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Naomi Klein should be nominated for a Nobel Prize for telling the truth!

You might as well know the dirt on Kerry now, because if he’s nominated in Boston, you can bet the $$ media will let the skeletons out of Kerry’s closet... and it ain’t pretty. Did the primary voters know these facts about Kerry?
* John Forbes Kerry is the richest Senator and... * He’s the Career Leader in Lobby Money! * Kerry has +$1,000,000 stock in Walmart- purchased in 2002. * This year he reported his income at $393,000 and he has a $2 million trust fund.... that’s odd (…)

Cuba offered on Thursday to build training centers for nurses to handle AIDS patients in Caribbean nations and provide antiretroviral drugs to fight the pandemic. Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque made the offer at a one-day meeting with counterparts from the Caribbean Community (Caricom).
"From the social standpoint, the major challenge ahead of us is the fight against HIV/AIDS," Perez Roque said.
In contrast to other Caribbean countries, Cuba has contained the spread of (…)

ONE of the two suspected Israeli intelligence agents convicted last night in New Zealand had previously spent time in Australia, police said today.
New Zealand has suspended high-level contacts with Israel after two suspected Mossad intelligence agents were convicted of trying to fraudulently obtain a New Zealand passport.
Prime Minister Helen Clark said she would stop a planned visit by Israeli President Moshe Katsav in August after the NZ High Court jailed the two men.
She also (…)

Supreme Court Returns Case of Detained American Peace Activist to District Court Judge to View Secret Evidence and Make Further Judgment on Case
[Jerusalem] In a hearing today in Israeli Supreme Court, Judges Barak, Naor, and Adiel returned the case of American peace activist, Ann Petter, who was denied entry to Israel and has been in detention for twenty-two days, to the Tel Aviv District Court. The Judges ruled that the State of Israel must submit secret evidence for District Court (…)

Little Progress on World Disarmament
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute this week published its annual study on armaments, disarmament and security issues in the world. The SIPRI Yearbook 2004 observed that the U.S.-led military action against Iraq starting in March 2003 was the dominant security issue of last year. The occupation both displayed the "unique strength" possessed by the United States, as well as revealing the limitations of military power, in SIPRI’s (…)

By ELIZABETH BECKER and ROBERT PEAR
Congress is poised to approve an international trade agreement that could have the effect of thwarting a goal pursued by many lawmakers of both parties: the import of inexpensive prescription drugs to help millions of Americans without health insurance.
The agreement, negotiated with Australia by the Bush administration, would allow pharmaceutical companies to prevent imports of drugs to the United States and also to challenge decisions by Australia (…)

The US doesn’t really care if Australia leaves Iraq. It’s after a more important commitment.
"There was never a plan to leave Iraq because there is no intention to leave Iraq. We (the Americans) are currently building 14 bases there. Dick Cheney can’t imagine giving up that oil. The military can’t imagine giving up those bases. That’s why they can’t come up with a plan to leave." Chalmers Johnson, author of Sorrows of Empire, in LA Weekly, July 6
Last week US Deputy Secretary of State (…)

Famous academic Francis Fukuyama, one of the founding fathers of the neo-conservative movement that underlies the policies of US President George W. Bush’s administration, said on July 13 that he would not vote for the incumbent in the November 2 US Presidential election.
In addition to distancing himself from the current administration, Fukuyama told TIME magazine that his old friend, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, should resign.
In 1997, Fukuyama together with Dick Cheney, (…)

U.S. Works to Sustain Iraq Coalition
By Robin Wright and Bradley Graham
The Bush administration faces growing challenges in holding together the 32-nation coalition deployed in Iraq, with four countries already gone, another four due to leave by September and others now making known their intention to wind down or depart before the political transition is complete next year, according to officials from 28 participating countries.
The drama over the Filipino hostage in Iraq, which (…)