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Last week, I spent a few days in London giving a series of lectures on American foreign policy.
My audiences were American and generally supportive of what the Bush administration is doing in fighting terror and spreading freedom.
The Europeans, on the other hand, were a different story. The British media were full of stories pounding the president and his policies. Since I couldn’t get MSNBC in London, I was stuck watching the BBC, with its nightly onslaught against the U.S.
The day I (…)

MEMORANDUM To: Rep. John Conyers, Jr. From: John C. Bonifaz Date: May 22, 2005 RE: The President’s Impeachable Offenses
The recent release of the Downing Street Memo provides new and compelling evidence that the President of the United States has been actively engaged in a conspiracy to deceive and mislead the United States Congress and the American people about the basis for going to war against Iraq. If true, such conduct constitutes a High Crime under Article II, Section 4 of the United (…)

LONDON - Amnesty International castigated the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay as a failure Wednesday, calling it "the gulag of our time" in the human rights group’s harshest rebuke yet of American detention policies. ADVERTISEMENT
Amnesty urged Washington to shut down the prison at the U.S. Navy’s base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where some 540 men are held on suspicion of links to Afghanistan’s ousted Taliban regime or the al-Qaida terror network. Some have been jailed for more than three (…)

Wisconsin Democrat David Obey proposed an amendment to reduce tax cuts for those making $1,000,000 or more per year and give the savings to Veterans Health Care. A Republican shot it down on a technicality.
The text from the House Clerk:
1:24 P.M. - Amendment offered by Mr. Obey.
An amendment to reduce tax cuts for taxpayers with an adjusted gross income in excess of $1 million for taxable year 2006 by 8.125 percent and to use the resulting savings to increase funding for Veterans’ (…)

Much of what I am reading now points DIRECTLY to our government and those that dangle the Muppets on a string. This is with respect to 9/11 (the fiasco that started this war... based on COMPLETE & UTTER LIES), and the ongoing assassinations of Journalists, Microbiologists, World Leadership figures, Civilians, our Sons and Daughters, and on.....
These people are using the tactic of FEAR now to bring about the change of globalization and domination of the people’s hearts and minds. (…)

"Mr. Speaker, I wish to bring the following article to the attention of my colleagues. We must continue to challenge the FDA’s assumption that all genetically engineered food is safe."
From the Independent, May 22, 2005
Revealed: Health Fears Over Secret Study Into GM Food
By Geoffrey Lean
Rats fed on a diet rich in genetically modified corn developed abnormalities to internal organs and changes to their blood, raising fears that human health could be affected by eating GM food. (…)

The House of Representatives voted down a measure, by a 128 to 300 vote, that called on President Bush to devise a plan for a withdrawal from Iraq. It came in the form of an amendment to the $491 billion budget for the Pentagon that was passed on Wednesday night.
But the withdrawal amendment marks the first time that Congress has officially voted and debated legislation that deals with a withdrawal.
"No, it won’t pass today, but it will give us a chance to talk about it," said (…)

MIAMI (AP) — A voters’ rights group said Wednesday its audit of November’s presidential election ballots in Miami-Dade County showed counting problems - and an unintentional but worrisome instance of a number of votes being counted three times.
A report released by the Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition said during the elections there were "serious problems with policies and procedures that are supposed to protect the integrity of the ballot."
In many precincts, the number of people (…)

FOR U.S. troops in Iraq who oppose the war for oil and empire they were sent to fight, speaking out can be dangerous. But three soldiers—whose pen names are hEkLe, Heretic and Joe Public—found that their consciences made it more difficult not to speak out.
Each spent about a year in Iraq. Throughout their tours, they earned a reputation for reporting the truth—on their Web log at ftssoldier.blogspot.com—about what was taking place in occupied Iraq. Their dispatches have also been featured (…)

Helen Thomas Rides White House Press Sec: ’Were we invited into Iraq?’ Wed May 25 2005 17:16:06 ET
Wire Queen Helen Thomas today ripped into White House spokesman Scott McClellan over his claims the United States is in Afghanistan and Iraq — by invitation.
Joined in progess...
Q The other day — in fact, this week, you said that we, the United States, is in Afghanistan and Iraq by invitation. Would you like to correct that incredible distortion of American history —
MR. McCLELLAN: No, (…)