll be a few gallant souls, women and men, who have ideas in advance of their time, who’d show the mettle to profess ideas that (…)