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Written by A. Alexander Stella
Price precedes progress. Ya’know, whyz.ache.err, I do take pride in that very sentence. No doubt in mind, it’s philosophy. And I do believe I shall, reasonably soon, adduce evidence to manifest its truth. Along the way, I shall infuse this country’s political discourse with a dollop of enlightenment, by means of a word I so graciously minted. No doubt about it, it’ll be quite a ride for a simple reason.
We must rely on our fanciful wit that we may listen to (…)

Hey Everyone...
As you may have heard by now, we finally have a distributor in America for "Fahrenheit 9/11." Actually, two of them! Lions Gate Films and IFC Films have agreed to aggressively distribute "Fahrenheit 9/11" in theaters all across the country beginning three weeks from today on Friday, June 25th. We are, needless to say, extremely grateful for their courage (trust me, no matter what the potential box office may be, anyone who has considered taking on this distribution job (…)

On Saturday, June 5, 2004, supporters of the Hands off Venezuela Campaign were present at the anti-war demonstration in Los Angeles, California. A few thousand people were present at the demonstration which went from the Olympic and Broadway to the Los Angeles Federal Building to demonstrate against the occupation of Iraq, to call for the withdrawal of foreign troops from the occupied countries, and against US Intervention in Haiti, Korea, Afghanistan, Philippines, Colombia, Cuba, and (…)

In the erratically refrigerated vault of Baghdad’s overcrowded mortuary lies an unclaimed corpse: number E63. For the past four and a half months, the most famous victim of the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, whose battered body was photographed wrapped in plastic sheeting, has been waiting for someone to collect him. So far nobody has.
The precise circumstances of Manadel al-Jamadi’s death in US custody are unknown. But leaked documents from an ongoing Pentagon investigation show Jamadi died (…)

Another bunch of entries from Abu Ghraib interrogator Joe Ryan’s diary have now been found, for Mar 21-Apr 02. They have been lurking all along in the cache of Alexa, a relatively obscure search engine.
( The April 11-26 entries were published by Bellaciao here:
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=886 )
For the new entries, go to www.alexa.com and search for
"joe ryan" site: www.am1500.com
or go directly to the cached page at: (…)

By Will Dunham
President Bush, as commander-in-chief, is not restricted by U.S. and international laws barring torture, Bush administration lawyers stated in a March 2003 memorandum.
The 56-page memo to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cited the president’s "complete authority over the conduct of war," overriding international treaties such as a global treaty banning torture, the Geneva Conventions and a U.S. federal law against torture.
"In order to respect the president’s (…)

Joanne Landy
IT’S HARD TO SEE HOW the Bush administration is going to win the war in Iraq. Despite all the official bravado, a cloud of doom is descending on the White House, and with good reason: international outrage is mounting at U.S. behavior at Abu Ghraib prison and throughout Iraq, more and more Americans are concluding that the war is going badly, and Iraq is proving uncontrollable with reports, in May, that only 35 percent of Iraqis want U.S. forces to stay.("The State of Iraq: an (…)

MIAMI (AP) — President Bush’s policies toward Fidel Castro’s regime and the war in Iraq are threatening to fray traditionally solid Republican ties to Cuban-American voters, the largest segment of Florida’s fast-growing Hispanic community.
In 2000, Bush won Florida by a mere 537 votes, but his advantage among Cubans was about 4-to-1. Non-Cuban Hispanics tend to vote Democratic and are flocking to the state. On Nov. 2, the key to Florida — the decisive swing state four years ago — could (…)

by Christopher Getzan
The News Standard http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=488
Jun 8 - When thousands of demonstrators converged in Miami last November to protest the latest round of negotiations over a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), city authorities dreaded a repeat of the failed police response that allowed activists to hobble the 1999 World Trade Organization ministerial in Seattle.
Before the activists arrived in Miami last year, police warned (…)

By Emilio Parodi and Clara Ferreira-Marques
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy arrested an Egyptian man suspected of plotting the Madrid train bombings and Belgium held 15 for preparing a "terrorist attack" as police staged joint swoops on Islamic militants, officials said Tuesday.
Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, known as "Mohamed the Egyptian," was seized with a fellow suspect in Milan. Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu said the operation was aimed at a "dangerous group of terrorists close to al (…)