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United Vegetative States Of America Anwaar Hussain April 6, 2005 After having lived for 15 years in a persistent vegetative state, Terri Schindler Schiavo crossed over from here to the hereafter on the last day of March. With her blood scent up in the air, the feral American media went berserk in the last two weeks of Schiavo’s life. Using this so-called freest press in the world, the American public was led on a leash by the right-wing activists with a not-so-subtle help from the (…)

All We Want Is The TRUTH Ward Reilly March 30, 2005 "If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." -Samuel Adams
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government—lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." -Patrick Henry
"It is the duty of the patriot (…)

Boos And Catcalls Greet Bush At St. Peter’s Der Spiegel April 08, 2005 Rome: It was a historic moment: George W. Bush was the first president of the U.S. to participate in burying a Pope - despite his controversy with the Pontiff over the Iraq War. When his image flashed on a huge outdooor TV screen, the multitude gathered for the funeral of Pope John Paul II had a pointedly unpleasant message to communicate to the U.S. president. Loud booing was heard, when on a large television (…)

Of Intelligence Failure And Trained Apes Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan ndc, psc (Retd) April 07, 2005 It is said that truth is the first casualty in war. The report of the "Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States regarding WMD" has established that truth is a casualty long before a war is embarked upon.
The two points that Donald Rumsfeld stressed upon vigorously many times when it came to the question of Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction was that, "lack of (…)

Chanting "No! No to terrorism!" and "No! No to America," thousands of supporters of a radical Shiite cleric who once led uprisings against U.S. troops called Saturday for American forces to withdraw from Iraq, staging a massive protest at the same square where - two years ago to the day - protesters pulled down a towering statue of ousted Saddam Hussein.
Compare the protests- which one looks like the ’voice of the people’ to you?
The protest reflected frustration with the U.S. (…)

An openly gay candidate of Partito della Rifondazione Comunista wins in southern Italy, in regional elections that resulted in 11 victories for the center-left coalition, which now controls 16 of Italy’s 20 regions.
Nichi Vendola’s victory decisively refutes the American dogma that militants on the left, choosing radicals, can’t attract votes at the center and lose to the right — the dogma that the Democrats in America and the center-left in Italy promulgate, even though it has been often (…)

Anti-US protests in Baghdad
April 9, 2005
TENS of thousands of Shiites converged on the centre of Baghdad for an anti-US protest to mark two years since the city fell to coalition troops.
Police cars blocked off main roads in central Baghdad and two major bridges across the Tigris River that cuts the capital in half as thousands marched through the street, chanting: “No, no USA, no, no America, no, no to the occupation.”
Radical preachers had called on their congregations to rally in (…)

Doug Henwood’s Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom (Verso, 1997) is now available for free download.
Wall Street
It’s an excellent book, a must-read for activists under late capitalism, who need to understand the power of finance capital over the fate of workers of the world.
Despite the use value of his book, "[t]he author made less than $10,000 on this book for six years of work, even though it sold over 20,000 copies. So please consider a contribution here (via Paypal)," says (…)

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 7 April 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
Thursday, 7 April 2005. Al-Anbar Province. Al-Qa’im.
Iraqi Resistance seizes control of city of al-Qa’im on the Syrian border.
The Iraqi Resistance issued several communiqués on Thursday morning announcing that the city of al-Qa’im on the Iraqi-Syrian border, had fallen militarily from the (…)

Prelude
THE BIODIESEL
Environment friendly and revolutionary By : Matt Lechien
With technical support from : Joner Translated from french by : Simon Hallynck ( http://www.reclaimyourwork.org ) Media partner : Bellaciao ( http://bellaciao.org ) SURREALISTE editions ( http://www.surrealiste.org )
Original version ebook and paper :
All is copyleft :-) Introduction
How to strike capitalism at the capital while protecting the Earth, here’s the complete biodiesel file.
This file has (…)