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by Jim Lobe
Sidelined by their failed predictions for Iraq and President George W. Bush’s efforts to reassure voters he is not a warmonger, prominent neoconservatives and their Christian Right allies are nonetheless trying hard to prepare the ground for future U.S. adventures in the Middle East.
Echoing increasingly threatening noises from the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon about preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, neocons are calling for Washington to (…)

by Paul Krugman NYT
PRINCETON, New Jersey I first used the word "Orwellian" to describe the Bush team in October 2000. Even then it was obvious that George W. Bush surrounds himself with people who insist that up is down, and ignorance is strength. But the full costs of his denial of reality are only now becoming clear.
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have an unparalleled ability to insulate themselves from inconvenient facts.
They lead a party that controls all three (…)

The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, in cooperation with the Haiti Support Network and other progressive forces inside the Haitian community, is initiating an emergency campaign in support of the Haitian people’s struggle for sovereignty and democracy, and in opposition to foreign occupation.
We urge you to join us in showing your support for the Haitian people. We must act now to show concrete expressions of solidarity. We will be sending urgently needed medicines to Haiti. The long-term need in (…)

I do not know what happened to you to change you from the young hero you were in and out of Vietnam. Perhaps the corruption of your many years in Congress has affected your sense of reality. I just finished watching your latest speech where you are attacking the Bush Administration for the “mistakes” they made in Iraq. As a member of the generation who survived the great depression and world war two; I am a realist. Your position on Iraq is diametrically opposite to your position on Vietnam. (…)

Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna, (May 14, 1928-October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader. Guevara was a member of Fidel Castro’s "26th of July Movement," which seized power in Cuba in 1959. After serving various important posts in the new government, Guevara left Cuba in 1966 with the hope of fomenting revolutions in other countries, first in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and later in Bolivia, where he (…)

The Worst Way to Fight Terror by Rep. Ron Paul
The 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act (H.R. 10) is yet another attempt to address the tH.R.eat of terrorism by giving more money and power to the federal bureaucracy. Most of the reforms contained in this bill will not make America safer, though they definitely will make us less free. H.R. 10 also wastes American taxpayer money on unconstitutional and ineffective foreign aid programs. Congress should make America safer by expanding (…)

Afghanistan election! Now this is an Oxymoron if I ever heard one.
The Afghanistan election is nothing more than a staged media event in order for Mr. Bush to try and use the coverage for his benefit.
Karzai is joke!
He is nothing more than a puppet, just like the puppet PM in Iraq.
Of course with 14 of the 15 fifteen candidates claiming fraud!
Can the truth be far behind?.
I love this one, ink that rubs off!
Hope they don’t hear about this ink in Florida.

By Joseph Cannon
cannonfiremail@yahoo.com
The "Bush earpiece" controversy has generated an astonishing number of visitors to this site — and, I presume, to others. Mainstream media has become interested. The Los Angeles Times even made brief (and rather dismissive) reference to the "molar phon" suggestion, first aired on this site. For some odd reason, though, Matt Drudge has yet to take note. I wonder why? I have reason to believe that a "respectable" publication will soon do (…)

BY LIDICE VALENZUELA
The governing Workers Party (PT) has just won the municipal elections in Brazil, thus giving Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration popular backing. This anticipates what could occur in 2006 when Brazil is to have presidential elections, elect 27 governors and close to 1,000 deputies and senators.
There were 27 political parties participating in these elections involving 120 million voters electing mayors and councilors serving four-year terms in 5,596 (…)

Highest-ranking woman in U.S. Army history says Bush has no idea how to get out of Iraq
By Andrew Dys The Herald
The highest-ranking woman in U.S. Army history campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in Rock Hill on Wed-nesday, telling Democratic Party faithful that President Bush had no clue what he was getting into in Iraq.
Retired Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy said Bush has no clue how to get out of Iraq either.
Kennedy, a 32-year Army veteran, was the first woman (…)