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by Daniel Patrick Welch
We were all lied to. We’re used to it. If Westmoreland’s body counts and Watergate and Iran Contra and the Savings and Loan and the first Gulf War didn’t teach some of us, then I guess some of us were never meant to learn. The fact is that some of us bought it, and some of us didn’t. It’s a big, glaring, important distinction, one that, without indulging hyperbole, divides the whole of history and places us on one side or the other.
This is not parlor politics or (…)

by LEUREN MORET
5 Admirals, U.C. Regents, Carlyle Group, and Rand
"I think some of these folks would put nuclear tips on ice cream cones if they could."
U.S. Representative Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.) on efforts by Bush Administration officials to repeal a research ban on low-yield nuclear weapons.
Global Security Newswire ‘Quote of the Day’ May 19, 2003
UC AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS: THE KISS OF DEATH
The top-secret Manhattan Project was laid out by Robert Oppenheimer the night Ernest (…)

Commentary September 14, 2004: Going against the wishes of 70 percent of the American public, Bush allowed - indeed encouraged - a 10-year federal ban on assault weapons to expire this week, allowing Americans and resident terrorists to purchase AK-47s and Uzis at their local gun stores. The move also coincides with the third anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America.
In so doing, Bush effectively overturned the cornerstone of the US gun-control movement, the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban that (…)

by Naomi Klein
Russian President Vladimir Putin is so fed up with being grilled over his handling of the Beslan catastrophe that he lashed out at foreign journalists on Monday. "Why don’t you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks," he demanded. "No one has a moral right to tell us to talk to child-killers."
Mr. Putin is not a man who likes to be second-guessed. Fortunately for him, there is still one place where he is shielded from all the (…)

By Alfred W. McCoy
From ancient Rome’s red-hot irons and lacerating hooks to medieval Europe’s thumbscrews, rack, and wheel, for over 2,000 years anyone interrogated in a court of law could expect to suffer unspeakable tortures. For the last 200 years, humanist intellectuals from Voltaire to members of Amnesty International have led a sustained campaign against the horrors of state-sponsored cruelty, culminating in the United Nation’s 1985 Convention Against Torture, ratified by the (…)

Let the people live !
Let the children learn !
Stop the wall in Ar-Ram !
On Monday, the 13 of September, we will go to Ar-Ram
A new project of the Sharon Government: A concrete wall is rapidly being built to surround the Ar-Ram neighborhood from all sides. Tens of thousands of people, the entire community of this East Jerusalem neighborhood (the vast majority of whom are official residents of Jerusalem, paying municipal taxes and holding "blue" Jerusalem IDs) will be closed inside (…)

Cleveland, OH- John Kerry had a tough day at this afternoon’s rally in downtown Cleveland. In typical Kerry style he was endlessly repeating W is for wrong and how Bush did it wrong and he would try to do better, but then things began to get interesting. It all started with Kerry telling a story about how ’people like him’ can never make decisions, that’s why he likes those restaurants where the cook makes the same meal for everyone. One guy muttered out loud, "Bush calls him an indecisive (…)

Nearly three years ago, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows was born out of a shared belief that America’s military response to the 9/11 attacks which took our loved ones’ lives would result in the deaths of countless innocent civilians and increase recruitment for terrorist causes, making the United States, and the world, less safe and less free for generations to come.
Today, as we commemorate September 11, 2004, we find that our worst fears have been realized. The terrorism (…)

INN WORLD REPORT PRESENTS:
CONFRONTING THE EVIDENCE:
9/11 AND THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH
Half of New Yorkers believe that some U.S. leaders had foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks and "consciously failed to act" to stop them. On September 11, 2004 we invite you to come and see why. A prominent panel of researchers, writers and government employees will explain the physical evidence and disprove the official story.
Confronting the Evidence - A Call to Reopen the 9/11 Investigation (…)

By Jim Krane
TIKRIT, Iraq One way or another, the U.S. Army and its Iraqi allies will seize the insurgent-held city of Samarra before January’s general election, the U.S. Army commander responsible for the city said Wednesday.
Maj. Gen. John Batiste, who leads the Army’s 1st Infantry Division, said he’s confident a combination of diplomacy, U.S. aid and Army intimidation will persuade the city’s 500 insurgents to give up.
If not, Batiste said, the Germany-based 1st Infantry will (…)