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Bush, Cheney Lied About Bin Laden Escape From Tora Bora Staff And Wire Reports March 23, 2005 Both President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney lied during the 2004 Presidential campaign when he claimed U.S. forces did not miss a chance to capture Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001.
A U.S. government document shows a terror suspect held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was a commander for bin Laden during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and helped the al-Qaida (…)

by Pat Denino
Two amendments against gays. Not one, but two amendments to the Texas constitution are being considered. I’m impressed! You guys must have some legislators really scared!
HJR 6 would ban marriage for gay and lesbian couples. HJR 19 would not only ban marriage for gay and lesbian couples, but would also prohibit civil unions and domestic partnerships. It has the potential of nullifying legal contracts, such as a will or a power of attorney. These two idiot amendments (…)

The Leader of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), Evo Morales, denounced the arrival in Bolivia of a command of Colombian mercenaries hired to assassinate him and other popular leaders, and condemned the involvement of Interior Minister Saul Lara with the plot.
Morales told the foreign correspondents that he was warned by intelligence officials about the assassination plot as he is at the top of the list, adding that the goal is to extinguish the social movement seeking to nationalize (…)

The issue of the freedom of Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistleblower, is to be raised in the Scottish Parliament.
Last week Mr Vanunu was charged with violating the terms of his release from prison three days after giving an interview in Jerusalem to The Herald. Mr Vanunu was sent to prison for 18 years after revealing to the world that Israel was developing nuclear weapons.
He was freed last April, but is forbidden to speak to foreign reporters and cannot leave east (…)

Is That Respecting Our Soldiers?
by Gail Vida Hamburg The state funeral in Rome last month for Nicola Calipari - the Italian intelligence officer who rescued a kidnapped journalist from Iraqi captors, only to be gunned down by jittery American soldiers at a checkpoint in Baghdad - was a national event that united all Italians, merging their raw sorrow with the singular grief of his widow and children. It was the second time Italy pulled out all the stops for its Iraq War dead. In (…)

EPA Nominee Advocates Human Guinea Pigs Stephen Johnson, Bush’s Nominee To Run The EPA, Advocates The Testing Of Pesticides On Humans - Even Children - For The Benefit Of Large Chemical Companies Gene C. Gerard March 19, 2005 President Bush recently nominated Stephen L. Johnson, a 24 year veteran of the Environmental Protection Agency, to be the agency’s new administrator. Mr. Johnson has been the acting administrator since January, and prior to that oversaw the EPA office handling (…)

Destroying Iraq Isn’t Enough for Bush An Immoral and Illegal War
By Rep. CYNTHIA McKINNEY
Remarks at Chicago Anti-War Rally, March 19, 2005
Two years ago we gathered all across America to say no to war.
We were joined by people all over the planet who know that there is an alternative to war.
But war is about the only option available when the real motive is to steal natural resources that belong to someone else.
Or to restack the deck in the Middle East with today’s generation (…)

The following is an inexorable truth: the U.S. government does not know what to do with the Bolivarian government of President Chavez. Our revolution is too democratic, too humanistic, too profound and too transcendent; and is therefore beyond traditional capitalist analysis and beyond the comprehension of a government of a country where values revolve around individualism. They try, through their declarations and their media and commercial power, to convince the world that President Chavez (…)

NEW YORK In a Sunday editorial marking the second anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq, The Orange County (Ca.) Register called for a U.S. pullout from that country, becoming perhaps the first newspaper in a Top 25 market to do so. The Register’s daily circulation is around 300,000.
"We opposed this war from the beginning and we believe the United States should withdraw its troops sooner rather than later, under a sensible exit strategy," the editorial declared. "While some argue (…)

By Alan Taylor
ON my way to meet Noam Chomsky in Boston, I pick up a copy of The American Prospect, whose cover features snarling caricatures of US Vice-President Dick Cheney, and of Chomsky: the man dubbed by Bono “the Elvis of academia”. Cheney is presented as the proverbial bull in an international china shop, Chomsky is portrayed by this “magazine of liberal intelligence” as the epitome of high- minded dove-ish, misguided idealism. Chomsky, of course, is well used to such attacks. For (…)