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By Bill Van Auken
For the first time ever, the US military is deploying an active duty regular Army combat unit for full-time use inside the United States to deal with emergencies, including potential civil unrest.
Beginning on October 1, the First Brigade Combat Team of the Third Division will be placed under the command of US Army North, the Army’s component of the Pentagon’s Northern Command (NorthCom), which was created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks with the (…)

Pre-election Militarization of the North American Homeland. US Combat Troops in Iraq repatriated to "help with civil unrest"
by Michel Chossudovsky
The Army Times reports that the 3rd Infantry’s 1st Brigade Combat Team is returning from Iraq to defend the Homeland, as "an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks." The BCT unit has been attached to US Army North, the Army’s component of US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM). (…)

"ErockIT" riders have to pedal to get the bike going, and the faster they pedal, the faster the motor goes. The bike can reach speeds of up to 80 kilometres, or almost 50 miles, per hour and its inventor says it could revolutionise transport.
http://en.rian.ru/video/20080929/117230866.html
http://www.gizmag.com/the-erockit—50-mph-pedal-electric-hybrid-motorcycle/9528/
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/06/21/erockit-serial-electric-bike-impresses/
http://www.erockit.net

Double standards on fighting terrorism
By Praful Bidwai, "Kashmir Times"
India is witnessing a sharp increase in the incidence of both anti-minority communal violence and terrorism.
Christians are under attack in Orissa, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and now even Kerala, which has long been held up as a model of pluralism and communal harmony.
Behind the assault on churches, church-run institutions, and individual followers of the Christian faith are Hindu communal groups like (…)

Who is behind Human Rights Watch?
by Paul Treanor
The backgrounds of the Board members of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Europe-Central Asia section, with an indication of HRW funding sources. HRW is founded on the idea that the values of the United States are universal, and that the US must impose them on the rest of the world. As the largest human-rights lobby, it is partly responsible for the increasingly expansionist US foreign policy.
No US citizen, and no US organisation, has any (…)

As President Bush was holding an emergency economic summit at the White House, protesters took to the streets across the country to oppose a Wall Street bailout. In New York, a series of demonstrations occurred near the Stock Exchange.
AMY GOODMAN: As President Bush was holding an emergency economic summit at the White House, protesters took to the streets all over the country to oppose a Wall Street bailout. In New York, a series of demonstrations occurred near the Stock Exchange. This is (…)

By Yousuf Nasim Sunday, 28 Sep, 2008 | 10:00 AM PKT |
President Zardari and President Bush of the United States during a meeting in New York. - Reuters
Pakistan’s foreign relations with the United States are once again at a turning point. The US’ increasingly aggressive counter-insurgency tactics and Pakistani indignation at border violations signal a stark increase in tension between the two ’War on Terror’ allies.
Regardless of their reservations, it is essential that Pakistan and (…)

The Mission: There are 2,700 District Attorneys in the United States. We intend to send a copy of The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder to every single one of them.
From The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder by Vincent Bugliosi, page 168.
"I hope that at some time in the near future a courageous U.S. attorney general, U.S. attorney, state attorney general, or district attorney in America who is committed to the rule of law and who has dedicated his career to enforcing the (…)

I came across this piece while shuffling through some old papers. I wrote it over 16 years ago, and it struck me how essential its central message still is today, perhaps even more so than when I put dot-matrix inkjet to side-perforated paper. My natural tendency as a writer was to try to fiddle with it, to "update" it and make it better. I’m resisting, mostly, except to say that one of my first thoughts was that we must be crazy to still be doing this 16 long years later, having weathered (…)

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