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No More Moore: The DLC Joins the Witch-Hunt
by Matt Taibbi
We’ve got to repudiate, you know, the most strident and insulting anti-American voices out there sometimes on our party’s left... We can’t have our party identified by Michael Moore and Hollywood as our cultural values. Al From, CEO, Democratic Leadership Council
You know, let’s let Hollywood and the Cannes Film Festival fawn all over Michael Moore. We ought to make it pretty clear that he sure doesn’t speak for us when it (…)

Apparently 9/11 is still having it’s very negative effect on people, the damage extends past the lives lost. Rescue workers have come down with what scientists have called, "world trade center cough" from inhaling pulverized cement.
Some rescue workers have asthma type breathing difficulties, others just have a constant cough. The "WTC cough", effects the lungs. Since the particles were so fine, perhaps an investigation as to how so much "pulverized cement" was created, is in order. Was (…)

Left Hook Exclusive: An Interview with an Anti-war Veteran from the Iraq War Jim Talib HM3 (FMF/PJ)
interviewed by Derek Seidman
Jim Talib is an antiwar vet who served in Iraq earlier this year for nearly seven months. He has recently begun speaking out against the war and occupation. Derek Seidman, co-editor of Left Hook, was able to catch up with Jim Talib and ask him some questions about the war and occupation, his personal experiences in Iraq, and issues concerning the (…)

By Marina Denysenko
Expensive cars festooned in orange; orange-clad demonstrators queuing at McDonalds; ladies dressed in fur coats with orange ribbons - these are all signs that Ukraine’s "orange revolution" has enormous support from its newly emerging middle class.
The majority of protesters rallying in Kiev’s Independence Square hold mobile phones. They keep their families and friends up-to-date with events in the capital and exchange text messages with an opposition logo.
Orange is (…)

Cobb drops Nevada recount. Continues on in Ohio and New Mexico.
Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb announced on Thursday that he would not pursue a recount in Nevada. The cost imposed by the Secretary of State was $349,000. A nearly impossible amount to raise. Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb announced today that he would not pursue a recount in Nevada.
Cobb and Libertarian Michael Badnarik had made the initial recount request on Monday.
"The Nevada Secretary of (…)

911 THE NEW PEARL HARBOR THE ENTIRE BOOK FOR DOWNLOAD.
A must-read for all who want to get past the conspiracy of silence and mystification that surrounds 9/11.
A very interesting book.
However, David Ray Griffin buys into the "Pentagon was hit by a missile theory," which has been advanced by the 911 false opposition. That a missile did not hit the Pentagon is obvious. For,
1) if the missile had detonated upon hitting the outside, brick-fill wall of the Pentagon, then the explosion (…)

Dec. 5 rally in NYC
The Emergency Campaign to Support the Haitian people, initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and others, has been embraced by people all over the country who support justice for the people in Haiti. The Emergency Campaign has gained momentum, but we need your help to take the next big steps.
We have been able to ship a very substantial amount of life-saving medicines to Haiti. We have focused the medicine procurement on Metronidazole, Mebendazole, Ampicillin and (…)

Global Echo: http://globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2434
Barbara Olson’s call from Flight 77 never happened
The contortions of all involved not to leave a paper trail in the form of phone bills proves it.
by: rowland morgan on: 2nd Dec, 04
Most of the 25 male passengers on Flight 77 were well-connected military-industrialists. Three of them were with Boeing aerospace. It seems likely that these individuals would have possessed mobile phones in their pockets, if not the others. (…)

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election."
(Otto Von Bismarck - Prussian Prime Minister 1815-1898)
by Yamin Zakaria
Indeed corporate driven wars of Capitalist nations and elections share the trait of ‘deception’. This is expected as elections are the usual means to get into the driving seat to prosecute wars. Wars are primarily driven by corporate interests diluted with chauvinistic nationalism concealed by lofty slogans. However, why the need to (…)

Ohio voters cry ‘fraud,’ demand recount People’s Weekly World Newspaper, 12/02/04 10:59 http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/6154/1/242/
The crowd packing an African American church in Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 28 cheered as Rev. Jesse Jackson urged the Ohio Supreme Court to set aside George W. Bush’s narrow win in this battleground state.
Jackson charged a “pattern of intentionality” in suppressing the Black vote in Ohio, which Bush claims to have won by 136,000 votes. “We can live with (…)